Cheng Lixin, ZTE's president for North America, said that the company plans to launch high-end smartphones for the U.S. in 2012. Previously, ZTE was best known for making low-end phones and for being a broadband integrator. The announcement marks its entry into the high-end phone market, where it will face competition from smartphone giants like [...]

Chinese mobile browser developer UCWeb has officially established a new subsidiary in New Delhi, India, and the company launched its latest UCWeb 8.0 version for Android in the country. Yu Yongfu, chairman and chief executive officer of UC, said that they see great traction in the Indian mobile Internet space, especially with the increase in [...]

Microsoft has announced that its application store Market Place will open to developers in China at the end of October 2011. Simon Leung, chairman for Microsoft Greater China, told local media that Microsoft's application store currently has over 30,000 applications and it will be opened to Chinese developers at the end of this month. By [...]

Chinese software provider Kingsoft has launched its WPS 2012 office software and a mobile edition WPS for the Android system. The 2012 edition WPS reportedly integrates an email client software and PDF reader for the first time. Ge Ke, chief executive officer for Kingsoft's office software, said that the new WPS product marks an overall [...]

Chinese Internet security company Qihoo 360 has published a report covering Chinese mobile phone security for the first half of 2011, stating that from January to June 2011, about 2,559 new mobile viruses and malware were found in China, affecting 13.24 million mobile phone users. The Android and Symbian operating systems were the most affected [...]

Nokia has confirmed that Liang Yumei, senior vice president for Greater China, South Korea and Japan, departed Nokia on June 1, 2011. It is understood that the candidate to succeed Liang has not been determined; however, the business previously operated by Liang will be temporarily taken over by Colin Giles, Nokia's global head of sales. [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom, which currently is an official reseller of the Apple iPhone, has launched its self-developed smartphone operating system, Wophone, which the company claims to be the first smart terminal operating system with independent intellectual property rights in China. China Unicom reportedly started the development of the operating system and the basic [...]

Taiwanese PC maker Acer will launch its online application store in 2011. Gianfranco Lanci, CEO of Acer, revealed to media that Acer's application store will support the full range of Acer products, including PCs, smartphones, and tablet computers. At the same time, its applications can be run on equipment using various operating systems, including Google's [...]

Chinese online gaming firm The9 has announced that it plans to introduce the game-oriented social networking site OpenFeint into the Chinese market before the end of 2010. At the beginning of July 2010, The9 reached an investment agreement with Aurora Feint, an American mobile game developer and the developer and operator of OpenFeint, and the [...]

During the P&T/Expo Comm China 2010 held in Beijing from October 11 to 15, the Chinese telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE displayed their own branded tablet computer products, which claimed to be lighter, thinner, and cheaper than iPad, the tablet computer made by Apple. Huawei's tablet computer product reportedly adopts the Android 2.1 system [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president in charge of global mobile search business, has announced in Beijing that the company will officially launch its Chinese mobile phone voice search service in the following weeks.
This new service, which will be initially applied on Nokia's S60 platform, will save users the trouble of inputting words with mobile phones. [...]

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 [...]