SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of smartphone users on 5G mobile networks had topped 19 million as of October, data showed Wednesday, as new smartphone launches boosted user growth in the latest generation networks. The total number of 5G users reached 19.38 million in October, accounting for around 27 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Smartphone users will soon be able to shake their phones to detect registered sex offenders if they are wearing an electronic anklet and within a 20-meter radius, the Ministry of Justice said Monday. The new service, which was developed in concert with the Gyeonggi provincial government, will launch Wednesday [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are more active in using emojis than smartphone users in other countries, a survey showed. Emojis are small pictures used on smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices to convey emotion. Software giant Adobe Inc. recently unveiled a report written on the basis of a survey conducted of [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that domestic sales of its new flagship smartphone series, the Galaxy S21, surpassed 1 million units last week. The South Korean tech giant said the S21, which was released here on Jan. 29, achieved the milestone 57 days after its launch, about one-month faster [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile business chief said Wednesday that the world’s largest smartphone maker would not discard its Galaxy Note smartphone series, although new models may not be released this year. Rumors have arisen in recent months that Samsung may reconfigure its premium smartphone lineup with Galaxy Z foldables [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 20 percent of South Korean smartphone users are at risk of being overly dependent on the devices, a survey showed Wednesday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said 23.3 percent of smartphone users in the country were at risk last year, up 3.3 percent from the previous [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An art exhibition is being held through a video app as the coronavirus is preventing the public from freely visiting art galleries. On Thursday, Arts Council Korea introduced Switch On, a smartphone app that allows art enthusiasts to access various art exhibitions. It is the first of its kind, [...]
GWANGJU, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed new technology that enables users to verify whether a stent has become re-stenosed in a blood vessel via a smartphone. A joint research team from Chonnam National University Hospital and Chonnam National University recently announced that they had developed the world’s first monitoring technology [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The use of smartphones, tablets, and other smart devices undermine our eyes’ ability to focus and exacerbate eye fatigue. A research team from Chung-ang University Hospital invited 46 healthy adults without any eye treatment records to participate in an experiment on how the use of smartphones and tablets affects [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., a major display maker in South Korea, said Tuesday it has developed a low-power consumption organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel for smartphones. The affiliate of Samsung Electronics Co. said the latest OLED display reduces power consumption up to 16 percent compared with its previous smartphone panels. [...]