The Galaxy S 2, Samsung’s new Android-based smartphone, is gaining popularity in the local and global market.
Samsung Electronics said Sunday it has received pre-orders for more than 3 million units of its flagship smartphone, …

KT said Friday that it has agreed to sell its entire stake in its Russian unit, the New Telephone Company (NTC), for US$346 million to VimtelCom, Russia’s third-largest mobile carrier.
VimtelCom will purchase the 79.96-percent stake …

Around the world, operators are starting to move out of 4G trials and switching to commercial services. With 4G, there will not be the generous allocation of spectrum to which the 3G licensees were lucky …

Samsung Electronics said Corning Gorilla Glass has been selected for the Galaxy S II, following last year’s cooperation on the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab.
Corning Gorilla Glass is an environmentally friendly glass designed specifically to …

SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Korea, said it plans to spend KRW 2.3 trillion (USD 2.2 billion) this year to expand its 3G and Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks.
This capital expenditure is up …

Korea police raided Google Korea and Ad Mob’s head office in Seoul on suspicion of illegal private data collection for mobile advertising platform usage.
The cyber crime unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency searched …

Canalys released its worldwide country-level smart phone market data for Q1 2011, revealing that Android led the market for the second quarter running, and, with 35.7 million units shipped, increased its share to 35%. At …

A new report published today by Juniper Research forecasts that revenue from A2P SMS will exceed $70bn by 2016. Revenue from these types of messages will overtake that of P2P SMS during that year as …

Combined revenues from the four major mobile application stores run by Apple Inc., Google Inc., Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. will leap 77.7 percent in 2011 to $3.8 billion, with the Apple App …

LTE is starting to gain critical momentum as we move through 2Q-2011. Currently 12 countries have commercial LTE services, and according to ABI Research VP of Forecasting Jake Saunders, “ABI Research projects that by the …