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  Lenovo has dropped three tablets for its home market. Hailing from LePad series, each tablet PC is sized differently to cater different set of crowds. The LePad S2007 and LePad S2010 are 7-inch and 10.1-inch tablets respectively and come with common specifications like Honeycomb OS, 1280×800 IPS display, dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm CPU, 1GB RAM, [...]

  Dell has inked a deal with China’s top search engine Baidu to develop mobile devices for the Chinese market. The new devices which will include both tablets and mobile phones, will run on Baidu’s upcoming operating system called Yi, which is a forked version of Android. Dell hasn’t divulge the release of its devices [...]

  Dell has made their first 10.1-inch Honeycomb running tablet official and it will not be available in United States, at least for now. The tablet got the acknowledgement in China where Engadget was at hand for the official unveiling. The tablet is just another run-of-the-mill Honeycomb tablet but scores on the price front. Streak [...]

  Shopping carts are generally used to lug around all the shopped goods but with the new Smart Cart from SK Telecom, the age-old cart will be able to do a lot more. Undergoing as a pilot test in China’s Shanghai Lotus Supermarket Chain Store, the Smart Cart works with the help of a smartphone [...]

  Facebook is blocked in China so it doesn’t make any sense marketing a Facebook phone in China, right? Well, HTC believes that too which is why they’ve swapped the Facebook button found on the Salsa with China’s homegrown Sina Weibo. Sina Weibo is a microblogging service with 140m registered users. The phone is known [...]

  Sharp who recently launched its phones for the Indian market will bring 3D smartphones by next year. Sharp has confirmed smartphones that don’t require special 3D glasses will be sold in the United States, China and India in 2011. While we don’t have details on the upcoming phones, we can expect 3D phones similar [...]

  Nokia will be releasing a cheap Series 40 phone in the Chinese market soon. The X2-01 was caught in the flesh during a visit to Chinese authorities for approval. The phone supports GSM network, a 320×240 TFT display, 3MP camera, FM Tuner, Bluetooth and microSD card slot. Nokia is expected to sell this phone [...]

  China’s Tianhe-1A created by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) has been crowned as the world’s fastest Supercomputer. The fully operational supercomputer was revealed at the HPC 2010 China and runs at a record 2.507 petaflops, measured by LINPACK benchmark. Tianhe-1A has managed to achieve this extraordinary feat by integrating a whopping 7,168 [...]

  Apple has announced the availability of iPhone 4 for the consumers in China. Starting September 25, users will be able to buy iPhone 4 with or without a contract at Apple Retail Stores and China Unicom stores respectively. The iPhone 4’s non-contractual price is 4,999 yuan for 16GB and 5,999 yuan for 32GB and [...]

  In a bid to strengthen its presence in the world’s largest mobile market, Sony Ericsson has unveiled A8i, a touchscreen device supporting China’s homegrown TD-SCDMA network for China Mobile. The phone runs on OMS 2.0 platform and features a 3.5-inch touchscreen display (854×480), Wi-Fi, CMMB mobile TV, 5MP camera with LED flash, Bluetooth, FM [...]

  HTC yesterday announced the decision to sell phones under its own brand and also announced the first four phones for the Chinese market. While we do know the specs of Wildfire and Desire, Tianxi and Tianyi were unknown to us – until now that is. HTC has published specifications of both these devices and [...]

  UPDATE: HTC Tianxi is Windows Mobile-based device whereas Tianyi is powered by Android OS. Both the phones are TD-SCDMA equipped and will launch within couple of months. HTC used to sell its phones under the Dopod brand name in China but today they’ve announced to sell their own branded devices in the future. They’ve [...]

  You seldom see a competitor commenting on other CEO but Lenovo head, Liu Chuanzhi did that and that too, in the interest of his own company. Liu says Apple’s CEO they’re lucky because “Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China.” If he were to then Liu believes that Lenovo [...]

  Nokia is continuing to expand its mobile portfolio in the world’s biggest mobile market. They’ve announced TD-SCDMA supporting Nokia X5 and C5 devices for China Mobile. X5 and C5 will debut at the World Expo Shanghai 2010 where consumers will be able to get a hands-on experience on both the devices. The X5 is [...]

  Samsung will soon be releasing I7680 phone for China Mobile. The phone will be powered by OPhone, a modified version of Android and will feature TD-SCDMA/tri-band GSM support, 3.5-inch AMOLED display (480×800), handwriting recognition, 800MHz CPU, Wi-Fi (WAPI), 5MP camera, 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio, GPS, USB and Bluetooth. No word on the price [...]