Article
by Alex Dobie
Nov 23, 2012
Samsung has never been shy about introducing outlandish new hardware, and so its latest high-end hardware for China shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. The Samsung SCH-W2013 sports a ...
Article
by Simon Sage
Nov 15, 2012
A recent smartphone platform study of China shows that Android is absolutely dominating the landscape with 90.1% market share. Over the last quarter, iOS dropped from 6% to 4.2%, though keep in mind...
Review
by Andrew Martonik
Oct 26, 2012
High performance at a reasonable cost, but can it ever be considered over the more popular manufacturers' offerings?
There's a pretty decent chance you've used a Huawei phone without...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Oct 08, 2012
Chinese electronics firms Huawei and ZTE represent a potential threat to U.S. national security, according to a draft congressional report. The report from the U.S. House of Represent...
Article
by Simon Sage
Sep 20, 2012
A new tablet is launching soon in China that not only claims to match the resolution of the new iPad's Retina display, but it might be able to do it for under 200 euros (though no price or ...
Article
by Simon Sage
Sep 18, 2012
ZTE announced a new handsets for China called the Grand Era U985 today. It's boasting a 4.5-inch 1280 x 720 display, an 8 megapixel camera, and an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. A...
Article
by Simon Sage
Sep 13, 2012
Motorola has just launched a really interesting Android-powered pseudo-computer in China that hosts all sorts of home entertainment content. The HMC3260 has an 18.5-inch LED touchscreen that ca...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Sep 07, 2012
HTC has unveiled a new mid-to-high-end smartphone for the Chinese market -- the HTC One SC. Sporting an unconventional design and China Mobile's logo around the back, the One SC include 1GHz dua...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Sep 01, 2012
We all know that Lloyd is a well-traveled individual, but we were nevertheless surprised to see him stalking the halls of IFA 2012 in Berlin, Germany, moonlighting for a Chinese tablet manufacturer....
Article
by Alex Dobie
Aug 01, 2012
Chinese manufacturer ZTE has hailed its arrival into the ranks of the top five smartphone manufacturers, following the news that it shipped 8 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2012. This,...
Article
by Richard Devine
Jul 27, 2012
When we reviewed the European Motorola Motoluxe, there was one thing that let it down drastically. The software. Motorola's build quality was there in bundles, and despite being a low-powered, b...
Article
by Sean Brunett
Jul 25, 2012
Motorola Mobility has announced that it's releasing the RAZR V XT885 in the Chinese market. Just a couple of weeks ago, the phone was announced for Canada, and now China represents the latest pa...
Article
by James Richardson
Jul 10, 2012
It seems that Huawei must be getting slightly ticked off at people incorrectly pronouncing their company name. They have gone so far as to create the above video, where they teach the good people of...
Article
by Richard Devine
Jul 10, 2012
Huawei has announced that the Ascend D1, a dual-core, Ice Cream Sandwich-powered device, will be launched next month in Russia. This comes a matter of days after the D1 went on sale in Huawei's ...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Jun 08, 2012
We haven't seen much of the Sony Xperia Neo L since it was first announced for the Chinese market back in March. But now the tiny ICS-powered handset has emerged in the flesh on Taiwanese site&n...
Article
by Richard Devine
May 30, 2012
Back at CES in January, we went hands on with the first consumer Android device powered by Intel. While it can no longer claim to be first -- the Lava Xolo beat it to market -- the Lenovo K800 ...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 19, 2012
Regulators in China have approved the multi-billion dollar purchase of Motorola Mobility by Google. The particulars have already been approved in the US and elsewhere, and China has been the lone ho...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
May 01, 2012
Motorola Mobility in its first-quarter earnings statement released today gave a brief update on the not-quite-complete acquisition by Google. The $12.5 billion deal has been approved by the U.S. and...
Article
by Richard Devine
Apr 14, 2012
We've all seen this picture before right? Well, over in China this is quite literally what is happening in their mobile market. While 1-in-10 people in the worlds most populated country own an i...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Apr 11, 2012
Motorola Mobility has announced a new budget handset for the Chinese market, the Motorola XT390, which will be sold on China Unicom, the country's state-owned mobile operator. The XT390 is a 3.5...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Mar 26, 2012
An as yet unannounced HTC phone for the Chinese market has found its way onto Taiwanese forum ePrice. The T328w is said to launch as the "HTC Wind", offering mid-range hardware and dual-SI...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Mar 26, 2012
Motorola has announced that the RAZR MAXX XT910 -- that's the international version of the Droid RAZR MAXX -- has gone on sale today across China. As you'll remember from our review, the RAZ...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 21, 2012
Sony has announced the Xperia Neo L MT25i today -- a 4-inch, single-core device that will ship with Ice Cream Sandwich to China. The successor to last year's Xperia Neo and Xperia Neo V, it will...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Mar 12, 2012
It's been a while since we last saw the Sony MT27i 'Pepper' a tantalizing mid-range (yet dual-core) smartphone which appeared in a couple of pre-MWC leaks, but failed to materialize at t...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 13, 2012
We love seeing new Android tablets get announced and released, honestly we do. Especially when they are nothing like the new Chinon Swift series tablets, which pretty much set a new standard f...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Feb 08, 2012
Sony's Honeycomb-powered clamshell device, the Tablet P, isn't what you'd call a conventional Android tablet. So it should come as no surprise that it had a fittingly unconventional path...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2012
It looks like Chinese consumers might not have long to wait before they can pick up Huawei's new Ascend P1 S. Huawei SVP Yu Chengdong has been dropping a few hints on social networks about ...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Aug 27, 2011
We've seen a couple of rumors surfacing over the past month or so surrounding the HTC Bliss, an upcoming Android smartphone said to be geared towards women. Now the first purported screenshots o...
Article
by Sean Brunett
Aug 11, 2011
HTC announced that their first NFC-enabled smartphone, called the Stunning, will be headed to China. With the Stunning, users will be able to use their phone with China UnionPay, the country's sole cr...
Article
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 27, 2011
According to the Chinese site TechWeb, the Chinese search company Baidu is developing their own version of Android called "Qiushi", and it will be launched before the end of 2011.&nbs...
