Despite warnings that up to 80 percent of smuggled iPhones on the market are fake, there is strong demand for bootleg handsets in Beijing.
China Unicom has reported lackluster sales of just 100,000 since the iPhone was officially launched in China on Oct 30.
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China is not only a major market, but also an integral link in our global supply chain, and an important contributor to our R&D and manufacturing capabilities, a senior executive at Motorola said.
Ruey-Bin Kao, Chairman of Motorola (China) Electronics Ltd. told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that Motorola recognizes the array of exciting [...]
China has relaxed a long-term restriction on Wi-Fi functions on mobile phones, which will improve the mobile Internet experience and boost sales of smart handsets, Shanghai Daily learned yesterday.
That will probably solve the biggest obstacle for the Wi-Fi-enabled Apple iPhone’s entry into the domestic market, insiders said. Motorola Inc and Nokia Corp’s two models, which [...]
China Unicom launched its third-generation services in Shanghai and 54 other cities nationwide yesterday, the last of the three domestic telcos to do so.
With network access 100 times faster than 2G, 3G services include video conferencing and film downloading.
The development of 3G, however, faces challenges from the high price of packages, a lack of top [...]
ZTE Corp, the world’s sixth biggest handset vendor by sales, expects it will become one of the top three phone vendors by 2013, thanks to booming 3G phone sales domestically and overseas, the Shenzhen-based firm said today in Beijing.
Meanwhile, it expects wireless equipment revenue will grow 30 percent year-on-year in 2009 despite the global financial [...]
Nokia and Samsung gained share in the Chinese cell phone market, the world’s biggest, last year while Motorola’s portion fell as it lacked compelling models such as touch-screen phones, research firm Gartner told Shanghai Daily yesterday.
By the end of 2008, Nokia still led the Chinese market with a 37 percent share, up from 35 percent [...]
