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South Korean companies trying to combat Apple’s iPad

Published on: 27th August, 2010

According to “Agence France-Presse”, South Korean companies have promised to launch several tablet offerings to combat Apple’s iPad, which is expected to ship to the country soon enough. SK Telecom, South Korea’s top wireless carrier, is currently hedging much of its bets on the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which is a 7-inch Android-powered tablet. Kim Dae-Woong, [...]

LG and Samsung hire visual design academics in order to counter iPhone’s user interface

Published on: 13th August, 2010

LG and Samsung have recently hired design professors in order to improve their user interfaces’ quality. LG was the first to hire Lee Kun-pyo, dean at Korea Institute of Advanced Technology, to coordinate its Design Management Center. Samsung also hired Jung Ji-hong, professor of Visual Communications Design at Kookmin University, who will oversee the smartphone [...]

LG prepares 3D TV bundles

Published on: 16th July, 2010

LG has presented its newest 3D TV bundles which include the Infinia LED HDTVs and the 3D-capable Blu-ray player BX580. To encourage sales, LG is going to offer a pair of 3D active shutter glasses necessary for 3D content viewing to those customers buying either an LX6500 or LX9500-series HDTV and the 3D Blu-ray player. [...]

Voice over LTE to have 3G support and emergency calls

Published on: 16th July, 2010

Updated specifications of VoLGA Forum for its standard for Voice Over LTE have been released. The new specifications include mobile voice as well as SMS services over 4G and is different from the current standard which supports only data. The changes in the standard will bring VoLGA (Voice over LTE via Generic Access) which uses [...]

Own mobile application store started by LG

Published on: 7th July, 2010

LG, like its smartphone rivals, has launched its own Application Store. The portal is made for its own phones but would also work with smartphones as well as with regular feature phones. Around half of this store is dedicated to those limited devices that LG considers as been neglected by the other stores.
The portal is [...]

The cost of raw parts in an iPhone 4 is $187.51

Published on: 2nd July, 2010

The iPhone 4 seems to be Apple’s most expensive device ever, according to iSuppli. For example, a 16GB device has a cost of $187.51 when considering the raw parts. It is true that the cost of the original model in 2007 was $223, but it is more than the iPhone 3G which costs $173, or [...]

Apple could get help from Samsung for producing iPads

Published on: 21st June, 2010

Tips from the industry have recently revealed that Apple is in need for production help, as shipments of iPads have accelerated to 1.2 million each month. Apple had launched its iPad manufacturing 700,000 tablets per month, but the production has had to increase by more than two thirds, in order to keep up with customers’ [...]

The first INQ Android phone to be available in the fall of 2010

Published on: 14th June, 2010

Through a recent GigaOM interview, Frank Meehan, the CEO of INQ Mobile, has announced that his company will be releasing its first Android-based touchscreen handset this fall. It seems that the London-based company will not be offering anything else but Android handsets. The company will even stop selling the current BREW OS-powered phones. INQ will [...]

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 has [...]

No explanation for delaying the LG Ally

Published on: 29th May, 2010

Verizon has announced its customers of the LG Ally that the ship date of the phone had to be pushed back with exactly one week. Information from e-mails and a spokesperson said the new Android device was sent back the same day it was scheduled to be shipped. No explanation has been offered for this [...]

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