September 27, 2005
Korean customers lukewarm to 5 and 7 megapixel cameraphones
According to Telecoms Korea Korean customers remain lukewarm about somewhat faulty 5 megapixel and 7 megapixel phones and are more interested in DMB phones or even simple phones.
"It is more than obvious in Yongsan, the biggest shopping area for IT products including handsets. A merchant there said, “Not only few people buy handsets with higher than 5 megapixel camera module but also few shops have them.” Another shop manager said, “Handset makers were so hurried to release those phones, which inevitably caused many defects. In addition, Samsung fails to supply sufficient amount of those products.”
In response, IR Team at Samsung Electronics said, “We are reducing the supply of high resolution camera phones as customers attention has shifted to satellite DMB phone or slime phones".
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