SEJONG, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust watchdog ordered six local iPhone repair companies Thursday to change their customer service rules that unfairly restrict the rights of users. UBase, Peach Valley, Beyond Tech and three other firms cited for unfair practices are all official repair companies authorized by tech giant Apple to service its [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The share of Samsung Electronics dropped to a one digit number, ranking fifth in the Chinese smartphone market. The Chinese brands Xiaomi and Huawei ranked first and second, with Apple coming in next. According to the Chinese branch of IHS Technology, a market research institution, the market share of Samsung Electronics decreased to 9 [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics managed to maintain its presence in the global smartphone market in the second quarter, but its archrival Apple suffered a setback in the face of growing demand for low- to mid-end devices, data showed Wednesday. Samsung took up 26.8 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics has won a patent for analyzing body fat through smartphones, an intellectual property organization said Tuesday, which may mark another leap forward in enhancing health care-related features on smart devices. Under the title “Method and apparatus for measuring body fat using a mobile device,” the [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics is poised to stage another battle with archrival Apple to grab a bigger share of the global smartphone market by releasing devices with wider screens at an international trade show in September, market watchers said Monday. While Samsung has yet to announce the detailed schedule of its next phablet lineup, [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 4 in 5 people in South Korea own a smartphone, making it the country with the fourth-highest smartphone penetration rate in the world, industry data showed Wednesday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy saw its smartphone penetration rate reach 83 percent as of end-March, according to the data compiled by Digieco, [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Samsung Electronics ranks as the most reputable technology company in the United States, a report showed Sunday, on the back of its strong products and services appealing to American consumers. Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, has topped such tech peers as Microsoft, Google and Intel in terms [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top handset brands such as Samsung and LG have sold more devices on their home soil this year despite a controversial subsidy law, but their profitability is presumed to have slipped due to less sales of high-end smartphones, data showed on Friday. Samsung Electronics, the country’s top [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics is presumed to be putting more focus on its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, the variant of the Galaxy S6, documents showed Thursday, as it won a trademark for the “S6 EDGE+” earlier this week. According to the documents posted by the United States Patent and [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s top tech giant, saw its presence in the Southeast Asian smartphone market decline in the first quarter despite increased shipments, data showed Wednesday, as Chinese rivals took up more of the fast-growing region with budget models. Samsung’s smartphone sales in the region rose 28 percent on-year [...]