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Here’s a really really really fake iPhone here for you. It just weighs 50 grams, packs a 3.5-inch paper display, has a built-in correction tape, available in black and white, all wrap up for 5.60 yuan ($0.9). Yup, it’s not even a phone. It’s just a correction tape. More shots after the jump.
Yesterday night, some Internet users in China reported Google+ can now be accessed in China without using VPN. It is so surprising to hear such shocking news. However, this isn’t confirmed yet, Google still hasn’t respond to the matter. Well, this might be due to Google+ was not fully domain-blocked in China, so it’s always very partially accessible, depending on which server handles the request. Sometimes, in the past months, it has worked fine for a short while with no VPN on, but with all the images absent.
Less than a week after leading the Knicks to a six-game winning streak, Taiwanese-American point guard Jeremy Lin has became worldwide attraction, which the so-called “Linsanity” had already swirling in China and Taiwan. Lin is now one of the hottest topic being discussed on Weibo, who already has a quarter million followers. Other than that, Lin had been asked to represent China’s team, but both of Lin’s parents are actually from Taiwan. Well, it is awkwardness for some, as Beijing still considers Taiwan a renegade province which long protected by U.S. power in the Pacific. The majority of the Chinese media only sometimes obscuring his Taiwanese heritage by referring to him as “ethnically Chinese.” Animations after the break.
Discrimination?…Few days ago, the government officials forcibly shut down a Christmas Gala organised by Christians in Xitan village (溪坦村) in Zhejiang province, the situation was like “a dog biting a rat“. Video after the break…
Not any Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, is looking to set another milestone in his life. He wants to build a Nuclear Reactor! And he already had a discussion with China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MIIT) to jointly develop a new and safer kind of nuclear reactor. Why Bill Gates wants to build the reactor in China other than US?
Tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon are putting lots of their efforts to get closer to China this year. So how about Microsoft? As far as we know, they opened their first experience store in Beijing back in April and launched couples of Windows Phone 7 handset by ZTE and Nokia. Other than those, nothing major was seen yet. With recent, they had a partnership with Suning, an electronic retail chain in China (Best Buy-like), to sell its Windows products in 2012.
Most of PC gamers should have already heard of two high-end and highly priced devices — Razer Blade and Razer Switchable back in August, where the company thinks “PC gaming is not dead” and expecting to see both of its newly launch machines to become world’s first true gaming laptop that could dominate the hearts of PC gamer. Razer had moved all the way across the pacific ocean to China, to jointly release Razer Blade in China together with Intel and Tencent.
Siemens, the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company, recently caught up in a “refrigerator door shutting problem” scandal in China. The scandal began by a China’s internet celebrity “Luo Yonghao” who wrote on his microblog that “Siemens refrigerator door does not shut tightly”, and filled several complaints to Siemens customer service, but they refused to admit.
Two months ago, some China environmental protection groups have accused Apple for polluting the country. According to these groups, as many as 27 suspected suppliers have been accused of releasing pollution and carcinogens. Apple was completely ignoring the issue, with no interest in directing its suppliers to lessen pollution being caused by them. Due to the rising of complaints from the society, Apple finally sat down to talk it out with its critics. So far the company has admitted that they did not put sufficient attention to the environmental protection in China …
Pre-ordering for the iPhone 4S got underway a few days ago in Hong Kong, and the process hasn’t been entirely smooth. Seriously, it was a messy one. First, Apple “quietly” pushed the pre-ordering from the traditional midnight to morning. Secondly, people were allowed to places TEN (10!!!) iPhone 4S on each order. Last but not least, REAL iPhone users are pissed that they cannot place an order for a 4S, thanks to those greedy resellers and gray market dealers.
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