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China is apparently the place to be when it comes to smuggling iPhones. From housewives smuggling large amounts of iPhones and iPads to one dude taping about 30 iPhones onto his person, it seems more and more would-be smugglers are trying to make a quick buck in the world’s largest nation. So, why China? China has…
China has quite a smuggling crime syndicate on its hands, and a high-tech one at that. Instead of smuggling the usual lot of illegal drugs and other not-niceties we’re accustomed to hearing about, some folks in China are attempting to smuggle iPhones from Hong Kong to mainland China. In mainland China, iPhones sell for about $125…
We just spent way too much time (in a good way) at Lenovo’s trailer here at CES and got some hands-on love with the new K800 handset, which sports Intel’s new 1.6GHz Atom Z2460 processor. From its power to the overall design, the K800 is an interesting handset that’s very easy on the eyes. The handset…
Remember that mysterious Lenovo 5-inch tablet/phone we’ve seen almost a week ago? We’re glad to report that additional information is now available about it, though I’m not sure you’ll like it. The problem is that the LePad S2005 comes with 800×480 pixels touchscreen, which is not enough by today’s standards — I would expect a…
At Macworld Asia 2011, China Unicom let slip that the iPhone 5 which we’re expecting to be announced next week will support 21 Mbps HSPA+ networks. That might suggest that LTE is a no-go for the next iPhone, but I’ll hold off on an official U.S. announcement before jumping to conclusions. Even if it’s just HSPA+,…
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,…
There are, sadly, still parts of the world where operators think they somehow own the consumer and know what’s best for them in terms of which handsets to offer and which set of software and services to back. China Unicom is one such operator, and while they’re relatively small compared to the massive China Mobile,…
We know that Telefonica and China Unicom already have great business relations. That, however, is not enough as the two companies announced strengthening of the partnership in a deal that will see the Spanish group increasing its stake in China Unicom to 9.7%, while Unicom’s holding in Telefonica will increase to 1.37%. Both companies will…
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…