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. continued »

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:  by offering VM mobile banking ... continued »

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. continued »

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. continued »

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 in Korea for GPS navigation. continued »

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. continued »

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. continued »

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. continued »

Designed for customers who need a bigger fonts and icons, LG today introduces its second version of LG Wine Phone for Korea market. The new Wine Phone is called LG-SV390/LV3900, it has a larger internal and external display screen so that you can read the text comfortably. continued »

Today Samsung has launched its first HSUPA SCH-M470 for Korea market. Featuring a 2 megapixel camera, the M470 support HSUPA network which will gives you the similar HSDPA downstream, but will provide you a much faster upstream speed of up to 5 mbps. continued »