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LG Announced Optimus LTE

On Tuesday, LG has officially announced the Optimus LTE. The handset will first launch in South Korea. It will comes with a 4.5-inch display “True HD IPS Display” accompany by 1280 x 720-pixel resolution.

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Korea’s Digital Media Broadcast Service Goes 2.0 with LG Cafe

While DMB (Digital Media Broadcast) service has been running for years in Korea, the service will evolve to DMB 2.0 so that it could interact with the viewer. The new LG-SU420 (LG Cafe) is one of the first DMB 2.0 multimedia phone. It comes with a 3.2-inch WVGA touch screen, built in WiFi, GPS, microSD [...]

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Samsung Korea Announces Haptic 8M W740 Camera Phone

Featuring a 8 megapixel camera, Samsung has released its new camera phone, the Haptic 8M SCH-W740 in Korea this week. The model is using the TouchWiz UI, there is haptic feedback for each touch input on the 3.3-inch touch screen.

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Citibank Korea launched mobile banking for foreigners

Noticed that banking system in South Korea is quite easy. Opening a local bank account, for instance, is pretty simple whether you are a foreigner or not. And now, Citibank Korea (one of a few exceptional banks that have experience with foreign clients, besides Korea Exchange Bank, Woori Bank, and Hana Bank) launches another easyness:  [...]

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BlackBerry Bold is coming to South Korean this month

RIM and its local counterpart, SK Telecom, will deliver BlackBerry Bold 9000 for corporate users this month (most likely will come this December 29). It’s a really good timing since the local government has approved new mobile regulation standard that allows foreign handsets like BlackBerry and iPhone to be offered in the country.

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South Korea introduces number portability for Internet call

Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has decided to approve the number portability system, allowing fixed-line telephone users to switch to Internet phone while retaining their home phone numbers. It means South Koreans now able to make Internet calls without changing numbers.

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New Pantech IM-R300 Touch Screen Phone for SK Telecom

Pantech and SK Telecom will start selling the new IM-R300 touch screen phone in Korea this week. As usual, the IM-R300 will support the T-DMB media broadcast service with its 2.6-inch WQVGA display screen (240 x 400 pixels). Other than T-DMB, it has built in GPS receiver and users can subscribe to the T-Map service [...]

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Express Yourself Through the New Neon Sign Phone

Sky in Korea has launched a new “Neon Sign” clamshell phone with HSDPA support. Available this week in Korea, it has 49 LEDs on the front panel which can display different icons depends on the notification you set.

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Samsung Launched Inner Zoom SCH-W480 in Korea

Better than Sony Ericsson 8.1 megapixel phone? Samsung has just launched the Inner Zoom SCH-W480 slider phone in Korea. The slider phone is shaped like a digital camera, it comes with a 5-megapixel CCD camera, together with a 3x optical inner zoom lens.

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Motorola Z8m with 7.2 Mbps Available in Korea

Already available in most countries since last year, Motorola has just released its Z8m RAZR phone in Korea. The Motorola z8m comes in a new color design, and also gets an upgrade to support 7.2 Mbps data downstream, a double of the original 3.6 Mbps HSDPA connection.

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