Motorola Ming A1680, MT810, and XT806 begin their Android mercy mission in China
Motorola's venerable MING handset revisions were just made official in three Android-toting varieties for China Unicom (model A1680 pictured above left), China Mobile ( MT810 , pictured center), and China Telecom ( XT806 , on the right). The TD-SCDMA riding MT810 ships with the Android derived OPhone 2.0 operating system and two touchscreen displays: a 3.2-inch stylus-friendly resistive touchscreen and a second transparent capacitive cover that provides a finger-friendly experience when closed. Other specs include 720 x 480 video capture, 720p video playback, and support for China's CMMB mobile television spec
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: china-unicom, engadget, handset, mercy-mission, ming, motorola-ming, ophoneos2.0, pictured-center, td-scdma, unicom, wanderings, wifi, xt806
China Unicom to sell Android phones, not use Google’s search engine
Oh, brother. This just keeps getting better and better, and by "better and better," we mean " uglier and uglier." Google's abrupt decision to stop censoring results in China and redirect users on the mainland to the outfit's Hong Kong portal has stirred up all sorts of tense feelings around the globe, and if you thought this whole war would be confined to the desktop, you were sorely mistaken. China Unicom, which is gearing up to present its customer base with a smattering of smartphone options with Android loaded on, recently announced that it wouldn't be using Google as the search engine on those very phones
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: abrupt-decision, china-unicom, conflict, engine, kong, politics, portal, unicom
China Telecom launching Palm Pre, BlackBerry handsets this summer
We've been hearing that China Telecom would be grabbing hold of Palm and RIM's respective stables of smartphones since early last year, but at long last we've some official quotes to prove those whispers correct.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: chairman, chief, china, china-unicom, chinese, handsets, palm, palmpre, pixi, pricing-details, rim, smartphone, summer, telecom
China sent 23 billion text messages during Chinese New Year
23 billion text messages in one week, with 13 billion from the first two days alone. Pretty mind-boggling, isn't it?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: billion-people, china, china-unicom, chinaunicom, from-the-first, text message, texting, year-throughout
Twenty-four telecom operators unite to form Wholesale Applications Community
Big doings over in Barcelona today. Twenty-four telecom operators, with the support of the GSMA and three major hardware manufacturers, have formally announced they will come together to form the Wholesale Applications Community. Essentially, the goal of the alliance will be to create a viable, cohesive and open industry platform for mobile app developers.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 2010, after-the-break, application, applications, barcelona, china-mobile, china-unicom, developers, doings, endeavors, manufacturers, operators
China Unicom profits down 50 percent, NTT DoCoMo up by the same margin
Call it proof that there's a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan -- NTT DoCoMo -- has encountered exactly the opposite fortune on news that it has posted a 48 percent year-over-year improvement in black ink.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: china, china-unicom, engadget-mobile, fortune-on-news, handsets, ntt-docomo, over-the-course, perfect, profit, start, wireless
Meizu CEO teases M9 specs, vaporware threat level: orange
Meizu's irrepressible CEO J. Wong is up to his teasing ways again with more details on the M8's successor, the aptly-named M9 -- and actually, there's nothing about the list that doesn't sound doable for a 2010 release (famous last words, we know). Specifically, the dude's saying that we can expect a 1GHz Cortex A8-based Samsung S5PC110 core, half a gig of RAM and ROM, a 5 megapixel cam, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, TV-out, microSD expansion, and a 3.6-inch screen clocking in at 720 x 480 resolution.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: china, china-unicom, cortex-a8-based, entry, famous, level, megapixel, megapixel-cam, meizu, meizum9, teasing, yuan
Google’s spat with Chinese government causes ‘postponement’ of Android phones
You have to love a good clash of legitimate titans, and they don't get much bigger than Google and China .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Arrival, china-unicom, clash, government, its-potential, motorola, result, view
China Unicom, Huawei rolling out ’3G Inn’ femtocell service
China's carriers still have their work cut out for them to deliver wide-area 3G services nationwide, but they're already looking to get into the business of augmenting that coverage with femtocells -- probably not a bad strategy, considering the time and money involved in erecting towers in every nook and cranny of the country. China Unicom -- the carrier using UMTS as its 3G weapon of choice -- has partnered up with Huawei to deliver its 3G Inn femtocell solution that promises up to 7.2Mbps downstream
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other, PS2 Tags: 3g inn, BlackBerry, china-unicom, chinaunicom, country, days-ago, desktop, facebook, huawei, mobile, podcasts
iPhonAsia.com » Blog Archive » Photos: Real and Shanzhai iPhones …
Here (below) are few photos of Shanzhai “counterfeit” iPhones found in the Sham Shui Poi Street Market in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The majority of these snapshot were take on Apilu Street – mobile phone row
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Mobile Street Tags: apple, beijing, china, china-unicom, hong-kong, iphone, japan, Mobile Phone, negotiations, notes-from-asia, photos, shanzhai, street, street-market, video