Filed under: Handsets, Others, China Mobile, Android, WiMAX
Good news, kids! It looks like Lenovo’s O1 “
OPhone” handset is finally ready to hit the shelves over on the Mainland sometime next month. Truth be told, the story arc of this Android-powered 3G (TD-SCDMA) handset has been quite the emotional roller coaster: Some were riveted by the sleek,
sexy physical design of the thing, while others were repelled by its
intensely KIRFish UI. China Mobile is obviously hoping for big things from the little guy — and getting it into stores before Unicom
gets the iPhone sorted can’t hurt. Either way, it looks like someone’s just taken a bite out of
iOrgane’s market share!
Lenovo’s Android-powered O1 ‘OPhone’ due next month originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Samsung, China Unicom, China Mobile
Though it stands as the world’s most populous wireless market (by a stunningly wide margin), China lags in 3G coverage –partly thanks to its fragmentation-happy attitude that has left the country with three very different, very incompatible standards that are all being rolled out in parallel. Of course, when you’re Samsung, that ain’t no thing. Sammy — the world’s number two manufacturer, and a company that very nearly rolls out a phone a day every single day of the year — is spearheading a new “3GSamsung, 3G for all” marketing campaign in China to advertise the breadth and depth high-speed wares. To be fair, the company is probably more qualified to aggressively advertise 3G support in China than any other company, seeing how it’s in the process of rolling out around 30 compatible phones there spanning the full range from EV-DO to HSPA to China’s own TD-SCDMA — now they’ve just got to work on bumping up those adoption rates and they’ll be in business.
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Samsung touts that it has 3G covered like a blanket in China originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Handsets, China Mobile, Android
We’ve nothing much to go on outside of a few good renders and a smattering of machine translated paragraphs, but it sure sounds as if China Mobile is entertaining the idea of bringing a 7-inch Android-based tablet to its airwaves. As the story goes, said slate would boast China’s homegrown TD-SCDMA 3G connectivity, support for video calling, a full-fledged web browser and an OPhone operating system — which is essentially a customized version of Android for the Chinese market. Sadly, no further information was given, leaving us to wonder what kind of innards are scheduled for implant and what kind of price tag / release date we’re looking at. Oh, and those “call” and “end call” buttons are pretty darn evident, leading us to believe that China Mobile might actually expect you to use this as your primary mobile. Can you say… Sidetalkin‘?
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China Mobile’s 7-inch Android slate gets rendered originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: China Mobile
China Mobile officially kicked off commercial 3G services on China’s homegrown TD-SCDMA standard way back in January of this year and it’s sparing no expense to build it out, but so far, only 3 percent of new subscribers — that is, those that could easily get a 3G line and hardware if they wanted to — are opting for the service. It’d be totally cool if 3 percent of China Mobile’s total subscriber base were on 3G, but in reality, only about three-quarters of a million folks were signed up by the end of May — and when you consider that there are nearly half a billion subscribers on the carrier, that’s a drop in the bucket. Part of the problem could simply be that TD-SCDMA is unique to China, which limits hardware selection; its competitors are deploying HSPA and EV-DO networks, which may have a better chance of broad acceptance. Either that, or Chinese just hate fast wireless, and we’re doubting that.
China Mobile says 3G isn’t winning hearts and minds yet originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mr. Wang Jianzhou, CEO of China Mobile stated in his keynote speech at 2008 Asia Mobile Congress on the 18th, that NOKIA will join China’s 3G telecommunication standard, TD-SCDMA.
He reported that “China’s 3G service will gain yet more resilience with Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and now NOKIA, the world’s largest mobile terminal manufacturers, supporting TD-SCDMA.”
He also added, “China’s 3G telecommunication standard, TD-SCDMA service completed its first stage successfully during the Beijing Olympics and added Hong Kong for its 2nd stage to make a total of 28 cities, and by mid- 2009, the service will be available in 28 cities.”
