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China's Coolpad Joins NFC Forum

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:54:03 +0000

Chinese mobile phone maker Coolpad has formally joined the Near Field Communication Forum to distribute in near field wireless communication applications such as mobile phone payment. Gu Yong, brand and market director for Coolpad, told local media that the company already started research and distribute in this sector a few years ago and it has invested [...]

China Unicom Eyes New App Store

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:35:23 +0000

While China Mobile and China Telecom are promoting their own respective mobile phone applications online stores, China Unicom has also announced plans to set up a similar online store, targeting WCDMA handsets. According to China Unicom, the company is currently cooperating with related departments to develop the platform for the app program's online store and its [...]

China's Tianyu Wants To Be Top Global Handset Maker

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:02:12 +0000

During China Telecom's recent meeting for the placement of 3G handset orders, Xiao Chaojun, vice president of Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment, positioned the company's product lines into three tiers, with the aim of becoming one of the top five handset makers in the world within three years. The first tier are mobile phones with retail prices [...]

China Mobile, HTC Sign TD-SCDMA Cooperative Memorandum

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:37:42 +0000

China Mobile and HTC have signed a TD-SCDMA terminal cooperative memorandum in Taiwan to jointly develop 3G handsets. Under the memorandum, the two parties will set up a long-term partnership and cooperation in technical research, product development, market research, and customer service. According to Wang Jianzhou, chairman and CEO of China Mobile, the cooperation between the two [...]

Apple's iPhone Will Not Be Available In China This Year

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:00:40 +0000

U.S.-based Apple said while publishing its latest financial report that it hopes the iPhone products could enter the Chinese market in 2010, which most likely means the iPhone will not be officially available in China this year. In its financial report for the second quarter of the 2009 fiscal year, starting from December 28, 2008, and [...]

China's Mobile Phone Export Down 17.2% In First Two Months Of 2009

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:04:14 +0000

According to the statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's mobile phone output decreased by 11.2% year-on-year in the first two months of 2009 and its mobile phone exports decreased by 17.2% during the same period, the largest decline over the past few years. The statistics from MIIT show that in January and [...]

Chinese Mobile Phones Lacking IMEI Numbers Face Death In India

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:02:45 +0000

Mobile phone users in India are eyeing April 15, 2009, the day when as many as 25 million of their China-made mobile phones will die, with apprehension and concern.

Mobile phone manufacturers in China have sold up to 25 million of their grey market phones in India, and those phones often ... Read More>>

China Mobile's Lab Gains Overseas Adherent

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:01:50 +0000

The Joint Innovation Lab established by China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone to help accelerate the uptake of innovative mobile technologies on a mass-market scale has a new member: Verizon Wireless. The addition of Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone, would mean that the JIL now has a combined customer reach of approximately [...]

China Mobile Urging Nokia To Accelerate TD-SCDMA Mobile Phone Production

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:01:58 +0000

According to local Chinese media reports, the upper management of China's leading telecommunications operator China Mobile will soon go to Finland to promote Nokia's research and production of TD-SCDMA mobile phones. To stimulate manufacturers' enthusiasm, China Mobile will, with the help of relevant government departments, provide policy support to international mobile phone manufacturers who support the [...]

PAS Service Will Die In China Within Three Years

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:02:05 +0000

According to an insider from China Mobile, the Chinese telecommunications regulators have issued an order to close the Chinese personal access system, which is also known as Little Smart, before the end of 2011. This order is viewed as a measure to clear the way for the development of the Chinese home-grown 3G standard TD-SCDMA, because [...]

Qigi Inks Smartphone Deal With China TechFaith

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:50:23 +0000

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.[...]

Qualcomm Grants CDMA Patent License To Chinese Firm

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:59:19 +0000

U.S.-based Qualcomm (QCOM) has granted China's LT Mobile Communication a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units implementing the CDMA2000 standard.

The financial terms of this CDMA subscriber unit license agreement will be based on royalties, with the royalties payable by LT Mobile at Qualcomm's standard worldwide rates.

"Qualcomm ... Read More>>

Garmin Joins Google's Open Handset Alliance

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:01:44 +0000

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

The company is currently considering, according to media in Taiwan, developing handsets based on the open source Android platform and the ones based on the Linux platform concurrently. Its first Android handset ... Read More>>

Huawei Joins Open Handset Alliance

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:02:16 +0000

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.

The new members say in a joint statement that they promise to support the ... Read More>>

Huawei Deploys First Commercial Femtocell Network

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:02:37 +0000

China's Huawei Technologies has helped StarHub, a telecom operator in Singapore, deploy the world's first commercial 3G femtocell network.

A 3G femtocell is a portable wireless access device that connects 3G mobile handsets directly to a standard broadband DSL or cable service to provide mobile voice and date coverage in the ... Read More>>

Huawei Predicts USD4 Billion Handset Revenue In 2008

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:02:49 +0000

According to Guo Ping, executive vice president of Huawei, the company's revenue from its mobile phone business is expected to increase 74% year-on-year to USD4 billion and the annual growth rate of its terminal business will top 30% in the next five years, because of the increased demands in emerging ... Read More>>

China Mobile Will Pre-install Microsoft's IE6

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:01:17 +0000

China Mobile (CHL) has reached an agreement with Microsoft (MSFT) to pre-install Microsoft's Windows Mobile Internet Explore 6 browser in the Samsung Omnia handsets sold by China Mobile.

Scott Rockfeld, the person in charge of Microsoft's Windows Mobile, stated that the reason for selecting China Mobile to be the world's first ... Read More>>

China Mobile, Nokia Sign Dual-band Handsets Contract

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:00:14 +0000

Chairman of China Mobile Wang Jianzhou says that the company will sign a TD-CDMA purchase contract with Nokia to make the Finnish firm its supplier of dual-band handsets compatible of connecting to both GSM and TD-SCDMA networks.

Prior to this announcement, China Mobile completed its two rounds of TD-SCDMA tender offers. ... Read More>>

Huawei Plans To Join Symbian Foundation

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:15:37 +0000

Chinese telecom manufacturer Huawei has announced plans to join the non-profit organization Symbian Foundation, which is run by Nokia, along with nine other companies, including the British chip designer ARM and the credit card giant Visa, to gain free access to the Symbian mobile phone operating system software provided by ... Read More>>

Chairman Of China Mobile: Apple iPhone Not The Only Choice

ChinaWirelessNews.com Editor — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:05:59 +0000

Appended to the rumors that China Mobile (CHL) may start selling Apple's iPhone handset in China, Wang Jianzhou, chairman and CEO of China Mobile, now says that as a fashionable product, iPhone is not the only choice for Chinese consumers.

Quoted by various local media, Wang says that the negotiation between ... Read More>>