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New motion-controlled gaming console Ebox supported by Lenovo

Published on: 1st September, 2010

Lenovo is providing financial support and technical input for a new motion-controlled gaming console which is specifically developed for the Chinese market. The Ebox will be made and distributed by Eedoo Technology Ltd from Beijing, a Lenovo’s business arm. Funds reaching $10 million and about 40 members of Lenovo’s technical staff contributing to this project. [...]

$50 Android tablet may be produced by Allgo for India

Published on: 26th August, 2010

Allgo, a private company in India, is currently showing off a prototype Android tablet which only costs $50 to build. The device called Stamp is a seven-inch tablet and has spent over 18 months in development; now, it can wirelessly browse the Internet, run basic applications and even playback video and audio files. It benefits [...]

Chinese Windows CE Internet tablet from Mesada

Published on: 28th June, 2010

Mesada, the Chinese GPS manufacturer, has recently showed off its 5-inch Internet tablet. This sports a 800×480 resolution touchscreen and has better speed, thanks to the 833MHz ARM Cortex-A8 based Samsung processor; moreover, the device benefits from 512MB of RAM, 32GB of integrated flash storage, as well as from a microSDHC slot. Wi-Fi, 3G support [...]

Cellphones with built-in headsets from Innpu

Published on: 25th June, 2010

Innpu, the Chinese cellphone manufacturer, has recently presented what the company claims to be the first handsets with integrated retractable headphones. These are the W1860 and T1880, which are meant to calm down people who fear exposure of cell radiation to the user’s head, also freeing up the customers’ hands. Innpu claims that callers will [...]

Orders for iPhone 4 ready to be shipped

Published on: 21st June, 2010

The iPhone 4 pre-orders have been moved into a new status, which is “prepared for shipment”. This happens ahead of the schedule Apple had.
The new stage is the first one before the devices leave China to reach other countries and would result in on time delivery of at least some part of the orders. Apple [...]

RAmos has launched W7 Android-based MID

Published on: 2nd June, 2010

The W7 Android-based MID has finally been launched. RAmos ships the device which has a polished metal housing that resembles to the appearance of an iPod touch. It has a 4.8-inch WVGA touchscreen and Android 1.5. A Rockchip RK2808 processor is capable of decoding high definition video that includes MKV files.
The W7 has 128MB of [...]

China-native 3G for C5 and X5 Nokia phones

Published on: 1st May, 2010

Nokia introduced two new handsets for China Mobile, the TD-SCDMA phones C5 and X5. Both support native 3G on China Mobile and have access to the Mobile Market-Ovi Store. They also feature preloaded video, music and IM applications that are specific to the region they are sold in.
The Nokia X5 is not a full touchscreen [...]

Android-based iPad clone in China

Published on: 30th April, 2010

A Chinese firm has copied the basic design of the iPad. The device uses Android as its operating system and is equipped with a dual-core Rockchip processor. The APad, as it is called, has between 2GB and 32GB of built-in flash memory, according to the model, and its RAM has only 128MB. A supplementary storage [...]

Nokia’s Comes With Music DRM-free launched in China

Published on: 13th April, 2010

Nokia tried to revive interest in Comes With Music by launching it without copy protection in China. The service allows customers to buy a phone with unlimited downloads attached for a year. It will not use Windows Media DRM to guard the tracks, letting the users freely copy the songs even after the moment the [...]

Wi-Fi model of the iPhone for China Unicom, Foxconn-made

Published on: 3rd February, 2010

Foxconn is expected to make ready a WAPI-based iPhone model intended for China Unicom, the PCPOP Chinese site claims. WAPI is a local wireless standard compatible with Wi-Fi, which is not the case with the current iPhone model missing Wi-Fi due to governmental regulations. In fact, the missing Wi-Fi functionality is considered to be the [...]

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