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Samsung chief jailed for 2.5 years over corruption scandal
Lee Jae-yong, vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker, was found guilty of bribery and embezzlement in...
Under Lee's leadership, Samsung rose to become the world's largest producer of smartphones and memory chips, and the firm's overall turnover today is equivalent to a fifth of South Korea's GDP.
The Galaxy Z Fold2 was one of several new devices announced at a livestreamed event by the South Korean electronics giant, which recently lost the top position in the smartphone market to China-based Huawei.
Canalys said the embattled firm, which is facing US sanctions, shipped 55.8 million devices - overtaking Samsung for the first time, which shifted 53.7 million units.
Ultrathin glass used for the screen can be folded and unfolded more than 200,000 times and resists scratches, according to Samsung.
With 2018 having been a record year for earnings, last year’s slump likely means Samsung posted its biggest percentage drop in annual profit in at least a decade.
A British user told the 'Sun' newspaper this week that a bug on her Galaxy S10 allowed it to be unlocked regardless of the biometric data registered in the device.
It was Huawei’s first launch of an all-new smartphone since US President Donald Trump hit the world’s No. 2 player in the market with a US export ban in May.
The technology industry’s battleground for smartphone cameras has moved inside the phone, where sophisticated artificial intelligence software and special chips play a major role in how a phone’s photos look.
The long-awaited Apple TV+ streaming television service will be available in over 100 countries, starting in November. The service will not be available in China when it launches, nor will the Apple Arcade video game subscription.
Their trials highlighted shady links between big business and politics in South Korea, with Park and her close friend Choi Soon-sil accused of taking bribes from corporate bigwigs in exchange for preferential treatment.
The electronics giant has touted its new Galaxy phones as the world's first available smartphones with built-in 5G communications.
Samsung’s core semiconductor business booked a 64% fall in operating profit to 4.1 trillion won, while the display business logged 560 billion won in losses.
Samsung spent nearly eight years developing the Galaxy Fold, which is part of the South Korean tech giant’s strategy to propel growth with ground-breaking gadgets.
The South Korean tech giant said first-quarter operating profit likely slid 60% from a year earlier, missing market expectations and putting it on track for its weakest quarterly profit since late 2016.
The South Korean tech giant’s Galaxy Fold resembles a conventional smartphone but opens like a book to reveal a second display the size of a small tablet at 18.5 cm. It will go on sale from 26 April.
Campaign groups say that 320 people have suffered from work-related illnesses after being employed by Samsung Electronics, with 118 of them dying.
But some analysts contend that something entirely different may supplant the smartphone.
The South Korean tech company needs to get the foldable phone right to reverse steep declines in profit for its mobile division and restore some of the cachet its brand has lost to Apple Inc.