Japan mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo plans to release a smartphone produced by Chinese firm Huawei in October, marking the company’s first-ever launch of a Chinese-made smartphone. Previously, DoCoMo sells phones from Taiwan-based HTC and Korean companies Samsung and LG, this will be the firm’s first major launch of a China-made smartphone. The introduction of new models will expand the lineup of cost-effective products to counter the iPhone sales in Japan market. DoCoMo boasts that the new device is currently the world’s fastest phone, requiring only five seconds to start up after being turned off — one-sixth the time required by other smartphones model. It’s somehow ironic to see telco companies from China and Japan are dealing business together, regarding on the recent anti-Japan protests happened in China.
Guess what ? Chinese netizens have discovered a part-time Japanese actress working at Google ! The young and cute Ayaka Ikezawa is currently doing an internship in Google, a senior engineer of Google China has already admitted she is one of their staff, doing coding for Google map. This is really amazing ! Check out more info after the break.
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Why would you print an Apple logo on your toilet seat cover? Some crazy Chinese dudes are just insane. Perhaps it would make your toilet looks more “amazing”, “phenomenal” and “unbelievable”.
HTC Desire was one of our favorite phones when it launched two years ago. But after the One series revealed earlier this year, everyone seems to have almost forgot about the Desire. Therefore, HTC decided to revive the name of Desire and introduced “HTC Desire X” at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin yesterday. This phone will sit with the rest of the One lineup between the One X and the One V. Chinese sources are saying the phone will get into China very soon, and the photos above are the leaked shots of the China Telecom CDMA version of HTC Desire X, which has a different code-name as HTC T528d.
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Asus will peg pricing of some upcoming Windows 8 devices to Apple’s new iPad. The company will “use the price of Apple’s new iPad as a reference” when pricing Windows 8 and Windows RT devices. According to a report from Digitimes, ASUS has “warned” Microsoft by saying, “if Microsoft launches its Surface at US$199 … it will cause difficulty for [the survival of] Asustek’s Windows-based tablet.” The Taiwanese vendor also mentioned that Google’s Nexus 7 tablet, which Asus manufactures, will provide a big boost for the company’s tablet shipments …
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Images of an unannounced HTC tablet have published on Twitter. The device appears to have a 10.1-inch display with an odd bottom mounted front-facing and rear camera. The mysterious tablet features a slim design with a white casing and an interesting screen layout. It bears a striking resemblance to an iMac computer from Apple. If these images are real, HTC will be one of the first companies to offer a tablet that doesn’t resemble the iPad. The Taiwanese vendor has previously offered two Android tablets — the Flyer and Jetstream — though neither slate achieved any mainstream success. IFA is taking place in Berlin this week so it is possible that HTC will announce this tablet in the next day or two. Additional images after the jump.
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According to industry sources, Sony Mobile Communications will teamed up with Foxconn, and other Taiwanese manufactures to venture into the sub-US$200 smartphone segment. The vendor has launched its entry-level Android phone Xperia Tipo outsourced to Foxconn, with other comparable models manufactured by Arima and Compal to be rolled out in the first half of 2013. While Sony expects shipments of each entry-level smartphone to reach several million units, sources at Taiwan-based ODMs indicated that shipment volumes for each model may be lower than expected due to over diversified product lineups and marketing efforts …
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After Mobile World Congress held earlier this year, you should notice “Huawei” when it comes to high-end smartphone: the Huawei’s D1 Quad and its Mediapad 10 FHD. But not to forget “Huawei Honor“, which used to be the company’s most popular smartphone, its successor is allegedly to roll out next month. As far as we know, Huawei Honor 2 will come in two models — dual-cores (Snapdragon MSM8260) and quad-cores (Huawei’s K3V2 quad-core chipset), boast a 4.5-inch 720p IPS display, dual-SIM slots and running Android ICS.
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Whenever Huawei release an interesting commercial, we post it here. Today, they have a new one released, which is about the “attractiveness” of Pocket WiFi, showing how the pocket WiFi enticed geeks following from the street to the toilet. It’s not interesting to explain in words. Go to the video after the break!
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What’s this? Appearing on its Chinese forum, ahead of Apple’s special event on Sept. 12, Chinese company Goophone is able to “knock off” Apple’s upcoming sixth-generation iPhone based on renderings and leaks, and they present us the Goophone i5, featuring the new two-tone metal back design of the new iPhone. More photos after the break, and a never-before-seen video showing the production line of the Goophone.
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