Apple changes track to land iPad 2 in India

Apple has finally decided to add India in the latest global trek for the iPad 2. The first generation iPad arrived almost a year late in India, and Apple was criticized by many for viewing India as a dumping ground for old iPad stock. Read More:

Huawei aiming to be a USD 100 billion company in 5-10 years

Huawei, the Shenzen based major phone network equipment solutions provider, has set the stage for some explosive growth in the world market over the next ten years. Despite the slowdown in revenue growth at present Huawei is confident about a goal of $100 billion in annual sales before this decade is up. Read More:

Mobile users to reach 900M in China, Apple sales soaring

Apple recently announced its first quarterly results revealling, and said that China has become its fastest growing iPhone market for the iPhone. The sale of the iPhone has apparently risen by 250 percent compared tofrom the same period last year. Read More:

Android marches into the US Army base

 The US Army decided last year to provide their soldiers with smartphones to stay connected. But the big question was which platform would the Army will choose, Apple or Android? The suspense is now over; the Army has voted in favor of Android. Read More:

When Microsoft has nothing to say about the mobile space in China, that says a lot

I’m a frequent visitor to TechNode.com a website that covers tech and the Chinese start up scene in general. Recently they published an interview with Microsoft’s China Director Chen Jingxin which I was keen to read. Read More:

Worldwide Phone market grows 20% HTCs earnings double

It’s a smart smart world we live in and its smart phones that are driving the mobile phone market into a 20% growth spurt this quarter according to IDG. Read More:

Android’s got more free apps than Apple’s iOS, and that’s a good thing

Over at TechCrunch I came across a story about there now being more free apps for Android than there is for the iPhone. It can only be only a matter of minutes before MG Siegler posts a story about how that means iOS apps are better because their worth paying for, but I’ll jump in and offer a counterpoint opinion now. Read More:

iPhone 4 caught in HTC’s thunderstorm

Apple will no doubt unveil the fifth generation of the iPhone series soon, as the age has started reflecting on the iPhone 4. The hottie was recently shown up by the HTC Thunderbolt. According to an analyst from BTIG Research, HTC’s goliath Thunderbolt is outselling the iPhone 4 at many Verizon Wireless outlets. Read More:

Apple pressures Quanta to pull key manufacturing and technologies from China

Apple can try and sue Samsung in an effort to stop their alleged copycatting of iDevices and iSoftware but nailing the small an elusive shanzhai players isn’t so simple. One thing they can do though is work closer with their partners to prevent Chinese copycats from having information about Apple product designs or access to technologies and processes that can aid their illegal efforts. Read More:

It makes more sense to buy a shanzhai tablet now than a brand name one

Over at Liliputing.com the site editor Brad Linder is griping about the lack of tablet specific apps for Android. He’s right. There are not a lot of compelling Android apps that really make you feel you need to run out and buy a tablet to use them. Read More:

App Market Problem: How to discover apps that fit your lifestyle -Solution

Android like Apple now has a ton of apps in the market and yes amazingly enough there are several that you’ll know about right off the bat to go searching for them and use them. Gmail… check, calendar… check… weather widget… check… and then begins the notion based search process. Read More:

Apple still the dominant mobile OS in the US?

No matter where the Android goes, Apple still has a 6% lead among all mobile OSs in the US despite of all the increasing competitive power from others phones and tablets. A study released by comScore. Inc, the global leader in measuring the digital world, about Apple iOS platform devices shows that 37.9 million people in the US have Apple iOS device while Android OS is used only by 23.7 million users. Read More:

Apple iPhones track and store your every move. When’s the white one coming out?

We cover mainly China gadgets and news here, but also main stream tech news if we can offer a different viewpoint than just regurgitating the story one more time. So let’s take a look at the iPhone tracking your location story from a slightly different angle. Read More:

Xi’an to turn into wireless city with 2.4billion aid from China Mobile

China Mobile is all set to cover the Xi’an city with a wireless blanket. The wireless city concept was first executed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 2005 where an entire city is covered under a Wi-Fi network to provide high-speed wireless access for all Wi-Fi-capable mobile devices. Read More:

China Mobile has 600m subscribers, rural users spend less

China Mobile has reportedly surpassed 600 million subscribers after it increased its customer base in the rural areas. Read More:

Top Ten System Tools for Android, now an eBook

We have released another eBook; this one will give you all the knowledge you need to set up any Android device with the best collection of system tool apps, giving you ultimate control of your smartphone or tablet. Read More:

Apple and other corporations knowing where you are isn’t half as scary as knowing where you’re not

Many commenters at the various websites who’ve covered the story claim they couldn’t care less if Apple or others know where they are or went because they haven’t gone anywhere bad (queue the Vegas jokes) or done anything bad or embarrassing at the places they did go. Those people could be victims waiting to happen. Read More:

Meizu reveals MX: an upgrade of M9

As we all know by now, you can’t keep Meizu products down. Meizu has updated their winning Android device M9 to MX with 8MP camera and HDMI output. Meizu MX is expected to hit the shelves by the end of the year. But the 16 GB model will cost you a bit more, around USD 550. Read More:

