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Samsung has a creative new handset hitting the Chinese market. The Samsung SCH-W999 is a large Android flip phone with two screens. The outside features a generous 3.5-inch 480 x 800 AMOLED display, and the inside features another display of similar specifications. With the screen measuring 3.5 inches, the whole phone must be pretty big.…
China Telecom is in talks with British networks to launch an MVNO service early next year in the UK. China’s third largest mobile operator wants to target both local Chinese residents as well as an increasing number of tourists from China. The goal is to hit 50,000 users in the first year of operation and…
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,…
Our Chinese readers better be sitting down right now, we just found out about a new whopper of a device from Motorola called the XT882. What makes this thing special is that inside there’s a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, support for two active SIM cards, and should you want to roam onto a…
It looks like China has made all Voice over Internet Protocol services that are not officially offered by government-run services like China Telecom and China Unicom illegal. That means that Skype and other VoIP services could be blocked from the country with the largest population. Making this illegal will enable the government to crack down…
China has climbed to 833.1 million mobile subscribers solidifying its position as the world’s largest mobile market. It dwarfs the U.S. which has 292.8 million subscribers. Unlike the U.S. which has several carriers, the Asian country only has three major wireless carriers. China Mobile takes the top spot in both China and in the world…
The WiFi network Boingo Wireless announced that it has added China Telecom hotspots to its offering. As a result, users can now access hotspots in all Provinces, Municipalities, and Autonomous Regions in China, bringing Boingo’s total hotspot count to over 185,000 locations globally! Boingo says that the whole Asia Pacific region has been growing like…
According to a report in the South China Morning Post, China Telecom is making plans to offer the iPhone when China Unicom’s exclusivity deal ends with Apple early next year. The SCMP report cites a research note from a Deutsche Bank analyst who writes, “Although China Telecom management in a recent lunch meeting refused to confirm whether…
The highly popular Samsung Galaxy S, which sold over 1 million units both in the United States and South Korea, will be coming to all three of China’s operators using their respective wireless technologies. China Telecom will get getting a CDMA variant, the SCH-I909 that is most likely the same device recently launched by Verizon…
Motorola expanded its Ming lineup today by launching three new Android handsets specially designed for China. The eclectic three include the A1680, the MT810, and the XT806. Destined for a different wireless carrier in China, each handset sports the distinctive design and signature transparent flip screen of the Ming handset series. With WCDMA onboard, the…