Huawei has dethroned Xiaomi to become the No.1 smartphone maker in China in Q3, 2015, as per a latest report from Canalys. This is the first time Huawei has taken the top position in China.
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DOOGEE has announced their latest smartphone called the T6. The smartphone packs one of the largest batteries that we have seen so far – a 6250mAH unit.
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Apple has announced that it is bringing Apple Music, iTunes Movies and iBooks to customers in China. The company said that the music streaming service will roll out on Android phones this fall.
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Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Kuaidi has invested an undisclosed amount of some in Ola. Falcon Edge, GIC, Tiger Global Management, and SoftBank are other investors who participated in this round of funding.
Xiaomi just announced the Mi 4c its latest smartphone in Mi 4 series in China. The company has also introduced Mi Mobile MVNO service in China under which it is offering affordable mobile plans.
Google has for the most part kept its distance from China, a market that has perhaps one of the largest user base of Android running devices. Government censorship and strict crackdowns mean that Google had to opt out from providing the Play Store and accompanying services in the country. This also meant that Android Wear watches that are heavily dependent on said services just wouldn’t work in China and so were never sold. This is about to change. Continue reading “Android Wear heads to China, Moto 360 to lead the charge”
Smartisan which is a Chinese startup that manufactures smartphones has just launched their second device called the U1 or JianGuo. The U1 will sell at a base price of 899 Yuan (US$140) which translates to around Rs 9,200.
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A new Huawei smartphone with the model number ATH-AL00 has passed the Chinese certification agency TENAA. It features a unique sliding camera system which ingeniously houses the front facing camera unit.
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Earlier this year we’d reported that a Chinese Consumer Rights Protection committee was suing the likes of Samsung and Oppo for the massive amount of bloatware on their devices. Today, Samsung has announced that they will issue patches that will allow Chinese customers to delete pre-installed applications from the Galaxy Note 3. Continue reading “Upcoming patch to allow Chinese customers to delete preinstalled apps on Samsung Galaxy Note 3”
A Huawei device with the codename AL00 has passed through TENAA, the smartphone certification agency in China which is similar to the FCC in USA. The smartphone is most likely to be the Huawei G8 and is said to feature a metal body along with 2GB of RAM.
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Earlier this month, UMi teased the Hammer S and showed that it has a USB Type-C port. Now, UMi have officially announced the smartphone which is the successor to last year’s Hammer smartphone.
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Worldwide dual-SIM smartphone sales will grow 19 percent to 514 million units in 2016, as per a latest report from Strategy Analytics. The report states that China and India are the largest country markets for dual-SIM smartphones.
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ZTE has just announced its Smarthome device alongside the Blade D6 smartphone today during MWC Shanghai. The ZTE Smarthome is a device that allows customers to easily communicate between their smartphones/tablets with their home appliances or fixtures.
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Another day and yet another handset shows up on Chinese certification agency TENAA. This time is the turn of HTC’s Mediatek powered smartphone codenamed D728w.
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Just yesterday, we brought you the new rumoured specifications of the Xiaomi Mi 5 and the Mi 5 Plus. Today, we have the confirmed specifications as well as the first photos of the bigger Mi 5 Plus from the Chinese regulatory agency TENAA.
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