SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday its new flagship phablet has been officially launched globally as the South Korean tech giant pins hopes on its latest device to drive the company’s mobile business amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. The Galaxy Note 20 series has hit shelves in some 70 countries, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. remained the top TV vendor in the first half of the year, a report showed Wednesday, despite a contraction of the global TV market due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Samsung accounted for 31.3 percent of the world TV market in terms of value in the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will offer extended software upgrades for its Galaxy smartphones for up to three device generations as the company vows to improve its after-sales support. Samsung will guarantee three generations of Android operating system (OS) updates for Galaxy smartphones. It will cover Galaxy S10 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. remained the top TV vendor in the second quarter of the year, a report showed Tuesday, while its local rival LG Electronics Inc. fell to the fourth spot in global TV shipments. Samsung shipped 8.5 million TVs in the April-June period, down 6 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — International Business Machines Corp. said Monday that it has unveiled a new processor chip for enterprise hybrid cloud computing and that the chip will be manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co. In a statement, the U.S. technology giant said the POWER10 chip is designed by IBM and will be made [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Preorders of Samsung Electronics Co.’s new phablet, the Galaxy Note 20, almost matched its predecessor in South Korea despite the novel coronavirus pandemic, industry insiders said Friday. The Galaxy Note 20 preorders in the last seven days were about 90 percent of the Galaxy Note 10 over the same [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday launched a comprehensive mobile device care service in South Korea as the company boosts its after-sales support for customers. Samsung Care+ is a monthly mobile care plan that offers extended warranty, damage coverage and repair services. Such a service has been already launched in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that its advanced chip packaging technology is now ready for use after the company succeeded in producing test chips with the solution that can improve speed and power efficiency of logic semiconductors. Its silicon-proven 3D integrated circuit (IC) packaging technology, dubbed “eXtended-Cube” or simply [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. remained the second-largest smartphone vendor in Canada in the second quarter of the year, but its market share gap with Apple Inc. has widened, a report showed Tuesday. Samsung took a 34 percent market share in the April-June period in terms of smartphone shipments, according to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Monday acquitted Lee Sang-hoon, former chairman of Samsung Electronics Co.’s board of directors, of disrupting union activities at a Samsung affiliate in violation of labor laws, overturning a jail sentence by a lower court. Lee and 31 other former and incumbent Samsung executives and officials [...]