Huawei C8600 Android Mobile for China Telecom

Huawei launched its new Android handset C8600 in Beijing today. The phone will go to China Telecom for its CDMA2000 networking, and would be available in May. It runs Android 2.1, and gets a 3.5 inches capacitive touchscreen with multi-touch support, and a 1500 mAh battery.The UI it has is quite unique with more space [...]

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

MDO Avatar G580 Android Phone

MDO became known to us when it launched its first Android powered phone S812 back in last September. Now its back with its send Android handset Avatar G580. The phone looks a little like a chinless HTC HERO. It’s very thin, only 10.7mm thick. It’s powered by a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor, coming with [...]

[ More ] April 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Touch MAX 2G anther Android/WM dual-boot phone

What would you do if you like both Android and Windows Mobile? Apparently Buying tow phones that run these two OS respectively is not your only choice, if you still remember that Android/WM dual-boot HTC Diamond2 clone we introduced about three weeks ago. And now we here inform you that you got one more option. [...]

[ More ] April 5th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Rockchip Smart Phone Android prototype handset spotted in the wild

Rockchip announced its Android-enable chipset RK2808 back in Last July, in a time that every single Android powered device could gain lots of attention from the world. At that time, Rockchip told the world that RK2808 based Android MIDs and handsets would come very soon. Well we’ve seem RK2808 based MID, like the Ramos W7 [...]

[ More ] March 30th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Samsung Galaxy I6500U Saturn Android Mobile for China Unicom

Samsung Galaxy I6500U (Saturn) has been in rumor for about three months and now is finally official. Samsung launched this phone in Beijing three days before for China Unicom. 3G has generated heat competition between Chinese’s three carriers China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom. And the competition is still at the early stage, and [...]

[ More ] March 29th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

First MTK6516 based phone is coming, first phone to have dual core

MTK (MediaTek) is called as ‘The King of Shanzhai’ by Chinese people. The phone chipsets from this company make the mobile phone producing can have never been so easy. What a Shanzhai player do typically  in Shenzhen is to make phone chassis with design copied from big brands to wrap up MTK chipsets. So every company, [...]

[ More ] March 19th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

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 news [...]

[ 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 the [...]

[ More ] March 10th, 2010 | 2 Comments | 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 | 2 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 from your [...]

[ More ] February 24th, 2010 | 3 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 | 1 Comment | 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 | 2 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 [...]

[ 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 showed, saying [...]

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