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Chinese manufacturer Oppo has been teasing its upcoming R1 smartphone recently, but has yet to release any hard details. The company announced its “Next-generation R1 OPPO smartphone for night shots. New revolutionary sensor for great night shooting, new PI engine to preserve the real colors of the pictures. Glass body, excellent craftsmanship, and beyond the best…
Today Synaptics unveiled the latest in its line of affordable capacitive touch screen technology. Courting emerging markets, Synaptic’s latest offering, the ClearPad S2331 and ClearPad S2133 provide full two-finger support and allows for free rotate gestures at affordable prices. The company’s higher end ClearPad S2333 provides five-finger performance as well. Synaptics has increasingly found business in…
We’re still not sure whether Apple will make a deal with China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers, but in the meantime its smartphone is offered by China Telecom, the country’s third largest carrier. And it apparently brings them some serious cash. China Telecom has recently released some financial and business results,…
The Chinese government plans to formally issue 4G licenses later this year, with China Mobile already working on its network. According to Premier Li Keqiang, the world’s most populous nation is aiming for annual average growth of 20% in the information consumption industry from 2013 to 2015. As we said, China Mobile is already deploying…
Huawei A199 is a new Android Jelly Bean smartphone heading to the company’s own backyard, namely China Telecom’s portfolio. Specs wise, it comes with a 5-inch 720p HD screen, Huawei’s quad-core processor (K3V2) clocked at 1.5GHz, 2GB of RAM, dual cameras (8-megapixel on the back, 1.3-megapixel front-facing one), 8GB of internal storage and a 2,150mAh…
It was back in November of last year when we’ve first told you that Chinese will get a dual-mode version of the Samsung Galaxy S III. Well now it’s here, allowing folks who get one to use it both locally (on China Telecom’s network) and while roaming around the world (using a GSM-based network). Aside…
China Telecom customers are about to get the iPhone 5, according to a report in the Global Times. Customer service staff from the carrier’s Beijing branch reportedly told the newspaper that the carrier is starting to take pre-orders for Apple’s latest iOS device. A launch date was not provided, but rumors suggest the handset will…
We’ve already talked about the Samsung SCH-W2013 in the past. Now it’s been officially unveiled by Jackie Chan. Yup, the Kung Fu master himself helped China Telecom launch this unique device, which comes with not one but two 3.7-inch WVGA Super AMOLED touchscreens, regular numeric keypad, quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.9-megapixel…
Samsung is eager to repeat the success it had with the previous Galaxy S smartphone and is therefore cornering mobile operators all around the world as we speak. Parts of Europe already got the Galaxy S III, while the U.S. citizens will get it later this month with 5 major carriers — including Verizon Wireless,…
HTC is working on a special version of its flagship One X smartphone for China Telecom. Marked as X720d, it doesn’t come with NVidia Tegra 3 nor Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU — rather it uses Qualcomm’s last-year Snapdragon S3 (MSM8660) SoC which two cores clock at the same (like Snapdragon S4) 1.5GHz while ensuring supplies…