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Korea Telecom is working on an awesome hardware that promises to usher the new era in mobile computing. It’s a laptop computer that has no memory, no CPU and no OS inside it, relying instead on an Android smartphone to provide the intelligence. In that sense, KT calls it the smartphone accessory that provides users…
In case you had any doubt that the next iPhone would support the advanced 4G LTE networks, a CNET report today suggests that Korean carriers SK Telecom and KT are in talks with Apple to carry the LTE-equipped iPhone later this year. The companies are working with Apple to ensure that the frequencies these carriers use…
Even though Qualcomm is reportedly swamped with Snapdragon S4 orders, it apparently found some space to sell its processor to KT Tech, a direct subsidiary of the KT Corporation which runs a mobile network in South Korea. KT Tech is using Qualcomm’s processor in its new Take LTE (KM-100) smartphone that will soon be offered…
South Korea’s KT announced the launch of 3 LTE-enabled smartphones, including the Samsung SHV-E170K. We haven’t heard about this bad boy before and most-likely we won’t hear about it again, since Samsung (and LG for that matter) has a number of devices that are exclusive to its own backyard. Moreover, now that the Galaxy S…
In the “news that impacts 0% of our readers, but is strange enough to warrant sharing” category, reports from South Korea say that KT, the country’s second largest wireless operator, will immediately stop offering unlimited mobile data to customers using WiBro (the local version of WiMAX) because — and we’re not making this up —…
Ever since the announcement of the Verizon iPhone 4, a CDMA variant of the current Apple smartphone design, talk of other CDMA carriers around the world getting the phone has been pretty rampant. The biggest market for a CDMA iPhone aside from Verizon would be China, but early last month Korea was also rumored to…
NTT Docomo announced an agreement with South Korea’s KT Corporation to use near field communication (NFC) technologies to develop cross-border services for mobile payments, mass-transit ticketing, promotional coupons and other services. If everything goes as planned, the two market-leading operators will launch in their respective markets from around the end of 2012. Through the joint…
Three of the leading mobile operators in Asia — China Mobile, Japan’s NTT DoCoMo and South Korea’s KT — are forming what they call a “broad-based business tie-up” to explore opportunities in the region. The three companies will set up a business cooperation committee to take advantage of trends such as “the further globalization of…
It’s been a huge year for Android, and one of its most anticipated versions, 2.3 Gingerbread, has finally been released in the Google Nexus S. The most die-hard Android fans have been waiting and clamoring for the latest software, but it seems that carriers aren’t too keen on picking up the device right away. Why?…
Hey, the Android 2.2-powered Dell Venue / Thunder is alive after all. Korean service provider KT went official with the device, confirming a 4.1-inch AMOLED display with a slightly-curved Gorilla glass screen and Android Gingerbread, but few of the other specs came out; we can only assume that it still has a 1 GHz processor…