Mobile phone shipments in China decreased by 7.4% year-on-year when comparing September 2016 to September 2017. The China Academy of …
China's Mobile Phone Shipments Decrease 7.4%
25 October 2017
HTC To Sell Mobile Phone Assets To Google For USD1.1 Billion
28 September 2017
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has signed an agreement with Alphabet subsidiary Google to sell some of its mobile phone businesses …
Tencent OS Ceases Services This Week
26 June 2017
China's largest portal website company Tencent announced via its online forum that Tencent OS would stop providing services from June …
Android Pay Now Available In Taiwan
12 June 2017
Google's mobile payment service Android Pay has been fully launched in Taiwan. Taiwan is reportedly the fourth Asian market to …
Hugo Barra Will Go Home After Three Years In China With Xiaomi
23 January 2017
Few foreigners can do well over a sustained time period within China's insular technology sector, and fewer can do well …
Xiaomi Sinks As Other Chinese Smartphones Rise
25 October 2016
Two years ago, it looked like China's Xiaomi was on the top of the world as one of China's upstart …
Android Pay Formally Enters Hong Kong Retail Stores
25 October 2016
Google's Android Pay has formally entered Hong Kong and will be available in many local banks and retail stores catering …
When Will Pokemon Go Launch In China?
20 September 2016
What better way to track and surveil smartphone users than to have them online all the time playing a game? …
Lenovo Will Pre-install Microsoft Apps On Android Devices
26 August 2016
Lenovo and Microsoft announced plans to enhance their strategic cooperation and Lenovo will pre-install Microsoft's productivity applications such as Office, …
Xiaomi Sinks As Huawei Dominates In Chinese Smartphones
23 May 2016
With all the buzz and attention Xiaomi receives, one may expect it to be a dominant force in China's smartphone …
MSN Ceases Chinese Operations
12 May 2016
Microsoft's portal website in China at Cn.msn.com will stop providing its Simplified Chinese services from June 7, 2016. Cn.msn.com is …
Tencent's QQ Browser Rife With Privacy Problems
30 March 2016
Unfortunately it would be more of a surprise that a Chinese Internet company did not have a security hole, but …
Apple Holds 25% Smartphone Share In Chinese Cities
14 March 2016
During the three months ended January 2016, the growth of Apple's iOS smartphones slowed in Chinese urban areas; however, it …
China's VERC Reports New Android Mobile Virus
17 September 2015
China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center recently found a new Android mobile phone virus named Android/SmsSpy.ccr. According to VERC, this new virus is an SMS interception trojan. The source code of this virus is very common on the Internet and the SMS interception code can be easily written with the source code, which leads […]
HTC Reported Net Losses Of USD261 Million In Q2 2015
26 July 2015
Due to a smartphone sales decline and valuation losses caused by idle production lines, HTC suffered losses again in the second quarter of 2015. HTC said that by June 30, 2015, the company's unaudited net losses for the second quarter of 2015 were NTD8.03 billion, which was about USD261 million. The losses marked the end […]
NetEase Cloud Music Boasts Over 100 Million Users
21 July 2015
After two years and three months of operation, NetEase cloud music announced that their number of users had exceeded 100 million. By July 2015, NetEase cloud music has reached seven major platforms, covering the iPhone, Android phones, Web browsers, and PC-based software. NetEase cloud music currently has included 1,200 stars and five million songs, and […]
Hong Kong Mobile OS Company Aims To Beat Android, Apple
16 July 2015
The freshly-minted Hong Kong-based mobile operating system company Acadine Technologies is hoping to make room for itself among the ubiquitous of Android and iOS devices. The company says it received USD100 million in its first round financing from China-based Tsinghua Unigroup International. Acadine is so new, that only yesterday, July 15, did it register and […]
Samsung Will Launch Mobile Payment Service In China
09 June 2015
South Korean electronics maker Samsung announced that the company will soon launch its mobile payment service Samsung Pay and will expand this service into Chinese and European markets. Injong Rhee, Samsung's executive vice president, told investors during a company activity in Seoul that they plan to launch mobile payment services in South Korea and America […]
Cyanogen Terminates Chinese OnePlus Deal
07 May 2015
Cyanogen will terminate its cooperation with OnePlus, a Chinese smartphone maker, and find a new hardware manufacturer partner. Cyanogen's CEO Kirt McMaster and founder Steve Kondik reportedly made the announcement at a conference in Beijing. As a result of this decision, the exclusive system dispute between OnePlus and MicroMax, a smartphone maker in India, will […]
Xiaomi's New Chinese Phablet Looks Like An iPhone
15 January 2015
Xiaomi today launched new devices including the Xiaomi Mi Note, an Android-powered phablet sporting 3D curved Gorilla Glass, a Snapdragon 801 2.5GHz processor, and a form factor that looks like an iPhone 6 clone.
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