{"id":179862,"date":"2010-01-14T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2010-01-14T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:56:07","slug":"sk-telecom-to-rely-heavily-on-android-for-smartphones-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/179862","title":{"rendered":"SK Telecom to Rely Heavily on Android for Smartphones, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"KonaBody\">\n<p class=\"first-child \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12720 alignleft\" title=\"sk_telecom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sk_telecom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>SK Telecom Co., the largest carrier in South Korea&#8217;s (by revenue) has announced that they are planning to sell over 2 million smartphones this year with the bulk of them running Android.\u00a0 The carrier, speaking today at a press conference, said they expect 15 smartphones this year and 25 in 2013 with Android accounting for around 40% of them.<span id=\"more-12719\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;While focusing on the Android operating system, (SK Telecom) will also adopt various kinds of mobile platforms and will help proliferate the usage of smartphones and wireless Internet,&#8221; Ha Sung-min, president of SK Telecom&#8217;s mobile network operator department.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SK Telecom, like many carriers, is seeing the importance of handsets that rely more heavily on data features.\u00a0 And why not?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a cash cow just getting started.\u00a0 Cash veal?\u00a0 On a side note, SKT&#8217;s biggest rival, Korea Telecom, has been selling the iPhone since November.\u00a0 So far, they&#8217;ve reported around 240,000 units sold.\u00a0 Will an army of Android handsets overtake Korea or will the iPhone reign supreme?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/tech\/2010\/01\/133_59027.html\" ><strong>The Korea Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SK Telecom Co., the largest carrier in South Korea&#8217;s (by revenue) has announced that they are planning to sell over 2 million smartphones this year with the bulk of them running Android.\u00a0 The carrier, speaking today at a press conference, said they expect 15 smartphones this year and 25 in 2013 with Android accounting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}