Taiwanese networking equipment giant AboCom System Inc. has announced in Zhengzhou, Henan, that it will invest CNY2 billion to establish a 3G mobile phone technology industry base in the city. Eric Ouyang, chairman of AboCom, revealed that the company signed an agreement with Zhengzhou High & New Technology Industries Development Zone for the establishment of [...]

Shanda Interactive Entertainment has decided the final retail price of CNY999 for its electronic reader product Bambook, and a new reservation system has been launched for the marketing of this new product. Bambook will be officially launched on September 28, 2010, with an updated software version. Prior to this, the product was put into the [...]

Chinese electronics and PC maker Lenovo has published its financial report for the first quarter of 2010 fiscal year ended June 30, stating that it gained net profit of USD55 million. From April to June 2010, Lenovo's worldwide sales of PC increased by 48.1% year-on-year and its comprehensive sales increased by about 20.9%. The group's [...]

China Wireless, the Hong Kong-listed unit of the Chinese mobile phone maker Yulong Coolpad, has published its semi-annual financial report for the first half of 2010, stating that the company achieved operating revenue of HKD2.102 billion, a year-on-year increase of 193.8%; and it achieved net profit of HKD272 million, a year-on-year increase of 740.4%. China [...]

France-based 4G chipmaker Sequans has opened a new office in Shanghai. Sequans said it established the local presence to better serve its Chinese customers and to more readily respond to the company's rapidly growing business demands in China. Concurrently, Sequans announced the appointment of Alex Shang to the position of China country manager. Shang has [...]

A representative from Unicom Vsens, the terminal subsidiary of China Unicom, has confirmed to the local media that China Unicom will launch the 8G iPhone 3GS handset with a Wi-Fi feature in China on August 9, 2010. The new product will reportedly be sold with a 24-month contract at the price of CNY4,999. The introduction [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft China and the Chinese technology company Hanvon have jointly announced that they will implement an in-depth cooperation in the tablet computer sector and will work together to develop new tablet computers for business use in China. Li Xiang, general manager for the OEM business department of Microsoft China, told local media that Microsoft's strategic [...]

The U.S. electronics products maker Apple has started the sales of its iPad tablet computers in Hong Kong. According to Apple's Hong Kong official website, the new iPads launched in Hong Kong have Wi-Fi and 3G versions, and their capacities are 16G, 32G, and 64G, respectively. The retail price for a 16G Wi-Fi version iPad [...]

The first official Apple Store in Shanghai will open on July 10, 2010. Adjacent to Shanghai International Financial Center in the Pudong area of city, the new Apple Store, which is Apple's 295th store in the world, is designed as a cylindrical building 44 meters high. The interior design of this store has reportedly been [...]

A representative from the Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has revealed that the company has stored seven million 3G mobile phones, covering over 60 types of 20 brands, for the launch of a summer promotion to entice Chinese consumers to buy new phones.
China Telecom will reportedly start the large-scale promotion before August 31, 2010, collaborating [...]

Following India's recent block of Chinese-made shanzai mobile phones without an International Mobile Equipment Identity number in 2009, the Egyptian government has recently announced similar measures against these mobile phones.
The National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Egypt has approved a ban, stating that it will block anonymous users and Chinese-made mobile phones with the same IMEIs.
The [...]

The once-postponed mobile phone reading service of China Telecom will now reportedly be formally launched in late July 2010.
An insider revealed to the local media that the related departments of China Telecom have started planning and deploying resources for the launch of this new service and the company will set up a mobile reading base [...]

According to statistics on the official website of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's electronic manufacturing industry grew by 17.7% year-on-year in May 2010; and the output of mobile phones in the country increased by 36.7% year-on-year in the first five months of 2010.
From January to May 2010, the Chinese electronic manufacturing industry [...]

According to information from the Chinese electronics and home appliances retailer Suning, starting from June 18, 2010, it will sell two types of Blackberry handsets on its nationwide retail network, marking Blackberry's entry into the Chinese consumer retail market.
Suning said that the company has signed a strategic agreement with Blackberry to become an exclusive home [...]

According to Su Feng, vice president of the Chinese mobile phone maker Coolpad, unlike its former high-end orientation, Coolpad will expand to now cover the entire high, medium, and low-end mobile phone markets in 2010. Therefore, the company plans to build at least 2,000 new self-owned sales channel sites this year to increase its overall [...]

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the island's smartphone maker HTC has decided to inject additional capital of USD45 million in the Shanghai-based HTC Electronics for capacity expansion.
Meanwhile, HTC will invest USD19.5 million in another mainland subsidiary, HTC Communications, for sales channel expansion. This move is reportedly a preparation for the sales of China [...]

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 [...]

Lenovo and China Unicom have announced plans to launch Lenovo's new smartphone LePhone on May 17, 2010.
The market price for LePhone is reportedly at CNY2,899. However, the smartphone will not be sold as bare mobile phone and China Unicom has designed an exclusive contract program for LePhone. Consumers who want to buy LePhones can either [...]

The Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced that it will expand its sales network for extended warranty service in China and will offer an additional warranty period of 12 months to Chinese users.
According to Nokia, it will start to sell the extended warranty service in its specialty stores in China. Chinese users now can [...]