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What is Shanzhai Bus?

By Herman Lai, posted June 30, 2010 at 11:34 PM, 340 views

“Shanzhai” is a term to describe Chinese imitation and pirated brands and goods, particularly electronics. Apparently, Shanzhai Bus means a “fake bus”, a fake route. In Shenzhen, some route is lacking of buses, therefore some unethical merchant have loopholes to exploit.

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Super size iPhone shrinks and becomes shiny

By Herman Lai, posted June 30, 2010 at 11:03 PM, 318 views

Prior to this Super size iPhone from “Expand“, there was a really nice one already. That was larger and packed with greater specs. Go to this link if you wish to know more, “Apple iPad Clone looks like a Super Size iPhone“. The machine that is going to be introduced today offers us with a 7-inch display with Window XP installed. Although the device is as big as a tablet, the makers also give ability to the machine to make phone calls through EVDO Module. Interesting?

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iPhone 4 Knockoff Review

By Chris Chang, posted June 30, 2010 at 4:40 PM, 140,314 views

You are looking at China’s iPhone 4 wannabe. It’s the new king in the knockoff market, built to look like a real iPhone 4 while doing its best — with features like a front-facing camera with flash, removable battery, and that outrageous imitation of the industrial design, no one would say that this knockoff is not cool. We got one in Shenzhen and here we have all the details about it in our full review, so read on to find out!

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Foxconn will continue building iPhones in Shenzhen

By Star Chang, posted June 30, 2010 at 7:30 AM, 435 views

After two times of wages increase, and suspension of recruitment, Foxconn is preparing to shift part of its production lines from Shenzhen to north and central part of China. According to China Economic Observer news report, the mobile phone division will move to Tianjin, while the making of personal computers will moved to Chongqing and Wuhan. Interestingly, Foxconn will continue building Apple’s products in Shenzhen…

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Google Stops Redirecting Chinese Users to Google.com.hk

By Chris Chang, posted June 30, 2010 at 2:35 AM, 105 views

The war between Google and China is not finished yet. Apparently, the Chinese government is not happy with the redirect to Google.hk when visitors accessing Google.cn. While Google is facing its license expiration problem that will affect its operation in China, Google has now starting hosting some content on Chinese servers, and plans to end the redirect in the next couple of days.

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Shanghai World Expo Passport is selling at $840 USD

By Herman Lai, posted June 30, 2010 at 2:31 AM, 583 views

In Shanghai Expo, did you know you can buy a “World Expo Passport” at there? The purpose of the passport is for visitors to collect different medals from different pavilions in the expo in order to become a valuable collection. However, there was people are selling those passports with a high-price. For a passport with all the medals, it is selling for $5880 Chinese Yuan (about $840), you can even buy four 16GB iPhone 4 with this price. The seller stated “The reason that is so expensive is not only because the passport has commemorative value, also it has space of appreciation.

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Teaser: iPhone 4 Knockoff Review

By Chris Chang, posted June 30, 2010 at 12:21 AM, 497 views

The iPhone 4 knockoff is no small thing to review, please stay tuned… One more pic after the break.

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Phecda 7-inch tablet includes Android, HDMI and 1080p support

By Herman Lai, posted June 29, 2010 at 11:18 PM, 1,667 views

So far, there isn’t much news about the Android tablet recently and we are pleased to see one today, it is a 7-inch Android Tablet (800×480) from Phecda. While there isn’t a home button sits on the machine, it brings with three less familiar buttons on the side. It doesn’t looks too bad and hopefully the performance will turn out good as well.

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The All-New MacBook Air Knockoff

By Chris Chang, posted June 29, 2010 at 10:50 PM, 4,425 views

We love the MacBook Air knockoff very much, especially the glowing Apple logo. The knockoff makers have today unveiled a freshly remade MacBook Air knockoff which benefits from a unibody aluminum exterior. Yup, it looks more like the original now.

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Wonderful Cases Might Help Your iPhone 4’s Problems

By Chris Chang, posted June 29, 2010 at 6:07 AM, 2,533 views

Alright, you got an iPhone 4 and what’s next? Try to buy a case to fix the reception problem. Get the Apple’s Bumper case? Nah, you got more choices here.

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