CHINA, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean electronics giant Samsung’s recent struggles in the Chinese market saw its smartphone sales more than halved during the first quarter, with the company’s market share now languishing at 3.3 percent. While Samsung experienced one of its worst quarters in China, seeing its market share slashed by more than [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese smartphone makers have been rolling out pricey models to play catch up with Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., which dominate the high-end smartphone market in the country, a Seoul trade body said Thursday. According to the Shanghai office of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), Chinese smartphone [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Huawei’s ambitious launch of its premium smartphone, the P9, has so far reaped disappointing results in the South Korean market. The P9 and the P9 Plus, which were first launched in April, made their official entry here on December 2, only to face discouraging numbers, with roughly 100 of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Mr. Kim Man-se is the CEO of a small business in Seoul. He’s been undecided for some time now over which device to buy as his next smart companion. He had initially considered the Galaxy Note 7, but the idea was quickly scrapped following the phablet’s battery crisis. Kim [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Huawei is joining hands with Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus for the official introduction of its latest premium smartphone variants, the P9 and P9 Plus. The phones, for which prices have yet to be revealed, will hit the local market exclusively via LG Uplus on December 2, Huawei said [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, said Monday it has teamed up with China’s telecom firm Huawei in commercializing the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The move by LG Uplus came less than a month after it joined hands with bigger local rival KT Corp. to jointly [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The current Korean market for smartphones may be dominated by the big three smartphone manufacturers – Samsung, Apple, and LG – and their latest premium products – the Galaxy Note 7, iPhone, and V20 – but other phone makers have been making inroads recently by targeting niche customers. KT, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors said Monday they have indicted the local subsidiary of China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and its executives on charges of leaking its competitor’s technologies and trade secrets. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said Huawei Korea’s executive, identified only by his surname Kang, is suspected of leaking business secrets [...]
SHANGHAI, CHINA / DAVIS, CA, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) - The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of companies creating, maintaining and delivering open, global standards for the low-power wireless Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that Huawei — a leading supplier of ICT solutions — has joined the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and accepted a [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of smartphones, said Friday it has filed a lawsuit against Huawei Technologies Co. in China, accusing the Chinese firm of infringing on Samsung’s six patents related to mobile phones and digital images. The move is seen as a countermeasure against Huawei after [...]