MediaTeK to launch Android-enable chipset with 3G support, makes $100 Android hansets possible

While talking about China’s Shanzhai phones, you can never ignore this name MediaTeK ( MTK). Most of the nonsmartphones at the Shanzhai Phone market are powered by a MTK chipset. But when the world walked into the smartphone age, MTK acted very slowly. The launch of its first Windows Mobile enable chipset MTK6516 had failed [...]

[ More ] May 26th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

This Phone wants to clone the Land Rover Defender

It sounds crazy that a Shanzhai phone maker was trying to copy the design of Land Rover Defender cars to its phones. The phone from this great idea was named as Land Rover 2010, and it looks normal from its front side, but its back make it like a model car. This weird design make [...]

[ More ] May 26th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Shanzhai brings noblesse oblige phone to reality

Noblesse oblige phone is a handset that appeared in Japanese anime Eden of the East. In the anime the phone was used by the main character Seleção. Japanese manufacturer NEC has ever claimed to make a real replica of this phone for bike riders , but till now their product is still nowhere to find. [...]

[ More ] May 22nd, 2010 | 11 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

10 inches Mac Air clone netnook

This is another Mac Air clone that will come to Shenzhen electronics malls soon. It looks very slim with a clean style, packing a 10.1 inches 1024×600 display, a 1.6GHZ Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 80GB SATA,  a 1.3 megapixels webcam, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, two USB ports, a sim card slot, and a 2900mAh battery [...]

[ More ] May 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Laptop |

DIY Tablet Runs Windows 7

The iPad hype has driven many Shanzhai makers enter into the tablet market, and their weapons are, of curse, iPad knockoffs.A few of these products that reported on this website runs Windows 7 with price around 3000 Yuan. Pretty expensive. So how difficult for Shanzhai players to build these products is definitely a normal question [...]

[ More ] May 14th, 2010 | 5 Comments | Posted in Handheld |

Hongrun MID700 Runs Windows CE, priced at $145

Chinese manufacturer Hongrun Electronic is ready to bring a new MID to the market with a name MID700. The device runs on Windows CE6.0 and is powered by a 800MHz Telechips TCC8901 chipset, packing a 7 inches 800×480 resistive touchscreen, 256MB DDR2, 2GB Flash storage, a USB port ,a mini USB port, and a SD [...]

[ More ] May 14th, 2010 | 5 Comments | Posted in Handheld |

Chinese farmer built a plane for his dream, carried out brave but dangerous flight test

A video about Chinese farmer Shu Mansheng and his plane gets featured on China’s biggest video website youku.com as the daily hottest videos. The story is that Mr. Shu carried out a live flight test with his home-brew plane which he took a month to built and cost him about $14,700 dollars. The plane really [...]

[ More ] May 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Cool Stuff |

Another XP phone Shanshui P72 caught in video, looks like iPhone, not too much though

The most famous Windows XP phone ITG xpPhone has been showed around the world for almost a year, but we are still not able to see its any real product on the market. So we seriously doubt the practicability of these Windows XP phone, like this Shanshui P72, another XP phone. P72 is big and [...]

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

Shanzhai brings Nokia C2 inspired phone

We still don’t know whether Nokia C2 is a real thing. There is just one picture circulating around the web a week ago, showing a phone with a rotatable display, which looks pretty weird. But obviously some Shanzhai player love this idea and has brought it to phone. Basically you can treat this phone as [...]

[ More ] May 5th, 2010 | 17 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Shenzhen Karsoon QT Pro clones MacBook Pro

Shenzhen Karsoon company brings a 14 inches aluminium netbook QT Pro that bears obvious resemblance to Apple’s Macbook Pro. The nekbook is from Karsoon’s Dragonfly product line and that’s why you see a dragonfly on the lib, instead of an apple or other fruit. It is powered by a 1.66G Intel Atom D410 processor and [...]

[ More ] April 28th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Laptop |

Mato Ball football phone

Chinese ancestors started to played ancient solid  football two thousand years ago, but now China national football team play the worst football on the world and the football leagues are full of scandals . It’s really a big shame, and we’ve heard Shanzhai players are really mad at them, so they launched this football phone, for…for reasons we, [...]

[ More ] April 21st, 2010 | 7 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Shanzhai PSP phone PSP P99 hits the market

We ever reported that Shanzhai players were going to bring their PSP phone before Sony Ericsson did. Now the Shanzhai PSP phone is out, though to be exact it doesn’t looks very similar to PSP Go. This phone comes with a side slide gaming console that allows you to play some simple games. It’s based [...]

[ More ] April 20th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Shenzhen Wabook launched $100 10-inch netbook

Wabook company is bringing another Shenzhen-type surprise to the world by launching this 10-inch netbook that is only for $100 dollars. Of curse you can’t put too high expect on a netbook with such a price. It could only runs mobile operation systems, and was pre-installed with Windows CE 6.0. It’s said it could run [...]

[ More ] April 6th, 2010 | 13 Comments | Posted in Laptop |

COOL GTW18 Projector Phone

Samsung has launched its  project phone Beam for more than one month. Now it’s time for Shenzhen Shanzhai players to catch up, and here comes COOL GTW18, a projector phone going to won the world’s attentions. Of course it’s no way to rival Samsung’s projector phone. It’s just a nonsmartphone, but the projector might make [...]

[ More ] March 24th, 2010 | 6 Comments | Posted in Handheld |

DAWA D7 7-inch MID gets multi-touch support

KexunGuoJi is from Shenzhen, a company we failed to find any related information on Internet by Google search. The company is about to bring a 7-inch nice looking MID to meet worldwide consumers. The device boasts multi-touch support with a capacitive touchscreen. It gets a 720Mhz Telechips 8901 processor, 256MB RAM, 4GB storage, which you [...]

[ More ] March 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Handheld |