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Nokia announced a new Symbian Anna smartphone in China that’s ready for NFC-based contactless payments. In addition, the device marked as 801T rocks a 4-inch ClearBlack LCD touchscreen, China Mobile-friendly TD-SCDMA connectivity, 8-megapixel “full-focus” camera with 720p video recording support on the back, VGA front-facing camera, 8GB of built-in storage, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 256MB of…
Earlier this month we saw leaked images of an as yet to be announced Motorola Android smartphone called the MT917. We called it the “Chinese RAZR” since it looked a lot like the RAZR we saw announced here in America, but it had a custom TD-SCDMA 3G radio that only works in China. Well today…
Motorola announced both CDMA and GSM-based versions of the RAZR, but apparently that’s not enough. The American handset maker will also have a version of the device for China, marked as MT917. The upcoming phone will rock a TD-SCDMA radio, hinting us it’s heading to China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of…
In a recent interview with Reuters, China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou said its wireless network is home to more than 10 million iPhones. And while that’s insignificant figure compared to the carrier’s 600 million+ subscribers, it’s surprisingly high considering China Mobile doesn’t offer the iPhone. In that sense, it is believed that all those users…
Apple is reportedly in talks with China Mobile to bring the iPhone to the world’s largest carrier and Reuters is reporting that Steve Jobs is leading the negotiations personally. Negotiating with carriers is generally not something you’d expect Apple’s CEO to handle but this shows just how important China Mobile could be for the iPhone.…
The e-commerce giant Alibaba plans to have a mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets that will target Chinese consumers, according to a report from the Financial Times. Alibaba will have a smartphone with its OS very soon and a tablet will land by the end of the year. With iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7,…
Motorola has just released a handset for China Mobile, the MT870, that’s special because it’s the first dual core smartphone to be able to use TD-SCDMA, otherwise known as the Chinese version of 3G that was invented because they (the Chinese) don’t want to pay to use wireless patents. Networking technology aside, here’s what we…
Apple and China Mobile have reportedly come to an agreement regarding a 4G iPhone. This could mean that the next generation iPhone might have 4G capabilities for other networks as well, such as Verizon’s LTE network or perhaps even Sprint’s WiMax. It’s far too early to tell or to speculate, of course, but China Mobile…
Sony Ericsson announced its second Walkman-branded Android smartphone – WT18i. However, unlike the W8, this baby runs a special version of Android, OPhone, used by China Mobile. Yup, it’s a China-only device which most likely won’t be available elsewhere. Speaking of OPhone, Sony Ericsson’s baby runs version 2.5 of the platform, which is said to…
China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly develop technologies focusing on next-generation networks, device platforms, machine to machine (M2M) services and the apps market. According to a statement from SKT, the two companies will commit resources to jointly research the “advancement of low cost, high efficiency next…