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...entrants is Asustek - the Taiwanese company practically invented the netbook category with its ASUS Eee-PC, and it is working on a product called the Eee-reader that it hopes to have on the market in time for Christmas. South Korea's two powerhouse consumer-electronics companies, Samsung and LG Electronics, are wading in too. Samsung earlier this year introduced a reader called the Papyrus in South Korea; reports circulating in the technology blogosphere say LG is developing a prototype with a large, 11.5-in.(diagonal) flexible screen. Meanwhile, Japan's Fujitsu has released the world's first dedicated...
...Nokia's emerging market dominance boils down to cost management - a crucial advantage when it comes to selling smart phones to price-sensitive consumers in India and elsewhere. Nokia will likely ship more devices worldwide this year than the next three biggest cell-phone makers - Korean rivals Samsung and LG, and London-based Sony Ericsson - combined. Manufacturing on that scale brings enormous purchasing power, making it possible to squeeze the cost of everything from memory chips to plastic casings...
...phone call in India in 1995 was carried over a Nokia phone and Nokia-deployed network - has established the company as India's biggest supplier by a huge margin. Nokia devices are sold in 162,000 retailers in India, more than three times the number for rivals Samsung or LG. Although Samsung is investing heavily to catch up, Nokia claims roughly 60% of the Indian market. So ubiquitous are the firm's products that many locals refer to their mobile phone as a "Nokia" even when it isn't. In China, Nokia supplies around 30,000 retailers, far more than...
...food companies like South Korea's LG and Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia, targeting Muslims is also big business. LG offers an application to help users find the direction of Mecca, while Nokia has free downloadable recitations from the Koran and maps showing the locations of major mosques in the Middle East. Such offerings increase brand loyalty, according to market research by the Finland-based Muslim lifestyle portal Muxlim.com. "There's a lot of room out there for mainstream brands to appeal to Muslims without making changes to their products," says Muxlim.com's CEO Mohamed El-Fatatry. "It's just...
...live TV, I learned that cell-phone companies are glad to provide it. I test-drove the Flo TV service--one of several cell-TV options--on an AT&T LG phone, complete with a tiny retractable antenna that made it look like something you'd see in Couch Potato Barbie's living room. I set the tiny screen on a kitchen shelf and watched MTV as I peeled carrots. I tuned it to Morning Joe and balanced it inside my medicine cabinet, discovering an exciting new way to cut myself while shaving. So long as I had a signal...