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  Nokia today announced the launch of Comes with Music service in the world’s biggest mobile market. The all-you-can download service will be known as Yue Sui Xiang in China and though rest of the markets have DRM-ed access to the service, Chinese users will get DRM-free music, allowing them to download and play unlimited [...]

  UPDATE: The phone is known as Galaxy I6500U and is up for pre-order on this site for 3,399 Yuan ($500). Samsung I6500U (Saturn) existence came into light way back in October last year and since then we’ve a bit of info and a picture. Now I6500U has got a permanent position on Samsung Mobile’s [...]

  Google has taken its first major step after the fallout with the Chinese government early this year. Not bogging down to the government’s demand of censoring search results, Google has finally moved its Search, News and Images from the Mainland China to Hong Kong servers. All users trying to visit Google.cn will now be [...]

  Google and Chinese government’s showdown has risked a lot of companies that used Google services. Motorola was one of them who used their Google Search and Maps for Android phones. However, now they’ve announced that beginning this quarter, Motorola will offer Microsoft’s Bing Search and Maps services on their Android phones. Quite a win [...]

  Asus may’ve been playing coy by not bringing the uniquely designed Eee Keyboard to the market but the Chinese cloners realize its potential, which is why they’ve got the Cross PC U510 to please the consumers. The U510 may not be as attractive as Eee Keyboard but it sure is more powerful than the [...]

  Despite the ongoing tension between China and Google that delayed couple of Android phones this week, Lenovo’s Android powered LePhone will be unaffected. This revelation came from China Unicom’s CEO Yang Yuanqing at a shareholders’ meeting where he confirmed that Lenovo’s LePhone will be launched on their network. Being an open-source OS, Android shouldn’t [...]

  There’s a lot been going between Google and the Chinese government in the past few days. After threatening to pull out of China and uncensoring search results, Google has decided to postpone launch of two Android devices meant for the Chinese market. The phones were due tomorrow but Google’s spokesperson confirmed that it won’t [...]

  Motorola Sholes has been in the news for the past couple of days. First, pictures of few of its features hit the interweb, then a picture of a Motorola phone surfaced yesterday (which is said to be Sholes) and now we’ve got latest pictures from Androidin who shows off a China-limited variant of Sholes [...]

  Samsung will be launching a new phone in the Chinese market that will have two touchscreen displays. The W799 functions as a regular touchscreen phone with the call/end buttons and large 3-inch display on the front but if you can’t do without alphanumeric keys, flip it open to use it as a clamshell with [...]

  Lenovo has made a U-turn by buying its mobile phone division back that they had sold to a group of investors in March 2008. Back then, Lenovo made the spin-off to recfocus on its core PC business but fast forward to now, Lenovo reckons mobile phone market as one of the fastest growing other [...]

  LG has introduced its first phone for the Chinese market running OPhone OS, a modified version of Android. GW880 will be the first LG phone to feature China’s homegrown TD-SCDMA band and integrate various other features like a 3.5-inch WVGA (800×480) touchscreen display, CMMB (China Multi Media Broadcasting) support, 5MP camera, GPS, Bluetooth and [...]

  It’s not a surprise but here’s a confirmation from the predominant PC maker that its first smartphone creation, Mini 3i will soon go on sale. China Mobile, the world’s largest operator will sell the device in the Chinese market by the end of this month. Along with the shipping confirmation, Dell also confirmed the [...]

  Creative and ZiiLABS are hosting a Zii Summit in Shenzhen, China in December and though they’ll be showcasing technologies what we’ve already seen, there’s an interesting one that has never been seen or talked of. They’re planning to show a mobile platform that will harness the power of Zii system-on-chip and Android OS. Creative [...]

  We already knew it but Dell has finally decided to go all official about its entry into the smartphone business. They’ve announced Mini 3 device in China and Brazil on China Mobile and Claro respectively. Dell explains why they went with these operators (because of the large subscriber base) but unfortunately does not say [...]

  Nokia has launched three entry- to mid-range phones for the world’s largest telecom market. The Nokia 1506, 3806 and 6316s will soon be seen gracing the Chinese market with the last one especially for China Telecom subscribers. The 1506 is a simple candybar phone that comes in high-gloss colors, metallic finish navi key, voice [...]