At first glance, the HTC Sensation Z710t doesn’t differ much from the phone first introduced last spring, but underneath the familiar exterior lurks the new ST Ericsson NovaThor SoC. The handset is headed for China Mobile and couples the 1GHz Nova A9500 dual-core application processor with the Thor M6718 mobile for connectivity to the carriers [...]

Since 2000, Vodafone and China Mobile have had a strategic alliance that allows them to leverage strengths and knowledge of the partnership to improve their own business. The areas of interest are actually pretty extensive, including: “exchange of corporate management, technical and operational expertise, enhanced roaming; multinational customers; green technology, network roadmap management, joint innovation [...]

Nice, chunky, hard-lettered keyboard. Check. D-Pad on the left (prefect for gaming). Check. That’s the keyboard on the lower half of the Motorola MT716, a phone that could have easily been the Motorola Droid and then some. The phone landing on China Mobile carries the same keyboard as the one found on the Cliq in [...]

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 [...]

Remember the Motorola Android we saw a while back featuring a transparent flip cover that we weren’t quite sure what the purpose of was? Looks like we have a definitive answer with the announcement of three new Android phones from the Ming line by Motorola. The A1680, MT810, and XT806 will land on China Unicom, [...]

This week in Samsung Galaxy S launches, China’s the latest market to receive its own version – the GT i9008 – sometime soon, according to Samsung Hub‘s tipster. The phone will be released with China Mobile and China Telecom, but no pricing and availability information could be confirmed. There’s nothing else to this because, well, [...]

Some new details about Motorola’s latest Android offering has turned up over the weekend. The Motorola MT820 – which seems to have undergone a name change as it’s now known as the Motorola MT810 – will remain a China-exclusive device, for the time being, and for good reason. The flip cover part of the phone [...]

Samsung’s keeping the wheels rolling on their global Android footprint expansion, and this time it’ll continue in China. Samsung Hub is reporting that the GT-I7680 will be making its way to China Mobile. The phone is said to run a “special” version of the Android OS, but no details on the specific version have come [...]

Last week, we got our first look at a new Motorola phone which brought us a flip phone form factor: a first for any Android device. Another set of pictures have come together, though, but the hardware is slightly different from what we remember. For starters, the home button has been moved to the bottom [...]

Even with its unusual form factor, keyboard design, and obvious Asian influence, Lenovo’s LePhone intrigues me in a way that I can’t explain. It’s a good thing I didn’t get excited about this phone coming to the US as I’m sure all signs pointed to a stern “no” from Lenovo, but at least our Chinese [...]

China Mobile has a custom build of Android on devices they call OPhones and their custom platform – again, based on Android – is named the Open Mobile System. But in a recent press release, the carrier announced that their Android Phones will have support for Windows Mobile API. What in the… ??? Here is [...]

The Motorola Zhiling is the manufacturer”s first Android Phone made for China Mobile’s “Open Mobile System” line of phones that they brand “OPhone”. It isn’t EXACTLY like a Moto Droid with no keyboard but to draw that comparison is certainly not a stretch. The Zhiling has model number MT710 and will go on sale starting [...]

Lenovo is primarily a computer manufacturer as the makers of Ideapad and Thinkpad brands. But this past year they’ve edged their way into the smartphone market and even released an Android Phone in China: the Lenovo OPhone on China Mobile. You might be surprised to learn that Lenovo is the #3 smartphone brand in China [...]

The LG Korean site has just issued a press release announcing the LG Amundsen (GW880) which is the companies 3rd known Android Phone (GW620/Eve and the GT540) and first on China Mobile’s OPhone brand. The LG Amundsen apparently gets its name from the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who was the first person to reach the [...]

In case you forgot about Dell’s first Android phone, the Dell Mini 3i, they issued a press release reminding us all that it should launch later this month on the world’s largest carrier – China Mobile. The last day of the month is exactly one week from today (Monday, November 30th) so judgement day is [...]

Just when we thought Motorola had raised the bar high enough with the Droid, they go and do it again. This time, on the other side of the globe. Due out next year, the Motorola MT710, an OPhone, will be running China Mobile’s Open Home System, which is Android-based. Phandroid has reported the existence of [...]

Latin America might have Speedy Gonzales but it seems China has Speedy-T0-Unbox-The-Mini-3i-Zales some pretty quick characters, too. Just a few moments after we unleashed news of the Dell Mini 3i hitting China and Brazil (Speedy Gonzales was/is actually Mexican), one Chinese Blogger has already removed the phone from what seems like retail-ready packaging: Are you [...]

Dell’s entry into the smartphone market has been expected, and although once “highly anticipated”, excitement has wavered. They’re suffering the same sort of condition that seems to have overtaken Garmin’s smartphone intentions but not all is lost. At some point the Dell Mini 3i will land on AT&T but first, and in the coming days, [...]

We were SO excited to learn more about the first ever LG Android Phone… and then we learned it would be a Wi-Fi-less OPhone heading to China Mobile. Excuse our lack of excitement, but we’ve currently got our eye on the LG Eve (GW620) which DOES have Wi-Fi and is much more likely to land [...]

Dell’s first foray into the Android Market (confusing, eh?) is with the Dell Mini 3i for China Mobile, dubbed an OPhone by way of the Open Mobile System that the carrier has custom applied to Android. With the fortune of being located in China, the folks at Sina.com got access to the first DellDroid and [...]