SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Young-beom was the first to get his hands on a Galaxy S8+ from SK Telecom on Tuesday, after six days of waiting in front of the company’s Jonggak outlet – setting a new record since mobile carriers began “lining up” events here in 2009. The launch event kicked [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday the controversial red-tinted display on some of its brand-new Galaxy S8 smartphone cannot be considered a defect, while some critics are predicting the issue may hurt the company’s image like last year’s battery scandal. The issue came to light when a few users claimed [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Pre-orders for Samsung Electronics Co.’s flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, have surpassed 1 million units, the company said Tuesday, setting a new record among all of its smartphones. The tally compares with pre-orders for 200,000 units for its predecessor, the Galaxy S7, over a week, and 400,000 for the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Consumer response for Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest high-end smartphone, the Galaxy S8, has been better than expected, the company’s mobile division chief said Thursday, with pre-orders for the flagship device surpassing a whopping 720,000 units in just seven days in South Korea, heralding a major hit for the company. [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that preorders for its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, has surpassed a whopping 600,000 units in just five days, heralding a big hit for the company. The Galaxy S8 smartphones feature high resolution displays that bend on both ends, and come with various [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Some 550,000 South Koreans had placed preorders for the Galaxy S8 and S8+ just two days after the process began on April 7. That is almost three times the number for the Galaxy Note 7 (roughly 200,000 from August 6 to 7) and more than fivefold for the Galaxy [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The combined sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s new flagship Galaxy S8 series, which will officially hit shelves later this month, is expected to surpass the 40 million unit mark, industry data showed Friday. South Korea’s brokerage houses estimated the sales of the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Among the highly-anticipated features on Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and the S8 Plus is Bixby, a new AI-based voice assistant that is replacing S Voice. Although much of Bixby’s full capacity or coherence and consistency is still under wraps, the service will offer a wider level of control compared to [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The facial recognition technology equipped in Samsung Electronics Co.’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, will not be sufficient to guarantee the phones’ security, industry sources said Friday. “The phones can be unlocked by the face of a sleeping person, or even just by a photo,” an industry watcher [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. started a full-fledged marketing drive for its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, in South Korea, industry watchers said Friday, ahead of the official release slated for April 21. Samsung already started displaying the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus at its main shop located [...]