NK official checks areas surrounding Samsung smartphone factory in Vietnam

as declared in NATIONALA senior North Korean official is believed to have looked around areas near a smartphone factory in Vietnam owned by South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co., sources said Sunday. The move is prompting speculation that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may seek to visit the Samsung factory when he travels to Vietnam for his second summit with US President Donald Trump. "We have yet to have receive any notice from authorities that North Korean officials would visit Samsung factories," a Samsung official said.Samsung Electronics built factories in Bac Ninh in 2008 and Thai Nguyen in 2013. Since then, almost half of its smartphones have been produced in Vietnam.The delegation led by Kim Chang-son is known to have visited Ha Long Bay, a famous tourist destination located east of Hanoi.Ha Long Bay is cited as a place Kim Jong-un may visit.The group is also believed to have looked around the northeastern Lang Son province, which borders China.Some North Korean watchers said that the delegation might be assessing the possibility of using a special train to reach Vietnam. But the US has called for the North to take concrete steps toward denuclearization.The US and North Korea plan to hold a new round of working-level talks in a third country, in Asia, this week to prepare for the summit of their leaders.A list of items subject to discussion at the pre-summit talks could include North Korea's closure of its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon in exchange for partial sanctions relief from the US or a declaration to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War.

Samsung unveils 1TB smartphone storage in 'industry first'

The Korean company announced Tuesday that it's started mass producing 1-terabyte embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS), doubling its previous generation of smartphone storage while maintaining the same footprint -- an innovation Samsung has claimed is an industry first. According to Samsung, the development will bring a more "notebook-like" experience to the next generation of smartphones. With 1TB of storage built-in, the company says users could store up to 260 10-minute videos at 4K resolution. That's compared to 13 videos of the same size that can be stored on the 64GB flash storage "widely used in many current high-end smartphones," Samsung says. Rumours already point to Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S10 smartphone having 1TB of storage -- alongside four rear and two front-facing cameras to help you fill the space.

These new renders of Xiaomi's double-folding smartphone should worry Samsung

As it stated in Prior to finding the best solution, Xiaomi has conducted extensive research into the development of a robust folding mechanism. "Each innovation is the result of joint, cumulative R & D efforts from supply chain partners and the device manufacturer. It is misguided to think a folding screen can be easily turned into a folding smartphone without significant breakthroughs in technology. Per LetsGoDigital's reporting, it's also still not clear when Xiaomi plans to release its double-folding device — though a research report out of Korea hints at the second half of 2019. We also could see the company show it off at MWC 2019, during which several companies will of course be touting their foldable handsets.