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Here’s a look at the South Africa-themed Apple Watch

Apple has launched a collection of Watch faces and bands to celebrate the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games and South Africa is one of the…

Honor 9X Pro debuts with the tasty Kirin 810, delicious price

The world woke up to two new Honor smartphones today, both upgrades of the outgoing Honor 8X. The Honor 9X and 9X Pro both…

Apple, Foxconn to begin mass production of iPhones in India this year

Foxconn, the chief manufacturer of the iPhone among other devices, is planning mass production of Apple’s latest smartphones in India. According to a report…

Smartphone shipments tank by 14% in China, Huawei leads

Smartphone shipments in China have slowed for a second consecutive year, research firm Canalys revealed in a report. In total, smartphone shipments in China…

Huawei back on top in China – Canalys

Oppo and Vivo have enjoyed several months at the top of the Chinese smartphone pile, but the latest stats show that Huawei has reclaimed…

Huawei who? Apple what? Oppo tops China shipments in 2016

It wasn’t that long ago that Apple, Huawei and Xiaomi were duking it out for the number one spot in China. But the latest…

Dual-camera toting Xiaomi Redmi Pro coming 27 July?

Chinese juggernaut Xiaomi has announced an event for 27 July, but its latest post on Weibo may have shed more light on the unannounced…

1 in 4 smartphones sold in Chinese market from Xiaomi – report

A new study has found that just over one in four smartphones sold in the Chinese market were from Xiaomi. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun cited Sino’s…

Chinese firm LeEco ditches earphone jack for new phones

The first smartphones from Chinese brand LeEco (then known as LeTV) were rather neat, offering some solid specifications and very familiar hardware designs last year….

5 emerging Chinese smartphone brands you should know

Huawei has pretty much become a household name across the continent, while Xiaomi is catching up in this department too. There’s more to the…

Xbox One sees China launch September 2014

It’s official. China’s getting the Xbox One from September care of a Microsoft and BesTV partnership. As Xbox says, this is an historical moment and…

Wearable tech holds no interest for China’s hardware pirates

Truth is stranger than fiction. China’s piracy industry has no interest in creating knock-off wearable tech such as the Galaxy Gear or the Pebble,…

Xbox possibly headed into China’s piracy-stricken market

Microsoft, creators of the Xbox 360 and upcoming Xbox One, are over the whole “China is a pirates haven” crap and as such. The…

Oppo N1 image leaked, has fancy ‘rear touchpanel’

Chinese company Oppo is working on a smartphone that has a touch panel on its back. The company claims that users will be able…

iPhone 5C, 5S may land in China two months after US launch

China may only see Apple’s latest iPhones, the 5C and 5S, a full two months after the rumoured 10 September US launch date. Yicia…

Nokia’s new budget Lumia 625 spotted in China with biggest screen yet

Nokia’s apparently set to release a budget Lumia device to solidify its operations in China — a market that’s proving increasingly tricky for the…

ZTE Geek rocks Tegra 4 CPU

Nvidia’s Tegra 4 mobile CPU is primed to be one of those technologies that closes the gap between desktop and portable devices, thanks to…

China is considering revoking its ban on gaming consoles [report]

My gaming fanatic colleague Charlie just sent me an email at midnight in his timezone (he’s in the US), so either it’s a drunken…

ZTE’s U956 phablet exposed

Pictures of a possible bang-for-your-buck phablet from ZTE, called the U956, has been leaked on Sina Weibo. If an illustrious smartphone is not in…

Nokia Lumia 920T ‘confirmed’ by Chinese Mobile

Nokia seems to have stepped into the fray of rumours, with a newly modified Nokia Lumia 920T, designed to work on China Mobile’s (CM)…

Countdown to ZTE’s “most advanced gaming smartphone”

Chinese manufacturer ZTE has announced via a very exuberant tweet that in six days it is going to release one of the most advanced…

China snags New iPad 20 July

China’s getting the new iPad on 20 July. The fruit company which doesn’t make fruit has decided to quickly launch the new iPad in…

New iPad finally approved for China

Product A1430, or the new iPad, is finally 100% bound for the shores of China. It’s been quite the battle for Apple in terms…

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