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, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics has won a patent for hologram technology that works on smartphones, the U.S. patent office said Thursday, which may mark another significant progress in the development of mobile devices. Samsung applied for the patent, dubbed “mobile device capable of displaying hologram and hologram [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has begun to mass-produce 256-gigabit (Gb) vertical NAND flash memory chips, making the company the first in the world to have succeeded in manufacturing the storage component in its largest capacity available. The vertical NAND flash, also known as V-NAND, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Industry watchers are suggesting that Samsung Electronics might find itself stuck between the US and China in the home Internet of Things (IoT) business. A report issued by the KT economic research laboratory predicted that Apple and Google will dominate the platform, and Chinese companies will be a conspicuous entity in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics topped smartphone markets around the globe, except for in North America, in the second quarter on robust sales of low- to mid-end devices, data showed Monday. Samsung stood as the top seller of smartphones in the European, Latin American, Asia-Pacific, Middle East [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean smartphone users change their devices every 14 months, with teens changing their handsets in less than a year, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), South Koreans on average used their handsets for 19 months, but those [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Prior to the official launch of Samsung Pay, Samsung Electronics‘ simple on and offline payment solution, Korean card companies are busy preparing for the service. According to credit card industry representatives, Samsung Card, Samsung Group’s card company, and BC Card are now offering a trial run of Samsung Pay [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics has announced that they will accept the recommendations from mediation related to occupational diseases that occur on semiconductor manufacturing lines. The company will create an in-house fund of 100 billion won, and use the money for compensation and research to prevent the disease. In addition, employees of their subcontractors [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – In the second quarter this year, Samsung Electronics led the front-loading washing machine market in the United States for the first time since its 2006 debut in the segment. According to TraQline, a market researcher, Samsung posted a 22.3 percent market share in the segment, beating out LG Electronics [...]
SEJONG, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust watchdog ordered six local iPhone repair companies Thursday to change their customer service rules that unfairly restrict the rights of users. UBase, Peach Valley, Beyond Tech and three other firms cited for unfair practices are all official repair companies authorized by tech giant Apple to service its [...]