The Chinese electronics and information industry group Hisense has announced in Beijing that following the start of its strategic transformation to the intelligent product sector, the company has launched its first personal intelligent TV product named I-TV in China. The product will be officially put into the market on September 26, 2011 and the price [...]
China's Tencent Enters Mobile Market With 3G Smartphones
16 June 2011
Chinese Internet giant Tencent has announced that it is cooperating with China Telecom and five mobile phone manufacturers in the launch of six smartphone products, which have the embedded QQ-service platforms. These six smartphone products are made by five Chinese mobile phone makers, including Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad, K-Touch, and Hisense. Based on China Telecom's CDMA [...]
China Telecom Stores Seven Million 3G Mobile Phones For Summer Promotion
30 June 2010
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 [...]
Chinese Companies Form Green Mobile Phone Alliance
09 June 2010
About 100 companies from China have jointly established a security-focused Green Mobile Phone Alliance in Shanghai.
These companies include Spreadtrum Communications Inc, Lenovo and Hisense, and they have also published a green mobile phone alliance pact. The pact states that members of the alliance will work together to fight against malware and unauthorized software pre-installed in [...]
China Telecom Shandong Establishes Mobile Terminal Joint Lab
06 May 2010
The China Telecom Shandong branch announced that it has cooperated with six well-known mobile phone makers, including Hisense, Coolpad, ZTE, Huawei, Lenovo, and Dopod, in the setting up a mobile terminal joint lab.
This is reportedly the first joint lab co-founded by a telecom operator and so many mobile terminal makers in China. The establishment of [...]
China Telecom Includes 100 Enterprises In Its CDMA2000 Alliance
08 March 2010
Initiated by China Telecom, the operator of the CDMA2000 network in China, China's "CDMA2000 Mobile Phone Design and Development Industry Alliance" has been founded in Beijing with over 100 members, including mobile phone chip platform providers, mobile phone design companies, and brand manufacturers with independent development abilities.
Yang Xiaowei, vice general manager of China Telecom and [...]
Chinese Wireless E-commerce Gets Boost With New Customized Mobile Phones
21 December 2009
Taobao.com, the Internet shopping subsidiary of the Chinese business-to-business e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that [...]
China Mobile Will Subsidize Ophone Users
29 September 2009
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 [...]
iPhone What?? China Mobile Launches Ophone Handsets
31 August 2009
Days after news of rival China Unicom's non-exclusive iPhone deal with Apple, Chinese telecom operator China Mobile formally launched its Ophone platform and Ophone handsets today.
According to Wang Jianzhou, president of China Mobile, the Ophone platform is the first mobile Internet-oriented smart mobile terminal software platform that has been developed by a telecom operator. It [...]
China Mobile Teams With Ten Companies On Ophone Promotion
21 July 2009
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 [...]
Samsung Wins Big In China Telecom's First 3G Mobile Phone Tender
17 February 2009
China Telecom has signed contracts with seven mobile phone makers to purchase 3G CDMA2000 EVDO mobile phones from these companies, and Samsung has come out on top.
China Telecom's Vice President Yang Xiaowei and its two vice general managers for the terminal management center, Mao Daojie and Ma Wu, attended the signing ceremony for the winning [...]
China Telecom Completes Five Million CDMA Terminal Tenders
04 September 2008
China Telecom (CHA) has reportedly finished its five million CDMA terminals tender and more than ten handset manufacturers are included in the successful bidder list that is topped by Samsung and ZTE.


