The Motorola Droid may be making the iPhone sweat in the U.S., but in China OPhone is the name Apple will be most wary about. So when Moto has recently announced its liking for OPhone, the mobile world better listen. Introducing the Motorola MT710, the company’s first OPhone mobile. In case you haven’t heard, OPhone [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Like Sony, Samsung has entered the Chinese PMP market in earnest. The YP-CM3 is the first PMP with CMMB (Chinese mobile TV) support from the Korean company. It boasts a 3-inch screen and will play multiple video codecs including MP4, AVI and SVI. I’m not sure why Samsung would want to skip RMVB support, as [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 4, 2009
The OPhone platform or OMS is no secret anymore, and while we’ve already seen a couple of handset touting this Android-modified China-brew mobile OS such as the Dell Mini 3i and Lenovo 01, there were actually a bunch of other goodies that were unveiled by China Mobile that will also run on this new system. [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 11, 2009
China seems to be a worthy market for big names like Sony and Philips as both has been releasing China-only PMPs there for two years now. The Philips GoGear SA065 is one PMP that we may never see outside China. Too bad, because the 999 yuan price ($146) and the mobile TV + DAB radio [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 19, 2009
Just when we thought HiPhone is winning the cloning wars by a huge margin, SciPhone suddenly made its biggest leap yet in cloning terms. First, the SciPhone N12 is the first SciPhone Nseries phone we’ve ever heard of and, second, it runs a genuine Android OS. Not only that, it’s got crazy specs like WiFi, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2008
“Tough yet gentle, simple yet detailed,” is how the PR writers of Niho describe the NEO TV-11. I have to admit, NEO TV-11 wears a serious industrial design. As a 2.4-inch PMP, it’s the smallest CMMB-enabled PMP we’ve seen so far. Besides, portability, the TV-11 plays AVI, RM, RMVB, MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, FLAC and [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 12, 2008
This is the closest iPod Nano clone we’ve seen so far and it’s up for mass production and distribution courtesy of Orango. The V580 is a 2.4-inch PMP that promises a “visual shock” and support for RM, RMVB, FLV, AVI (Xvid / Divx), VOB, DAT and MP3, WMA, AAC plus FLAC, APE enhanced by Microsoft’s [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 30, 2008
Aside from the IdeaPad S9 and S10 netbooks, Lenovo has also launched a new ultra-portable MID called the IdeaPad U8. It runs on an Atom Z500 800MHz processor that’s complemented by a 1GB RAM, a 4.8-inch touch screen, 6GB SSD, Bluetooth, GPS, WiFI, rear and front video camera, EDGE, 3G, CMMB tuner (China Mobile Multimedia [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 13, 2008
With the Beijing Olympics, Chinese PMP manufacturers have been scurrying to get CMMB devices out in the market. The latest come from WINDOW and Orango. The G51 from Window is not out yet but it will have two versions, a 4.3-inch and a 3.5-inch version. We don’t know both versions will be named G51. Orango’s [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 31, 2008
A week after RAmos announced its iTV PMP with CMMB support, Teclast has its own CMMB-enabled PMP to offer visitors and locals during the Beijing Olympics. CMMB TV is already available in 37 Chinese cities and with common Chinese PMP functionality like RMVB / RM / AVI / FLV / MPG / WMV / DAT [...]
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
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