By Jacob Kleinman |
Contradicting earlier reports that Apple had edged back up to the 5th largest share of smartphone sales in China, a new report from Chinese organization Analysis International suggests that Apple held onto the 6th largest market share with a 6.4 percent market share in Q1…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s Fifth Avenue Apple Store is a global icon for the brand. It sits in midtown NYC, flanked by Central Park, and its cap is made entirely out of glass panels. As such, the location has been a go-to store for tourists and locals alike…
By Todd Haselton |
Amazon’s Android application store is now available where Google’s own paid app store isn’t: China. The company already offered Chinese residents an option to buy eBooks but, until now, applications were not availabl. To be fair, Google Play is also available in China but, according…
By Ron Duwell |
Apple has pledged a 50 million yuan (approx. $8 million USD) donation in response to a devastating earthquake that struck the Shichuan province in China over the weekend. The company has also updated its official Chinese website to address the issue and give its condolences…
By Adriana Lee |
What’s the cheapest phone you’ve ever seen? I’m not talking about those zero-down, subsidized phones offered on contract — believe me, those “free” phones do wind up costing you. No, I’m talking about a functional phone with the tiniest overall monetary footprint. Give up? Well Andrew…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung added to its portfolio of entry-level devices on Thursday by introducing the Galaxy Trend II and the Galaxy Trend II Duos, two Android smartphones that will launch in China. The phones are essentially the same, but the Galaxy Trend II Duos supports two SIM…
By Todd Haselton |
The HTC One flagship smartphone launched around the world with a unibody aluminum design. That means you can’t take out the battery, and HTC eliminated any option for expandable storage. There’s a model in China that doesn’t follow those rules, however. Engadget recently spotted the…
By Ron Duwell |
Apple’s China problems continue to pile up and up. The state-owned Shanghai Animation Film Studio has filed a $530,000 lawsuit against the company for the distribution of 110 of its cartoons. The only hiccup is that these cartons are not directly distributed through iTunes but…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple CEO Tim Cook issued an apology to China yesterday after an uproar over differing warranty policies for Chinese consumers versus the rest of the world. The issue involved policies for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. China responded positively to the letter, praising Tim…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple has been under fire in China recently, where it’s desperately trying to expand, over its warranty policies. Consumers there believe that the company’s warranty isn’t equivalent to the policies offered in other countries, according to recent reports from Chinese media. Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed…
By Todd Haselton |
China’s smartphone market is currently a battleground as smartphone makers fight one another to earn market share in the world’s largest wireless market. Samsung has the crown for now as the largest seller of smartphones in the country, according to new research published by Strategy…
By Todd Haselton |
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently published a paper discussing the increasing popularity of Google’s Android operating system within the country. In short, China’s worried that its mobile industry is too devoted to using Android instead of alternative systems. We’re not surprised, especially…
By Joey Davidson |
In China, it’s illegal to buy video games consoles. The country instituted the ban in 2000 based on the fear that violent games would corrupt the minds of China’s youth. According to a source from the Chinese government that’s spoken with China Daily, that ban might…
By Aaron Baker |
The push for mobile technology has been prevalent in China for many years, and for another year, mobile continues to grow at an exponential rate. Approximately 51 million new Chinese users logged onto the Internet, bringing the total number of online users to 564 million…
By Aaron Baker |
If the HTC Butterfly (DROID DNA) or Samsung Galaxy Note II don’t tickle your fancy, the Oppo Find 5 could be just the phone – though for now, you’ll have to pick it up through international channels. Oppo’s flagship device, the Find 5, will be…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple recently lost part of its share of the smartphone market as local rivals ZTE, Huawei and others introduced lower-priced Android handsets. However, the iPhone 5 launch is already a “hit” in China, according to Shanghai Daily. Early figures pointed to 100,000 pre-orders during the first day…
By Todd Haselton |
Remember just last week when we reported that more than 100,000 customers had already pre-ordered the iPhone 5 from wireless carrier China Unicom? Let’s give bump that number up a bit. In fact, let’s triple it. According to the company’s Weibo page, it received more…
By Todd Haselton |
China Unicom will begin offering the iPhone 5 on December 14 and the carrier began accepting pre-orders on Monday. More than 100,000 customers have placed orders for the device already, Sina Tech reported recently. The carrier’s customers only need to provide an ID and few other…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple announced on Friday morning that it will begin selling the iPhone 5, the fourth generation iPad and the iPad mini in China beginning next month. The fourth generation iPad and the iPad mini will be available on December 7th while the iPhone will be…
By Todd Haselton |
Android has an incredible grip on the smartphone operating system market in China. A new report released by Analysys International suggests that Google’s mobile OS has a 90.1 percent grip of all smartphone operating systems. That’s no doubt thanks to ZTE, Samsung and Huawei, all of…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s iPhone is no longer among the top 5 smartphones with the most market share in China, according to a new report published on Thursday. The iPhone was the 5th most popular smartphone in China during the second quarter but is now behind Samsung, Lenovo,…
By Killian Bell |
Apple has updated its Apple Store app for the iPhone and iPod touch, introducing the ability to check the latest store prices using Siri. The update also brings EasyPay to five new countries, and adds new payment options for customers in China. With the latest…
By Killian Bell |
Quad-core smartphones are quickly becoming commonplace, so it’s only natural that their price tags will keep getting smaller as time goes on. Maybe we weren’t expecting them to become quite so cheap so quickly, however. ZTE just announced its new U950 smartphone, which offers a…
By Joey Davidson |
I’ll own up to something right here and now; what I know of Apple’s issues with Foxconn, one of the factories that builds their devices, consists of information that’s come from both this site and the This American Life podcast. I know there’s been a…
