Good news for China Telecom subscribers, The carrier is going to launch two bargain Android handsets, Huawei C8500 and ZTE N600, both under 1000 Yuan, priced at 990 Yuan ( about $147 ). For the specs, they are just enter-level devices. Both of them run Android 2.1, and supports CDMA EVDO 3G radio. Huawei C8500 [...]
We just say MTK’s MT6516 chip might open Shanzhai’s Android time, and now we found another Android Handset, which is called K1, was also based on this chip. It’s a HTC Diamond clone, getting a 3.2 inches WQVGA touchscreen, 256MB RAM , 512MB ROM, and a 5-megapixel camera. We’re told 5 megapixels might be fake, [...]
MTK has been the strongest power behind China’s Shanzhai makers, and now it’s very possible that MTK’s new chip MT6516 would help Shaizhai enter their Android time. This chip support both Windows Mobile and Android.Recently a HTC legend clone that’s based on this chip was unveiled. Till now we don’t get very detailed information, just [...]
About one and a half months ago we first introduce iZiNN CJ-3 here, which is a Nokia N8 clone, and, runs Android OS. At that stage the phone is just a prototype and won lots of attention at its debut. Now its product version came out. It’s arrived on Engadget’s Chinese edition website, and got [...]
If those world’s big brands don’t launched their own brand phones, Shanzhai will do it for them sooner or later, and apparently, never bothers asking for their permission. They’ve do this kind of thing many times, and all got involved are big names. Now it’s KAPPA’s turn. But this time Shanzhai’s work is not perfect [...]
Sunno no doubt is a familiar name here. As a famous Shanzhai brand phone manufacturer, It ever announced to bring a Windows Mobile and Android dual phone S880, but the phone seems to fail forever to come. Now the company published their new try on the Android OS that their new Android handset was about [...]
If you want to talk about Shanzhai, you could never ignore the name MTK, whose phone chips enable Shanzhai players to make phones very easily. Until this March MTK chips were only seem on nonsmartphones. In March, the company launched Windows Mobile enable chip MT6516, as the first step to enter smartphone solutions market. On [...]
Meizu got known to the word for cloning iPhone. The company also have similar marketing strategy as Apple. It has been able to keep the industry buzzing about its product long enough before the product could really arrive at the market. Like the M9, people has been discussing it nearly about a year. Two months [...]
Touch G7 is a blatant HTC Desire clone. It clones not just the design. Its UI also looks the same as HTC Sense, though it runs Windows Mobile 6.5. The phone is well-built, coming with a 600MHZ Hisilicon K3 chip, a 3.8 inches WVGA resistive touchscreen, 256MB RAM, 256MB ROM, 5-megapixel camera with auto focus [...]
Most of these Chinese Shanzhai makers are very small, so cloning Bugatti cars of course are not a reasonable thing for them to do, but what about making a Bugatti car phone? This is not the first time we saw a car phone, but this one definitely the nicest car phone we’ve seen so far, [...]
Chinese manufacturer is going to launch an Android handset called W606 in China. The phone supports WCDMA 3G radio and will head to China Unicom. The phone bears some resemblance to Google’s Nexus One, and would run Android 2.1, with a 3.5 HVGA capacitive touchscreen. The phone gets dual camera: the main one is 3-megapixel [...]
Apanda doesn’t have much to do with China’s Pandas. It’s a very young Shenzhen based phone manufacturer, and this is not the first time this name got mentioned here. We’ve ever introduced the company’s first Android handset A60. Now the company is ready to bring its second one, with a name A70. It’s said The [...]
Look at this Spider Man phone! It must bring some memory back to you about the classic Spider Man. This spider man phone was definitely inspired by Spider Man or Spider Man’s head. These Shanzhai makers sometime are very,very crazy. They seems to never consider the market, but just simply want to make something they [...]
Impossible is nothing, so now we have this Adidas shoe phone, another game the Shanzhai players did with these worlds most famous brands. When we don’t take it to the seriousness that concerns the law, we feel it’s kind of funny. The phone looks like a sport short from the front size and even the [...]
ZTE is going to launch a new android handset in China. The phone is called CR-750 and will head to China Telecom soon, though still no specified launch time there. It’s a dual mode phone (cdma/gsm), and powered by a 528M Qualcomm MSM7627 processor, and would runs Android 2.1. Its display is a 3.2 inches [...]