LG and ZTE to give rebirth for MeeGo

The abandoned MeeGo got at least somebody to adopt it. MeeGo was breathing its last when its mighty supporter, Nokia, turned a cold shoulder to MeeGo and went hand in hand with Microsoft. But LG and ZTE are all set to give another chance for MeeGo to return to the mobile OS world and battle for its own space. Read More:

Video Review: Spiderpodium Tablet meets the iPad and Apad D9

Breffo kindly provided us with a review unit of their designed for tablets “Spiderpodium Tablet” and we thought we’d put it through its paces with a variety of different sized tablets. Including the 10.1” Apad D9 which will be reviewing for you in the next few days. Read More:

The shocking results are in, Android users HATE Apple and apps don’t matter

Hate is a strong word and Business Insider is inferring from the results of a recent poll they made that includes 2000 existing smart phone users in both iOS and Android camps that Android users buy Android phones because they hate Apple. Read More:

Apples sues Samsung; Shanzai.com officially welcomes them

With open arms we heartily welcome Samsung to the shanzhai camp of tablet and mobile phone device manufacturers and brands. Apple has gone out and sued Samsung for copying their mobile phone and tablet designs. Including in the lawsuit are elements of the hardware and software UI. Read More:

White iPhone 4 to appear this season?

Everyone was almost forgotten about the white iPhone 4. But, it is already on the way to hit the shelves and this spring might be blessed with the limpidness of white (if we can believe the recent rumors). Read More:

Intel Atom processor, ARM processors, Intel processors for tablets

Living in Asia I tend to visit the TechNode website fairly regularly. The site dare I say it strikes me as a shanzhai version of TechCrunch but of course generally focuses on Chinese start up businesses. So I like the site, but I’m pretty sure a story they put up yesterday is completely wrong. Read More:

Is Intel bracing up to compete with ARM?

Intel is reportedly readying its low power Atom processor to match the ARM processors in power and performance, and is looking to release its Atom chip for tablets by 2013. Read More:

Shenzhen, the heart of Shanzhai caught live in videos

The word Shanzhai translates literraly into "mountain bandits”. But the bandits no longer remain in the mountain caves, now they are out on the streets of Shenzhen flourishing in the gadget industry of China. The fake and amateur cottage industry has turned out to be one of the fastest growing industries of the world giving sleepless nights to Apple, Nokia and Samsung. Read More:

Huawei and Motorola battle comes to an end

After a long time the dispute between the two mobile giants, Motorola Solutions and Huawei, come to an end as both companies agreed to go along with a legal ceasefire. Motorola Solutions agreed to withdraw its claims and dismiss against Huawei over disclosing technology secrets and Huawei also agreed to withdraw its claims against Motorola. Read More:

Get complete control of your device with Shanzai.com’s ‘Top Ten System Tools for Android’ eBook

Taipei, Taiwan, 18 April, 2011 – Shanzai.com today announced the publication of their latest eBook, ‘The Top Ten System Tools for Android’. This eBook, which is the first in a planned ‘Top ten’ series for Android users, sets the reader up with valuable advice on the best way to access and manage system settings in Android. Read More:

Apps popularity, think of a number between 0 and a kabillion

Everyone knows that smartphones are ridiculously popular at the moment. We also know that because of that apps are ridiculously popular too. Just how popular in terms of real numbers? If your guess was 15 billion than you’re a winner. Read More:

How to make your website touch and tablet friendly? Onswipe it

Many a big popular publication has created smartphone or tablet versions of their content that include design features like big beautiful images and a touch flow interface. But what about the 100s of 1000s of other sites that aren’t able to shell out for their own apps?.Read More

How much longer Symbian will live?

Life is slipping away from Symbian as Nokia is calculating an end time for the OS; it looks like the  tombstone will read 2012 at the earliest. Nokia has already committed to Microsoft and it’s rather obvious that this tactical partnership involves a transition from its own creation, Symbian, to Windows 7 for smartphone.Read More

RIM PlayBook enters the fray as Janus-like tablet

Janus the 2 faced ancient Roman God is the image that stuck in my head after reading a series of reviews around the internet about RIM’s new PlayBook tablet that has been seeded with bloggers and other tablet media this week.Read More

Intel tied up with Tencent to build up mobile devices Intel Corp., the US PC chip giant, realizing that the PC market is slowing down, is trying every possible way to establish itself in the highly competitive mobile market. The company is all set to start a research center in China partnered with Tencent Holdings Limited, China’s largest Internet Company, to develop tablet PCs and other mobile devices.

