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The folks at Dead Zebra are coming out with an absolute thriller of a series to commemorate the recent turning of the Chinese New Year (Year of the Dragon). The three Android toys are all decorative with traditional Chinese flavor. They’re aimed at the Asian market primarily but Dead Zebra has been kind enough to [...]

Digitimes is reporting that Chinese OEM’s could be quietly banding together to fight off the ever looming threat of patent lawsuits from Android arch nemeses like Apple, Microsoft and Nokia. The Chinese coalition would be formed by ZTE, Lenovo, TCL, Coolpad and Konka who, it’s assumed, would pool their patent resources and share information on how [...]

Much has been made of a certain “HTC Stunning” that is headed for Chinese shores. It was a phone we’d never heard of, one with an NFC chip thanks to widespread use of the technology over in those parts of the world. Unfortunately, this phone is nothing more than an HTC Incredible S with an [...]

A new rumor has crept out of China that could see Google’s biggest Chinese search competitor, Baidu, stepping into the mobile OS business. That wouldn’t such a shocker save for one detail: the rumor goes on to state that the new OS being developed by Baidu could be based on Android’s open-source code. The new [...]

How to turn on and use Chinese pinyin input on the HTC Desire (HTC Incredible / Nexus One). Video Rating: 4 / 5

Sharp has announced two phones for Chinese market; these smartphones will run on Tapas OS, which is based on Android. Tapas was announced a week back only by x-Google China president Kai-Fu Lee. First of these two Tapas based phones, Sharp SH828U comes with a 3.5

The Samsung Galaxy S has seen release in countries far and wide around the globe, but one very large market has remained untapped — China. But Samsung doesn’t want the country neighboring their native Korea to feel left out, so they have announced that they will be launching the S on all three major Chinese [...]

M001 7″ Touch Screen TFT LCD Google Android 1.6 Tablet PC w/ WiFi (VIA MW8505/600MHz) I bought it in China for $80. You can get it here: www.dealextreme.com

Not that we had anything to do with its conception, but it’s hard to root for an Android device that’s trying to mimic the iPad and fail so terribly at it. As Android fans, we strive to prove to our non-believing friends that Android can do anything that competing operating systems can do, and more. [...]

Just as rapidly as iPad competitor’s are starting to come to market, so are the blatant iPad clones, and it looks like both just can’t get enough of Android as their OS of choice. The latest clone that should be finding its way to China packs a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 512MB of RAM, and [...]