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Witspad W8 Maemo MID can make phone calls

MID as a new category appearing on the market has been over a year, but It still fighting for its existence. Because almost all things a MID could do also can be done by a smartphone, but most of them can’t make phone calls and send messages. The most attractive point on this [...]

[ More ] March 14th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in PMP&MID |

Shenzhen TESO is leading in the iPad clone contest

It’s within our expectation that iPad clones would appear in Shenzhen after Apple unveiled its iPad, but it’s a little out of our expectation that iPad clones come out this fast. No doubt many Shaizhan makers are working hard in their small plants to clone iPad, and in the current stage, Shenzhen manufacturer TESO is [...]

[ More ] March 1st, 2010 | 10 Comments | Posted in PMP&MID |

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 |

FSL F718 MID with Windows XP

FSL technology company brought a new MID FSL F718 to the market. FSL F718 is running on Windows XP OS, powered by a 1.2GHZ VIA C7 processor, packing a 7-inch 800*600 touchscreen with handwriting recognition support, 1GB DDR2 RAM, and 32GB SSD , WI-FI and 3G connectivity, 1.3 megapixels camera, with 5 hours standby [...]

[ More ] February 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in PMP&MID |

This Android Tablet wants to be China edition iPad

We’ve heard a lot that the iPad launch has greatly exited Shenzhen Shenzhai players. Their Shanzhai phone business has been subsiding, so, new opportunity is needed. iPad, is a big one to them. It’s said that after Steve Jobs unveiled iPad, many of them started to plan their iPad knockoffs, hoping to catch up the [...]

[ More ] February 7th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in PMP&MID |

10-inch Eros tablet from Shenzhen

Not many Chinese people know the meaning of Eros, so this tablet gets another name ‘Wing’ tablet. It is powered by a 1.6GHZ Atom N270 processor, coming with a 10-inch touchscreen, with resolutions of 1024×576 or 1366×768, 1GB RAM and 160GB ROM, or 2GB RAM and 320G ROM, depending on the configurations. It [...]

[ More ] January 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in PMP&MID |

Windows Mobile Yota set for Jan 15

Well, another Windows Mobile from China. We still don’t know its manufacturer,  and we’re just told that this phone will be put on shelves for sale on Jan 15. The phone is called Yota, with a 3.8 inches WVGA 800×480 touchscreen display, a 528MHz Qualcomm 7201A processor, 128MB of RAM, 256MB of ROM, Bluetooth and [...]

[ More ] January 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Insdream sx-601 e-reader without e ink

Insdream sx-601 is a e-reader from Shenzhen Sanxo company. This e-reader is quite different from other e-readers. Instead of the commonly used technology e ink, insdream sx-601 use a FSTN LCD to display e-books. No doubt, the reason or that is to reduce the cost, though we still don’t know what the price it sells [...]

[ More ] December 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industrial News |

Ladybug phone

China Shanzhai makers have made car model phone, watch phone, snoopy phone, apple phone, etc. These phones may make you ‘wow’ at your first glance, but it’s very possibly that you would forget them in one minute. Because they looks more like a toy than a phone. What sounds strange is that the Shanzhai makers [...]

[ More ] December 22nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Someone makes an Adidas phone without the permission of the brand holder

Many famous brand name, like Rolex, Porsche, Ferrari, have appeared on the Shanzhai cell phones. It’s obvious that the Shanzhai phone makers didn’t want to miss this one also, Adidas, one of the most famous sportswear brand in the world. See, this ‘Adidas’ phone, looks not bad. Instead it looks quite stylish.We know it must [...]

[ More ] December 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

$161 Windows XP netbook Aojie X100A

Guys, we are not talking about a Shanzhai smartphone, but a netbook that runs Windows XP. But, really, even in China the domestic market, many Hisilicon K3 platform Windows mobiles sell at a higher price. we’ve ever reported some unbelievably cheap netbooks here, like the $73 dollars sungworld netbook, and the $98 Lanyu netbook, but [...]

[ More ] December 14th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Posted in Laptop&Netbook |

Sea Star phone CoolC99

So, Let’s take a break from those cloned phones. The phone we are going to talk about doesn’t looks similar to any other phones, but it does look like something, especially at night. Sea star, I am not kidding, and the maker calls it sea star diamond phone. Look carefully, the ‘diamonds’ embedded on [...]

[ More ] December 8th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Colorful S101 NewYork surprises us with a useless G-sensor

It may be hard to imagine that ” Colorful S101 NewYork” is a name of a netbook. We really think  ”colorful S101 Shenzhen”  would be a more proper name for it. In fact this netbook that gets a “NewYork” in its name comes from a Shenzhen based company Seethru. Well, at least Seethru gets [...]

[ More ] November 7th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Posted in Laptop&Netbook |

This Snoopy phone looks cute

Sometimes Shanzhai phone makers make me think that they are idealists, because they often made some phones that have a interesting design, and looks more like a toy than a phone, but no body wants to  buy those stuffs after giving a ‘WOW’ . Soopy phone is such a phone, coming with the design [...]

[ More ] October 23rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Viewsonic shows off ViewBook and ViewBook Pro

ViewBook? and ViewBook Pro? Yes, you are right, it’s ViewBook and ViewBook Pro. I know what you got in you mind when you saw these two words. It seems Shenzhen Shanzhai makers are not alone in the world to make their computers look like Apple’s products. Look, here comes Viewsonics, the USA based [...]

[ More ] October 21st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Laptop&Netbook |