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Motorola Ming A1680, MT810, and XT806 begin their Android mercy mission in China

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:28:08 +0000

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. China Telecom’s XT806 is built on Android 2.1 with GPS, 720p video capture, and support for both CDMA EVDO and GSM for global wanderings. Finally, China Unicom’s A1680 packs a 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen, Chinese WAPI WiFi, 5 megapixel camera, GPS, and Motorola’s sixth-generation SoftStylus handwriting system.

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China Unicom to sell Android phones, not use Google’s search engine

jedwan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:15:49 +0000

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. Lu Yimin, president of the operator, was quoted as saying that his company was “willing to work with any company that abides by Chinese law,” but that it didn’t have “any cooperation with Google currently.” Granted, this is just the latest in a series of blows to Android’s proliferation in the world’s biggest nation, but you can really tell it’s getting personal now. C’mon guys — can’t we just hug it out?

China Unicom to sell Android phones, not use Google’s search engine originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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China Telecom launching Palm Pre, BlackBerry handsets this summer

jedwan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:23:38 +0000

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. According to a new report over at the Wall Street Journal, Chairman and Chief Executive Wang Xiaochu has affirmed that it will offer an undisclosed amount of BlackBerry devices in China this May, while Palm’s Pre (no word on the Pixi) will hit this July. These deals could certainly bode well for the carrier; as it stands, it’s going up against China Mobile — which already sells BlackBerry handsets — and China Unicom, which is home to Apple’s iPhone. Unfortunately, pricing details weren’t available, but we’re guessing those will pop sooner rather than later.

China Telecom launching Palm Pre, BlackBerry handsets this summer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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China sent 23 billion text messages during Chinese New Year

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:01:20 +0000

23 billion text messages in one week, with 13 billion from the first two days alone. Pretty mind-boggling, isn’t it? And this 10 percent growth in the number of gung-hey-fat-choi messages is the work of just 747 million phone users in China — imagine what would’ve happened if all 1.3 billion people in the country had a phone during Chinese New Year. Throughout the same period, China also produced 1.33 billion MMS messages — a staggering 40 percent increase from last year — while China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom operated 127.6 percent, 19.5 percent and 15.7 percent more voice calls respectively. Looks like someone’s bagged themselves some extra red pockets here. Now, any guesses for next year’s figures?

China sent 23 billion text messages during Chinese New Year originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Twenty-four telecom operators unite to form Wholesale Applications Community

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:21:05 +0000

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. Members of the Community will include AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, TeliaSonera, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone among others, and they’ll be supported in their endeavors by LG, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. The total customers of the group is about 3 billion, giving WAC (our name) some considerable — albeit theoretical for the moment — power. The group plans to work on coming up with a standard for working across platforms over the next twelve months. WAC’s website just went live a bit ago — there’s a link to it below — and the full press release is after the break.

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Twenty-four telecom operators unite to form Wholesale Applications Community originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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China Unicom profits down 50 percent, NTT DoCoMo up by the same margin

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:49:20 +0000

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. Unicom blames a perfect storm for its misfortune, citing the sale of its CDMA network in 2008 for an artificially inflated profit a year ago combined with the immense expense involved in rolling out its HSPA cells over the course of 2009.

DoCoMo, meanwhile, ironically benefited from weak demand for new handsets that pushed its procurement costs lower, and it might be the start of a revolution in the way Japanese phones are announced and offered. Reports circulating today suggest that the carrier is gearing up to offer micro SIMs capable of working with Apple’s iPad, which would mark a first for any major Japanese network; historically, you’ve had to buy a phone from them, but with LTE looking more globally harmonious than any network technology before it, this might be the start of something good. Speaking of LTE, NEC has announced that it’ll be demoing a concept LTE “terminal” (presumably a handset) in cooperation with DoCoMo at MWC this month, likely the first example of many we’ll see over the course of the year as a number of carriers around the world march toward live 4G networks.

[Thanks, Rata]

China Unicom profits down 50 percent, NTT DoCoMo up by the same margin originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Meizu CEO teases M9 specs, vaporware threat level: orange

jedwan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:34:19 +0000

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. Interestingly, he’s holding the line on committing to deliver WCDMA, CDMA, and TD-SCDMA versions simultaneously — theoretically good enough to deliver 3G on China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile, respectively — with a price in the range of 2,500 yuan (about $366). Possible? Yes — but with as checkered a past as the good ol’ M8 has, we’ll believe this one when it’s in our hands and not a moment sooner.

Meizu CEO teases M9 specs, vaporware threat level: orange originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google’s spat with Chinese government causes ‘postponement’ of Android phones

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:47:03 +0000

You have to love a good clash of legitimate titans, and they don’t get much bigger than Google and China. After deciding to stop censoring its Google.cn results, the Mountain View company of evil-non-doers has stepped up its offensive with the announcement that two Android phones — one from Samsung and one from Motorola — which were slated to make their arrival on China Unicom on Wednesday have now been postponed. We’ll read between the lines and guess that the phones will be “postponed” if China plays nice, or “never gonna happen” if it doesn’t. Google seems intent on demonstrating the full impact of its potential withdrawal from China, and this show of its sway with mobile manufacturers will hardly go unnoticed.

[Thanks, David Casteneta]

Google’s spat with Chinese government causes ‘postponement’ of Android phones originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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China Unicom, Huawei rolling out ’3G Inn’ femtocell service

jedwan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:05:00 +0000

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. That’s about 7.1Mbps faster than Verizon and Sprint’s Samsung-sourced units, by our rough math — of course, those older Sammies are 1xRTT-only, so it’s good to see that newer units are stepping on the gas around the world. Right now, 3G Inn’s only rolling in Beijing, but the carrier looks to eventually expand the service around the country.

China Unicom, Huawei rolling out ’3G Inn’ femtocell service originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhonAsia.com » Blog Archive » Photos: Real and Shanzhai iPhones …

jedwan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:14:03 +0000

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

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