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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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 [...]
Samsung Electronics has been ordered to pay 50 million yuan ($7.3 million) in compensation to a Hangzhou firm for an infringement of its intellectual property rights, Sohu.com reported on Monday.
The Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court made the ruling on Saturday.
Samsung was deemed to have infringed on Holley Communications’ patents on dual-mode mobile phones, which support the [...]
Samsung, Panasonic, Nokia and other leading foreign labels are on the list of subsidized household appliances for Chinese farmers.
The Chinese government promised to grant a 13-percent subsidy for household appliances for farmers on purchase of household appliances to improve the living standards of 900 million rural residents and boost domestic consumption. A pilot program began [...]
Samsung Electronics Co. is spending more than $100 million on its sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics, a sum that is helping fuel faster growth in one of the company’s biggest and most important markets, its top China executive said.
China has long been a major manufacturing base for Samsung, and sales of its cellphones and other [...]
LG Display Co. Ltd., the world’s No. 2 maker of liquid crystal display (LCD) screens, said
Sunday it would cut its panel output by around 10 percent until August because of weakening global demand.
South Korea-based LG Display joins Taiwan rivals AU Optronics Corp. and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. in the move to reduce production and ease [...]
