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Apple and China Mobile to Strike iPhone Deal, Report Says

December 5, 2013 no comments

After years of wrangling over various issues, China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless carrier with 740 million subscribers, has finally struck a deal with Apple to offer the iPhone on its network ...

Twitter’s Top 5 Accounts Are All in Japan — Here’s Why

October 23, 2013 no comments

During an Aug. 3 airing of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece Castle in the Sky, thousands of anime fans watching the broadcast in Japan tweeted in unison to coincide with an exciti...

Top 10 Countries With the Most Digital Natives

October 21, 2013 no comments

China is home to the world’s largest population of digital natives, totaling more than 75 million people — that’s almost twice as many as the U.S., which has more than 41 million. India a...

The World’s First Phone With More Pixels Than an iPad

October 17, 2013 no comments

A full HD smartphone isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A Quad HD smartphone — one with 2,560 x 1,440 pixels, like the one China’s Vivo just announced. The Vivo Xplay 3S will be the ...

China said to be unblocking sites like Facebook, Twitter and the NYT, ...

September 24, 2013 no comments

Given how large a mobile market China has become, and its role in gadget manufacturing globally, we sometimes forget the government of this increasingly tech-aware country still dictates what corners...

Samsung says its next-gen smartphones will have 64-bit processors too

September 12, 2013 no comments

Samsung’s mobile business head JK Shin has said that the company’s next smartphones will feature a 64-bit CPU, according to the Korea Times. The remarks follows Apple’s launch of th...

Dual-SIM HTC Butterfly S certified for China, comes with removable bac...

July 17, 2013 no comments

It’s a given that HTC will eventually launch its new Butterfly S in China, but will it be a dual-SIM version like the One Dual variants offered over there? The answer is yes, according to a fil...

THL’s W11 ‘Monkey King’ phone packs a 13MP camera on...

July 8, 2013 no comments

THL is a name that makes us cringe whenever we come across it, not only because its logo is clearly “inspired” by HTC’s older counterpart, but more so because it’s been shamel...

American redux: Apple, Motorola, Lenovo and the pulse of stateside man...

July 3, 2013 no comments

Google introduced the Nexus Q close to a year ago. It was an intriguing device with a standout design, but its high asking price and limited functionality meant it wasn’t long before the Q was ...