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300,000 orders for the iPhone 4 launched in Korea

Published on: 13th September, 2010

KT has launched the iPhone 4 on the South Korean market and has been already confronted with a major backlog. 10,000 Apple devices have been delivered by the carrier, but there were about 300,000 advance orders registered before doors opened. About 20,000 of those orders have been placed in a single day. At the current [...]

Com2uS says iPhone applications sales are twice as big as Android

Published on: 9th August, 2010

Mobile developer Com2uS from Korea achieves merely half of the volume of Android applications downloaded compared to the similar offerings for Apple’s iPhone. Com2uS, which says it is the leader on the Korean market, is offering many of the applications it creates on both platforms. For instance, Home Run Battle, a baseball game, had 400 [...]

Skype over 3G could be allowed by Korea’s SK Telecom

Published on: 18th July, 2010

The largest cellphone provider in South Korea, SK Telecom, has recently announced that it would allow its clients to make Internet-based calls on its cellular network. This incorporates various services, for instance Skype when they are connected to SK’s 3G network. Such calls are currently limited by SK to Wi-Fi connections. SK, as well as [...]

Companies from Korea overtake Motorola on the United States market

Published on: 11th June, 2010

Samsung and LG have ended Motorola’s reign as a top-selling brand on the US phone market. Motorola’s loss is slight, but big enough to place it third with 21.6 percent. Meanwhile, Samsung grew enough to reach the first place with 22.1 percent. LG is ranked second at 21.8 percent. The influence of Research in Motion [...]

LG to release a full-touch Windows Mobile 6.5-based smartphone in Korea

Published on: 31st January, 2010

LG has recently presented a new Windows Mobile Windows 6.5-based handset in Korea. The device is known by three names: LG-SU210, LU21 or KU2100. Besides the latest operating system from Microsoft, the 210 series has a 3-inch touchscreen with a 240×480 resolution. Its 5-megapixel camera with auto focus can capture photos and video sequences. Compatibility [...]

First Korean Android 2.0 smartphone – the MOTOROI

Published on: 22nd January, 2010

Motorola introduced, a few days ago, the first smartphone to ship on the Korean market with an Android 2.0 operating system. The MOTOROI is a slate-like version of the well known Droid and will be available through SK Telecom. It will sport a 3.7-inch touchscreen with a 480×854 resolution. Although similar to its American relative, [...]

Korean Cowon to launch new portable high definition media player

Published on: 24th December, 2009

Korean company Cowon has launched a new portable high definition media player, the V5 HD, a device that features a 4.8-inch 800×480-pixel resolution touchscreen, but capable to output 720-pixel high definition video thanks to an HDMI output. It also has an integrated DMB TV tuner and can support H.264 as well as other common HD-ready [...]

New HD mini PC from My Ripple

Published on: 15th December, 2009

My Ripple is going to launch the Ripple Look Family mini PC in Korea, the company’s home market, before the end of the year. As rumored, the new multimedia PC will be able to run 3D games and play high-definition videos, even though technical specifications are not quite high. It will run one of Intel’s [...]

ODROID gaming console demonstration

Published on: 15th December, 2009

The Korean ODROID gaming console is shipping now in a worldwide developer edition. It has a touchscreen and can provide high definition resolutions on TV sets through its HDMI output. The console uses an 833MHz Samsung ARM Cortex processor and has 512MB of RAM. It also sports an accelerometer to use with certain motion-control games. [...]

New 8-inch digital frame from Samsung

Published on: 15th December, 2009

Samsung released in Korea, on December 9, 2009, an 8-inch digital picture frame – SPF-800P. Its display, which is LED-backlit, has a resolution of 800×480, with 2GB of integrated storage memory, which can b extended through the microSD memory card reader. SPF-800P also includes built-in speakers and is compatible with MP3 formats for audio playback, [...]

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