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HTC Diamond2 clone with Android and WinMo dual-boot, caught in video

It seems the Shenzhai players have created a new history. Today a HTC Diamond2 was featured on Chinese website M8cool that has the ability to runs Android OS and Windows Mobile 6.5, with a 600Mhz processor and a WQVGA display. We’ve heard news before someone has made a dual boot phone, but later that [...]

[ More ] March 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

China Unicom CEO talks about iPhone: Still no timetable for Wi-Fi iPhone

Every life on the earth knows China Unicom’s iPhone doesn’t sell well. Even the homeless dogs on street know that too, because it couldn’t be more easier for them to see ironic smiles on people who are looking at China Unicom’s iPhone advertisement posters along the streets. Definitely and obviously the missing Wi-Fi and [...]

[ More ] March 10th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

China Unicom begins to ship Motorola XT701

Motorola XT701 is the first Android handset customized for China Unicom. The phone was spotted in last mid December, and the revealed innovative design and nice specs were very impressive to us at that time.  Today China Unicom begins to put the phone on its official shopping website vsens.com to accept orders, with a price [...]

[ More ] March 5th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

HTC Magic clone Cool A6161 boats multi-touch support

Its name is not cool at all, but Cool A6161 does get something cool to be mentioned here. It’s the first time we heard multi-touch support featured on an Android powered knockoff phone from China. But  it just goes with Android 1.6,  so the multi-touch thing is doubtful, at least  not native.  Notable with the [...]

[ More ] February 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

M600 makes Motorola’s Backflip no longer unique

Motorola’s Android handset Backflip sells on China mainland market as ME600 at about $587 USD, a very high price for the majority. Now a maker from the heart of Shenzhai Shenzhen gives you another option to get a ‘backflip’, of curse, for a much cheaper price. With only 600 Yuan or $88 USD [...]

[ More ] February 24th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

PSP phone knockoff is coming

Sony Ericsson president Bert Nordberg hinted on WMC2010 that Sony Ericsson might bring a PSP phone in future, which set us into speculating how good a PSP phone could be. As you might have known, the Shanzhai players dwelling in Shenzhen are very good at actions. Rather than speculating behind a monitor, Shanzhai players took [...]

[ More ] February 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

ZTE Smooth Android phone spotted at MWC2010

ZTE just joined the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) in January, and now only a month later its Android handset was spotted at the ongoing MWC2010.  The phone on the picture in front of you is ZTE’s first Android powered device, with a smooth name Smooth. New phone, but  something  on it makes us feel familiar.  The [...]

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

Meizu M8 new UI demoed on video

Picture:M8’s old UI (left) and the new one
Back in last July  Meizu CEO J.Wong first time revealed the company was going to bring a new UI to M8, and would be released in that september. But when the time came, there’s no new UI firmware at all, just some design graphics, which definitely made M8 [...]

[ More ] February 8th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Nokia 5700 runs BlackBerry 8220 4.6 OS

You may not believe what the title says, but it seems you have to. The guy Selith on the Chinese forum maxpda, who claimed the successful BlackBerry 8220 4.6 OS installation on Nokia 5700, has delivered his evidences. First are some pictures. No doubt, some users on the forum doubted what these pictures [...]

[ More ] February 3rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Somy X5 is a Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness rip-off

we were very impressed when Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Pureness made its debut. But to some Shanzhai makers in Shenzhen, the transparent screen the Xperia Pureness gets is not as magical as we thought it should be. Recently a Xperia Pureness rip-off appeared in Shenzhen mobile phone market. This knockoff phone was called Somy X5, from [...]

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Motorola ME600 (Backflip) shipped in China, priced at 3998 Yuan ($587)

Motorola today started to sell its Android handset ME600 ( also known as Backflip) in China. The price is 3998 Yuan ($587) or 4298 Yuan ($632), depending on the accessory package you choose. Motorola ME600 is the first Motoblur platform based phone Motorola brought to China, and the specs on Motorola ME600 stay almost the [...]

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Foxconn is building WAPI version iPhone for China Unicom

Reported by Chinese tech website PCPOP, Foxconn is building WPAI version iPhone for China Unicom. WAPI iPhone is assembling in Foxconn’s factories with a codename N88. It’s also mentioned that the 4th generation iPhone’s codename is N90. WAPI is a Chinese National Standard for Wireless, which is also compatible to the worldwide used standard Wi-Fi. [...]

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

HTC Tattoo clone Touch G4 runs Windows Mobile

HTC’s Android handsets, Dream, Magic, Hero, all get their clones in China. The Tattoo, can’t be an exception, as you might have seen from the picture. While looking at the picture the first time, You didn’t ignore the Windows Mobile logo on the top left corner of display, did you? that’s almost the only clue [...]

[ More ] January 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Nokia to launch X6M and 5800W in China

In China mobile phone market, Nokia definitely is the most successful brand. Nokia phones, especially those priced between $140 and $220, are damn popular to the young people in this country. For them, Nokia is a brand they can gets best mobile phone deals from with a budget they can offer and reasonable for their economic situation. Of curse, the geeks in China love iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android Phones, and laugh at the brick shape that Nokia phones get that in their opinions has stayed unchanged for a million years. However, they are not the majority in China [...]

[ More ] January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

ViewSonic VPC08 MID/phone hybrid hands-on video

The first time we introduced ViewSonic’s VPC08 was back to last November. At that time many details were lacking and we categorized it as a xpPhone, because it runs on Windows XP. Later it turned out that this device is actually a MID/phone hybrid, and can’t be a xpPhone. The system for making phone [...]

[ More ] January 21st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |