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  • KT brings the Nexus One to South Korea, complete with Froyo

    KT brings the Nexus One to South Korea, complete with Froyo

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    The Nexus One may have taken a little while to reach South Korea, but it looks like KT is doing its best to make up for lost time -- the carrier has just announced that it will not only be offering the Nexus One, but that it will come complete with Android 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo). True to Nexus One form, you'll be able to snag the phone off-contract for 699,600 won (or about $576), but you'll also be able to get it for just 150,000 won (or $125) on a two-year contract. Not many surprises beyond that, but it looks like supplies will be limited to just 4,000 units for the June 21st launch -- although KT promises it will be readily available at stores across the country in July.

    [Thanks, Tom]

    KT brings the Nexus One to South Korea, complete with Froyo originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Nexus One, Nokia X6 coming to South Korea in June

    Nexus One, Nokia X6 coming to South Korea in June

    Posted on May 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Like Japan, South Korea has a wireless industry that's typically leaps and bounds ahead of just about everywhere else in the world -- but the country has never been a Symbian or Android stronghold, so it's actually not much of a surprise that two big recent releases are just now heading over there this Summer. From Nokia, the X6 will be hitting KT in June for 595,000 won, which works out to $495; Google, meanwhile, will be contributing the Nexus One by way of rival operator SKT toward the end of June for an undisclosed price. Don't say you weren't warned, MOTOROI.

    Nexus One, Nokia X6 coming to South Korea in June originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 31 May 2010 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • LG Optimus Q launching with Android 1.6? (update: yep!)

    LG Optimus Q launching with Android 1.6? (update: yep!)

    Posted on May 28, 2010 | No Comments
    You'd like to think that any Android device launching these days would come equipped with an absolute bare minimum of Eclair, but that's not the case; Dell's Streak, for example, will be coming out of the gate with Android 1.6 -- and seemingly so will LG's LU2300 Optimus Q. We were just handed this rather interesting spec sheet that says the phone's loaded with 1.6 on no uncertain terms, a stark change from LG's official (and someone unhelpful) line that it may or may not launch with 2.1. At the very least, we'd hope that an upgrade is in the works -- but hey, at least it comes with LG's trick Air Sync service, which is a pretty sweet deal.

    [Thanks, Seth G.]

    Update: LG's Korean-language press release from a few days ago matches up with the specs they're showing in South Korea right now (pictured), so it's confirmed -- 1.6 at launch, 2.1 later in the Summer. Thanks, Kunal G.!

    LG Optimus Q launching with Android 1.6? (update: yep!) originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 28 May 2010 12:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Mahru: Meet Korea’s awesome dancing humanoid (videos)

    Mahru: Meet Korea’s awesome dancing humanoid (videos)

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    It's not only Japan, but Korea is developing advanced robots, too. Case in point: Mahru, the dancing humanoid, made by the Korea Institute of Science & Technology (KIST). And this robot is way more impressive than similar models we've seen before.

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  • Seoul, Korea at a 1:1500 scale

    Seoul, Korea at a 1:1500 scale

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Am I the only one who finds large-scale miniatures slightly ironic? If anyone else does, they obviously don’t find them ironic enough to stop making them. The Seoul Museum of History just finished up a full-city recreation that takes up a whopping 317.29-square meters. This project was finally finished after two years of work, involving [...]

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  • Koreans watch Avatar in “4D”

    Koreans watch Avatar in “4D”

    Posted on February 8, 2010 | No Comments
    One important factor that can explain Avatar's success at the box office is certainly the 3D experience viewers can have when they walk into the right movie theater. But what about watching Avatar in "4D"? In Korea, you can. The nation's leading multiplex chain, CJ-CGV, runs a handful of so-called "4D plexes" where the experience includes moving seats, laser lights or wind. In the case of Avatar, CJ-CGV uses a total of 30 different "real-life" effects to add some excitement to the movie.

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  • LG gets bragging rights for Japan’s first certified 4G device

    LG gets bragging rights for Japan’s first certified 4G device

    Posted on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
    The rest of the world is catching on rapidly but overall, Japan is still the world's most advanced society mobile society. That being said, you'd assume that the first 4G (LTE) device to get an official certification from Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications must be coming from one of the many mobile companies over here, but it was South Korea's LG who got the bragging rights [KR] for that today.

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  • Motoroi: Motorola to release another Android phone in March (video)

    Motoroi: Motorola to release another Android phone in March (video)

    Posted on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Motorola held a press conference in Seoul yesterday to announce a partnership with SK Telecom, a major Korean telecommunications company. The occasion: SK Telecom will be the first company to distribute an Android phone in that country, the so-called Motorola Motoroi. It's not a rebranded Droid, but a completely new phone (in Europe, the Droid was named "Milestone" but remained largely unchanged technically). SK Telecom customers will be able to lay their hands on the Motoroi in early February. But Motorola Korea and SK Telekom representatives are quoted as saying that Motorola is ready to roll out the Motoroi in the US in March, too. And apparently it will be available in a number of other countries as well.

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  • Canceled Motorola RAZR3 reemerges as KLASSIC in South Korea

    Canceled Motorola RAZR3 reemerges as KLASSIC in South Korea

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments

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    When the bulk of your business suddenly shifts virtually all of its marketing and engineering resources to Android, certain thinks are bound to fall through the cracks -- take the "Ruby," for example, once said to be the fallen would-be successor to the RAZR 2. We guess Moto got far enough along on engineering with this one that they figured they'd toss it over to one of its lower-volume markets rather than canning it altogether, though, because the higher-end flip has reemerged in South Korea as the KLASSIC. For anyone who keeps track of these sorts of stats, that's exactly three more letters than the typical Moto model name has, but the phone breaks all sorts of rules -- after all, it combines an old-school 2G radio (which in operator SKT's case, means CDMA) with a relatively fresh 5 megapixel cam, not unlike the ZN5. There's no word on a release outside South Korea at this point, but frankly, we're pretty sure the DROID would eat it anyhow.

    [Via AVING]

    Canceled Motorola RAZR3 reemerges as KLASSIC in South Korea originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • SKY Dupont is the most expensive Pantech ever made

    SKY Dupont is the most expensive Pantech ever made

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments

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    What exactly does the equivalent of roughly $830 buy you in Pantech's home market these days? Well, it'll apparently get you signed up for the priciest device South Korea's third-largest handset manufacturer has ever made, the Dupont from subsidiary SKY. As far as we can tell, this thing is more show than go, thanks largely to a weakling 3-inch WQVGA display and 3 megapixel camera -- but then again, it's hard to argue with designer tie-ins and questionably tasteful gold accents, isn't it? Look for this one on local carrier SKT, and for once, we're totally fine with the fact that Pantech is concentrating on low-end messaging devices over on AT&T.

    [Via Unwired View]

    SKY Dupont is the most expensive Pantech ever made originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Now Samsung has an e-book reader, Korea gets first dibs

    Now Samsung has an e-book reader, Korea gets first dibs

    Posted on July 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Samsung is now getting into the e-book game. It has developed its very own e-book reader, which will first be available in Korea for around $270. It'll be Korea-only for a little while yet.

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