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

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’