SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The newly released phablets by South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics are expected to revitalize the company’s ailing handset returns, with more than 75,000 units being sold in the first three days of their debut, industry data showed Sunday. The Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+, the larger edition [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics plans to launch its two new phablets in South Korea this week to coincide with the commercial start of a mobile payment service on its home turf, a company executive said Saturday. Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, showcased the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ phablets, or a [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics on Tuesday sent out invitations for what is expected to be an unveiling event of its next flagship phablet, presumably the Galaxy Note 5, on Aug. 13 in New York. The invitation from the South Korea-based top smartphone maker has a picture of [...]
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 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics estimated Tuesday that its second-quarter operating income fell about 4 percent from a year earlier as weak sales of its newest smartphones fell shy of expectations. Operating profit reached 6.9 trillion won (US$6.13 billion) in the April-June period, down 4.03 percent from the 7.19 trillion won posted a [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics is anticipated to sell 45 million units of its latest in the flagship Galaxy smartphone line in 2015, a news report said Monday, falling behind earlier market expectations. Samsung started official sales of the Galaxy S6 series on April 10. The Galaxy S6 boasts [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s No. 1 tech giant, uploaded a poster of a seemingly round watch screen on its website on Friday implying that its next smartwatch’s shape will be circular. The poster, which reads “Get Ready For The Next Gear,” shows what appears to be a round smartwatch, [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics‘ latest high-end smartphone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, just released last week, is more costly to build than Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus, but its price tag is lower than that of its archrival, data showed Wednesday. The combined production cost, including parts and conversion costs, came to US$290.45 [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge is expected to be scarce in the Korean market after its release on April 10, as Samsung is having a hard time meeting demand for the device due to technical difficulties related to the curved screen and an unexpectedly large number of pre-orders. According to industry [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics‘ Galaxy S6 Edge is more fragile than Apple‘s iPhone 6 Plus, which sparked the so-called “Bendgate” dispute for bending easily, a U.S. device repair firm said Monday, creating worries among Samsung fans awaiting the phone’s launch scheduled for this week. “The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge deformed at 110 [...]