SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Nine out of ten Galaxy Note 7 users in Korea were found to be holding on to their phablets, despite Samsung announcing it would halt production of the devices, meaning roughly 500,000 Note 7s are still being used in the country. Samsung announced a permanent halt of the faulty [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. has temporarily suspended production of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, an official at a supplier for Samsung said Monday, amid a series of media reports that some Note 7 replacements have caught fire. The halt is in cooperation with consumer safety regulators from South Korea, the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s Mobile Device Distribution Improvement Act went into effect in October 2014, setting a price cap on the amount of subsidies that one can receive when purchasing a new smartphone. The law was intended to establish more generalized smartphone prices, which tended to fluctuate highly from store to store, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean companies’ exports of mobile handsets, including smartphones, to China dropped by more than 27 percent in the first eight months of the year from a year earlier amid the rising presence of Chinese rivals there, a report said Friday. According to the Institute for Information & Communications [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) Wednesday decided in favor of a new revision to the Telecommunications Business Act that will soon allow consumers to delete pre-installed applications that come with new smartphones. The revision will prohibit acts that block users from erasing software that are not essential to the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Canada’s BlackBerry Ltd. began selling its first Android-based smartphone on Tuesday in South Korea, returning to the competitive smartphone market dominated by local brands. It is BlackBerry’s first smartphone launched in South Korea since it pulled out of the Korean market three years ago. The launch of the PRIV [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The current Korean market for smartphones may be dominated by the big three smartphone manufacturers – Samsung, Apple, and LG – and their latest premium products – the Galaxy Note 7, iPhone, and V20 – but other phone makers have been making inroads recently by targeting niche customers. KT, [...]
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. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled the V20, the latest in its V series of smartphones, delivering the highest multimedia capabilities available in a mobile device. The V20 boasts new features including Steady Record 2.0, Hi-Fi Quad DAC, HD Audio Recorder and front and rear wide-angle lens cameras to deliver best-in-class performance. It [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. will unveil a new premium smartphone this week as it seeks to revive its struggling handset business. The V20 smartphone, to be announced on Wednesday in Seoul, is the first smartphone in the world to run on Google’s latest Android mobile operating system called “Nougat.” Following [...]