14 DAY TRIAL // Nexus 5, the latest Google phone out there, is one of the best-selling smartphones in South Korea at the moment, only one week after it became officially available for purchase in the country.
Users in LG’s homeland market appear to be attracted to this device, which does not come as a surprise, given its high-end hardware specifications and the low price tag it arrived on shelves with.
As UnwiredView notes, the mobile phone landed in the country on November 21, priced at 400,000 won ($377 / €277), and it has already entered the top five smartphones there.
The device is a bit more expensive in South Korea than it is in the United States, but it is being sold by wireless carriers here, and not through the official Google Play Store.
Even so, the handset is currently priced only half of what other high-end devices cost in South Korea, with helped it become more popular among end users when compared to other new handsets.
In fact, Korea Economic Daily suggests that Nexus 5 has already showed great sales performance, considering the fact that it is being produced in low quantities and that it has almost no marketing expenses attached.
For those out of the loop, we should note that Nexus 5 was officially unveiled last month with a 5-inch full HD touchscreen display and with a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor packed inside.
The smartphone also features 2GB of RAM, along with various internal memory options. On the back, it sports an 8-megapixel camera with full HD video recording capabilities, paired with a front camera for video chatting.
It also comes with the entire set of usual connectivity capabilities and group of sensors packed inside, and runs under Google’s Android 4.4 KitKat operating system. In fact, it was the very first device in the world to feature the new platform release.