LG Electronics has decided on the name LG Wing for its upcoming dual screen flagship smartphone, the company said on Monday.The company plans to choose 300 consumers to review the product for free for four weeks, it said.LG is planning to unveil the dual screen smartphone on September 14.The company

Samsung Electronics will offer cash rewards of a million won to 10,000 Galaxy Fold owners who return their device and buy a Galaxy Z Fold 2, the company said.The company will take applications for the program from September 10 to September 11. The Galaxy Z Fold 2 costs 2.398 million won in South Kor

Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 2 foldable smartphone in full on Tuesday.Victor Delgado, Samsung Mobile’s head of enterprise sales and marketing, stressed the app continuity, flex mode and mult-active window features on the new smartphone.Galaxy Z Fold 2, Samsung’s third foldable phon

Chinese telecom and smartphone giant ZTE will launch the “world’s first” under display camera (UDC) 5G smartphone called ZTE Axon 20 5G on Tuesday.UDC is considered a higher tier technology compared to punch-in-hole cameras. Much like in hole displays, the cameras for UDC is under the display but th

Oppo has overtaken Samsung Electronics as the largest smartphone vendor in Southeast Asia in the second quarter of 2020, according to CounterPoint.A total of 24 million smartphone was shipped in the region during the quarter, the research firm said.Oppo had a market share of 20.3%, followed by Samsu

Samsung Electronics has added Brazil as a production base for the Galaxy Z Fold 2, TheElec has learned.Majority of the units will be produced at the company’s factory in Gumi, South Korea. Around 20% is being planned to be produced at Samsung’s factory in Vietnam.Starting next month, Brazil will als

Hansol Technics is expected to begin contract producing TVs for Samsung Electronics.The company saw sales from Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module, or LCM, increase substantially in the second quarter.The company said it posted 27.8 billion won in sales from electronics component businesses during t

Samsung Electronics will apply its S Pen stylus to the Galaxy S21 smartphone series launching next year, TheElec has confirmed.It will mark the first time for an S series smartphone to have the stylus.The S Pen stylus has been the distinguishing point for the Galaxy Note series. Samsung is yet to de

Samsung Electronics has restarted its original design manufacturing (ODM) operations after it was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic.The company’s ODM partner Wingtech of China has launched the Galaxy M01s smartphone last month, which is aimed at Asian markets. The phone is a derivative of the Galaxy M

Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra unveiled on Wednesday is the first to have Samsung Display’s lower display power tech HOP and Corning’s Gorilla Glass Victus.However, camera is less powerful than the Galaxy S20 Ultra launched earlier this year.Galaxy Note20 Ultra comes with Samsung Display’s low-temperat

Samsung Electronics has ordered 20% less components for the Galaxy Note20 compared to its predecessor, people familiar with the matter told TheElec.It is like to minimize stock following its miscalculation of demand for the Galaxy S20 series launched earlier this year that sold less than internally

Huawei has beat Samsung Electronics in quarterly smartphone shipment for the first time in the second quarter, according to Canalys and CounterPoint.Earlier, CounterPoint noted that the Chinese tech giant beat its South Korean rival for shipment in the month of April.The research firm said total shi

Chinese smartphone giant Huawei is expected to produce the highest number of 5G smartphones this year, according to market research firm TrendForce.This will be followed by Apple and Samsung Electronics, the research firm said.A total of 235 million units of 5G smartphones will be produced this year

LG Uplus will launch augmented reality (AR) glasses made by Chinese firm Nreal next month alongside the upcoming Galaxy Note20, TheElec confirmed on Wednesday.The carrier will call the glasses, called Nreal Light in China, U+ Real Glass and promote them together with the pre-oders of the Note 20 in

Samsung Electronics will launch a budget-model version in the Galaxy S20 series in October that will have a price tag of around 900,000 won (around US$750) in South Korea, sources within the company told TheElec on Friday.Called Galaxy S20 FE (Fan Edition), the South Korean conglomerate is aiming to

LG Electronics will begin mass production next month of its Velvet smartphone aimed at the US, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Thursday.The company will make some design changes, including adding a millimeter (mm) wave antenna, from the version it launched for South Korea in May, the

Samsung Electronics’ production plan for MicroLED TV is being delayed, raising the question of whether the South Korean conglomerate will launch them at all within the year, people familiar with the matter told TheElec Wednesday.The company initially planned to wrap up the production of the necessar

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