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Here in the China, most of our smartphones are relatively affordable, thanks to the cheap labors. Now, even big name like Huawei, is making a play to break out of the low-cost smartphone market. Today, Huawei and Qihoo 360 has jointly announced a dual-core Android handset called “Huawei Shine (华为闪耀)”, which priced at 1,499 yuan ($242). Yup, that sits on the horizon with the just-released 1.2GHz Xiaomi phone.
Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun and Meizu’s CEO Jack Wong used to be friends and business partner, but for some reasons, they became rival subsequently. Recently, Xiaomi posted a thread on their forum seeking testers for MIUI V4 ROM beta test on the Meizu MX (dual-core version), and the image above is from one of the testers. At the moment, there’re couple of bugs were found on beta test, including overheating problem, restart problem and signal problem. More shots after the break…
There’s always some bastards around us. And today, a bastard goes viral on the Chinese internet and we definitely want to share with you guys. This happened in a train travelling from Shenyang to Beijing. The video showed that a white guy with blonde hair put up his feet over the seat. A woman passenger who sat in front of him was annoyed by his feet, then the dispute began…
By now you should have already known the low-end Xiaomi phone (also known as the “Youth Version Xiaomi M1″) that the company launched two days ago. Tomorrow, it will be the last day for register the pre-ordering lucky draw. So is it worth to buy? Does its 1.2 GHz processor perform a lot slower than its predecessor? That’s what we are going to tell you after the break.
Xiaomi tech just announced a 1.2GHz dual-core smartphone, featuring basically everything the same as the original M1 except with a slower processor and less RAM. The company named this is as the “Youth” version, which is aiming at younger audiences like students. The sales will be done through lucky draw and it begins from now until the 18th. Xiaomi’s CEO said they will only have 150,000 units for sale, and each unit will be priced as low as 1,499 yuan ($242), while the original version is at 1,999 yuan ($322). Before Xiaomi announced the “Youth” version M1, they actually launched two short films in relation to “Youth”. Unfortunately, it’s in Chinese and there is no English subtitles. The short films are embedded after the break.
The surveillance camera captured the moment that a man jumps out of a moving car to save his four-years old daughter at a busy crossroad of Wenzhou, where the baby girl fell off from the car as she was trying to jump from the back seat to the front, and accidentally opened the unlocked front door. We really don’t want to see anything like Yueyue happen again. Video after the break.
If you have watched an American science fiction film called “RoboCop“, then you are probably shocked right now. There isn’t a human inside the armor, but some cables that connected to police station. What that does is to monitor some regions for security purpose. They are located in Kunming, the place where the fake Apple store was first discovered.
Apple’s take on television industry is in news from over one year now and reports are being weighed by many sources. Finally, the rumors had been confimred by the chairman of Foxconn Terry Gou, who revealed the company is currently making preparations in collaboration with Apple to launch a new HDTV set in the market.
Update: Foxconn told TheNextWeb that Gou had “neither confirmed nor speculated about Foxconn’s involvement in the production of any product,” while its policy forbids “comment on any customers or their products.”
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.
What can you do with $65? Buy a pair of shoes, a shirt, or maybe a tablet? The cheapest ICS tablet that we have seen so far is the Ainol Novo7, it’s $99. But it will no longer be. HuaYi, a manufacture based in Shenzhen, recently unveiled a 7-inch tablet that offering as low as 399 yuan ($65)! Wow…
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