Gome FlyTouch Android Tablet

Gome is the biggest appliance dealer in China. Now the company goes into a new business model by launching its own brand Android tablet FlyTouch. But a little disappointedly FlyTouch looks like just another iPad clone. From the design, it’s like a mini version iPad. It’s based on a 400MHZ VIA 8505+ chip, bringing with a 7 [...]

[ More ] June 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Handheld |

$74 USD iPad clone from Shenzhen Lianhua

Shenzhen Lianhua Electronics company showed a dirt cheap Android powered iPad clone, which is only priced around 500 Yuan (about $74 USD). With such a price you really shouldn’t expect too much from it. It features a 400MHZ VIA 8505 chip that’s based on ARM9, a 7-inch 800×480 display, 128MB RAM, 2GB flash storage, Android [...]

[ More ] June 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Handheld |

Onda VX565 PMP brings 1080p support and 16GB storage

Another portable media player from Onda company, the VX565  gets a 5-inch display, coming with 1080p videos, compatible to numerous video formats, including  RM/RMVB, MKV (H.264),  AVI, MOV, FLV, MPG, VOB, DAT, TS. It comes with 16GB on-board storage, and its MicoSD card slot could support up to 32GB. USB OTG is equipped, but it seems the HDMI port is lacking, [...]

[ More ] June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Handheld |

iPhone clone Wofone F22 runs Android 2.1

Wofone F22 is going to bring China Shanzhai Android phones to a new level. It runs Android 2.1, the first in Shanzhai history. All others we saw before just run Android 1.6. Interestingly, thought not the first time, this Android phone stole the design from iPhone, and gets round-corner icons in its user interface. We [...]

[ More ] June 21st, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Newsmy C66 color ebook reader

Newsmy updates its ebook reader product line frequently. So far they’ve launched 3 ebook readers, 6101,6202, and 6206. All of  them are coming with E-ink. Today the company announced its forth ebook reader C66. Unlike the previous ones, C66 gets a color LCD  for your reading. In addition to display ebooks, C66 can display videos [...]

[ More ] June 21st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Handheld |

Video: HTC Hero clone runs Android, looks no difference

Because of Huawei’s Hisilicon K3 Windows Mobile platform, Shanzhai Windows Mobile phones are everywhere in China, but Shanzhai Android handset are rare. We’ve seem many HTC clones, but they mostly run Windows Mobile, powered by a Hisilicon K3 chip. Today this one is different. It runs Android, and gets a capacitive touchscreen. The phone looks [...]

[ More ] June 21st, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

TCL Touchlife 5-inch Android MID

TCL is a Chinese manufacturer that’s famous for its TV sets. Now the company brings a non-TV product: a 5 inches Android powered MID called Touchlife. The device looks sleek and very nice, thin and clean. But when coming to its specs, It doesn’t gets much to talk. It’s just another MID that’s based on [...]

[ More ] June 20th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Handheld |

HTC Tattoo clone with slider form factor

HTC Tattoo is just an entry-level Android handset, but this doesn’t mean it could be free from being cloned in China. This time the maker not just simply copy the design of the HTC Tattoo, but also try to add something new. It’s built as a sider phone,so you are completely free  from the worry [...]

[ More ] June 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Shanzhai brings 4.3-inch iPhone clone

This phone no doubt is the biggest iPhone clone so far. It gets a 4.3 inches display, but so sad other specs are just too commonplace. It’s not a smartphone at all. You will get stuffs like dual sim, Java, Wi-Fi connectivity, and a 2-megalpixel camera. It also supports China’s CMMB TV, so the 4.3-inch [...]

[ More ] June 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Pandora mini Mac is a Mac mini clone

Its name Pandora mini Mac almost has told everything I am going to say. Apparently this nettop is a Mac mini clone with extreme similarity. nicely it gets blue and white porcelain painting on the top, which delivers some China traditional art style that Apple never has. Pandora mini Mac gets a 1.6Ghz dual-core Intel [...]

[ More ] June 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Others |

Meizu starts M8 Android open source project at Google code

It’s been 100% confirmed that Meizu’s next phone M9 would run Android. Meizu’s CEO J.Wong ever made a promise that Meizu would help M8 users upgrade their M8 to Android OS, which would charge a fee of only 300 Yuan (about $44 USD ). This definitely was good news to M8 users, because everything has [...]

[ More ] June 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Rockchip shows new Android prototype MID that runs Android 2.1

We all know Rockchip RK2808 powered devices, like RAmos W7 MID, OPPO Enjoy E-reader and many China iPad clones, are just with Android 1.5 or 1.6, that’s because this chip was only able to support these two low Android versions. Now it seems Rockchip has been already to launch a new chip or an upgrade [...]

[ More ] June 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Handheld |

Jobs Steve sent three words to confort a China developer that got robbed during WWDC2010

Stone is a developer from China Tencent company, the owner of China’s most popular IM software QQ. He’s invited to WWDC2010. During the conference he got robbed on a bus in San Francisco.In the fight with the robber, he got hurt with rib broken, and his iPad was badly scratched. In an email that responed [...]

[ More ] June 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Internet |

Video: Samsung i5500 Android handset got hands-on treatment

Samsung i5500 haven’t been out to meet consumers yet, but people behind Androidin.com have been already able to put their hands on this Android handset, and put all things together in a video. The back of phone has the China Unicom’s name and its WCDMA service logo, so obviously this phone will come to China [...]

[ More ] June 12th, 2010 | 4 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Teclast C700 7-inch portable media player

Recently many portable media players from China have or are alleged to have the ability to handle 720p or 1080p videos, but the obvious disadvantage for these devices are their small  screens that are around 4.3 or 5 inches. Watching HD videos over such tiny displays you are defnitely not satisfied. So have a look [...]

[ More ] June 11th, 2010 | 4 Comments | Posted in Handheld |