China Mobile (中国移动), China’s largest mobile network operator, released a report today ranking China’s mobile phone brand (in Chinese). According to the report, Chinese brands have caught up with international brands in some areas. China Mobile surveyed 42 million users from 15 provinces and used 18 network indicators for their analysis and evaluation. They also randomly […]
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Chinese smartphone shipments slump 16.6% in Q1 2018
China, once the world’s engine for smartphone growth, is on the wane.
Smartphone maker Vivo to launch smart home platform
Vivo is entering the fast-growing smart home market where it will face Alibaba, Xiaomi, Baidu, JD, and more.
9 of the world’s 12 most shipped smartphone brands are from China
Nine of the world’s twelve most shipped smartphone manufacturers are headquartered in China, according to semiconductor market research firm IC Insights. The company recently updated its 2018 IC Market Drivers Report in which it documented the applications fueling demand for integrated circuits (ICs). According to the report, Apple and Samsung still dominate the market for […]
6 of the world’s top 10 smartphone brands are Chinese
Chinese manufacturers took six of places in the global top ten smartphone manufacturers in the first quarter of 2017 with one in ten phones sold worldwide made by Huawei, according to a report by market research agency IDC. Three of the top five were Chinese, from zero just five years ago. While the global heavyweights […]
Xiaomi Is Trying to Undercut Roomba With Their Own Cleaning Robot
Xiaomi unveiled its Mi Robot Vacuum, the latest addition to its smart home product line, as the company continues to drift further away from its core smartphone business toward a diversified internet hardware ecosystem. True to Xiaomi’s style, the vacuum’s design takes a minimalist approach to buttons and screens, and true to the style of most […]
Is Xiaomi Pivoting Away From Smartphones?
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun wanted to make one thing clear when he spoke at the Summer Davos event in Tianjin on Monday: “Xiaomi was never meant to be just a smartphone vendor.” The company, which rocketed to fame through mega-sales of budget smartphones, is now stepping back from its revenue-driving product, amid a stagnating smartphone market and […]
Tencent to launch its own smart speaker, enabling WeChat by voice command
Tencent is to launch its own smart speaker that offers functionality from the Tencent family such as sending WeChat messages via voice command and—unlike all the other smart speakers on the market, contains a battery and so is fully portable—according to 36Kr (in Chinese). The official launch date is not yet available, but the app […]
Analyse Asia Podcast: Xiaomi Part (1/2) – Team, History, And Products
http://media.blubrry.com/analyseasia/content.blubrry.com/analyseasia/Episode_129__Xiaomi_-_Team_History_Products_with_Eva_Xiao.mp3 Eva Xiao from TechNode joined us in a two part episode on one of China’s top unicorns: Xiaomi. We traced the history of the company starting from the founders of the company, most notably Lei Jun and Bin Lin, and how they managed to bring in top talent such as Hugo Barra into the […]
Now In Shenzhen: “Designed in China” needs more expat designers
This is the third post of Now in Shenzhen, where TechNode visits a handful of Shenzhen-based companies leveraging Shenzhen’s core strength: manufacturing. China is moving from “Made in China” towards “Designed in China”. China has made eye-catching growth in its technology and innovation, and now is the time to make the global audience fall in love […]