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  Shopping carts are generally used to lug around all the shopped goods but with the new Smart Cart from SK Telecom, the age-old cart will be able to do a lot more. Undergoing as a pilot test in China’s Shanghai Lotus Supermarket Chain Store, the Smart Cart works with the help of a smartphone [...]

  LG’s current Super Phone aka the Optimus 2X has gone on sale in South Korea. The phone will be available via SKT and has seen a good interest from consumers, claiming about 6,500 bookings on an average. The phone’s super tag comes from the fact that it boasts a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip [...]

  US and UK are the only countries where Nexus S is currently being sold. However, if this report from Chosun Ilbo proves to be correct, Nexus S could come to South Korea by next month. According to them, the phone will be sold by SK Telecom and is currently under final stages of testing. [...]

  LG has unveiled two new Android phones for its domestic market. It’s the LG-LU2300 and LG-SU950/KU9500 that will be sold on LG Telecom and SK Telecom/KT respectively. Both the phones boast similar specs except for few changes in LU2300 in the form of a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a trackball and 3GB internal memory with [...]

  LG has announced a new phone in South Korea integrating DMB 2.0. The LG-SU240 or Café is the first phone in Korea to support bi-directional T-DMB that allows users to not only watch live broadcasts but also listen to radio, surf internet at the same time. Other than that, the phone features a 3.2-inch [...]

  Android offerings in South Korea are rising day by day. The latest Android phone to please the South Koreans is Pantech’s IM-A600S. The phone also known as Sirius will be available on SK Telecom under the SKY brand. Sirius boasts some impressive specs like Android 2.1 OS, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 3.7-inch AMOLED (800×480) display [...]

  Samsung has announced their first Android phone for their home market, which is also the first Samsung device to run Android OS 2.1. The phone’s known as SHW-M100S and will arrive in March on SK Telecom. M100S comes with an 800MHz processor and sports a 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen (WVGA), 5MP camera with 720p video [...]

  Samsung has confirmed to launch the first LiMo compliant handset in their home market by the end of this year. The SCH-M510 will be released by SK Telecom making it the first LiMo handset for Korea and 45th globally. Samsung’s announcement comes on the same day as the announcement by South Korean Ministry of [...]

  Samsung’s T*Omnia successor has gone official in the home market. The T*Omnia II (SCH-M710/SCH-M715) will be available via SK Telecom and expectedly, Samsung has modified the device to suit the Koreans. Few changes from the original Omnia II are the integration of DMB, T map, T Store services and reduction in internal memory (T*Omnia [...]

  No surprises here. After getting its product page on the website a few days back, Samsung has officially unwrapped its SCH-W760 slider phone. This baby has a useful Infrared Video Telephony (IRVT) feature that allows users to make video calls in the dark, for instance, when users want to show their karaoke skills live. [...]

  Samsung’s SCH-W760 infrared video calling phone has finally been added to Samsung Korea’s product page. The features are the same from the last time we heard – it sports a 2.8-inch WQVGA AMOLED screen, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, S-DMB, 3MP camera with flash, Infrared Video Telephony (IRVT), microSD slot up to 8GB storage, music player and [...]