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SEOUL — Motorola Inc. said Monday it plans to launch a smart phone in the South Korean handset market using Google Inc.’s Android operating platform, a move aimed at taking on Apple Inc. and market incumbents Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. in the fast-growing market segment.<\/p>\n
The launch of a new smartphone in South Korea’s competitive market comes as Motorola has been trying to break itself into two or three pieces to help combat a companywide sales slump.<\/p>\n
For almost two years it has tried to spin off its high-profile handset business, which has been without a hit device since the blockbuster Razr phone.<\/p>\n
It also comes after Apple Inc. (AAPL) said late last year it will make its popular smart phone, the iPhone, available in the South Korean market through an agreement with KT Corp. (KTC), the country’s biggest fixed-line operator by revenue. <\/span><\/p>\n On Monday, Motorola unveiled MOTOROI, Korea’s first phone powered by Android through a deal with SK Telecom Co., the country’s biggest wireless operator by revenue.<\/p>\n The phone features a touch screen with a 3.7-inch high-definition display, helping users easily access Web sites, videos, games and photos, it said.<\/p>\n Motorola’s Korea representative Rick Wolochatiuk said at a press briefing the device would sell for around $800, about the same as the iPhone but slightly more than most offerings from Samsung and LG.<\/p>\n Wolochatiuk said the company is also open to adopting Window Mobile platform-based phones, but didn’t elaborate further.<\/p>\n According to market research firm iSuppli, Motorola was the fifth-biggest cellphone maker in the third quarter, down from fourth place in the second quarter.<\/p>\n As recently as the first quarter of 2007, the company was the world’s second-largest cellphone maker after Nokia Corp.<\/p>\n The executive didn’t comment on its sales target in the Korean market for this year but said the company isn’t currently considering offering its cellphones through other domestic telecommunication firms apart from SK Telecom.<\/p>\n Meanwhile rivals Samsung Electronics and LG, the world’s second- and third-largest handset maker by shipments respectively, are expected to launch a series of smart phones running on the android system early this year.<\/p>\n Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n SEOUL — Motorola Inc. said Monday it plans to launch a smart phone in the South Korean handset market using Google Inc.’s Android operating platform, a move aimed at taking on Apple Inc. and market incumbents Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. in the fast-growing market segment. The launch of a new smartphone in […]<\/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-194068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194068","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=194068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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