SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three mobile carriers on Tuesday launched an upgraded text messaging service available on Samsung smartphones in a bid to challenge the nation’s leading mobile messaging app Kakao Talk. The three carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — said they started the new [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. has opened a ‘JUMP Augmented Reality (AR) Zoo’ in Seoul’s Olympic Park and Yeouido Park. Visitors can open the ‘JUMP AR’ app on their smartphone and view the grass field in the park to see ‘giant dragons’ and other cute miniature-sized animals [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for foldable panels is expected to grow rapidly in the next five years in different market segments, with Samsung Electronics Co. poised to lead the new trend, a market researcher said Thursday. Foldable displays for smartphones, tablets and notebooks are anticipated to expand from 360,000 units in 2019 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. saw its share in China’s smartphone market fall back below 1 percent in the second quarter as Chinese consumers bought more domestic brands, industry data showed Tuesday. Samsung Electronics shipped 700,000 smartphones to China in the April-June period, accounting for a mere 0.7 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The portion of smartphone users among South Koreans aged 70 and over has risen by more than 10 times over the past five years, a report showed Monday. The smartphone penetration rate for the age group came to 37.8 percent in 2018, compared with 3.6 percent five years earlier, [...]
DAEJEON, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A new trend is rising at funerals where people access a virtual space on a smartphone to mourn for the deceased and send their condolences at a virtual mortuary. The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) reported that there were 24 patent applications related to smartphone funeral services in 2017. [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of smartphones are being introduced with more than one camera. According to Counterpoint Research, a market research agency, 36 percent of the world’s smartphone sales in May were devices with single cameras, 44 percent with dual cameras, and 18 percent with triple cameras. While the proportion [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The first quarter sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S10 series smartphones were 12 percent higher than sales of the previous model, industry data showed Tuesday. According to industry tracker Counterpoint Research, 16 million units of the Galaxy S10 were sold between March and May, which was more than [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Throughout history, a new invention or technological advance has often allowed people to carry less with them. For instance, the invention of coins helped reduce the burden of people carrying loads of goods they wished to trade. Just decades ago, it would have been considered unwise, or even unthinkable, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it plans to release its V50 ThinQ in the United States this week with Verizon, its second American telecom partner for the 5G smartphone. The V50 arrived in the U.S. market last month to become Sprint’s first 5G phone and will go on sale [...]