Who knew? Apparently the South Korean market has been closed to blackberries, leaving hundreds of visiting “crackberry” addicts with twitching thumbs and a slightly frantic, wasted look due to a few minutes offline. That may soon change, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal (registration required), which attributes the lack of blackberry access to regulations intended to protect homegrown cell phone manufacturers like Samsung.
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Written by J. Christopher Erb [email], and Jean Mercedes [email] for b5media.
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1 opinion for Blackberry owners rejoice
SK Telecom brings Crackberry into South Korea
May 14, 2008 at 3:11 pm
[…] Telecom has just opened its doors to selling RIM’s BlackBerry. This is a rather aggressive move for the Canadian company to push their products in Asia - risky too. South Korea is home to LG and […]
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