Intel Corp., the US PC chip giant, realizing that the PC market is slowing down, is trying every possible way to establish itself in the highly competitive mobile market. The company is all set to start a research center in China partnered with Tencent Holdings Limited, China’s largest Internet Company, to develop tablet PCs and other mobile devices.Read More

Adobe Photoshop becomes touchy with tablets

Can tablet PCs handle Photoshop? Photoshop enthusiasts, who have asked similar questions in the past, seem to have got their answers today. Within a year, the demand for tablet PCs has skyrocketed, so Adobe has finally bowed down and kick started a Photoshop transformation. Only weeks after demoing an experimental version of Photoshop for iPad, Adobe has released a Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit (SDK) as part of its Creative Suite release.Read more

Shenzhen’s G’Five Nokia’s latest prey

Nokia is reportedly suing the Shenzhen-based handset company G’Five over patent infringement in the Indian market.Read More

OQO brand fights the shanzai after death and on into the afterlife

I hadn’t thought about OQO for a long time, but to be fair they were one of the first full PC experiences you could hold in the palm of your hand way back in 2006 when tablets were called UMPCs. Thanks to a shoddy (hastily?) put together Intel presentation at IDF (see slide 32 here) where their logo appears in the design wins I wondered… didn’t OQO go bankrupt?.Read More

Intel to bring Youtube to China? Ha Ha ha ha… ahem

As you might know Youtube the world’s largest home of online video is banned in China. But that’s not stopping ambitious Intel at IDF Beijing from including it in their “PRC Plus Experience” for tablets.
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China to get its own Facebook?

The rumor mills are rife with reports that Facebook has signed a deal with the Chinese search giant Baidu. Neither party has revealed any details on the deal, and Facebook was quoted only as saying, "Facebook is currently studying and learning about China, as part of evaluating any possible approaches that could benefit our users, developers and advertisers.Read More

China to get its own Facebook?

The rumor mills are rife with reports that Facebook has signed a deal with the Chinese search giant Baidu. Neither party has revealed any details on the deal, and Facebook was quoted only as saying, "Facebook is currently studying and learning about China, as part of evaluating any possible approaches that could benefit our users, developers and advertisers." Read More:

Intel to bring Youtube to China? Ha Ha ha ha… ahem

As you might know Youtube the world’s largest home of online video is banned in China. But that’s not stopping ambitious Intel at IDF Beijing from including it in their “PRC Plus Experience” for tablets. Read More:

OQO brand fights the shanzai after death and on into the afterlife

I hadn’t thought about OQO for a long time, but to be fair they were one of the first full PC experiences you could hold in the palm of your hand way back in 2006 when tablets were called UMPCs. Thanks to a shoddy (hastily?) put together Intel presentation at IDF (see slide 32 here) where their logo appears in the design wins I wondered… didn’t OQO go bankrupt? Read More:

Year of eBook readers and media tablets, says the IDC

The International year of forests, the Chinese year of the rabbit, or the year of Chemistry … whatever you want to call 2011, in the technosphere it has been unanimously declared the year of tablets. Consumer demand has confirmed it and so have shipments; now the expected revenues are repeating the same tune as well. Read More:

Intel trying to push Atom into phones through China?

This is one of those stories that either refuses to go away, die or make up its mind if its real. The story I mean is Intel getting into mobile phones with an x86 architcure based CPU platform. Read More:

Insight into the Chinese developer mindset… Nokia you are pooched

TechNode is reporting that mobile advertising platfrorm Guohead has release it’s “2011 Chinese Mobile Application Developer Report”. They don’t say how big the size of the survey was but they do come up with some interesting figure about what OS and revenue models Chinese app developers are targeting. Read More:

We knew what Kno now knows for a lot less than 85 million

It’s only going to cost Intel USD 20 million to know too. But they’ll figure it out a bit later since their desperate to have a tablet story going now. Tablets for education is an easy to figure out pitch on the face of it, but it still remains a mystery to me how Kno continues to raise more money. Read More:

Baidu improving English language searches, or looking to expand?

Baidu has been hitting the headlines a lot lately. First it was due to the site containing pirated material and then it was for the closure of its e-commerce site Youa. Now there’s news of Baidu seeking to acquire an English language search engine. Are they looking to expand? Read More:

 

Motorola Atrix and Xoom sales flop

“Overall sell-through trends for of the Xoom and Atrix have been disappointing…” says James Faucette, Pacific Crest analyst. I’m not all that surprised by the Atrix sales since it’s such a pricey product status and competition thrown by iPhone. Read More:

 

HTC, riding on Android, outperforms Nokia in market value

It wasn’t all that surprising when Apple surpassed Microsoft to become the most valuable tech enterprise. Ever since the flops of Vista and Windows Mobile, it was bound to happen. But HTC’s climb to the top hasn’t been predicted as openly. It seems like the rise of Harry Potter against the "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" of the smartphone industry. Read More:

 

Tablets and Chrome OS, all part of the Google parallel plan

Google is such a big company with its fingers in many different pies. Love em or hate em a lot of your opinion about Google probably relates to how well they are executing on any particular business area that you use. Gmail is awesome for me, Buzz is not… Maps are great… Docs are so so… Read More:

 

SK Telecom to build up new wireless tech with China Mobile

China’s largest wireless operator China Mobile and South Korean operator SK Telecom are planning to work together to bring out new technologies focusing on next generation networks, operating systems, M2M services, applications, etc. The companies have just taken the first step by signing a Memorandum of Agreement. Read More: