SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Desperate to expand their global presence, South Korean and Chinese smartphone makers are likely to fight a pitched battle to steal the show at the world’s largest tech exhibition in Spain next week, industry watchers said Tuesday. The four-day Mobile World Congress (MWC) is slated to kick off in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. on Wednesday released another teaser for its upcoming flagship G5 smartphone, providing a glimpse of the design and features for the first time. The 10-second video showed an outline of the G5 smartphone, with the phrase “Always ON.” The company also wrote the phrase “Never go [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. on Thursday released more teasers for its next flagship smartphone set to be released later this month, although it refrained from giving significant details about features or design. The G5 smartphone will be introduced on Feb. 21, a day before the opening of the Mobile World [...]
SEOUL, Feb.1 (Korea Bizwire) - LG Electronics Inc. was more profitable than Samsung Electronics Co. in the home appliance business in 2015 despite a huge gap in their overall revenue, industry data showed Sunday. According to the data, LG’s home entertainment and home appliance & air solution divisions chalked up an operating profit of 1.04 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Dec.23 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics has announced that it will launch its G Pad Ⅱ 8.3 LTE, a tablet capable of LTE data transfers, through LG U+. The product has an LTE communication module which makes it possible for it to connect to the internet if Wi-Fi is unavailable. Considering that consumers often [...]
SEOUL, Dec.21 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics and LG Display announced that they have installed an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) structure on the first, second and fourth floors of Namsan’s N Tower. A total of 248 55-inch OLED panels were used in the installation. Taking advantage of their advanced OLED technology and light, thin high [...]
SEOUL, Nov.19 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘original’ Black Friday is just 10 days away, drawing the attention of Korean ‘direct overseas shoppers’ as well as local consumers. After Black Friday, which falls on November 27, and Cyber Monday on November 30, huge sales will continue until the end of the year. During this period, consumers [...]
SEOUL, Nov.19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics and Google have joined forces to launch a Smart TV content application. Cooperation between the two companies seems to on solid footing after joint marketing efforts for LG’s new OLED TVs. LG Electronics announced on November 18 that it is bringing a new content application, Google Play Movies [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s LG Display Co. maintained its top position in the large-sized panel market for the sixth consecutive year, data showed Tuesday, coming in far above other South Korean and Taiwanese rivals. LG shipped 39.4 million units of display panels 9 inches or higher in the July-September period with [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc.’s organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV has received the best response from a U.S. consumer review magazine, industry sources said Monday. In the recent review by Consumer Reports, the 55-inch LG OLED TV, dubbed the 55EG9100, has received the top grade among other rival models surveyed in [...]