More Mobile Phone User in China Love to Make Video Clips

Star Chang, Dec 19, 2012 2:37 AM, 1,795 views, Got something to say ?,

VIDEOS shot by mobile phone may generate over 90 million yuan (US$14.5 million) income in China this year, a 50-percent annual surge, thanks to the popularity of smartphones featuring high-quality cameras. So far this year more than 60,000 mobile-shot videos have been uploaded and income from online advertisements, sponsorship and mobile subscriptions is expected. According to Youku Tudou, the largest video hosting service in China, these videos have been viewed by over 40 million people either online or through mobile devices …

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Google Officially Closes Its Shopping Service in China

Chris Chang, Dec 12, 2012 6:39 AM, 501 views, 1 Comment »,

Google, which pulled its search engine from China in 2010, and shuttered its China-only music service back in September, has decided to close another of its remaining services in China: a three-year-old e-commerce searching service. More details after the break.

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Apple’s Ranking in China Smartphone Market Drop Out of Top 5 (Again)

Star Chang, Dec 6, 2012 11:57 AM, 810 views, 4 Comments »,

Apple’s rank in China’s smartphone market, which is set to become the world’s largest this year, fell to No.6 in the third quarter as it faced tough competition from local Chinese brands. China is seeing competition intensifying in its smartphone sector, with global and homegrown vendors trying to outgun one another in terms of price and features. Research firm IDC said Apple saw its third-quarter ranking by market share fall two notches from its position in the second quarter. Its market share by shipments was under 10 percent in the third quarter, when China’s smartphone shipments hit a record high, at more than 60 million units …

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Qualcomm Reveals New Chipsets To Battle Asian Chip Makers For China’s Smartphone Market

Herman Lai, Dec 5, 2012 3:46 AM, 657 views, Got something to say ?,

Qualcomm has been preparing to gain market share in China, where the company had customized its chipsets and lowered its pricing to cater Chinese wireless operator’s networks and local smartphone makers. Today, the industry leader announced expansion of the S4 line with two new quad-core Snapdragons destined China — MSM8226 and MSM8626 CPUs, which will allow more high-end smartphones to emerge from local smartphone makers.

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Evernote’s New China Service Sees More Signups than US and Japan Combined (Video)

Star Chang, May 17, 2012 2:32 PM, 412 views, Got something to say ?,

Evernote, the popular notetaking software, has launched a dedicated service for Chinese users last week, which will run completely separate of Evernote and its existing Chinese-language offering. Ordinarily, Evernote was adding around 4,500 new users per day to its 1.1 million user base in China, but following the launch, downloads here have rocketed. Based on the first week, daily new user numbers in China have been greater than its two biggest markets — Japan and the US — combined …

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Baidu’s New Smartphone Looks Like A Nokia Lumia Phone

Herman Lai, May 11, 2012 8:45 PM, 2,052 views, Got something to say ?,

Baidu said they will announce a tie-up next week for new mobile devices, which is going to be similar when Dell launched a smartphone running on Baidu’s Yi platform last December. The new smartphone will run an upgraded version of Baidu Yi — called Baidu Cloud. Besides, the executive teased details of the launch that the company will announce a few partnerships next week, and that’s probably indicating Foxconn and ZTE or perhaps some other handset makers.

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China Finally Has Its Own Card Reader for Smartphone Payment

Star Chang, May 10, 2012 11:12 AM, 712 views, 1 Comment »,

99Bill.com, a popular online payment service in China, has rolled out its own card reader, in an effort to create a POS device for domestic users. The company says that this is the ‘first commercial use of such a product’ in mainland China. The device can be used with Android or iOS devices, and gives users mobile selling capabilities. The reader plugs into the headphone jack and communicates with mobile apps. The payment solution supports both pass code and signature based bank card transactions. This is especially important in the China market, where pass code enabled bank cards are the most common …

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China Cell Phone Penetration Rate will Surpass 100 Percent

Star Chang, May 8, 2012 3:00 AM, 1,057 views, Got something to say ?,

According to the China Ministry of IT, the country’s phone penetration rate will surpass 100 percent for the first time by 2015. Does this means every single Chinese will own a mobile phone ? As we know, some people may have several, after all the mobile phone market in China is extraordinary. China has already overtook the US as the world’s biggest smartphone market in the first quarter of this year, thanks to the booming sales of Apple’s iPhone and other cheap Android phones. China is expected to have 1.4 billion phone users with a penetration rate of 100 percent, compared with 85 percent at the end of 2010. 3G users will have about 450 million. The country will also start to improve the average broadband bandwidth capacity in urban regions to 20 megabytes per second, 5 to 10 times faster than the current level.

The Magician Behind Android Face-changed in China

Star Chang, May 1, 2012 4:05 PM, 921 views, 1 Comment »,

Chinese companies are rushing to build their own mobile phone operating systems based on Google’s Android platform. The companies include up-and-coming Chinese mobile phone makers Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo and Xiaomi, and internet service portals like Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba. Most have outsourced their Android projects to a Chinese company called ArcherMind, which based at Nanjing city, the capital of Jiangsu province in China. ArcherMind is one of the largest Chinese companies devoted to develop Android-based software, they are the software engineers team behind the Android’s face-changed in China …

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Huawei On Track to Ship 100 Million Mobile Phones This Year

Amien Jomaa, Apr 26, 2012 5:01 PM, 1,174 views, 1 Comment »,

Huawei, the world’s sixth largest mobile phone maker, said on Wednesday that in order to increase its global market share, the company will ramp up mobile phone production and it expects to ship more than 100 million mobile phones this year, including 60 million smartphones. And the company may start selling its own mobile chips.

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