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All posts tagged "Smartphone"

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  N. Korea’s smartphone imports from China hit record

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea’s smartphone imports from China surged to a record high last year, a sign of a growing number of people there being connected to the net, according to data released Friday. North Korea...

  • Posted January 30, 2015
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  Even more for the smartphone

  Nowadays just about 70% of the population of the United States uses a smartphone. To put that into perspective, that’s hundreds of millions of mobile users per day, just from the U.S. It is being a commonality,...

  • Posted January 12, 2015
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  [CNET] China beats S. Korea on smartphone global market share

    Nine representative Chinese handset makers have toppled Samsung and LG’s combined market share for the second quarter of 2014, according to a report released Tuesday by the Federation of Korean Industries, an alliance of South...

  • Posted December 9, 2014
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  UCLA professor assures strength in S. Korean tech despite falling profits

  BUSAN (Yonhap) — Dennis Hong, a U.S. robotics professor considered one of the most promising researchers in the field, said Tuesday South Korean tech firms still have a bright future despite their recent lackluster earnings as the...

  • Posted October 28, 2014
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  Will Samsung’s 5G technology change the way we use mobile devices?

  By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Samsung revealed its progress in 5G technology for mobile networks on Wednesday. After a performance test, Samsung achieved a download speed of 7.5 gigabyte per second (Gbps). Considering that the...

  • Posted October 16, 2014
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  Samsung begins $14.7 billion transition from smartphones to chips

  By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Samsung Electronics Co. announced plans to build a $14.7 billion (15.6 trillion won) memory chip manufacturing plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Construction will begin in 2015 and the factory should...

  • Posted October 6, 2014
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  [BUSINESS INSIDER] This is North Korea’s version of the iPhone 6

   While the hottest gadget across much of the world is undoubtedly the iPhone 6, in North Korea the only smartphone you can get legally is the government-approved “Pyongyang Touch.” The North Korean government first released the ”Arirang” smartphone in...

  • Posted October 6, 2014
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