SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Competition is intensifying in South Korea’s market for smartphones equipped with high-quality front cameras to meet the booming trend of selfies, company officials said Monday. A smartphone’s high-quality front camera, mainly used to take selfies, is increasingly appealing to plenty of young consumers, they said. Earlier this month, SK [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – With the soaring popularity of 360-degree cameras, there have been a surging number of patent applications for new devices, systems, and application technology related to omnidirectional cameras. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the average annual number of patent applications related to omnidirectional cameras was 65 from 2011 [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – In Korea, smartphone manufacturers are obliged to make camera shutter sounds audible even when the phone is set to silent mode. But more and more domestic consumers are seeking iPhones from abroad for their ‘quietness’, despite higher prices. When purchased directly from Hong Kong, an iPhone SE costs approximately [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – New research data indicates that apart from voice calls and texting, smartphones are most frequently used to take pictures or videos. According to a survey conducted by the Media Research Center of the Korea Press Foundation with the participation of 1,020 adults in September 2015, 63.3 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Aficionados of certain high-end goods will be pleased to find out that some items have been removed from the ‘Individual Consumption Taxes’ list, meaning they will now be exempt from what is often referred to as a ‘luxury tax’. Perfume, cameras and deer antlers were removed from the list, but [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics has received more than 26,000 photographs taken by LG’s smartphones for the 3rd LG Mobile Photography Competition, in the one month since the release of the LG G4. The competition has been ongoing since 2013, and this year’s contest saw the number of entries triple from last [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Sony Korea unveiled its new perfume-bottle shaped camera, the KW11, optimized for taking selfies. The new release boasts a 21 millimeter f/2.0 lens which can be swiveled 180 degrees. It is also equipped with various functions that help to produce better selfies, such as a flick touch shutter function, [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Apr. 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — The convergence IT Division of Movon Corporation (President: Sang Hee Song) (www.mdas.co.kr), the leading provider of Vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in automotive industry, today announced the launch of the in-vehicle image processing camera ‘MDAS-10’ for automotive market. MDAS-10, an image processing camera integrating LDW (Lane [...]