Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC has brought new smartphone products under a new brand of HTC to the Chinese mainland market, aiming to become a top five smartphone vendor in this marketplace. The company has released four HTC brands, including Tianxi and Tianyi based on China Mobile's TD-SCDMA network, and Wildfire and Desire based on [...]

Chinese telecommunications operator China Telecom has announced the launch of its first customized 3G tablet computer product named LifePad, which has an embedded EVDO module and supports China Telecom's 3G network.
Made by Mastone Communication & Electrical Development Company, China Telecom's LifePad adopts Freescale's i.MX51 processor based on the ARM Cortex A8 core. It has a [...]

Chinese security software provider Kingsoft has announced the launch of the official edition of its mobile phone security software.
The company said that the downloading, installation, and update of this new software product are completely for free. The software currently supports smartphone operating systems like Symbian S60 and Android.
Kingsoft said its mobile phone security software can [...]

It may sound like an illness in China, but Microsoft is aiming at Chinese mobile phone users with a new deal to include its Bing.com search engine on Motorola Android phones sold in the country.
Motorola this week announced a global alliance with Microsoft to deploy Bing services on Motorola devices powered by Android. This new [...]

According to China's Vsens, the wholly-owned customized terminal subsidiary of China Unicom, its new customized 3G smartphone, XT701, made by Motorola, is now ready for sale.
This is China Unicom's first smartphone product based on the latest Android 2.0 platform and the product, with Wi-Fi function, is sold at the price of CNY4,299.
Consumers who are interested [...]

Chinese security software provider 360 has announced plans to launch a permanently free-of-charge mobile phone security software product to help users solve increasing problems of spam SMS and nuisance calls.
Zhou Hongwei, chairman of 360, told local media that combining 360's security technologies with successful experience in fighting malware, trojans, and viruses, the company will provide [...]

Motorola has announced plans to open an Android applications store, Shop4Apps, in China to further [...]

According to reports in local media, Google has unilaterally canceled development of its gPhone with [...]

Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group has unveiled its first smartphone product named Lephone, along with [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Taiwan-based Far Eastone Telecommunications has inked a cooperation [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has officially started the sales of its Ophone handsets in Shanghai and launched a promotional activity at the same time.
During this promotion, users who buy the Ophone handsets from China Mobile Shanghai's designated business halls or from the designated stores of D.Phone will gain a subsidy of CNY1,800, including CNY1,500 [...]

China Mobile has inked deals with ten Chinese and overseas mobile phone manufacturers to develop Ophone, a mobile phone product based on China Mobile's Open Mobile System.
According to local Chinese media reports, the ten companies reportedly are Lenovo, Dell, Dopod, Samsung, Motorola, LG, Yulong Coolpad, ZTE, Hisense, and TCL. Of these companies, ZTE will launch [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Chinese telecommunications operator China Unicom will launch Uphone, a smartphone product based on Google's Android platform, in late June or July 2009.
On the other hand, China Unicom's negotiation with Apple about the introduction of Apple's 3G iPhone into China has lasted for several months, but no official agreement [...]

Chinese telecommunications operator China Unicom has announced that it will join the Open Handset Alliance established by Google, which means the company will develop Android-based handsets and mobile services.
With the joining of China Unicom, the number of members of the Open Handset Alliance will reach 48. Android is a Linux-based open source handset operating system [...]

With rumors that China Unicom might be soon ink a formal deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to China, Chinese telecommunications rival China Mobile is hoping its new OPhone will keep the company competitive.
China Mobile has reportedly started testing the OPhone and gained good results. The OPhone handsets based on the enhanced data rate [...]

At the four-day Mobile World Congress held this week in Barcelona, Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei displayed its first Android-based high-end smartphone, which is due to enter the market in the third quarter of 2009.
Chen Chongjun, director for Huawei's terminal marketing project department, says that this Android-based high-end smartphone is a milestone product in the development [...]

China TechFaith (CNTF) and Qigi, a Chinese smartphone brand, will launch four new high-end smartphones for China Telecom and China Unicom customers in the second quarter of 2009.[...]

The Taiwanese GPS and communications products developer and manufacturer Garmin Corporation has joined the Google-dominated (GOOG) Open Handset Alliance.

According to information from the Open Handset Alliance, China's telecommunications manufacturer Huawei and 13 other companies, including Vodafone, Toshiba and Sony Ericsson, have jointed the alliance to lend support to the Android open source platform-based Google phone.

Asus will formally launch its Android handsets in Taiwan in 2009.