South Korea sees jump in smartphone shipments

e14news — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:17:38 GMT

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In news that may interest wireless communication device manufacturers, exports of IT products in South Korea jumped by 5.6 per cent in April from the same month last year to $13.3 billion on the strength of rising shipments of smartphones.

According to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, IT exports continued an upward trend for a 19th consecutive month since October 2009.

Indeed, the figure exceeded $13 billion for a second month in a row.

Further to this, mobile phones saw their exports rise 32 per cent to $2.32 billion, of which $1.11 billion were smartphones. This is an increase of 459 per cent from a year ago.

In other news, Sony Ericsson has unveiled the Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro smartphones in London.

Both devices run Android 2.3 and are powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

The manufacturer observed the main goal with the Xperia family of phones "is to offer the most entertaining smartphones, and to do that with choice".

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