SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. has unveiled two new X series budget smartphones – the X Power and X5. The company first unveiled its X series budget smartphones – the X Cam and X Screen – at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The X5 is equipped with 13-megapixel rear and [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting next week, anyone with a low smartphone battery will be able to charge their phone in a taxi, if they get lucky. All they have to do is to watch a short advertisement. The Seoul Taxi Association (STA) announced on Thursday, June 30 that it will launch a pilot [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Korea’s Green Consumers’ Network (GCN) on Thursday, some 1.13 million cell phones are lost each year, resulting in 565 billion won ($490 million) in financial damages to consumers. Unfortunately, the odds of recovering a lost phone were only 56 percent. The total number of reported lost cell [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – “Life in the 21st century is becoming more and more enervating, especially with endless competition and pressure,” said Moon Ji-wook, president of Pantech, during a very modest press conference for its latest smartphone, the IM-100. Pantech may be an unfamiliar smartphone brand to overseas consumers, especially compared to Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Pantech is back, stepping into the smartphone war after almost two years of silence. The company unveiled a new smartphone Wednesday, the IM-100 (pronounced “I’m Back” – 100 is read ‘baek’ in Korean), with an ambitious goal to reclaim its rank as Korea’s No. 3 mobile phone maker. The new [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – As smartphones and tablet PCs have become readily available, the average working person spends an extra 1.44 hours per day or 11.3 hours per week using these devices for work related purposes. Since using smartphones or tablets to do work after working hours can be considered as overtime, many people [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly half of all South Koreans consume digital news on their smartphones, topping the list of 26 countries studied, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the Korea Press Foundation (KPF) that released the Korean version of the survey, “Digital News Report 2016,” by Reuters Institute for the Study of [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that women are twice as vulnerable to smartphone addiction as men. The study was conducted by a mental health team lead by Dr. Kim Dae-jin from the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul. The team conducted an online survey aimed at 4,854 adults aged [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report noted that a monthly average of 4.5GB of data is used by Korean smartphone users. According to the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning in its ‘Wireless Data Traffic Statistics’, the average monthly data usage of LTE smartphone subscribers increased from 4.14GB in January to 4.52GB [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that children who use smartphones from an early age have a higher chance of developing depression, anxiety and aggression. Researcher Kim Su-jung and professor Jung Ik-joong of Ewha Womans University revealed the findings in a thesis titled, ‘The Effects of Computer and Video Games and [...]