[scalayer]

less than scientific surveyor here:

I was all over Korea for a month last Summer and it definitely seemed that Samsung/LG phones were 90% of what I saw. Especially on the metro in Seoul. The few iPhones I saw were all older models. If you have something like an LG G3 and above, you can get LTE Advance speeds in Seoul which is quite astounding to experience. 300mbit on your phone!

[72deluxe]

Do they have sufficient storage on them to store all that data they're downloading? I notice that Apple is still offering 16GB devices which I can only imagine will be full within nanoseconds given LTE Advance speeds (although they probably don't sell the GSM model with 16GB, right?). Do Android devices still come in 16GB models over there? I am always saddened to see such small storage on devices.

EDIT: Someone's on a downvote party for my comments today I think.

[bane]

Most Koreans are interested in streaming services, not downloading. Streaming video, Podcasts, movies etc.

On top of that the system works underground in the subway

and on top of that there's digital tv everywhere also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcastin...

Many phones in Korea support DMB (and it also works on the subway).

[72deluxe]

Thanks, very informative.