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by Casey Chan
Feb 04, 2010
This is incredibly odd. China Mobile's Ophone platform, which is based off Android, just received an update from 1.5 to 2.0. That's great because it gives Ophone users new features like voice re...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 25, 2009
We've seen the LG GW880 Android Phone before but now it's official and heading to China Mobile. Like the Dell Mini 3i, the LG GW880 will run the Ophone UI which pretty much masks Android into gi...
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by Casey Chan
Sep 02, 2009
We probably will never sniff the Dell Mini 3i aka dellphone here in the states because it rocks TD-SCDMA, which is China-only and runs the Android-based Ophone OS, which is also China-only. Why ...
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by Casey Chan
Aug 11, 2009
The Dell Android smartphone has been expected for what feels like years now so hearing that Dell is going to make an Android Smartphone is hardly surprising--what is surprising is that it's supp...
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by Casey Chan
Aug 04, 2009
The world's biggest market, China, has largely been ignored by Android. Partly due to China's unique (read: difficult) phone standards, there has been little movement in preparing an Android phone for...
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by Casey Chan
Jul 30, 2009
We had just reported on the Philips V808 Android Phone and were pretty excited to see what Philips would do with their first Android device. We now know that it carries nothing but disappointment beca...
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by Casey Chan
May 27, 2009
HTC CEO Peter Chou recently stated that HTC will build an Android device for China Mobile, one of the biggest carriers in the world. The HTC Ophone (no, not that one) is a re-bran...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 26, 2009
It looks like China Unicom may have scored a coup against bigger rival China Mobile. They just might be the carrier in China that will launch the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) and the iPhone. Tak...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 18, 2009
China Mobile has a highly customized HTC Magic in the works loaded with custom firmware and TD-SCDMA capabilities (China's own network which should mean no Wi-Fi or 3G). If you take a look at th...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 13, 2008
Hey HTC! Wake Up! You see that phone right there? It's supposed to be a work in progress Android phone for China Mobile. Currently dubbed the Ophone, it's only going to support China's own TD-SCDMA...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 29, 2008
We at Android Central only knew of Lenovo as the maker of laptops and tablets. Admittedly, we're a fan of their PC work but we had no idea that they were big time makers of cell phones and smartphones...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 10, 2008
Dopod China has its sight set on bringing the current G1 to China as early as first quarter 2009. Dopod is a partner of HTC who sells selected HTC phones to the Chinese market under their own name and...
