Samsung Electronics is forecast to supply 5G modems for Apple’s 2020 iPhones that support 5G networks.Apple recently settled a legal battle with Qualcomm over patents and agreed to buy chips from Qualcomm again. Yet it is forecast to purchase 5G modems not only from Qualcomm but from Samsung Electro
While Samsung Electronics indefinitely postponed the launch of the Galaxy Fold due to defects, China’s Royole, Xiaomi and Huawei have launched their foldable phones, heating up competition among smartphone manufacturers.On the day Samsung Electronics announced the temporary postponement of the launc
Samsung Electronics has postponed its press briefings on the Galaxy Fold smartphone, which were scheduled for April 23 in Hong Kong and April 24 in Shanghai, due to its defects recently found in the United States.Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern recently posted a YouTube video mocking the
LG U+ is under fire for beginning to receive subscriptions to its 5G services in areas where it has not established its 5G base stations.LG U+ is activating customers’ 5G smartphones in Busan, even though it has not yet installed 5G base stations and repeaters in the city. The number of 5G base stat
Some units of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Fold, which were distributed for reviews before the U.S. launch on April 26, showed abnormal functions such as its display being turned off or flickering after one or two days’ use."Some units of Samsung Electronics's US$1,980 Galaxy Fold showed display
Samsung Display announced on April 17 that its 7.3-inch 1536×2152 foldable OLED display for the Galaxy Fold received the “Eye Comfort” certification from TUV Rheinland, a technology evaluation organization of Germany.The foldable OLED for the Galaxy Fold lowered the portion of harmful blue light in
Samsung Electronics Co. launched the Galaxy A2 Core smartphone in India last weekend to capture the low-end smartphone market and lowered the price to 5,300 rupees (US$76 or 87,000 won). The company already announced a full set of seven A-series phones this year, seeking to expand its share of the l
The black hole, which has been only proven by theory, has finally been unveiled. The observation of black hole has become possible by using a network of major radio telescopes around the world as a single telescope of the size of the earth. This is the first time that the actual form of black hole h
With 5G services set to begin in Europe next month, LG Electronics and Oppo of China are likely to compete to roll out the first 5G smartphone in Europe. LG Electronics plans to boost its market share in Europe by launching the V50 ThinQ next month.Switzerland's state-owned mobile carrier Swissc
South Korea has won the race to become the first country in the world to launch 5G services as the three mobile operators activated the 5G mobile phones of their first subcribers at 11 p.m. on April 3. With the release of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S10 5G model on April 5, ordinary users have s
Samsung Display has begun mass production of foldable displays for the Galaxy Fold smartphone.Samsung Display announced on April 10 that it held a ceremony on April 9 to celebrate the mass production of foldable displays and to appreciate the efforts of employees who participated in the project.Fold
Samsung Electronics will start mass production of 7 nanometer (nm) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) chips in June, the first time in the global semiconductor industry.Samsung Electronics plans to ship the Exynos 9825, which is an application processor (AP) manufactured through a 7 nm EUV process, in June.
Some users of the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G complained that their smartphones did not switch from 5G to LTE. The Galaxy S10 5G, which was launched on April 5 as the world’s first 5G smartphone, also had other problems such as limited 5G service coverage and a slow speed.These users complained that when
Samsung Electronics will unveil the Galaxy A80, the first Galaxy phone equipped with a rotating camera, at A Galaxy Event to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on April 10.According to the industry and foreign news reports, the Galaxy A80 is the first Samsung smartphone to adopt a rotating camera that tur
Amid expectations that 5G smartphones will inject new vitality into the slumping global smartphone market, competition is expected to heat up among Samsung Electronics, which rolled out the world's first 5G smartphone, LG Electronics, Xiaomi and others that will launch their 5G smartphones befor
Apple’s sales in China showed a year-on-year decline of no less than 27 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 and the company recently lowered its sales forecast for the first quarter of this year. This is sending shock waves through the IT industry. The memory chip business of Samsung Electronics a
China accounted for more than 30 percent of Samsung Electronics Co.’s global sales for the first time last year. The proportion of the U.S. market has gradually decreased since 2016, while demand from Chinese companies has been on the rise. In particular, Huawei Technologies Co., which competes with
Samsung Electronics will launch the Galaxy S10 5G, the world's first 5G smartphone, on April 5 in Korea.A 5G network is 20 times faster than a 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network and the former’s latency is one tenth of that of the latter. These features enable users to receive various multimed
The Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone was used to shoot an episode of NBC TV's popular late night talk show “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in the United States. This marked the first time that an entire episode of a TV show was shot with a smartphone.Samsung Electronics said on March 27 th
Samsung Electronics unveiled its entry-level smartphone “Galaxy A70” on March 26. The Galaxy A70 has a screen size of 6.7 inches and a screen ratio of 20 to 9, making it the model with the largest screen among Samsung's budget Galaxy A smartphone series.The Galaxy A has Infinity-U Display with a