South Korea welcomes the iPhone

South Koreans will soon join the millions of others worldwide as its government on Wednesday approved the sale of the iPhone there.

(Credit: Apple)

For years, the Korea Communications Commission used technical rules to stifle competition, allowing homegrown companies like Samsung and LG to take over the market, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

With an estimated 93 percent of South Korea's population subscribing to a mobile service, Apple should be able to overcome one of the biggest barriers to smartphone success in South Korea--applications. Apple has been able to entice developers worldwide to build apps for the iPhone, with 75,000 apps available and 1.8 billion apps downloaded thus far.

There was no indication of a release date, price, or carrier for the iPhone yet in South Korea.

This is the second piece of news related to international iPhone sales in less than a month. Apple landed a deal with China Unicom in late August to begin selling the iPhone in that country. Apple is also in talks with China Mobile, that country's largest wireless carrier with 141 million subscribers.

Comments

Multi-platform development for iPhone and Android is the future

Mobile Application Development has gone Multi-platform, with Apple iPhone and Google Android , Blackberry , Window Phone the top preferences by developers, according to a Forrester Research report released late in 2010. To avoid being overwhelmed by Multi-platform complexity, Forrester recommends developers establish a multidevice strategy for both development and testing in 2011. Single device support is giving way to multidevice accommodation, Forrester said. Multiple majority Multidevice shops are now in the majority, with one in four IT shops supporting all types of personal mobile devices employees bring to work. Some employers let employees choose from a list of approved devices and OSes. "The year 2010 was when mobile application development began crossing the chasm from early adopters to mainstream application development shops," said analyst Jeffrey Hammond in the report's executive summary, along with associates Mike Gilpin and Adam Knoll. "But what

Sony Ericsson Satio Review

The Sony Ericsson Sation gets reviewed by Rita over at Symbian-Guru. The Sony Ericsson Satio, codenamed Idou, is announced to be the manufacturer’s first all-in-one device, packing a 12-megapixel camera with Xenon flash, a Symbian S60 5th Edition OS, 3.5-inch touch-sensitive display with 16:9 widescreen format and a resolution of 360x640 pixels. Sony Ericsson Satio -- Homescreen UI Walkthrough Sony Ericsson Satio -- Camera UI Walkthrough Sony Ericsson Satio -- Photo Browser UI Walkthrough Sony Ericsson Satio -- Video Player UI Walkthrough Sony Ericsson Satio -- Music Player UI Walkthrough Sony Ericsson Satio -- Software Walkthrough, part 1 Sony Ericsson Satio -- Software Walkthrough, part 2 Sony Ericsson Satio -- Settings UI Walkthrough

eBay Bargain Is Latest MoD Data Leak

The data on the drive was easily retrieved and had handily-labelled folders. One marked ‘Nato Secret’ held information and photographs of police command posts in Helmand and notes about the police manning the area. These included the number of men, their weapons and patrol details. The files also held pictures and personal information about “hundreds” of volunteers who had joined the Afghan police force and army. There was also a copy of the “Afghan National Police Tactical Handbook” which showed how the police would tackle the Taliban rebels and gave details on how to recognise a roadside bomb. All of the data was unencrypted and freely accessible. Had it fallen into the hands of the Taliban, the information could have put Afghan lives in greater danger and compromised the British presence in the country. Sugden, a graduate of Sandhurst, served with the Coldstream Guards as an anti-tank platoon commander in Afghanistan and has since just completed a year as the Queen’s equerry, o

Technology Revolution

Search This Blog