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Analyst believes tablet market would become controlled by Android

Published on: 16th October, 2010

Piper Jaffray’s analyst Gene Munster suggests that despite the current success of the iPad, Android will control the largest part of the tablet market. He told Business Insider that Apple would not have the majority of the tablet market share and probably Android would have it. Piper Jaffray’s analyst was also skeptical about sources claiming [...]

iPhone’s profits greatly exceed the number of handsets sold

Published on: 25th September, 2010

According to T. Michael Walkley, Canaccord Genuity analyst, Apple’s share of cellphone industry profits is vastly disproportionate to the number of iPhones the company actually sells. Apple has sold almost 17 million iPhones in the first 6 months of 2010, compared to the 400 million devices sold by Nokia, Samsung and LG combined. Despite this, [...]

LG Electronics CEO resigned due to poor phone sales

Published on: 20th September, 2010

Nam Yong, CEO at LG Electronics, resigned to take responsibility for the company’s poor sales. He will leave as of 1st of October and will be replaced y Koo Bon-joon, company veteran and head of LG International. Although replacements usually wait until the year ends, the company wanted to give the new executive the necessary [...]

Four new IPS-based desktop monitors from LG

Published on: 13th September, 2010

LG has introduced four new LED backlit IPS-based desktop monitors, the IPS206T, IPS226V and IPS236V addressing home audiences, while the IPS2321P is meant for the professional market. Although getting thinner, all four monitors promise color accuracy. By using a more efficient lighting, the depth has been reduced to 0.776 inches, while the power consumption has [...]

Apple, LG and Nokia to be in the top of green phone makers

Published on: 6th September, 2010

A recent IDC study has placed Apple on the first position in the phone makers’ environmental friendliness top. Through its iPhone efforts, Apple has succeeded to challenge other apparently greener companies. The firm offers recycling for the iPhone in 95 percent of the countries where it is sold. It has also tighter control over its [...]

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 [...]

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