SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The demand for larger-screen smartphones sized 6 inches and above is expected to grow down the road as more consumers enjoy games and movies, data showed Sunday. According to the data compiled by Strategy Analytics, phablets with screen sizes larger than 6 inches are set to take up 4.3 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics topped smartphone markets around the globe, except for in North America, in the second quarter on robust sales of low- to mid-end devices, data showed Monday. Samsung stood as the top seller of smartphones in the European, Latin American, Asia-Pacific, Middle East [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics estimated Tuesday that its second-quarter operating income fell about 4 percent from a year earlier as weak sales of its newest smartphones fell shy of expectations. Operating profit reached 6.9 trillion won (US$6.13 billion) in the April-June period, down 4.03 percent from the 7.19 trillion won posted a [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Major electronics brands Apple and Samsung saw their shares in the global tablet PC market plunge in the first quarter of 2015, data showed Monday, dented by the rise of Chinese companies tapping deeper into the “white box” segment. U.S. tech giant Apple accounted for 24.3 percent of the global [...]