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Watch: Media Markt Sweating Advertisement in China

Star Chang — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:50:02 PDT

Leading European electronics retailer Media Markt has already opened 7 retail stores in Shanghai China. The company's expansion in China has been rapid. Recently, they have released a corporate branding advertisement to showcase the dedication its employees give to their Chinese customers. The idea is to show how Media Markt's staff work so hard to give great customer service that they are sweating all the way from head to toe ...

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This Knockoff New iPad Commercial Would Want To Make us Laugh (Video)

Herman Lai — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:02:41 PDT

No matter how well you know about the New iPad, you gotta check this out. It's a viral video that made by a Chinese netizen, and highlight some features like the iCam, iCutfruit, iRay, iShoot that you would be familiar with. The ad also introduced a 40-inch LuxuryPad, and it shows you how useful it is. Check it out after the break!

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TP-Link Launches First Android 4.0 Phone T882

Star Chang — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:57:36 PDT

TP-LINK, the well-known Chinese networking equipment company which based in Shenzhen, has decided to enter the smartphone market by introducing the new T882. Previously, TP-Link had released several features phone but couldn't catch any people attention. The new T882 is running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, powered by 1.4-gigahertz single core processor. Other main specifications include 4.0-inch WVGA-screen, 768MB RAM and 2GB ROM, 8 megapixels camera, support HD video recording, dual LED flash and weighted in 148 grams. Apparently, the smartphone T882 will only be available in China market. We believe T882 should have some built-in software to perform WiFi tethering, TP-Link is specialized on this. Price and release date still unknown, we assume it will sell at a dead cheap price because of 2GB internal storage. Few more pictures after the break.

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Galaxy S III, Meizu MX, Nokia Lumia 900 To Launch in China Next Month (Update)

Herman Lai — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:28:28 PDT

Recently, we have been hearing a lot rumors from many Chinese sources that various smartphones are going to launch in China pretty soon, including these three handsets --- Samsung Galaxy S III, the quad-core Meizu MX and Nokia Lumia 900. So, here is a wrap up of what we heard so far.

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Xiaomi Launches a Less Powerful Smartphone with an Even Lower Price Tag (Videos)

Herman Lai — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:06:16 PDT

New Packaging for the Lower-price Xiaomi Phone

Xiaomi tech just announced a 1.2GHz dual-core smartphone, featuring basically everything the same as the original M1 except with a slower processor and less RAM. The company named this is as the "Youth" version, which is aiming at younger audiences like students. The sales will be done through lucky draw and it begins from now until the 18th. Xiaomi's CEO said they will only have 150,000 units for sale, and each unit will be priced as low as 1,499 yuan ($242), while the original version is at 1,999 yuan ($322). Before Xiaomi announced the "Youth" version M1, they actually launched two short films in relation to "Youth". Unfortunately, it's in Chinese and there is no English subtitles. The short films are embedded after the break.

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Watch this Father Jumps Out of Moving Car To Save His Daughter (Video)

Herman Lai — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:46:45 PDT

The surveillance camera captured the moment that a man jumps out of a moving car to save his four-years old daughter at a busy crossroad of Wenzhou, where the baby girl fell off from the car as she was trying to jump from the back seat to the front, and accidentally opened the unlocked front door. We really don't want to see anything like Yueyue happen again. Video after the break.

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RoboCop Rip-off Being Used As Video Surveillance Camera On the Street

Herman Lai — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:49:55 PDT

If you have watched an American science fiction film called "RoboCop", then you are probably shocked right now. There isn't a human inside the armor, but some cables that connected to police station. What that does is to monitor some regions for security purpose. They are located in Kunming, the place where the fake Apple store was first discovered.

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Truly Badass Fake Apple Store Shows How Apple Sucks Android

Chris Chang — Sun, 13 May 2012 21:05:07 PDT

Ok, so a fake Apple Store was kind of a ridiculous knockoff from China. However, there is a totally badass fake Apple store in China that gives you a perfect idea of how Apple sucks Android. Poor Apple.

Foxconn Chief Explicitly Confirms Preparation For Apple iTV (Update: Foxconn Denied)

Herman Lai — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:32:59 PDT

Apple’s take on television industry is in news from over one year now and reports are being weighed by many sources. Finally, the rumors had been confimred by the chairman of Foxconn Terry Gou, who revealed the company is currently making preparations in collaboration with Apple to launch a new HDTV set in the market.

Update: Foxconn told TheNextWeb that Gou had “neither confirmed nor speculated about Foxconn’s involvement in the production of any product,” while its policy forbids “comment on any customers or their products.”

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Baidu’s New Smartphone Looks Like A Nokia Lumia Phone

Herman Lai — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:45:02 PDT

Baidu said they will announce a tie-up next week for new mobile devices, which is going to be similar when Dell launched a smartphone running on Baidu's Yi platform last December. The new smartphone will run an upgraded version of Baidu Yi --- called Baidu Cloud. Besides, the executive teased details of the launch that the company will announce a few partnerships next week, and that's probably indicating Foxconn and ZTE or perhaps some other handset makers.

