Articles on China

iPhone for China priced; October 30 launch, Wi-Fi ripped out - Oct 16, 2009

Blogs China's second-largest mobile telco, China Unicom, began taking orders for the first official release of Apple's iPhone in China on October 1. But only this week do we know that October ... Read story »

Ni Hao, Moto! Up to 7 upcoming "Ophones" from Motorola - Dec 5, 2009

Blogs We already know that Dell is investing heavily in China with the Android-based "OPhone" platform for China Mobile. And now Motorola has made it clear that it's betting on China as ... Read story »

China Unicom sells 5,000 iPhones in first weekend - Nov 4, 2009

Crave The iPhone didn't get quite the reception in China as it did in other markets. The mob scene at the iPhone's 2007 debut in San Francisco. The phone's reception in China ... Read story »

iPhone without Wi-Fi officially launched in China - Nov 2, 2009

Crave A saleswoman introduces Apple's iPhone to customers in Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan province on Saturday. It could be the Year of the iPhone in China, as Apple officially started ... Read story »

China Unicom to sell two versions of the iPhone in Q4 - Aug 31, 2009

Crave The iPhone now has an official ticket to China. Mobile phone operator China Unicom plans to start selling two versions of the iPhone in China in the fourth quarter of 2009, ... Read story »

China Mobile could hijack Android? - Nov 29, 2009

Blogs China Mobile is China's largest mobile telecommunications company, with more subscribers than the US has citizens. With its upcoming 'OPhone' platform, which is based on Google's Android mobile system, China Mobile ... Read story »

Apple engineers flying to China suggest "tablet" in 2010 - Oct 30, 2009

Blogs A number of senior Apple engineers are reportedly taking an extraordinarily high number of trips to China right now, with more scheduled throughout November. This revelation points to a major new ... Read story »

Google China chief quits, reasons unknown - Sep 6, 2009

Blogs Google Inc's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, has resigned with--two days after his departure--no clear reason. The 49-year-old Taiwan-born, US-educated executive had been with Google ever since its official launch in China ... Read story »

.中国 is coming, and China is pleased - Nov 1, 2009

Blogs The Internet, for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shakeup: For the first time ever, Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, ... Read story »

Android invasion of China - Sep 28, 2009

Blogs Google's mobile platform, Android, has had a bit of a slow start, but 2010 is shaping up to be the year that Google's OS will appear on well over a dozen ... Read story »

A rundown on where to find weird China news - Aug 30, 2009

Blogs Aside from terrible traffic, row upon endless row of souless apartment blocks, and a rather brutal family planning system, China's massive population also assures that it's never short on bizarre news ... Read story »

Sinobytes--the CNET China tech blog--has landed - Sep 6, 2009

Blogs With some trepidation, I am proud to have been handed the reigns of CNET's China tech blog; and with a new blogger comes a new moniker: Sinobytes. The previous writer, Ryan ... Read story »

Two 'App Stores' for China Unicom's iPhone - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs China Unicom's iPhone launched last weekend (though only 5,000 were sold nationwide over those two days), the first official release for the Apple smartphone. One big reason for the huge delay ... Read story »

2010, and all that... - Dec 25, 2009

Blogs  First up,a very merry Christmas to all readers who celebrate it. Secondly, apologies for no posts this week, caused by my being out of China for just over a week for ... Read story »

Dell smartphone officially announced: Headed to China (and Brazil) - Nov 15, 2009

Blogs As I previewed a couple of months ago, Dell's first ever smartphone is a badly kept secret, and so this week there weren't too many gasps of surprise when the US ... Read story »

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