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If the iPhone without 3G or Wi-Fi was bad enough, here’s some more bad news for the mobile users in China. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which has been more widely referred to as the “Tube” is all set to hit China, albeit without 3G or Wi-Fi. The lack of 3G may be due to the lack [.....
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If you’re from either China or India, we know hard it has been for you to lay your hands on the iPhone. While the former doesn’t even sell the iPhone on sale, the mobile consumers in India have been let down owing to the high prices of the iPhone.
If it’s any consolation to you, the...
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Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, which has a good 42% market share in China selling over 70 million handsets in 2007, plans to support all the three 3G standards that are being planned to be employed in the country. Three different operators in the country, China Mobile, China Telecom and China...
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You’re in the fourth largest country in the world, sitting in a stadium filled with thousands of people present there to watch some of the most spectacular shows and acts ever made, what do you do? I, for one, would have my eyes glued to the performers. But that’s not what the 24,000 users...
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No wonder Apple's revenue sharing negotiations with China Mobile for the iPhone didn't go as planned. China Mobile itself is claiming that something like 400,000 unlocked iPhones are already in use on its network. With the iPhone black market doing as well as it is in China, Apple would be...
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What is this? One side of the story claims that negotiations are dead , the other side says that the “rumors” of iPhone-talk breakdowns are just not true. Steve Jobs told CNBC ’s Jim Goldman that Apple is still very interested in bringing the iPhone to China (of course they are, China’s...
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It looks like Apple’s plan to bring the iPhone to China’s 1 billion-strong population is on the ropes. Following previous rumors that China Mobile and Apple had fallen out of negotiations, China Mobile has reportedly called-off negotiations with Apple. China Mobile has been negotiating with...
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Following on the recent announcement from RIM that China’s government gave the green-light to bring the outdated BlackBerry 8700 to the Chinese masses, China Mobile has announced that they will be launching the BlackBerry 8700 by month’s end. TCL Communications, the Chinese manufacturer of...
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The largest wireless operator in China, nay, the world, is reportedly in talks with Apple to bring the iPhone to the 350 million end-users that China Mobile calls its subscriber-base. We already know the iPhone will be hitting the Asian-region in 2008, so it makes sense for China Mobile to court Apple...
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When you have fully 10% of the world’s population residing within your borders, the exploitation potential in any market is incredible. Case in point, China Mobile has just announced their continued dominance in the Chinese wireless market - with 5.6 million subscribers in July alone. Smaller rival...
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China announced specifications for two major global 3G standards - W-CDMA and CDMA 2000 - indicating that it was fine with foreign equipment makers selling gear to Chinese mobile operators. It would be nice, except this grand (if meaningless) gesture seems like a diversionary tactic. For instance, the...
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Google and China Mobile had announced their “mobile search” partnership back in January 2007, but further details are coming to light, thanks to a report published in CEOCIO, a local business magazine. And so far the results of the partnership, according to the article, are mixed: China’s...