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Jun 3, 2013

ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity: Tegra 4 powered laptop hybrid, 2560×1600 pixel screen

Stefan Constantinescu

This will be the last ASUS device I write about today. Promise. It's called the Transformer Pad Infinity and it has two key selling points. One, it's powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 4.

CHINESE PLAYERS

Jun 3, 2013

ASUS Memo Pad HD7: An Android tablet that starts at just $129

Stefan Constantinescu

In case you can't tell by all the ASUS news today, the company is holding a press conference in Taiwan right now. They've just announced a new 7 inch tablet called the "Memo

CHINESE PLAYERS

Jun 3, 2013

ASUS announces the Galaxy Note III, though they call it the fonepad Note (6 inch 1080p)

Stefan Constantinescu

ASUS just announced a 6 inch 1080p Android device with a stylus called the fonepad Note. It has dual front facing speakers, like the HTC One. It uses Intel's Z2560 processor. It has 2

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Jun 3, 2013

ASUS announces a 10 inch Intel powered Android tablet called the MemoPad FHD10

Stefan Constantinescu

ASUS just announced a peculiar product called the MemoPad FHD10. I say peculiar because the device doesn't have a 10 inch panel, it's a 10.1 inch panel, and said panel outputs 1920

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Jun 3, 2013

ZTE Blade G: The budget Android smartphone that the industry should look up to

Stefan Constantinescu

While I tend to ignore most of the handsets that come out of China, mainly because they'll never be sold outside of China, there is one particular device family that deserves some attention: ZTE'

CHINESE PLAYERS

Jun 3, 2013

Acer Liquid S1: Does 329 EUR buy you a Galaxy Note II competitor or a bucket of compromises?

Stefan Constantinescu

Acer announced a new phone in Taipei this morning called the Liquid S1. It has a 5.7 inch 720p screen, quadcore 1.5 GHz processor from MediaTek, an 8 megapixel camera, and a partly

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May 30, 2013

Huawei confirms they’ll announce the Ascend P6, their iPhone clone, on June 18th in London

Stefan Constantinescu

No, you’re not looking at an iPhone, the image you see above is straight from Huawei’s Facebook page. It was uploaded there 17 hours ago with the following caption: #Ascend P6

CHINESE PLAYERS

May 30, 2013

Alcatel to sell their new flagship phone directly to customers for $299, U.S. only for now

Stefan Constantinescu

Alcatel, better known as TCL in China, is doing something that's a bit unorthodox. They're going to sell their new flagship phone, the One Touch Idol, directly to consumers in the United States.

CHINESE PLAYERS

May 27, 2013

Oppo’s new European website goes live, then proceeds to fall flat on its face

Stefan Constantinescu

Chances are you've never heard of Oppo. They're a Chinese company that specializes in high end audio/video equipment, but they also sell mobile phones. I've seen several of their handsets while

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May 27, 2013

Lenovo to enter the U.S. market this time next year, Huawei and ZTE should be terrified

Stefan Constantinescu

According to The Wall Street Journal, Lenovo's CEO, Yang Yuanqing, says the company will enter the U.S. smartphone market within a year. He goes on to say that "smartphones are our new opportunity",

CHINESE PLAYERS

May 24, 2013

Leak: Here’s Huawei’s P6, proof that China can design awesome looking handsets

Stefan Constantinescu

Thanks to @evleaks, we now have several press photos of the Huawei P6. This is that phone that likely be announced next month in London at the company's "Beautiful" event. It's obviously been

CHINESE PLAYERS

May 24, 2013

Ladies and gentlemen, Walmart is now selling $99 dual core Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablets

Stefan Constantinescu

Hisense isn't just another Chinese company, they're a Chinese company that's owned by the Chinese government. With all the anti-Chinese rhetoric flying around in FreedomLand, it comes as shock to me

CHINESE PLAYERS

May 21, 2013

DigiTimes: Huawei is thinking about making a 6.5 inch phone

Stefan Constantinescu

It goes without saying that phones are getting larger and larger each and every year. It feels just like yesterday when Samsung announced the 4.3 inch Galaxy S II and the world went insane

CHINESE PLAYERS

May 10, 2013

Huawei to host an event on June 18th in London, plans to show off something beautiful

Stefan Constantinescu

The Chinese handset vendor Huawei, who I haven't written about in a while simply because they haven't done anything too exciting recently, is going to hold an event in London on the 18th

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May 6, 2013

DigiTimes: Companies are thinking about making cheap all in one PCs that run Android

Stefan Constantinescu

People who are starved for space don't like the thought of buying big bulky computers that have to sit under a desk. That's why laptops are popular. Still, there are certain folks who

CHINESE PLAYERS

May 6, 2013

Leak: Sony C3, the company’s first phone to be powered by a MediaTek chipset

Stefan Constantinescu

When it comes to chip companies, you can count the ones that matter on one hand. There's Apple, who technically doesn't make their own chips, but they do design them, and I don'

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May 6, 2013

Amazon launches a paid Android app store in China, beating Google to the punch, but why?

Stefan Constantinescu

Amazon, the company that popularized electronic books, has just launched an app store in China. Unlike Google's Chinese Play Store, Amazon's store offers not just free applications, but paid ones as well. Now

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Apr 25, 2013

Acer Liquid E2: Europeans will soon be able to drop 230 EUR on an incredibly capable handset

Stefan Constantinescu

Year after year, specs that were once considered "high end" become "mid range" and then given enough time they're soon classified as "low end". Case in point, Acer just launched a new phone for