Samsung Electronics has announced the Galaxy Round smartphone, described as “the world’s first curved display smartphone”. The handset has a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display with a gentle concave curve.
It’s being launched with SK Telecom in South Korea.
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Podcast - 9th October 2013
In today's podcast: Samsung's profit, UK mobile ad spending and Vertu's smartphone range are all increasing.
Meanwhile HTC's profit and the proportion of children with mobile phones are both going down. Discover the background to these news stories - and plenty more - in our regular weekly broadcast.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Talk about a difference. In preliminary results last week, HTC announced its first-ever quarterly loss while Samsung revealed record quarterly profits.
Curiously, many of the week’s other news stories also had a companion headline to provide a contrast.
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The latest set of unaudited financial results from HTC Corporation show a quarterly loss for the first time ever.
Figures for the third quarter of 2013 indicate a net loss after tax of NT$2.97 billion (£63 million).
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After 13 years at the top of Interbrand’s Best Global Brands report, Coca-Cola has been pushed off the top spot by two mobile-focussed companies.
Apple has moved up the chart to number 1, with Google following in the number 2 position.
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