If the iPhone without 3G or Wi-Fi was bad enough, here’s some more bad news for the mobile users in China. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which has been more widely referred to as the “Tube” is all set to hit China, albeit without 3G or Wi-Fi. The lack of 3G may be due to the [...]
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Meizu M8 to hit China, India in December
If you’re from either China or India, we know hard it has been for you to lay your hands on the iPhone. While the former doesn’t even sell the iPhone on sale, the mobile consumers in India have been let down owing to the high prices of the iPhone. If it’s any consolation to you, [...]
iPhone to launch officially in China shortly
Cellular News is reporting that the iPhone is shortly due to launch ‘officially’ with China Mobile: China Mobile is expected to officially launch the Apple iPhone on its network shortly – but with some of the functionality removed to comply with Chinese regulations. The South China Morning Post, citing a report from the Daiwa Institute [...]
Nokia to support all the proposed 3G standards in China
Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, which has a good 42% market share in China selling over 70 million handsets in 2007, plans to support all the three 3G standards that are being planned to be employed in the country. Three different operators in the country, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom (Yeah, keep up [...]
China Mobile says half a million phone calls were made during Olympic Ceremonies
You’re in the fourth largest country in the world, sitting in a stadium filled with thousands of people present there to watch some of the most spectacular shows and acts ever made, what do you do? I, for one, would have my eyes glued to the performers. But that’s not what the 24,000 users, present [...]
What’s gone wrong with Chinese 3G?
More interesting stats – according to EJL Wireless Research, the number of TD-SCDMA subscribers is set to hit 12 million by 2012 with roughly the same number of terminals expected to be sold in the same year, at 11.5 million. Given that TD-SCDMA is the Chinese government’s baby and it’s been pushing it heavily for [...]
Louis Vuitton guides you through China
It looks like July 4th is going to be a big day. As well as the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference Louis Vuitton is launching audio guides for three Chinese cities – Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai. It is being powered by Clicmobile and they say: “Louis Vuitton offers a perfectly synchronised audio journey in which [...]
Sharp goes after China with Acquos
Japan’s biggest handset maker, Sharp, is off to pastures new – targeting the massive Chinese market with high end devices, according to Reuters. The Wall Street Journal says Sharp will trade off its TV brand, launching a range of phones under the Aquos banner. The first device will sell for 4,480 yuan (around £333) and [...]
China unveils massive mobile shake-up
With the world’s biggest mobile market, China, has decided that its communications industry is ripe for a shake up. And what a shake up: the Chinese government has decided to create new, merged telecoms companies to sell mobile, as well as internet and fixed, connections. As a result of the changes, China Unicom and China [...]
Olympic 3G goes live with 15,000 free phones
It looks like China really has done it: after seemingly never-ending delays, according to local news service Xinhua, China has now got its 3G service up and running in just a matter of months and yes, it will be ready for the influx of visitors for the Olympics later this year. China Mobile is giving [...]
Chinese 3G kicks off on 1 April
It looks like China’s 3G efforts are inching closer to reality. According to reports, China Mobile will kick off its trials of homegrown 3G standard TD-SCDMA in eight cities from 1 April: Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen and Qinhuangdao. Forbes says the operator will give away 20,000 TD-SCDMA mobile numbers free and will [...]
200 million Chinese mobile users get spam SMS
In a country the size of China with all those hundreds of millions of subscribers, when things go wrong, they can go wrong on a very large scale. Just ask China Mobile. According to Xinhua, seven online advertising firms “arbitrarily sent commercial text messages to over 200 million cell phone users” on China Mobile and [...]
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