As Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled the Galaxy S10 series and a foldable phone at the same time, industry watchers are speculating about how many units the company will be able to sell. They are wondering whether the Galaxy S10 series can sell more than 40 million units.Samsung Electronics unveiled
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics will present their premium built-in home appliances at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show 2019 (KBIS 2019) in Las Vegas for three days starting on Feb. 19 (local time). The size of the global built-in appliance market was estimated at US$45 billion last year.LG E
Global semiconductor manufacturers are about to release 5G modem chips one after another with a number of 5G smartphones scheduled to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 on Feb. 25.Apple is reportedly developing its own 5G modem chip. According to LetsGoDigital, a Dutch online magazine,
Samsung Electronics failed to boost its share of the mobile phone market in China above 1 percent last year. The company’s market share in China stood at 20 percent in 2013, but fell to the zero-percent level in five years.Samsung Electronics sold 3.4 million smartphones in China last year, posting
Samsung Electronics Co. is supporting blockchain-based startups through Creative Lab (C-Lab), an in-house startup incubator program. As the Samsung Galaxy S10 flagship smartphone to be unveiled on Feb. 20 is expected to feature a cryptocurrency wallet, there is growing speculation that Samsung Elect
Samsung Electronics’ operating profit in the smartphone business division in the fourth quarter of 2018 decreased by 37 percent in a year. In particular, the figure fell below 2 trillion won (US$1.80 billion) for the first time in nine quarters after the third quarter of 2016 when the Galaxy Note 7
This year, smartphone manufacturers started the second round of their camera technology competition.Smartphone industry sources said on Jan. 31 that Samsung Electronics would strengthen the camera functions of the Galaxy smartphone by acquiring Israeli camera start up Corephotonics recently. Earlier
Global smartphone manufacturers are set to unveil innovative products to ride out a slump in the premium phone market. In particular, they will launch new form factors such as a foldable screen and a dual screen that depart from the conventional bar shape.Samsung Electronics is planning to unveil th
Samsung Electronics will acquire Israeli multi-camera maker Corephotonics. This is the company’s first acquisition of this year and the third after vice chairman Lee Jae-yong came back to management in February last year.Corephotonics is regarded as a technologically advanced company. It sued Apple
Korean and Chinese smartphone makers, which are fiercely competing for a bigger share of the global market, are racing to keep ahead of the competition in future mobile technology.In the case of foldable phones, even though Chinese startup Royole fired the first salvo with the world's first out-
Samsung Electronics will unveil the Galaxy S10 smartphone series in San Francisco on Feb. 20.The company sent an invitation letter to global media outlets and partners on Jan. 11, announcing that it will introduce the Galaxy S10 series in San Francisco, a city close to the corporate headquarters of
An increasing number of securities companies are lowering the target stock price of Samsung Electronics Co. as the company announced on Jan. 8 its earnings guidance for the fourth quarter of 2018, which fell far short of the market expectations.The securities industry said that the semiconductor mar
Samsung Electronics, the pioneer of the smart watch market, may be developing a new product line under the code "pulse."U.S.-based IT media outlet SamMobile reported that the Korean tech giant started developing a new smart watch product line tailored to the physical health (fitness) purpose in Dece
Samsung Electronics announced on Dec. 20 that it will launch the Galaxy A9, the world’s first smartphone to be equipped with a quad camera on the back, in the Korean market.Samsung’s mid-range Galaxy A9 has a 24-megapixel main camera, a telephoto lens, an ultra-wide-angle lens and a depth-of-field l
Samsung Electronics is paving its way to the drone business. As the competition for smart drone development in the global IT industry continues, the Korean tech giant is also making efforts to take the lead in technology development.According to industry watchers and the United States Patent and Tra
Samsung Electronics held a global strategy meeting on December 17. The meeting was full of tension with the three business units of the company facing a lot of hurdles.The Device Solutions (DS) Division of Samsung Electronics is about to enter an off-season past a boom in the global semiconductor in
The landscape of the Chinese smartphone market may change as Apple is struggling due to its patent disputes with Qualcomm.In a preliminary ruling on Nov. 30, a Chinese court upheld Qualcomm's claim that the iPhone violated its patents, preventing the sales of Apple’s seven models, including the
Smasung Electronics has begun to register trademarks related to blockchain technology in Europe, spawning speculation that the Korean tech giant may release a Galaxy smartphone based on blockchain.According to foreign news media outlets on Dec. 13, Samsung Electronics filed applications for three tr
Samsung Electronics announced on Dec. 12 that it would shut down its mobile phone manufacturing factory in Tianjin at the end of this month. In China, Samsung Electronics has produced mobile phones in Tianjin and Huizhou, with most of the smartphones produced in Tianjin exported.The company’s decisi
In the Korean notebook PC market, convertible laptops have become a mainstay. A convertible laptop is one that has both laptop and tablet functionality. Convertibles are more powerful than tablets yet have more portable functionality than traditional laptops.The Pen series of Samsung Electronics is