{"id":644257,"date":"2013-02-27T07:55:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T12:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=345101"},"modified":"2013-02-27T07:55:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T12:55:45","slug":"lg-eyes-smartphone-growth-as-samsung-targets-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644257","title":{"rendered":"LG eyes smartphone growth as Samsung targets tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/27\/samsung-lg-growth-smartphones-tablets-345101\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/bgr-best-smartphones-2012.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung LG Growth 2013\" title=\"LG\" \/><\/a><\/center>As the high-end smartphone market begins to slow following a period of breakneck growth, the companies that drove much of that growth are starting to broaden their strategies. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) is eyeing emerging markets, while <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS\">005930<\/a>) is <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/25\/samsung-knox-mobile-security-announced-341966\/\">looking to boost its enterprise\u00a0presence<\/a> while also increasing tablet sales. Samsung Mobile EVP Y.H. Lee <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/8301-13970_7-57571311-78\/samsung-says-it-plans-to-double-its-tablet-sales-this-year\/\">recently told\u00a0<em>CNET<\/em><\/a> that the company hopes to double tablet shipments in 2013 to about\u00a0to about 40 million units. The 40 million-unit mark is also being eyed by <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/lg\">LG<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=066570.KS\">066570<\/a>), which <a href=\"http:\/\/professional.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323384604578324911066766982.html\">told <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> it hopes to cross that threshold with smartphone sales this year,\u00a0representing\u00a051% growth over 2012.\u00a0&#8220;The market is saturated, but with good products, [we] can take away others&#8217; share,&#8221; LG&#8217;s mobile boss Park Jong-seok said.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/ty_QqCPxQpg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the high-end smartphone market begins to slow following a period of breakneck growth, the companies that drove much of that growth are starting to broaden their strategies. Apple (AAPL) is eyeing emerging markets, while Samsung (005930) is looking to boost its enterprise\u00a0presence while also increasing tablet sales. Samsung Mobile EVP Y.H. Lee recently told\u00a0CNET [&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-644257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644257","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=644257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}