LG, Samsung report earnings, phone businesses not in perfect health
South Korean archrivals Samsung and LG have both come clean with their second-quarter earnings this week. While there's still black ink across the board, LG suffered a 33 percent decline in net profit year-over-year, undoubtedly due in large part to a little bit of bleeding going on in the giant mobile division where they've posted a year-over-year loss "due to investment in R&D and expansion of channels in emerging markets for future development." Samsung, meanwhile, saw a 7.2 percent profit margin in its mobile business and a respectable 22 percent year-over-year improvement in shipments, but it came at the cost of higher price pressures -- margins are razor-thin for these guys, and they seem to be getting even smaller
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bleeding-going, financial, flood-the-low, ink, korean, mobile, net, q210, samsung, south-korean, take-superhuman
LG dLite lands today on T-Mobile for $50
By almost all accounts, LG's dLite for T-Mobile is an unremarkable midrange clamshell that barely warrants mention, with two notable exceptions.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: boy, clamshell, dot, engadget-mobile, entry, exceptions, flip, light, little-victory, matrix, result, south-korean, usa
Samsung Corby Folder official, just for Korea so far
Samsung's Corby line has a reputation as a fun, simple, cheap, colorful range of handsets, and that trend looks to continue now that the Corby Folder has gone official -- in the domestic South Korean market, anyway. The first Corby with a hinge keeps it relatively simple (by Korean standards) with a 2.6-inch QVGA display, 3G data (HSPA or EV-DO Rev. A depending on the carrier), Bluetooth, microSD expansion, a 3 megapixel camera, and naturally, DMB mobile TV reception.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: black, Carrier, domestic, entry, green, korea, markets, mobile, south-korea, south-korean
South Korean iPhone users turn to sausages as a cold weather ‘meat stylus’
Apple and HTC might each be trying to patent a fancy capacitive stylus , but it looks like the good people of South Korea have stumbled on a decidedly more low-tech (and delicious) solution to using their phones in the winter: sausages. Apparently snack sausages from the CJ Corporation are electrostatically compatible with the iPhone's capacitive touchscreen, leading many to use them as a "meat stylus" in the cold weather, rather than remove a glove
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: corporation, decidedly-more, iphone, itnews, like-the-good, meat, meatstylus, news, sausage, sausages, snack-sausage, south-korean
Samsung not done with Corby line yet, working on Folder model next
Samsung must absolutely love the thick gobs of profit it's making off its Corby models because it's wasted no time in building the line from a single device to an entire range of colorful, fun-loving handsets -- and the next to get roped in looks to be this SCH-W930, aptly named "Corby Folder." The model's destined only for Korea so far (you can tell from that SK Telecom logo in the upper right corner) with a 2.6-inch display, 3 megapixel cam, Bluetooth, microSD expansion, and -- like virtually all domestic South Korean phones -- DMB TV tuning. Following Corby tradition, it looks like it'll be available in a variety of two-tone schemes, but we don't have an exact date or price just yet so we're afraid your now-ancient Corby POP is going to have to tide you over for a few more days. Samsung not done with Corby line yet, working on Folder model next originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:19:00 EST.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: clamshell, device, engadget-mobile, fri, korea, making-off-its, megapixel-cam, sch-w930, single-device, south-korean