Sony Mobile to leave Korean Market Next Year

According to the Korean Media,Sony Mobile will follow the steps of HTC and Motorola Mobility and shut down its operations in Korean Mobile Market by the end of year.

Currently Sony Mobile Korea and Sony Korea both are independent entities,but due to the poor sales of smartphone Sony mobile will integrate with Sony Korea.

There is no information how many employees are losing their jobs during merger.

In the online stores of LG U+,SK Telecom and KT,only one non-Korean mobile phone still being sold which is by apple.This shows the condition of Foreign manufacturers in Korean Market.

Korean Manufactures Samsung lg and pantech currently make up over 90 percent of the Korean mobile market

The world's largest seller of smartphones Samsung is also at top in Korean market,followed by the LG Mobile and Pantech. While apple is at number fourth in terms of sales in Korea.

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Samsung,Motorola and Nokia publically criticizes the Iphone 5

The manufacturer of World Class products that delivered the best experience possible to its customers is facing a massive attacks from its competitors.

The major reason for this attack was flaw in its mapping service which allows competitors to comment on apple's latest iphone 5.

So on This Maps app problem MOTOROLA MOBILITY on TWITTER commented in such a way that

Motorola Mobility said on twitter that many iphone 5 users are now "ilost"

Nokia which has proved that it has better camera in its upcoming phone nokia lumia 920 over iphone 5 in terms of low light images had also commented on the failure of apple maps.
On this rivalary the official Nokia blog posts

Our superior apps are built on the most accurate, automotive-grade Navteq maps, meticulously developed by over 20 years of know-how. We believe that the best user experience comes indeed from precise data, robust processing of core platform functionalities like routing, geocoding and traffic, and by user friendly apps. All this cannot be built overnight.

Similarly Samsung commented on apple by releasing a new ad on youtube that the next big thing is already here and ad showcased the feature of instant photo and music sharing by NFC,which was unavailable in iphone 5

My personal views on apple

It's shame that Apple's own incompetence and sheer bloody mindedness has left them looking so stupid.

I am trying to understand whey they didn't leave google maps until the apple version was ready

How any half competent tester could have verified the maps app as ready is beyond me.It comes across as something out of alpha stage development,never mind a beta version

Unfortunately apple's aim of severing the remaining ties with google has lead to them jumping the gun a little i felt.Not only that but i guess they had to include the maps as it is the only real significant change to iOS outside of numerous other,but relatively minor tweaks and changes