SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld a law that restricts subsidies on the purchase of smartphones and other mobile devices. The regulation, which sets the legal limit of subsidies at 330,000 won (US$295), was adopted to bring transparency and stability to the market long distorted by subsidies as telecom [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — While Samsung Electronics Co. plans to sell refurbished models of the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in the near future, controversies surrounding the troubled model still linger, especially in terms of safety requirements, according to market watchers Saturday. The South Korean tech giant said in March that it plans [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Folder LTE and Galaxy J series, along with LG Electronics Inc.’s Wine Smart Jazz smartphones, are the most preferred mobile devices by South Korean seniors, industry data showed on Monday. According to the data compiled by SK Telecom Co., the country’s top mobile carrier, there [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A rising number of seniors are purchasing the latest smartphones, industry data showed Thursday, breaking the perception that older users normally buy traditional handsets with buttons. According to the data compiled SK Telecom Co., 74 percent of its users aged 60 and above used smartphones as of April. The [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans consumed an average of nearly 6 gigabytes (GB) of data with their smartphones in March, data showed Tuesday, partly on the back of an increase in rate plans that offer unlimited connectivity by the country’s mobile carriers. According to the data by the Ministry of Science, ICT [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday the controversial red-tinted display on some of its brand-new Galaxy S8 smartphone cannot be considered a defect, while some critics are predicting the issue may hurt the company’s image like last year’s battery scandal. The issue came to light when a few users claimed [...]
SEOUL, Apr 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung’s Galaxy Wide low-end smartphone is causing quite the stir as it’s recently emerged as a new steady seller in the highly competitive South Korean mobile phone market. The Galaxy Wide took back the top spot in the first week of April, four weeks after it was first branded [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Five out of every 100 South Korean adults have experienced being too dependent on smartphones, a poll showed Thursday, indicating that the problem of smartphone addiction has risen as a major social issue. According to the survey by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, five percent of 5,102 people [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. regained the top status in the global smartphone market in the first quarter of the year, even before the release of its latest Galaxy S8, largely thanks to an increase in shipments of mid- and low-end devices, data showed Wednesday. According to the data compiled by [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A local retailer of China-based Xiamoi’s products said Thursday it will start sales of the tech giant’s MIX smartphone in South Korea, which is expected to bring major changes to the market largely dominated by homegrown Samsung and LG. G-Mobi Korea, an official local retailer of Xiamoi products, said it [...]