SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 25 percent of Galaxy Note 7 owners in South Korea have swapped their used phablets for new ones three days after Samsung Electronics Co. began a replacement program as part of a global recall over possible battery problems, industry officials said Thursday. The number of Note 7 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co. came closer to catching up with its U.S. archrival Intel Corp. in the global chip market in the second quarter, data showed Monday. Samsung Electronics saw its chip sales reach US$9.45 billion in the April-June period to account for 11.3 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that it has decided to launch media advertisements to apologize for the ongoing global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. The world’s largest smartphone maker said it will soon run an advertisement in major media outlets to offer an apology for causing discomfort [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday its vice chairman, Lee Jae-yong, was nominated to be a member of its board of directors, a move that will allow him to take a “more active role” in the decision-making process. The nomination of Lee, the only son of ailing Samsung Electronics Chairman [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Three days after Samsung advised its customers to stop using their Galaxy Note 7s and exchange them for temporary Samsung smartphones until the issues with the Note 7 are addressed, not many were found to have followed the guidelines. The Korean tech giant posted an online notice to its [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The mass recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones over a battery problem has not largely affected foreign consumer loyalty to Samsung Electronics Co.’s brand, separate online surveys by Internet news websites showed Monday. According to an online survey of 11,621 Internet users by a U.S. technology news website, [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday it has no plan to ban the use of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Note 7 on planes following the company’s global recall of the smartphones for battery problems. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said that it has been reviewing whether to prevent people [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung has impressed consumers with iris-scanning technology and dust and water-proof enclosures in its premium phones, and LG, with its dual camera and improved audio capabilities (in the new V20). But how long will these latest technologies remain as signature features exclusive to individual models of premium smartphones? Thinking [...]
SEOUL, Sept.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Consumers who were lucky enough to get their hands on the new Galaxy Note 7 are now anxious that they may have purchased a faulty product. According to industry watchers, at least five cases of exploding Note 7s have been reported on online message boards, including two in Korea, since [...]
BERLIN, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled two new smartwatches which feature a mobile payment function, longer battery life and built-in GPS capabilities for emergency calls or texts. The Gear S3 Frontier and S3 Classic were made public in Berlin on Wednesday ahead of this week’s IFA trade fair, one of the [...]