Friday the 13th did not play well for Apple today, as the company suspended the sale of its iPhone 4S smartphones in its Chinese retail outlets. Earlier today, a legion of scalpers waiting in line had a few fierce conflicts at the Sanlitun Apple Store in Beijing. This apparently caused Apple to announce that they [...]

China Unicom, the exclusive operator partner for Apple's iPhone smartphones in China, has announced the contracted prices for iPhone 4S, starting at CNY5,880. According to China Unicom, the contracted prices for 16GB iPhone 4S is CNY5,880; for 32GB is CNY6,999; and for 64GB is CNY7,999. Meanwhile, users can choose ten different mobile fee packages with [...]

China Unicom has reportedly decided to start selling the iPhone 4S, Apple's latest smartphone, from January 6, 2012. China Unicom has maintained a partnership with Apple for two years, during which time the Chinese telecom operator was the exclusive contracted operator for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. The operator has recently been preparing for the [...]

Research In Motion, the Canadian smartphone maker known for its BlackBerry brand, announced that Alex Lambeek will become its new president for the China region. Prior to this, rumors were swirling that RIM would soon make adjustments to its Chinese market strategy. With this news, Gregory Shea, former president for RIM China, will become an [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom announced its strategic focus for 2012 and said it will focus on the sales of phones with the prices between CNY1,000 and CNY2,000. On December 12, 2011, China Unicom and ZTE, the Chinese telecom equipment maker, jointly launched a customized phone named Skate V960, which is recognized as a strategic [...]

Apple's latest smartphone product iPhone 4S will start retail sales in Hong Kong on November 11, 2011. Apart from Hong Kong, there are another 14 countries and regions which will become the second batch to introduce iPhone 4S, including South Korea, Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal [...]

Apple will reportedly open its first specialty store in Hong Kong on September 24, 2011. According to reports in Chinese local media, the new Apple store will reportedly be located inside the International Finance Center Mall, which has four floors of shopping area and over 200 vendors. With over 300 employees, the new Apple store [...]

Chinese social media websites are ablaze today with rumors, photos, and innuendo that at least one non-Chinese employee working for Apple was responsible for hitting customers waiting on line to buy the iPad 2 in Beijing. Though the iPad was released in other countries a couple months ago, it only legally became available in China [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has signed cooperating agreements with five mobile phone retail channel providers in Guangdong. The five mobile phone retail chain enterprises include Shenzhen Hengbo, Guangdong Dadi, Dongguan Jietong, Guangdong Junhe, and Guangdong Longyue. This is reportedly the first time for China Unicom to sign comprehensive strategic cooperating agreements with regional mobile [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom and Five Star Appliance, Best Buy's electronics retail subsidiary in China, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement covering various services of China Unicom. Under the agreement, Five Star Appliance will set up special zones in its stores in China to handle businesses and sell mobile phones for China Unicom. Users [...]

ZTE Corporation will soon jointly introduce China Unicom's multi-platform, multi-device application store called the "WoStore" into Hong Kong. "With a unique advantageous WCDMA network, China Unicom is optimistic about the potential of its WoStore service," said ZTE Vice President Yu Yifang. "ZTE is honored to be the sole partner for the online service platform and [...]

Apple has announced that it will start to sell its new-generation smartphone iPhone 4 in mainland China from 08:00, September 25, 2010. The new iPhone 4 products will be sold at the Apple Stores at Shanghai's Hong Kong Plaza and Beijing's Xidan Joy City. At the same time, the products will be available at China [...]

Sales of Apple's tablet computer product iPad with the Wi-Fi function will start sales in the Chinese mainland market from September 17, 2010. Starting at 10:00, the Wi-Fi version iPad will be available in Apple's specialty stores and its authorized retailers on the Chinese mainland, including Best Buy's seven stores in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]