SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Apple is set to release its first smartwatch in the South Korean market later this week, facing off with its archrival Samsung Electronics in the wearable device segment, industry sources said Thursday. Released in the United States in April, the Apple Watch has been gathering popularity abroad, with industry [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean consumers are most frequently content with Apple‘s iPhone, while LG Electronics‘ smartphones and Samsung’s Galaxy series came in second and third respectively, according to a report from Consumer Insight published on June 18. Korean consumers who purchased smartphones within the past 6 months rated their phones in terms [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A court decision that gave approval to a local consortium’s bid to acquire Pantech will likely give the embattled handset maker an opportunity to rebuild its business after its recent sale attempts fell through due to lack of interest, market watchers said Wednesday. The Seoul Central District Court on [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Cash-strapped South Korea handset maker Pantech said Tuesday it has asked a local court to end its receivership as no viable investors sought to take over the once No. 2 handset maker in the country. Pantech, which was put under court protection August last year, has been on the [...]
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. court ruled Monday that Apple cannot collect damages from Samsung Electronics for its claims that the South Korean electronics giant copied the overall look and feel of iPhone, a decision expected to lower the US$930 million damages awarded to Apple. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Major electronics brands Apple and Samsung saw their shares in the global tablet PC market plunge in the first quarter of 2015, data showed Monday, dented by the rise of Chinese companies tapping deeper into the “white box” segment. U.S. tech giant Apple accounted for 24.3 percent of the global [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s top smartphone maker, managed to stay on the top 10 list of global tech players this month in terms of market capitalization but suffered a one notch decline from end-2014 apparently due to a plunge in earnings. Samsung ranked No. 10 among other major tech [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Yonhap) — South Korean tech behemoth Samsung Electronics Co. outpaced its competitors in global smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2015, widening its market share lead over its closest rival Apple Inc., data showed Friday. In terms of sales volume, Samsung took up 27.8 percent of the global smartphone market in [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics‘ handsets emit less electromagnetic waves than Apple‘s iPhones, a research report showed Sunday, with the low-end Galaxy Mega smartphone being the No. 1 radiowave-safe product. According to the research conducted by market tracker Cnet in France, the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), a measure of emission of electromagnetic fields, came [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has beaten its archrival U.S. Apple Inc. in customer loyalty, an online poll showed Wednesday. Samsung ranked first with 35 points, outpacing Apple’s 7, according to an online poll by U.S. corporate research site SurveyMonkey, based on the responses from 5,000 consumers [...]