LG Electronics is planning to launch a rollable smartphone early next year and the project is called B Project, sources within the company told TheElec.The company has begun production for the prototype of the device at its factory in Pyeongtaek. Most commercial products goes to three to four trial

Vingroup is planning to manufacture around a million self-designed smartphones this year via its affiliate VinSmart, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Tuesday.VinSmart was planning to launch two models, one of them called V740, within the year. The company, which started its smartphone

Samsung Electronics have again ceded its top spot in global smartphones sales to Huawei in the month of May, according to market research firm CounterPoint.The Chinese company controlled 19.7% market share while the South Korean tech giant was just behind with 19.6%. A total of 81.97 million smartph

Samsung Electronics will reduce the number of smartphones its produce this year by 40 million units from its initial target, an adjustment caused by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Friday.The company initially set its smartphone shipment target at

Smartphone shipment reached 32.66 million units in May in China, according to government-backed research institute China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) on Thursday.It is a decline of 24.1% from the previous month’s 40.78 million units and a 10.4% decline year over year,

Samsung Electronics has decided not to offer S Pen on its upcoming foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold 2, sources within the company told TheElec Tuesday.It is because the development of a cover glass that can both withstand folding and the pressure from a stylus is yet to be completed, they said.

Apple’s iPhone 11 saw the highest shipment among smartphones worldwide in the first quarter, according to market research firm Omdia.Cupertino moved 19.5 million units in the quarter, the firm said. It is considerably higher 13.6 million units marked by iPhone XR in the first quarter of 2019.Samsung

Samsung Electronics has launched a new outdoor TV dubbed The Terrace in the US, the company announced Thursday, local time.The model boasts a 4K resolution QLED display and supports up to 2000 nits of brightness, which means it will be clearly visible in daylight, the Korean company said.The Terrace

LG Electronics has launched Q61 smartphone in South Korea, the company said.It is a low-budget model, costing 369,600 won. It packs a16-megapixel (mp) punch-hole front camera. The smartphone has a quad camera on its rear __ a 48mp main camera, a 8mp wide-angle camera, a 5mp depth camera and 2mp macr

A senior LG Electronics executive talked up the design of the company’s latest flagship smartphone, LG Velvet, claiming the handset offered something different than the “uniform design” currently offered by rivals. Kim Young Ho, an executive at LG’s design lab for its mobile business, especially hig

LG Electronics’ Mobile Communication division appears to be pondering for a solution amid sluggish smartphone sales at its key market, North America. Its ODM strategy in China is also facing setbacks, triggering speculation that the company may be further cutting down the workforce.The LG affiliate’

Samsung Electronics is set to produce just over 10 million smartphones in April 2020, which is about half of its previous monthly average of around 25 million handsets, according to Samsung suppliers on April 13.Annually, Samsung produces up to 300 million handsets. "There is still quite a bit of in

Sales projections for the Samsung Galaxy S20 series were recently slashed by more than 40% on the back of the coronavirus pandemic, but the high-end Galaxy S20 Ultra is appearing to be beating market estimates, according to industry sources in April 10.They said until the end of the year the S20 ser

This year’s global TV shipments are expected to fall 8.7% on-year in 2020 to 203.5 million units in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak that has dampened consumer sentiment, according to market research firm Omdia on April 1.Prior to the pandemic, Omdia had put the shipment volume at 225.4 mil

South Korean camera module manufacturer Cammsys is out to carve out a share of the quickly-growing small-sized EV market, according to the company at a shareholders’ meeting on Mar. 27.On this day, the company passed an internal regulation allowing it to sell cars.“Due to the coronavirus, consumers

Samsung’s sales of its Galaxy S20 series are not selling too well on account of a global economic downturn triggered by the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, along with reduced subsidies for telecom companies.Industry sources said on Mar. 17 that the latest in Samsung’s flagship smartphones are e

Global TV makers are affected to experience disruptions to their production up until May this year on account of the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, according to industry sources on Mar. 6.During the months of February and March, manufacturers are estimated to have suffered production losses of

The world’s largest electronics company Samsung Electronics has diversified its Micro-LED supply chain to include Taiwan’s Epistar Corp., according to industry sources on Mar. 3.The move appears to be aimed at upholding Samsung’s pledge to launch Micro-LED TVs in the latter half of this year, the so

The A10 was the best-selling Samsung smartphone in 2019 selling just over 30 million handsets, according to market research firm Omdia on Mar. 26.When compared against global rivals, the A10 fared at third place. In first place was Apple’s iPhone KR that sold 46.3 million handsets, followed by the i

In the Indian smartphone market, China’s Xiaomi stood at No.1 in the fourth quarter of 2019, beating Samsung Electronics, according to figures from market research firm IDC on Jan. 23.Samsung was the second-largest player during the months of October and November last year with a market share of aro