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592 million Chinese citizen now has a cellphone

On March 17, 2008, I published a post about the amount of cellphone users in China which had reached 555 million at that time. That number was equal to 41.72% of China’s 1,3 billion total population. How about today? Not on that number anymore! Well, just like most analyst had predicted before, the number had jumped [...]

China’s Huawei dares to enter Japan’s market

We all know that China made numerous cheap phone market. So cheap that we even can’t understand how they make profit. A phone with dual GSM-CDMA band with TV capability, multimedia, and great connectivity can be bought with less than US$ 250 in price tag. Can you imagine if they enter Japan’s sophisticated market and [...]

Sharp don’t want to fight over Nokia and Samsung in China

The Sharp Aquos 920-SH Series is a flagship mobile phone! Obviously, Sharp is pretty clever. As a new player in China, this Japanese seems don’t want to fight with Nokia and Samsung in low-end cheaper cellphone league. Indeed, they will targeting their cellphone for wealthy yet small audience there. Priceless lesson should have been taken by Sharp [...]

The right charger for Olympics Beijing 2008

Before you come to China for the Olympic Games, please bring the right charger for your cell phone! Due to the outlets in China are different from some other countries, please prepare an adapter if your charger can’t be used in China. This type can be used in China: But this type can’t be used in most [...]

Review on EP2502, the waterproof watchphone

Its name is EP2502. Behind this not-so-beautiful name, there is a fact which we couldn’t hardly denied that; this is the first waterproof watch phone. Guess what, this gadget comes from China by Kintech (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. Viva Chinese! Unlike most of watchphones out there, this gizmo probably the first species which dare to covered its [...]

Nokia 6122c launched exclusively in China

Simple design with S60 platform and 8 GB microSD support. Nokia launched Nokia 6122c exclusively for China Mobile Communications Corporation yesterday. Built over the S60 platform and Symbian OS, this gadget is definitely not a crappy one. Let’s check one by one here: Internet With CMCC keys specifically dedicated to the internet, customers have faster and easier access to [...]

Samsung W599 Dual SIM Card Smart Phone

Too pricey, Chinese manufacturer should have created the cheaper one. If having GSM and CDMA mobile phones at once is your necessity, then this stuff is a right option for you. Otherwise, don’t think too much since it will come with $640 price tag. Ughhhhh ….. Samsung is clever enough, they had planned to release it in [...]

Huawei signs MoU with Iranian telco

Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) and China’s Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. have been signed a memorandum of understanding on training cooperation. Based-in Shenzen, China, Huawei is now becoming more and more internationalized. Their products and solutions are deployed in over 100 countries and serve over one billion users worldwide. According to head of TCI, Saber Feyzi, [...]

Ernst & Young prediction on TD-SCDMA license

Late 2009, moment when Chinese get their TD-SCDMA commercial license. Jonathan Dharmapalan, spokesman from Ernst and Young, a global leader company in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, predicts that licenses for TD-SCDMA will be granted in one or two years forward (2009 or 2010). He took this view by comparing this technology with what happened to [...]

Hot debate on China’s TD-SCDMA

Use it? Dump it? I don’t know ….. Four our loyal 3GWeek readers thanks for visiting us. Again and again. About eight days ago, I had written a post covering issue on TD-SCDMA (TD-SCDMA: China Mobile vs Qualcomm). Luckily, the debate about this such controversial technology implementation (depend on what angle you used to see it) [...]
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