SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s panel makers — Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co. — will showcase their new flagship AMOLED and OLED products in San Francisco this week, company officials said Monday. The two are joining the Display Week event, hosted by the Society for Information Display (SID), to last through Friday [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Televisions produced by small and medium-sized companies are becoming popular for their unique value proposition of a high-quality image at a reasonable price. According to online shopping site Tmon (www.tmon.co.kr), the Q1 sales of TVs manufactured by small-size domestic companies increased by 63 percent year over year. As a [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – LG‘s new smartphone, which was launched on March 31, is drawing attention as its ancillary devices are more expensive than the phone itself. A customer would have to spend two million won to purchase the new G5 accompanied by its five ‘friends’ (accompanying devices). According to industry reports, the lowest [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 smartphone maker, is unlikely to accept preorders for its latest flagship, the G5 smartphone, and instead focus on offline promotions of the device, industry sources said Thursday. The South Korean tech giant had held preorders for its predecessors — the G3 and the [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it will start selling its new budget smartphone that comes with a price tag of around US$300, the latest in a series of budget smartphone models. The LG Stylus 2, scheduled to go on sales this week in South Korea, was first showcased at [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc., a latecomer to the virtual-reality (VR) segment, said Thursday its new smartphone camera that rotates 360-degrees officially connects to Google Inc.’s Street View service, announcing its full-fledged debut in the industry. South Korea’s No. 2 tech giant said it marked the first time for a smartphone [...]
China-based tech giant Xiaomi Inc., which has been sluggish in tapping overseas markets due to copyright-related issues, is set to speed up its expansion with a new flagship, industry sources said Thursday, engaging in new battles with top brands like Samsung and Apple in South Korea. (Image : Yonhap) SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) - In the face of sagging global smartphone sales, Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are jostling to win back customers with new gadgets boasting much-upgraded cameras and the novel technology of virtual reality (VR). Samsung showed off its flat screen Galaxy S7 and curved screen Galaxy S7 Edge on Sunday [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Friday it has joined forces with a Danish-based audio firm to provide better sound-related features on its smartphones, including the upcoming flagship G5. The South Korean tech firm said the G5 smartphone will come with Bang & Olufsen’s stereo to provide premium sound on the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) - Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are likely to start domestic sales of their new flagship smartphones in March to meet soaring seasonal demand, heralding a fierce battle to win the hearts and minds of local users, industry sources said Friday. Industry leader Samsung’s presumed Galaxy S7 and LG’s [...]