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Korean Mobile Phone Users Switch to iPhones The mobile community in South Korea are grasping Apple's ludicrously popular iPhone at an exponential rate.

More and more people are desperate to use Apple's wonder product, expanding way beyond the demographics of the gadget savvy and techno-nerds.

South Korean office worker Park Sung-ha is now the owner of an Apple iPhone, made available by local wireless carrier KT. Finding himself part of this new demographic of Smartphone users often to be found in internet cafes, coffee shops or on crowded trains, he observed: “It seems like the 1990s all over again, when people were scrambling to buy personal computers and learn how to use them.”

Mr Sung-ha added that he sees around him a lot of people who have ended expensive contracts on their mobile phone and who have previously not cared for sophisticated features to switch to the iPhone or other high-end handsets.

He said: “I never recall so much excitement among mobile users, although many of them will need some time to learn all the new activities.”

Indeed in January alone, sales of the iPhone reached such a high level that clearly 2010 will end up as the year of the smartphone, according to a report in koreantimes.co.kr. KT had sold nearly 300,000 iPhones only two months into its release. Also popular in the country is the Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry and Samsung’s Omnia II.

Many mobile phone operators are preparing for a new wave of smartphones, many powered by Google’s Android operating system, to be released from next month.

Everywhere, operators and mobile phone users are awaiting the potential release of the next iPhone, possibly to be called the iPhone 4G.

iPhone news posted by Marilyn on 28 January 2010

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