Samsung Electronics unveiled its first Android-based smartphone(model SHW-M100S) for the local market, which is scheduled to release next month through SK Telecom at the media day held in Seoul on Thursday.
Until now, all the …

SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Thursday that it aims to win 2 million new smartphone users in 2010 by expanding its smartphone lineup and building its own wireless-fidelity network.
SK Telecom will release …

LG Electronics, the world’s third-largest mobile handset maker, aims for 20 percent on-year growth in handset sales this year in a bid to increase its global market share to 13 percent, its handset business head …

Half of all new smartphones released this year by LG Electronics will be based on Google’s Android operating system, the South Korean company’s top executive said Thursday.
LG Electronics has remained the world’s third-largest handset maker …

Even though Google’s Nexus One is starting to sell in the U.S. and some other countries, including Singapore, it is not clear when the Google-designed smartphone will be available in Korea.
Although the Nexus One …

SK Telecom, South Korea’s top mobile operator, said Wednesday that it will introduce 12 more smartphone models based on Google’s Android operating system next month, pitting itself against Apple Inc.’s iPhone brought by its local …

In conjunction with the global economic environment, the telecommunications market in Korea is also expected to become more brisk in comparison to the previous year. Along with a deregulatory governmental mood, the competition between telecom …

Two years after the release rumor, last month Apple iPhone was finally introduced to the Korea market. Starting with KT, an exclusive partner for the sale of Apple’s iPhone, the number of iPhone customers almost …

Even though Android platform based smartphones have not yet been introduced in the Korean market, the open source-based smartphone operating system may lead the local smartphone market, according to a survey conducted by research firm …

While the Microsoft smartphone operating system based smartphone has dominated Korea because of backing by the leading mobile carrier, SK Telecom, mobile experts expect that Windows Phone (formerly Windows Mobile) will disappear in the local …