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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Due to better manufacturing technology and the use of Google’s Android operating system, the price of smartphone are getting cheaper in China, but it has also invited hackers and viruses. The market share of low-cost smartphones, costing around 1,000 yuan (US$158), grew from 29.7 percent last quarter to 39.2 percent this quarter, according to a market research company in Beijing. Most users of low-end smartphones are less likely to be well-versed in the technology required to protect the information which store inside their phone, providing information thieves with points of hacking into their systems …
CHINA came in second last for mobile broadband connection speed during 2010 and 2011, and the situation won’t change until 2015. According to a report issued by GSM Association, China’s average mobile access speed was 50 kilobits per second, only higher than that of India at 19 kbps. It was much lower than the speed in Japan and South Korea with about 1,400 kbps – almost 28 times faster compare to China …
Lenovo showed off lots of fantastic products at CES, and the company’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich powered TV has truly amazed us. Recently, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing told Reuters in an interview that the company has no immediate plans to sell the Android TV in the U.S due to the lack of content. But the company hopes to sell their Android smartphones outside of China.
After its confrontation with the Chinese government over censorship, search engine giant Google has reignited its effort to expand in the world’s largest internet market. The company is stepping up its pace in China by providing new services and hiring more engineers, sales personnel and product managers in the country. The goal is to boost the development of its Android operating system for mobile devices, online advertising and product search services in this booming region, where the number of internet users had just passed 500 million …
Here’s the Meizu MX, the successor to one of the most popular Android handsets in China, the M9. So, here’s our complete unboxing and hands-on impressions on this “Designed in China, Made in China” Android smartphone. Read on to see how it takes on the iPhone 4S, Galaxy Nexus and Xiaomi!
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