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 [...]

Responding to complaints from mobile phone consumers in Hong Kong about hidden telecommunications fees and high bills, Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has taken action. OFTA has published measures that have been implemented by individual mobile operators to prevent what it calls "mobile bill shock". These measures include allowing customers to opt-out of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Chinese online gaming firm The9 has made a strategic minority equity investment in Aurora Feint Inc., an American mobile game developer. Jun Zhu, The9's chairman and CEO, stated: "We are confident of the prospect for this mobile platform and believe it will play an important role in the future development of global mobile internet. The [...]

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 lifestyle information and classifieds listings website Ganji.com has announced that it has gained joint investments of USD20 million from Nokia Growth Partners and BlueRun Ventures.
Yang Haoyong, founder and CEO of Ganji.com, told local media that the company will enhance the applications of its lifestyle information on the mobile Internet. No matter where the users [...]

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 [...]

Chinese integrated information technology services provider Digital China Holdings Limited has announced that the company has joined Research in Motion's BlackBerry Alliance Program as an Elite Member.
By joining BlackBerry Alliance Program, Digital China will integrate its existing marketing and sales resources, fully explore the potential of Chinese mobile application solution providers, and help RIM improve [...]

Intel has announced that it will cooperate with the Chinese Internet company Tencent to jointly develop the next-generation mobile Internet platform, MeeGo.
The cooperation is expected to bring a series of Tencent's featured applications to MeeGo. At the same time, the Chinese instant messaging and Internet value-added services provider will be able to expand its products [...]

Chinese security software provider Kingsoft has announced the launch of the official edition of its mobile phone security software.
The company said that the downloading, installation, and update of this new software product are completely for free. The software currently supports smartphone operating systems like Symbian S60 and Android.
Kingsoft said its mobile phone security software can [...]

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 [...]

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Lu Jiansheng, vice president of Sony Ericsson Group and director of Sony Ericsson China, has [...]

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