World’s first 5G phone released in South Korea


A Samsung Galaxy S10 5G smartphone is displayed at an SK Telecom shop during a launch event in Seoul on April 5, 2019. - The world's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker Samsung Electronics warned of a 60 percent-plus plunge in first-quarter operating profits on April 5, in the face of a weakening chip market. Samsung was also launching its top-end Galaxy S10 5G smartphone, after South Korea this week won the global race to commercially launch the world's first nationwide 5G networks. (Photo by JUNG Yeon-Je / AFP)

SEOUL: Telecom giant Samsung Electronics on April 5 released the Galaxy S10 5G, the world’s first available smartphone with built-in fifth-generation communications, as South Korea seeks to build a lead in the transformative technology.

On April 3 the South became the first country to launch nationwide 5G services, with three superfast networks going live offering data speeds that allow users to download entire movies in less than a second.

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