Chinese Cellphone Makers on the Rise

Handset makers from China are increasing their market share and topped other countries in growth from 2006 to 2007. Haier and ZTE were the fasting growing handset makers, both based in China. Another Chinese company, Huawei was fifth. Next year, you can expect Apple to be in the top list. Haier is now the number [...]

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More Onda VX777 Rumors: Built-in Camera a Possibility

Onda may have leaked more information on their upcoming VX777. The existence of VX777 is confirmed; it’s the features that we are interested about plus a sex scandal or two thrown in. Still nothing official about the Net radio but WiFi and even a camera is very likely. The 4.3-inch touch screen seems official and [...]

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Babiken Sells BI-DTV3200 DVB-T Mobile Phone From China

Babiken claims the BI-DTV3200 and we’re not in the mood to doubt them. The truth is that Babiken had a previous TV Phone phone model, the BI-A880, but, they readily admit, it wasn’t very successful outside China because of it tunes into DMB whereas even in China where DMB is the adopted standard, there are [...]

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Sony PSP to Have GPS

Navigation will be the most sought-after feature in portable devices - at least many tech companies think. Sony thinks the Playstation Portable is the ideal device to add GPS. We don’t wonder why. Just take a look at all the navigation devices that resemble the form factor of PSP. The software update for GPS will [...]

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Yoto M400 Announced

We’ve seen the Yoto M300 and were impressed by how closely it resembles the iPhone face front. Its successor, will be even closer to the iPhone in looks coming with with a more compact and slimmer design (see a comparison photo after the break). Well, you’ll have to take Yuantong’s word for it. The M400 adds [...]

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Chuwi to Unveil delicious RMVB Touchscreen Players

There’s no fixed date yet, but Chinese manufacturer Chuwi plans to release touchscreen PMPs that may revolutionize both touchscreens and players. As we all know, there are two types of touchscreens: capacitive and resistive, duh. Capacitive is better and offers more sensitivity but they are oh-so pricey. Chui has a different solution: Dual cover technology applications [...]

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3G iPhone Available on June 9

Not so official yet that it would come directly from Apple, but it’s pretty official nonetheless. Apple will release iPhone 2.0 right after WWDC. Gizmodo’s source says the U.S. will get first dibs then other countries will be receiving their 3G iPhone ten days or so later. Apple will implement “new sales policies,” at least [...]

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COWON A3, Q5W 80GB Available in the U.S.

COWON America has announce large capacities of two critically acclaimed COWON PMPs, the A3 and the Q5W. You can read our posts on the COWON Q5 here. What’s the difference between Q5 and QW5? Read it here. For the COWON A3, read it here. The 80GB COWON A3 will be available May 26 for an MSRP of [...]

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uCan MP3 Player: Can You Wear It?

The challenge to potential buyers of the uCan water-resistant music-playing “device” is not to prove it can play underwater but how to wear one. It calls itself the smallest water-resistant MP3 player. Specs include MP3 and WMA music, 1GB of storage and a battery that plays up to 15 hours of music. It’s cheap at [...]

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UStar RM660 Wants to be Noticed

You Star (Ustar) will not clone iPod, it seems to say, but instead make a better PMP. Too bad the RM660 looks like the runty cousin of the iPod Touch instead of being an improvement to the Apple device. Otherwise we’d be completely happy with the 399 yuan $57 price tag and the ambiguously [...]

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