Well, it looks like this is not going to die anytime soon. Meizu’s iPhone copycat, also known as the Meizu M8 cell phone is set to be released in China and India thanks to GeekITstores from December. The 8GB model is set to cost somewhere between US$380 and US$470, and will launch with “complete fanfare” – according to the press release.
Hong Kong readers might actually be gleeful, as they will have the iPhone sold unlocked, meaning that they can use their current carrier to use the phone. They will be selling it for HK$ 5,400 (AU$841.10) for the 8GB, and HK$6,200 (AU$965.72) for the 16GB models.
China may soon run out of internet IPv4 addresses, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre. They say that under the current allocation speed, they have only 830 days left until they have no more addresses if no action is taken by then – meaning anyone thinking of getting on to the internet 27 months (or 2 years and 3 months) later will not get any internet access.
While the Olympics may be over, the products keep on coming, especially when this one is a Chinese mobile phone that is based on the Water Cube. From its slightly unusual keypad, and its design pattern, it does have a lot of features like tri-band GSM connectivity, dual camera and media playback. Now lets get to the obnoxious feature of a “3D interface”, but that could (and has to be) a lie.
The world’s largest domain name registrar, GoDaddy, is no longer accessible in China; according to the Moonlight blog – with not a known reason, but we can speculate that it has to do with something with preventing Chinese people registering Chinese winners’ on the internet.
ConnectU founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have placed sixth in the Men’s Rowing (Without Coxswain). This also means that their Olympic dreams are finished, as they don’t take any medals home. To get this far; both had to make through two rounds of heats, a semifinal and today’s final.
Chinese Unicom has said that it will spend $14.5 billion on new network infrastructure over the next two years as it rushes it plans to deploy its 3G network. However, while the company does not have a 3G license right now, it is still waiting to for a government-inspired reorganisation that will see the best parts of China Unicom merge with China Netcom.
The rest of Unicom will go to China Telecom, that will also see China Telecom merging China Satcom and China Mobile absorbing China TieTong – a fixed line operator. This will effectively reduce its telecommunication operators to 3; China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile – all now will be able to offer fixed and mobile telecommunications as well as broadband.
The 3G network that will be deployed is different to what is used in the western world, as it will be using its own variation – the TD-SCDMA network.
And we thought things could not get any worse. A new MP3 player has been released in China, shaped in the Beijing National Stadium – also known as the "Bird’s Nest". And it has to be said that it is crap!
Lenovo, one of the sponsors of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, has rolled out several USB drives after launching one that is made out of the same material as that of the Olympic Torch – and has the patterns as well.
Remember Joost? Joost was created by the founders of Skype; and has now made a joint venture in China, teaming up with a Hong Kong-based company and will show content sourced from many production companies around China, including the state-run television CCTV.
TechCrunch & Google Blogoscoped are reporting that Google China has now switched their design from the Google look to a Yahoo-like look.
Google Blogoscoped also have some notes, like the animated icons like the one in South Korea. They have also provided a English translation to it. TechCrunch says that Google faces a huge problem in China, as it struggles to get a market share against homegrown (but is listed in the NASDAQ) Baidu.
Yahoo shareholders have rejected a plan to adopt a policy, and setting up a human rights committee that would review it’s policies around the world, were defeated. Yahoo has been criticized by human rights groups over turning over e-mails that didn’t agree with China’s policies and laws. Only 15% said yes to the censorship polic, but 4% approved the human rights committee.
