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 [...]

RIM, the manufacturer of the BlackBerry smartphones, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Chinesemore….

Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Coolpad has revealed to the local media that the first-phase projectmore….

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 [...]

Following the intensive placement of outdoor and TV advertisements for the iPhone, China Unicom has [...]

Research In Motion has signed a cooperation agreement with Digital China which allows Digital China [...]

Research In Motion, the Canadian wireless communications company known for its BlackBerry handheld device, has confirmed to the Chinese media that it has set up a branch in China and has appointed Gregory Shea, vice president for RIM's government relations in Asia Pacific, as president of RIM China.
RIM has reportedly set up its Chinese headquarters [...]

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 [...]

According to Andrew Bowins, spokesperson of the world's second largest PC maker Dell, the company is jointly developing a mobile phone product with China Mobile.
However, Bowins did not provide local media with details about the type of the mobile phone or the launch time. The information is also confirmed to local media by Rainie Lei, [...]

Chinese telecom operator China Telecom is reportedly talking with the Canada-based Research In Motion to introduce the latest BlackBerry handsets into the Chinese market.
According to news in Chinese media, handsets are said to be undergoing tests and the schedule for the launch of those mobile phones in China has yet to be decided. According to [...]

Another rumor about iPhone's entry into China has spread on the Chinese Internet. According to the network approval list of the State Radio Monitoring Center of China, a GSM/WCDMA mobile phone product of Apple has passed the model examination in China.
Because the iPhone is the only mobile phone product produced by Apple, the rumor that [...]

Adding another layer of confusion to Apple's iPhone entry to China, a Chinese company is claiming that it owns the trademark rights for the iPhone smartphone.
According to Wang Hao, general manager for Beijing-based BSFD Intellectual Property Agency Limited, Apple's iPhone can not enter the Chinese market, because Hanwang Technology previously registered the "i-phone" trademark, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At the four-day Mobile World Congress held this week in Barcelona, Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei displayed its first Android-based high-end smartphone, which is due to enter the market in the third quarter of 2009.
Chen Chongjun, director for Huawei's terminal marketing project department, says that this Android-based high-end smartphone is a milestone product in the development [...]

TCL Group has published a notice stating the group has invited Dr. Charles Yang to be its vice president to be in charge of the brand business for TCL's mobile communications sector.

Asus will formally launch its Android handsets in Taiwan in 2009.

Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom has reached a final agreement with Apple (AAPL) to be the exclusive supplier of the 3G iPhone in Taiwan and the handsets will begin selling in Taiwan from the end of December 2008.