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More Apple Retail Stores Opening in China

By Chris Chang, posted August 31, 2010 at 5:00 PM, 510 views

One Apple retail store is definitely not enough in a big city of China. We have the very first in Beijing, and another one at Shanghai. At this moment, Apple is going to open one more store at each of these two cities. The new stores are covered with black curtain showing a big Apple logo and a web address, www.apple.com/cn. Excited?

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The New Kids in Global Cell Phone Sales

By Star Chang, posted August 31, 2010 at 2:15 PM, 882 views

Research firm Gartner is reporting that global cell phone sales for the second quarter of 2010 has an increase of 13.8 percent compared to second quarter of 2009. Gartner also published its worldwide cell phone market share rankings for Q2. The most interesting change is the addition of China maker G’Five to the list, while Nokia maintains the number one position. G’Five is the third China cell phone company which has made it to the top 10 ranking, the other two companies are ZTE and Huawei.

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Luxury Consumption In China Has Become The Trend

By Herman Lai, posted August 31, 2010 at 12:26 PM, 490 views

School Started! A new group of undergraduates from different areas all over China. Basically, sufficient stationeries and books should be well prepared before step into class. But, this year is completely different because those stuffs are no longer the biggest concern. Parents in China wouldn’t hesitate to spend millions of Chinese Yuan to buy their children, iPhone, DSLR Camera, iPad, MP4, netbook and some other electronics devices. The reason of parents are doing that is just because they want to avoid their children despised by the other kids. Is this necessary?

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Video: Beijing Jumping King

By Herman Lai, posted August 31, 2010 at 9:40 AM, 555 views

This young man spotted in the video doesn’t need a ladder to climb to his bed. He is a student of Beijing Sports University, he can jump 1.7m height without a spring board, that’s why he doesn’t need a ladder to get to his bed.

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Android Tablet Is Way More Decent Than iPad Knockoff

By Chris Chang, posted August 30, 2010 at 11:20 PM, 3,466 views

There’s a good number of nice Android tablets in China, ranging from 7-inch to 10-inch, Android 1.6 to Android 2.1. Now we have another decent-looking Android slate here, packing enough features to at least pique your interest, with the support of 1080p HD videos.

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Colorful Cases For The New iPod nano

By Chris Chang, posted August 30, 2010 at 12:30 PM, 1,408 views

While we are waiting for Steve Jobs to bring out the newest gadget on Wednesday’s Apple event, here we have some cases for the upcoming iPod nano, on sale at Taobao, a Chinese online store. This new nano case comes in 10 brilliant colors, includes a space for 1.7″ touchscreen, with a dock-sized cut-out along with room for what’s said to be a headphone jack, volume controls, a hold button, and a clip ’round the back. The Chinese case vendors are selling this as “Apple Nano 6 Silicon Case”, for just $3 yuan (about 45 cents). More pics after the jump.

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Fascinating Music Fountain In Shanghai World Expo (Video)

By Herman Lai, posted August 30, 2010 at 11:15 AM, 219 views

This is Marvellous!!! This fantastic music fountain performance had obsessed a great number of folks and visitors, it took place on the Huangpu River between the two parts of the Expo Park in Shanghai. A video and a lot of awesome photos impart after the break.

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Netizens Disputed On Women’s Wears Are Over Exposed

By Herman Lai, posted August 30, 2010 at 9:49 AM, 2,481 views

Now is hot summer times in Mainland China, so many of the Chinese girls would like to wear something short and exposed in order to cool down themselves and show their beautiful body, such as an extremely short Miniskirt. But recently, some male Chinese Netizens were saying over exposed wears in public area are causing “Visual disturbance”. Do you think this is true?

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China Unicom Provides Jailbreak Service For iPhone 4 and iPad

By Chris Chang, posted August 28, 2010 at 1:50 PM, 2,576 views

The iPhone 4 & iPad promotion posters from China Unicom. The words circled above in red says “Support Service: Free SIM-trimming, jailbreak, installation of more than 10 hot apps.”

We all now know that iPhones can be hacked easily, and China Unicom is helping you to do that when you purchase the iPhone 4 or iPad from them. Yeah, this is true, China Unicom says that on their promotion posters. However, not all Unicom stores are displaying these posters…

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The Most Affordable Ferrari Phone

By Herman Lai, posted August 28, 2010 at 10:07 AM, 958 views

Ferrari is a well-known brand of cars, it is expensive but a knockoff Ferrari mobile phone is now on sale in Shenzhen. It’s gold in color and looks crappy. Overall, we think it doesn’t look too weak.

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