Google Play screenshot by Daniel Van Boom/CNET It may be the world’s biggest smartphone maker, but not all of Samsung’s movements are highly publicised. In something of a mysterious move, the South Korean electronics behemoth recently released its mobile browser on Google Play without any official announcement. The app, called Internet for Samsung Galaxy, has …

Store up to 10 credit cards in your phone. Cho Mu-Hyun/CNET When South Korean tech giant Samsung announced that it had bought LoopPay earlier this year to become its own Samsung Pay mobile payment system, there were doubts over how well it would integrate the service with its popular range of mobile phones and wearables. After all, Samsung has launched …

Boo-keun Yoon, Samsung’s co-CEO, talks up his company at CES 2015. Cho Mu-hyun/CNET LAS VEGAS — Boo-keun Yoon, Samsung’s co-CEO and head of consumer electronics, says his company doesn’t need to look far to find its chief rival in the TV market. “Our biggest competitor is ourselves, and my biggest worry is that we will become vain,” he told reporters …

Samsung Kim Hyun-seok, head of Samsung Electronics’ TV business, has told reporters in Seoul that it’s still too early for the company to launch OLED TVs and that Samsung’s “strategy on OLED TV this year as well as next year remains unchanged.” After competing with cross-town rival LG Electronics for years to commercialize OLED TVs, Samsung has recently announced that …

Zikto Zikto, a new Korean startup founded by six engineers from LG Electronics, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, SK Telecom and Shinhan Bank are set to unveil a fitness band that can provide feedback on the wearer’s posture on Kickstarter next week. Called “Arki”, the new wearable goes further than trackers like Fitbit. In addition to tracking the numbers of step walked, Arki …

LG After rumours of an impending release earlier in the week, the South Korean electronics company has officially launched the LG G3 Screen. The mid-range handset is the first ever phone by LG to be powered by its own Nuclun SoC, previously called “Odin” by the media. It’s also packing an octacore processor based on ARM big.little architecture built with …

LG LG Electronics, Korea’s second largest handset vendor, will launch a new phone later this month that is, for the first time, powered by its self-made application processor. Odin, LG’s AP, is a System on a Chip processor for mobile, like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon or Samsung’s Exynos. According to sources familiar with the matter, LG is planning to launch the new …