Seen on a poster outside a store selling Android mobile devices in Suining, Sichuan province: "Steve Jobs has kicked the bucket. Why would you still be buying Apple?"
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What began as a simple call by Professor Yu Jianrong for internet users to snap pictures of street children and post it on Sina Weibo, the leading Chinese microblogging service, has become something of a revolution that is being talked about by everyone today. At last count, the campaign's official account @随手拍照解救乞讨儿童 (lit. Snap a picture to save a child) has about 152,000 followers while @Yujianrong himself has become something of a superstar with close to 380,000 followers. more ›

While Google has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese government over its search engine product, its Android mobile platform is doing really, really well. In fact, it's poised to "leapfrog competitors to grab dominence in China," according to Richard Yu at TechCrunch, thanks in part to it being embraced by several of China's biggest mobile companies. more ›

• While China may have been all about itself at the Beijing Olympics, it heads to the Vancouver Winter Olympics with its head in its hoodie, downplaying expectations of how well it would do. [LA Times]
• You know what would be the thing to calm Xinjiang down? Investment, thinks China. [Reuters]
• Speaking of which, four more people have been sentenced to death over the riots that happened over the summer. [New York Times]

Oh look! While we're still waiting for anything besides a rumor that the HTC Magic (G2) Android phone will come to China, Sciphone's released their version: the Dream G2. It's here and, at only 750~800RMB, even cheaper than we originally thought it would be. more ›

Apparently tmcnet.com reports an announcement last Wednesday that suggests that Unicom will officially be selling the iPhone in China in May to co-inside with the launch of their 3G service. This is welcome news after all the rumors and innuendo that have been going around. Strange thing is, the iPhone page that appeared on the China Unicom website seems to have been taken down. (to look at a screenshot of the page click here). So until we see more news on this, we're not holding our breath. more ›

2009 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for China's mobile market. All that excitement over Google's Android phone is finally making its way to China. On the right you see a sleek new gadget codenamed "OPhone" that is making its rounds on gadget forums lately. Said to be a joint effort between Lenovo and China Mobile, this is the first in a series of phones that will be "based on China Mobile's OMS (Open Mobile System) which is essentially Android + TD SCDMA (China's home-grown 3G standard)." ITProPortal says the phone is expected to debut sometime in February or March. more ›

Plans are in motion for the much anticipated launch of an Android device for China between February and March 2009, but unlike the US launch of the T-Mobile G1 handset, China Mobile has decided not to work with Taiwanese PDA manufacturer HTC and has instead opted for working with Lenovo Mobile to release it's first Google powered phone. more ›

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Rumours have already started circulating that China Mobile will be the carrier to introduce the HTC G1 Android phone to China. Launched last Tuesday by T-Mobile in the States, this phone is the first device to run on the Google develop platform Android. more ›