SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc.’s upcoming flagship smartphone, the LG V30, is expected to support the Korean-language edition of Google Assistant, a voice recognition program created by U.S. tech giant Google Inc., industry sources said Wednesday. Google earlier said it will complete the development of the Korean edition of Google Assistant [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s No.2 electronics firm, said Thursday its second-quarter net profit nearly doubled from a year earlier on the back of a steady rise in home appliance goods, but its mobile phone business continued to suffer losses due to weaker than expected sales of flagship smartphones. [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Friday its second-quarter operating profit is estimated at 664.1 billion won (US$574.5 million), posting a weaker-than-expected performance apparently on sluggish smartphone sales despite a robust performance of its home appliance business. The operating profit for the April-June period marks a 13.6-percent jump from the 584.6 [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday that its latest high-end smartphone, the G6, has sold over 30,000 units in just two days since its debut here, heralding better-than-expected sales down the road. LG Electronics began selling the G6 in South Korea on Friday, as it seeks to revive its money-losing [...]