Fresh of the back of their blockbuster third-quarter results, Huawei is wasting no time establishing itself as a market contender in the high-end smartphone space. According to a statement on the company’s public Weibo account, Huawei has hired a former Apple design executive to lead the interface design of Huawei’s smart devices. Abigail Brody served almost 10 years as a […]
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China’s Smart Hardware Landscape 1: JD’s Super Incubator
This is part one in a series exploring China’s hardware landscape and the companies that will drive next century’s hardware innovation. JD.com, China’s leading online retailer, claims to have had 40% of China’s smart hardware market in terms of sales as of July 2015. It’s undoubtably the primary platform for Chinese makers to debut and sell their smart […]
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Samsung Wants You To Enjoy The ‘Aristocratic Life’ With… A Flip Phone
“Enjoy the luxury lifestyle, break into the aristocratic life,” is the mantra Samsung is using to sell its latest flagship, and nothing screams blue-blood quite like a flip phone. No, it’s not 2003, but Samsung did release a clamshell smart-flip-phone called the Samsung G9198 on Friday, complete with a 3.9-inch dual screen 768p touch display, powered by Snapdragon 808. While it […]
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SmartStudy: Kindergarten Education On IoT
China’s education gap is a huge problem. It is said that some 60 million students in rural schools are left-behind children, struggle to grasp advanced subjects such as English and chemistry. To mitigate the education gap between the rich and the poor in China, China’s Ministry of Education has said that roughly 358,000 teachers were hired in the past year to […]
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Huawei Reveals Their Answer To The iPhone 6 With Force Touch
Huawei has unveiled the follow-up to last year’s Ascend Mate 7 with a whole host of interesting upgrades. The Mate S has stuck to the high end price range with the phone retailing for between €600-€700 depending on memory and case selection. It’s the most expensive phone ever released by Huawei, with the previous model retailing for €499-599. […]
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Qihoo-Backed Qiku Elbows Into The China Smartphone Race
Days after Smartisan unveiled its latest smartphone, Qihoo 360-backed smartphone company Qiku took the wraps off an ambitious array of new phones. The high-spec lux version packs a 6-inch 2k TFT display by Sharp, a powerful Snapdragon 810, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage and a fixed 3700mAh battery. It features a 2.5d round edge tempered front screen […]
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Smartisan Launches A Rainbow Of Phones Ahead Of T2 Flagship
Smartisan, one of China’s smaller players in the smartphone arena, has released their latest smartphone, Jiangguo, which means ‘nut’. The multi-colored device will precede the T2 flagship, set for release later this year. The 5.5-inch Android phone is the company’s first release since their T1 in May last year. Smartisan itself is now over two […]
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Huawei Joins Forces With Google & ZTE Cries Copycat
Those of us on holiday in China this week may have missed the launch of the latest Nexus devices from Google on Thursday, and the subsequent Weibo trends that ensued. Among the new Nexus range was a first-time entrant Huawei. Google’s newest flagship phablet, the Huawei Nexus 6P, is the first collaboration project between Huawei and […]
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Why ZTE Is Now Sponsoring Five NBA Teams
On New Year’s Eve 2014, Chinese telecoms equipment and smartphone supplier ZTE began a new phase in their growth. The company launched their new brand identity at the first game of the Golden State Warrior’s season, effectively ending their time in the U.S. market as purely a white label manufacturer for U.S. carriers and setting out to sell […]
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Chinese Smart WiFi Router Maker HiWiFi Opens up Its Linux-based Operating System to Developers and Smart Home Appliance Makers
Chinese smart WiFi router developer HiFiWi, announced to open up its Linux-based system, called HiWiFi OS, so that developers will build applications for the platform, and smart devices can get connected and controlled through HiFiWi routers. The company launched yesterday three projects, HiCloud, HiMobile and HiStore. HiStore is an app store for third-party applications. HiWiFi router runs . for which […]
