Smartphone

No confirmed Korea product launches this week. Globally, Qualcomm unveiled the 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6 at its Snapdragon Summit, and on the software side Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B topped Hugging Face’s weekly trending chart with over 16,000 likes.

vivo unveiled the X500 Pro in China on September 21. We lined its battery, charging speed and refresh rate against the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, which is already on sale in Korea — vivo isn’t.

Apple unveiled its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, at its September 9 event alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup. Here’s how it compares with the Galaxy Z Fold8 on specs and price, plus Korea’s launch timeline.

Xiaomi has officially launched its first wide-format foldable, the Xiaomi 18 Fold, in China. A 6000mAh battery and a slimmer hinge put it in direct comparison with Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7.

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE went on sale in Korea at KRW 1,045,000, a brainwave-reading wearable called Atlas 1.0 launched abroad, and Upstage’s large open model Solar Open2-250B drew attention in software.

Two budget 14-inch laptops launched in Korea on the same day, NVIDIA’s next entry-level Jetson for robots, and Poco’s pricier F9 flagships.