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Seriously, $65 USD Is Enough for a 7-inch Android ICS Tablet

Herman Lai — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:25:03 PDT

What can you do with $65? Buy a pair of shoes, a shirt, or maybe a tablet? The cheapest ICS tablet that we have seen so far is the Ainol Novo7, it's $99. But it will no longer be. HuaYi, a manufacture based in Shenzhen, recently unveiled a 7-inch tablet that offering as low as 399 yuan ($65)! Wow...

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A Shanghai Underground Garage Offers Bikini Girls to Wash Luxury Cars (Video)

Herman Lai — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:33:13 PDT

An underground garage was found utilizing a group of the sexy girls to attract the wealthy in Shanghai to wash their luxury cars, and all the girls were told to wear bikini, high heels and sunglasses. This kind of service is quite common in foreign country, but it's rare to happen in China. More shots after the break.

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China Finally Has Its Own Card Reader for Smartphone Payment

Star Chang — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:12:42 PDT

99Bill.com, a popular online payment service in China, has rolled out its own card reader, in an effort to create a POS device for domestic users. The company says that this is the 'first commercial use of such a product' in mainland China. The device can be used with Android or iOS devices, and gives users mobile selling capabilities. The reader plugs into the headphone jack and communicates with mobile apps. The payment solution supports both pass code and signature based bank card transactions. This is especially important in the China market, where pass code enabled bank cards are the most common ...

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ASUS New Ultrabooks Come with 1GB Standalone Graphics Card

Star Chang — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:11:28 PDT

ASUS announced new Ultrabooks today in Taiwan, the Zenbook UX32A and UX32Vd that will both come with Ivy Bridge CPUs. The one to keep an eye on is the UX32Vd will includes a switchable 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT620M graphics card. The new Zenbook UX32VD include premium features like the 1920 x 1080 IPS display panel, packs with hybrid HDD (500GB hardisk plus 24GB SSD). Since it has added in graphical horsepower, there is a little more weight at around 1.45kg and a bit thicker. The entry-level Nvidia GeForce GT 620M on the UX32VD is unlikely to get gamers excited. It's probably just a tad more capable than the Intel integrated graphics ...

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Sales of Apple’s Products Set to Soar ever Higher in China

Star Chang — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:19:11 PDT

Apple's sales in China are set go even higher as iPhone sales for the first quarter of the year are quadruple more the numbers of same period of last year. The sales of Apple's MacBook have also grown by 60 percent since the time the company entered China. The preference of Chinese consumers for major brands and the increasing respect that Apple has shown China for its massive market potential have shored up the success of the company in the country ...

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Foxconn Sets Up New Headquarters in Shanghai

Herman Lai — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:41:35 PDT

Apple supplier Foxconn just held a groundbreaking ceremony to begin construction of its China operational headquarters. The new building will be established on a 10,000 square meter (2.47 acre) site located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, it's scheduled to be completed in the early 2015. Although Shenzhen will remain the manufacturing and operational core, the new location will be served as a research and development center, sales and as a hub for its e-commerce business in China. Indeed, Foxconn already has a sales channel business with a joint venture Media Markt in Shanghai.

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This Is The New iPad Knockoff, But You Can’t Tell It Is

Herman Lai — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:38:33 PDT

The knockoff maker claimed this is the "New iPad" knockoff, and it just doesn't make any sense. What it has is a 1.1 GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a 9.7-inch 1024x768 touchscreen and runs Android 4.0. We are disappointed with the New iPad and we are disappointed once again.

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How The Xiaomi Phone Is Made, A Look Inside Its Assembly Line

Herman Lai — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:07:40 PDT

Xiaomi is a legend. The company had already sold 1.8 million units in the past 9 months and they still sees surge in demand. In the following, we are going to take you a tour into Xiaomi's production chain to see how they keep up with massive orders.

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China Authorities Intends to Ban Google Mobile Apps ?

Star Chang — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:18:33 PDT

Last week Chinese media reported that the government has banned mobile manufacturers from installing Google applications on the mobile devices. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) quickly denied the rumors. The announcement came after reports by a number of major news websites in China, citing an note on the official website of a Shenzhen-based mobile service provider. The authorities said they have never delivered an order to ban the usage of Google logo and applications on mobile terminal products. The online news was not the truth ...

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Is This Lamborghini or Ferrari? (Video)

Herman Lai — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:50:07 PDT

The 2012 Beijing Automotive Exhibition finished last Wednesday. We have enjoyed looking at the newly released Chinese autos as well as sexy models in the show. Among all the cars, we spotted one has a Lamborghini-like head and a Ferrari-like tail! It dubbed S-11, made by a Chinese auto maker JAC Motors, and it's worth as much as 150,000 yuan ($24194). Check out more pics after the break...

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