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While every Chinese were waiting Nokia to announce the first official Windows phone in China, HTC has cunningly unveiled an official Windows phone before Nokia did, and that must has surprised Stephen Elop (the CEO of Nokia) and motivated the company to announce its launch event for the Lumia series Windows Phone. More info after the break.
UPDATE: Press in China received invitation from Microsoft China to a launch event for Windows 7.5 Tango
Youku and Tudou are known as the Chinese versions of YouTube. They are the two biggest video sites in China, and they have been intense rivals since 2005. Today, they have announced plans to merge, creating a new entity dubbed Youku Tudou Inc. that the companies claim will become “one of the largest Internet properties in China.”
With the number of mobile subscribers set to top 1 billion in China this year, Apple’s iPhone is getting a beat down courtesy of Samsung inside the Chinese market. Yup, despite landing deals with China Unicom and China Telecom, Apple has only a third of Samsung’s smartphone market share in China.
Mobile phone users in China exceed one billion. But hey, look at them! They may need to wait 2-3 years to use 4G TD-LTE networks in the country. And the new iPad’s 4G LTE connectivity is useless in China!
The new iPad is here, and everyone is excited about it. The new Retina display, the A5X processor with quad-core graphics, the iSight camera, and the LTE chip are all assembled together to form the most advanced tablet today. Here’s the question, will the launch of the new iPad puts a new pressure to Foxconn workers? Well, a Foxconn worker who is working on the new iPad assembly line thinks it’s much easier to work on the new iPad than working on the iPhone 4S.
Samsung has rolled out a dual SIM Galaxy S II with China Telecom last month, which has the ability to harness both CDMA and GSM networks. Galaxy S II is an extremely popular smartphone but not sure if that’s the case in the Chinese market.
Robin Li, CEO of the popular Chinese search engine Baidu.com, continued to be the richest member in the multi-billionaire club on the Chinese mainland in 2012, with a personal wealth of US$10.2 billion, according to Forbes’ 2012 world’s billionaire rankings. With his fortunes increasing by US$0.8 billion as compared to US$9.4 billion in 2011, Robin Li became the only billionaire in China who boasted a personal wealth of more than US$10 billion …
Meizu, a Chinese electronics manufacturer who has a history of “borrowing” design ideas from Apple, has finally bring a pretty nice feature to their MX Android smartphone. Using the 8-megapixel camera of the MX, users are now able to take a picture by sweeping their hand over the proximity sensor. Video demo after the break.
China Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in the world, still does not have an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone to its 655 million customers. Despite that, China Mobile has announced that it has surpassed 15 million iPhone users on their network in China. The carrier has added more than five million users since last year October, a rate of more than 35,000 users per day. Those customers can use text, voice and only 2G data, however China Mobile has built out a nationwide Wi-Fi network to make up for its 3G shortcomings …
Taiwanese smartphone vendor HTC has recently opened its first Chinese flagship store in Beijing. Housed in Beijing Blue Harbor, where international brands open their flagship stores, the store will offer HTC products and personalised service. Check out the full gallery of the store after the break!
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