SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has suffered another setback in the fast-growing Chinese smartphone market this year in the face of heated competition, with its standing slipping by one notch to become the No. 4 smartphone seller in the first quarter of this year, data showed Thursday. China-based Huawei Technologies Co. [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – At the IFA Global Press Conference organized by gfu and Messe Berlin, which took place at Malta Intercontinental Hotel from April 23 to 26, Chinese electronics makers stood out with new products. However, many of their offerings were just copycats of products made by Korean electronics giants like Samsung and [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s newest high-end smartphones – the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge — are seen drawing less than expected attention from consumers, industry data showed Wednesday, casting clouds over the market’s upbeat sales estimate of over 50 million units for 2015. South Korea’s No. 1 tech [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Yonhap) — South Korean tech behemoth Samsung Electronics Co. outpaced its competitors in global smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2015, widening its market share lead over its closest rival Apple Inc., data showed Friday. In terms of sales volume, Samsung took up 27.8 percent of the global smartphone market in [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A video clip featuring attempts to damage Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge with a knife and hammer is drawing a lot of attention on YouTube. The clip was uploaded on the TechRax channel, which specializes in testing the durability of the latest smartphones. The clip first shows human hands hitting [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge have been enticing Korean customers to get rid of their old phones, the number of subscribers changing carriers was 63 percent higher than usual last weekend. According to mobile industry sources, the number of subscriber switches for the major carriers on April [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge is expected to be scarce in the Korean market after its release on April 10, as Samsung is having a hard time meeting demand for the device due to technical difficulties related to the curved screen and an unexpectedly large number of pre-orders. According to industry [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s tech powerhouse, on Friday started shipment of its much-awaited high-end smartphones — Galaxy S6 and its offbeat sister Galaxy S6 Edge — in 20 countries, on the hope that brisk sales will help revitalize its ailing mobile business and take on Apple Inc.’s iPhone [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has beaten its archrival U.S. Apple Inc. in customer loyalty, an online poll showed Wednesday. Samsung ranked first with 35 points, outpacing Apple’s 7, according to an online poll by U.S. corporate research site SurveyMonkey, based on the responses from 5,000 consumers [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than a hundred executives at Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s No. 1 tech giant, left their posts between late last year and the first quarter of 2015, data showed Thursday, in what seems to be an aftereffect of the lackluster performance in 2014 smartphone sales. The number of [...]