SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The most affordable location for consumers to purchase Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest smartphones, the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5, is in the devices’ home turf — South Korea. According to industry sources, the consumer benefit price starts at 547,000 won (US$409) when users trade in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that preorders for its latest smartphones — Galaxy Z Flip5 and Galaxy Z Fold5 — via a live broadcast on Samsung.com were twice as high as the previous series. During the 1-hour and 40-minute live pre-order broadcast, the company offered the two Galaxy phones [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will hold the summer edition of its Galaxy Unpacked event on its home turf for the first time. The South Korean tech giant said it will hold the biannual event at the Convention and Exhibition Center in southern Seoul during the last week [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is considering hosting a smartphone unveiling event in South Korea as part of its strategy to diversify its Asian market and address declining exports to China. According to industry sources, the tech giant plans to showcase the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s smartphone brand Galaxy has been chosen as South Korea’s best brand for the 12th consecutive year, a survey showed Monday. The Galaxy phone earned a brand index reading of 937.6 points out of a possible 1,000 points, according to the survey by Brandstock, a South Korean [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy smartphones has faster download speeds than Apple Inc.’s iPhone 12 models on local networks in South Korea, a market tracker said Monday. Ookla, which runs internet speed measurement tool Speedtest, conducted a 5G download speed test for major smartphones in the third quarter of this [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday unveiled an 8K movie shot on its Galaxy smartphones as the South Korean tech giant targets young consumers. The South Korean movie titled “Untact” premiered in support of Samsung. The movie was filmed on Samsung’s Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Note 20 devices in 8K [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Following Apple Inc.’s recent decision to support its newest smart device operating system, iOS 14, on older generation iPhone models dating back as far as six years, controversy has reemerged over Android smartphones, which have a shorter duration of technical support. Consumers say that a flagship smartphone model costing [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Everland, the amusement park operating unit of Samsung C&T Corp., is incorporating cutting-edge information technology to amusement facilities and customer service to provide smart access to visitors. Samsung C&T announced on Sunday the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Friends program for Everland in collaboration with Samsung Electronics. The program [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will launch a program to allow iPhones users to try out the latest Galaxy smartphones for a one-month period, as Apple Inc. releases its newest models in the South Korean company’s home market. Under the program, iPhone users can purchase the latest Galaxy [...]