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  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 [...]

  China is the world’s biggest telecom market and with China Mobile pocketing world’s largest number of subscribers, it is obvious that more and more companies want to be a part of it. Nokia thinks the same, which is why they’ve rolled out 6788 slider phone packing China’s homegrown 3G TD-SCDMA connectivity. The phone runs [...]

  Droid might be garnering all the attention but this phone from Motorola leaked somewhere in China is worthy of the attention too. Codenamed as Zeppelin, the phone will be launched on China Mobile and is supposedly one of the 8 Ophones to be launched. Unfortunately, there’s not even a single front side shot but [...]

  China Unicom announced their 2009 interim results today along with an acknowledgment of the deal with Apple. Both the parties have entered into a three year agreement and the iPhone (two versions) launch is expected in the last quarter of this year. Though other details are expected to be divulged soon, it will be [...]

  China Mobile today launched its mobile market in Beijing which had Dell’s offering on display too. Mobile 163 was present at the event and shows the device from every angle. Dell Mini3i has a 3.5-inch (360×640) capacitive touchscreen display, 2G GSM band support, powered by Mobile OMS OS, 3MP camera, Bluetooth, microSD card slot [...]

  So we’ve been gathering info on Dell’s upcoming Mini3i phone for the past few days and here we are, with some new pictures and detailed specs. The pictures come by the way of a Chinese portal who says that the phone will hit the market on August 31 on China Mobile while BGR has [...]

  After giving us some dope on Dell’s upcoming phone for China, a Chinese site has chimed in to share a few more details on the device. According to them, the phone will be known as mini3i and will be powered by Ophone platform, which is a modified version of Android. Ophone supports TD-SCDMA and [...]

  Yup, we’ve heard the Dell smartphone blabber before and if we believe Techcrunch’s Asian source, it’s going to be official soon. The source who has been credited to give accurate scoop in the past claims that Dell’s rumored phone will be launched or announced in a day or two. Apart from this, we’ve no [...]

  Looks like Samsung is late to the party as Taiwan based Altek has done the honors of launching a camera phone with optical zoom. The T8680 is a GSM phone and is referred to as a professional cameraphone because of its pro-photography features. The phone captures images at a decent 12MP resolution with a [...]

  Jackie Zhang, marketing director at Dopod has confirmed that they are planning to launch at least three phones in the Chinese market. The phones will include Hero, Click, Magic and mostly a TD-SCDMA enabled unnamed phone. Hero will make its way out first and could be shipped as early as this month, provided the [...]

  FCC recently approved Nokia’s 5800i phone, which seemed to be a downgraded variant of 5800 XpressMusic. However, it turns out to be that it might not be what we think. Boy Genius Report reasons it out well and semi-confirms that the 5800i phone is meant for China. And yes, I have one to add [...]

  UPDATE: China Unicom says the deal is not finalized yet and is under discussion. An interesting battle is expected to arise when the original iPhone will soon sell in a land of so many iPhone wannabes. Shanghai Securities News is reporting that Apple has reached an agreement with China Unicom to sell iPhones in [...]