A great article in BusinessWeek today talked about how Apple is going to have a difficult time selling the iPhone in South Korea because the country is notoriously closed to products made by non-Korean companies. Google has even had a very hard time competing with the local Naver.com which looks very similar to Yahoo.
Many analysts say the iPhone 3G, the next-generation iPhone (BusinessWeek.com, 6/9/09) with faster Internet access that will sell for as low as $199 (half the current entry-level price), probably won’t do the trick either. “Apple can’t expect to be acclaimed as a premium brand in Korea,” says Thomas Kang at market researcher Strategic Analytics.
The winning smartphone? The Samsung Omnia. The Omnia is a WinMo 6.1 device with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Opera 9.5 as its Web browser. It also sports a 16 GB memory, a five-megapixel camera with antishake technology, music and video players, 3G capability, Bluetooth, WiFi, an FM radio, and GPS functionality.
[Via BusinessWeek]
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