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Gionee Elife E6 Hands On

As Gionee enters the Indian smartphone market, the only thought that crosses everyone’s mind is that here is yet another ‘Chinese’ smartphone maker here to peddle mediocre products with negligible after sales support. When the company invited us to visit its manufacturing facilities, we jumped on the opportunity to see what actually goes on behind the scenes. However that is a story for another day as today we’ll check out Gionee’s upcoming flagship product. Continue reading “Gionee Elife E6 Hands On”

Oppo is reportedly the second most profitable mobile phone company in China

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Oppo, a smartphone and consumer electronics company from China has been responsible for smartphones like the Finder and more recently, the Find 5. Surprisingly, for a small company like Oppo, news comes by the way of China’s Entrepreneur magazine that it is the second most profitable mobile phone company in the country. For a market as big as China, this certainly seems like good news for a relatively unknown company.

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Lenovo K900 powered by Intel Clovertrail+ chipset revealed

Lenovo has revealed its latest smartphone running an Intel chip over at CES in Las Vegas. The Lenovo K900 runs on the Clovertrail + platform with the specific chip speculated to be an Atom Z2580 clocked at 2Ghz. The smartphone is equipped with a 5.5 inch 1080p IPS display presumably manufactured by Sharp. There is 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage which can be further expanded via the microSD card slot.

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Mobile subscriber base in China crosses 1.104 billion with revenues over $116.26 billion in 2012

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published statistics which reveal that the country’s mobile subscriber base has crossed 1.104 billion users as of November 2012. This is an increment of close to 118 million subscribers over the course of 11 months. The national telecom business volume has gone up 11.4% over the same period last year with a total of 1.18601 trillion yuan.

Approximately 82% of China’s population uses a mobile phone with about 20% of that (approximately 220 million) using 3G equipped devices. The Chinese smartphone market remains one of the most rapidly increasing territories and will top the combined US iOS & Android install base in 2013. There are about 167 million iOS and Android devices in use. Gartner had previously reported that Lenovo is set to steal the spot for number one manufacturer from Samsung in 2013. With the amount of innovation being seen in China by the likes of Huawei, ZTE amongst others, we expect Android based smartphones to help increase the smartphone userbase multifold over the next year.
[Source – MIIT]

Huawei will not be attending the Microsoft Windows Phone 8 launch

In the midst of press releases, smartphone launch events comes yet another shocker when Huawei that was earlier expected to be present for the Windows Phone 8 launch on October 29^thnow confirms its absence for the same.

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UN Telecom agency reports 6 Billion cell phone subscribers around the world

Just a few months back we hit the mark of 7 billion people on earth. And now, believe it or not around 6 billion cell phone subscribers. This clearly shows how technology has grown over the years. This actually means that 86 people out of 100 have a cell phone subscription.

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Next-gen Xiaomi Phone spotted undergoing certification

Last year’s Xiaomi phone created a splash in the media due to the great combination of low price point and high end specs. Looks like the Chinese manufacturer is about to repeat its success with the next generation version. Images and specs revealed during the certification at TENAA suggest that the device going under the code name ‘2012051’ will pack a CDMA radio.

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Jolla partners with China’s D.Phone for distribution

Emerging Finnish smartphone maker Jolla has partnered with Chinese distributor D.Phone to bring its devices to the very important Chinese market. D.Phone has the largest retail network in China and has strategic partnerships with China Unicom, China Mobile and China Telecom.

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Apple gets green signal to sell iPads in Shanghai

Apple have been fighting a case in China because of the iPad from a long time now, and finally the Cupertino company can breath a sigh of relief as finally the case is coming to its end, now Shanghai court has given Apple the green signal to Apple to sell iPads over there.

Proview had filed a case against Apple saying that they had the rights for the name “iPad” and said that no iPads can go outside China or can be sold there, this had caused many problems because iPads and almost all the Apple products are manufactured in China and there will be a shortage of iPads if the iPad got banned in China. Anyways things are looking up for Apple, and hope they have settled the matter with Proview after all. Soon we will be seeing the launch of the iPad 3 hopefully in March 1st week. Anyways there is still speculation that the iPad might get banned in southern China, but that is still to see.

Source: Ubergizmo

China Telecom to bring back iPhone 4S in China.

Last time Apple tried to sell its latest iPhone, the iPhone 4S at the Apple stores in China, there was a huge crowd and loads of people, due to which Apple halted the sales, and closed the store on the launching date. Now China Telecom has announced that it will be bringing the iPhone 4S final to China for the consumers on their network starting March 9th.

This is great news as finally all the people waiting to get their hands on this device have to wait no more. Pre-order for the device will start from March 2nd and it will be free on contract and will come in the usual ranges of 16 GB, 32 GB and 64GB.

Source: China Telecom

ABC News goes to Apple’s Top Secret Foxconn facility in Chengdu, China

ABC News reporter Bill Weir has manged to get into Apple’s Top Secret Foxconn facility in Chengdu , China. Apple had invited ABC News to show the birth place of Apple products after the company was in the limelight for the wrong reasons regarding working conditions inside the factories.Apple has ordered an private audit of the facilities after these allegations came up. Continue reading “ABC News goes to Apple’s Top Secret Foxconn facility in Chengdu, China”

Apple iPad gets pulled from China Amazon service

We all know that the iPad 3 is on it’s way, but there has also been loads of news going around about Apple fighting a case against a company called Proview. Proview here is saying that the rights for the brand “iPad” was reserved for them and Apple has no right to sell or take any products named iPad out of China. And because of all these problems Apple has asked Amazon to pull out iPad from the Amazon product listing in China.

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Apple stores in China halt selling the iPhone 4S

Just a few days back we had heard and praised Apple for deciding to sell their latest iPhone 4S in China, but just before the device was going to be launched Apple decided that the doors to the Apple stores will remain shut and the sales of iPhone 4S in all the Apple sotres in China will be stopped temporarily.

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Samsung’s dual sim phone “Galaxy S II Duos” is exclusive to China

Remember the days when the mobile devices with dual sim card capability called as one fo the worst devices? Well, those days are far behind as Samsung has decided to launch a dual sim version of Galaxy S II called as the SGS II Duos in China.

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Chinese Search Engine Giant Baidu announces Android-based Yi OS for Mobile

Chinese search engine giant Baidu enters into the Mobile OS market with its Yi OS that is based on Android. It was announced at Baidu World event in Beijing and it includes several Baidu apps such as Ting, their social music service, Shen Bian app similar to Google places, maps and a book-reading app. The core features such as integrated voice search would remain the same. Continue reading “Chinese Search Engine Giant Baidu announces Android-based Yi OS for Mobile”