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By now, we hope you’re mighty familiar with Lenovo’s Android-powered “Smart TV” — the much anticipated HDTV that runs Ice Cream Sandwich. Today, Lenovo has just announced that its Smart TV will be available for pre-order on April 10 in China, for 6499 yuan (about $1,031). Check out photo galleries of the Smart TV after the break! And a video!
Chinese customs authorities have detained 14 suspects in connection with a smuggling case that involved about 400 million yuan (US$63.5 million) worth of photographic and video equipment. Officers at Gongbei Customs, Zhuhai City, south China’s Guangdong Province, said the smuggling ring has already transported more than 60,000 cameras from Hong Kong to Guangdong from January 2011 to February 15, 2012. They have also smuggled 13,623 professional and consumer lenses, 483 flashlight and 1,025 video cameras …
People have been waiting for this exciting hybrid device after Asus has been showing off its PadFone concept for nearly a year. Finally, it debut in MWC just a couple of months ago, and it started taking pre-orders in Taiwan yesterday. ASUS big wigs like Jonney Shih & Jerry Shen were presented in the ceremony and announced pre-order starting April 6 and would be hitting the streets on April 20. The company also disclosed Padfone will be heading to a few other countries including Singapore, Hong Kong & Germany, but they didn’t provide with a specific time frame.
Baidu, the well-known Chinese internet giant, has already overtaken Google as the leader in the search engine market in China. Baidu was created in 2000 as just a simple search engine, but it has now developed into a multifaceted site providing a range of online services. In terms of search queries, Baidu covers more than 80 percent of the Chinese market while Google reaches just 11 percent of market share. In 2010, Google turned its back on the Chinese market following a run-in with officials over the censorship of Google’s Chinese site (google.cn). Click-in to further examine the difference between google and the communist’s search engine …
Microsoft is reportedly working on a new version of its popular Windows platform. Yup, we are talking about windows 8. The company will bring a special flavor of Windows 8 to shelves in China. But before it arrived in mainland China, a website WinUnleaked.tk has already showed the public a number screenshots based on a leaked copy of a recent internal Windows 8 build, and claimed this version could be more affordable!
An inside source claimed Xiaomi has told Foxconn to expect a boatload of Xiaomi phone orders for the second quarter of this year, and Foxconn has reportedly added four new production lines in preparation for it. Meanwhile, the source also claimed Sharp and Toshiba have received huge amount of orders from Xiaomi to produce 4.0-inch displays. All these rumors may mean the next generation Xiaomi phones will be out very soon!
Update: Rumor about Xiaomi to launch a $145 Xiaomi phone is false.
The numbers of frequent online shoppers in China is double that of the United States and the UK, and is even four times of the European consumer, according to a global leading accounting firm. The survey was conducted by interviewing 7,005 people between August and September last year, including Chinese consumer’s shopping habits. Around 70 percent of the Chinese made purchases on e-commerce websites at least once every week compared to 40 percent in the United States and the UK, and 20 percent in the Netherlands, Switzerland and France …
A report from New York Times suggests a graduate from China’s Sichuan University and also an employee of Chinese internet firm Tencent could be the hacker who attacked a number of websites belonging to Japanese and Indian companies, as well as Tibetan independence activists. The article cited a report from Trend Micro (PDF link), a Tokyo-based computer security company, which has announced the results of a yearlong effort to trace a malicious cyber attack aimed at stealing information from hundreds of companies and individuals in a number of countries …
A total of 1,500 kilograms of gold could be salvaged from cell phones thrown away in China each year. Approximately 400 million mobile phones in the world are discarded every year, 100 million of which come from Chinese users. A recent report showed that 150 grams of gold, 100 kg of copper and 3kg of silver can be withdrawn from one ton of discarded cell phones. But only an estimated 3 percent of unused mobile phones are recycled worldwide, and the figure is only 1 percent in China. Dumping cell phones can cause serious damage to the environment. A cell phone battery, for example, can polluted up to 60,000 liters of water. To protect our planet, manufacturers, dealers and consumers should be participate the recycling of cell phones. Nokia has already collected 160 tones of unused phones and related accessories between the year 2005 till 2011.
Probably most of you are familiar with MIUI, it is quite outstanding among the other Android-based custom ROM. Xiaomi, the developer of MIUI, is reportedly to introduce a new version of MIUI that based on Windows Phone. The rumor was brought up after Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun disclosed they’re negotiating with Microsoft to launch a Windows-based Xiaomi phone …
UPDATE: Some info about the specs of the Windows phone-base Xiaomi
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