China’s ZTE Bruises RIM’s Blackberry in the Smartphone Wars
Chinese manufacturer ZTE (HKG:0763; SHE:000063) issued an announcement today pointing at something that we missed in the recent Q2 mobile sh...
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3rdKind Bringing More Foreign Smartphone Apps to Japan’s Mobile Market
Japan’s 3rdKind Inc. has just announced a new partnership with London-based games and apps developer AMA Ltd (Advanced Mobile Applicat...
Speculative Specs: This Should Be the Next Xiaomi Phone
In the space of just one year, the Chinese startup Xiaomi has gone from being the maker of an Android-based ROM beloved of Android tweakers ...
Japan Lags in Smartphone Adoption, But Still Leads Asia in Mobile Internet Usage [REPORT]
Nielsen has some interesting figures about smartphone adoption and usage in Asia in its recent Smartphone Insights Study. Perhaps most inter...
Dentsu Hopes Emoji Can Ride Android Platform to Overseas Markets
Japanese advertising giant Dentsu, D2C, and Bijutsu Shuppan Networks Co. Ltd have officially announced the release of the Dcloud platform [1...
NHN Japan Launches Popular Line App for Windows Phone
NHN Japan, hot on the heels of hitting its 40 millionth user milestone for its popular Line calling/messaging application, has today announc...
Aliyun OS to Get New Hardware With Haier Smartphone Launch
Alibaba looks set to give consumers a choice of phone-maker for its Aliyun mobile OS, with China’s Haier (SHA:600690; HKG:1169) due to...
See Docomo’s Transparent Dual-Touchscreen Android Phone Prototype [Video]
Here’s a great video demo of a smartphone prototype from NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) which has a see-through display that (like the Sony rea...
Japanese Mobile Video Channel, NotTV, Surpasses 100,000 Subscribers
Mmbi Inc.’s NotTV mobile television service has surpassed 100,000 subscribers on July 28, just 119 days after the service began in Apr...
Samsung Spells Smartphone Success in Q2, But Apple’s iPhone 5 Still Looms
Samsung’s Galaxy has reportedly sold more than 6.5 million units since its launch six weeks back. The flagship handset from Korean man...
Return of the Knockoffs: Shanzhai Manufacturers Switching to Smartphones
The feature phone era was a godsend for the thousands of manufacturers of China’s shanzhai — a slang word for ‘knockoff...
Asia a Key Battleground in Epic ‘Game of Phones’ [INFOGRAPHIC]
App store analytics service, App Annie, has just released its Game of Phones infographic, and as big Game of Thrones fans here on this blog,...
Takara Tomy Delivers Another Addition to Japan’s Growing Robot Dog Army
Readers may recall a few months back when we wrote about Bandai’s Smartpet robot dog, which used an iPhone as its artificial brain. We...
Zing! Haier Unveils Its Budget Aliyun-Powered Smartphone
Alibaba has ganged up with gadget manufacturer Haier (SHA:600690; HKG:1169) to deliver a zinger: a budget Aliyun OS phone called the Haier Z...
InMobi Wants to Dominate Mobile Advertising in China by Year’s End
According to a report from China Daily, India-based mobile advertising company InMobi intends to be China’s “best mobile adverti...
Alibaba: One Million Aliyun Phones Sold Since Launch
Alibaba has announced that its Aliyun OS phones have surpassed the one million sales milestone, almost exactly 10 months after its launch la...
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