Following slaying biggies at your house, Chinese smartphone makers bullish on India

They all have manufactured their existence felt while in the Chinese market all through the past couple of yrs, pinching the smooth dominance of smartphone makers like Samsung and Apple. Some have even crossed Apple with regards to market place share in China. Now, they may be focusing on the world’s third most significant smartphone market place which includes a 129% advancement in volume sales through the 2nd quarter 2013.

A handful of China Smartphone makers are focusing on India as their next expansion current market with killer devices from the Android system. A number of them like Lenovo, Huawei, Gionee, Konka and OPPO have previously entered the industry, whilst Xiaomi, which has by now eaten in the US-based handset giant’s marketplace share on household turf, is about to enter the approximated 25-30 million units per annum smartphone industry before long.

Entry of Chinese smartphone makers, who promote handsets setting up at Rs 3,000 to a high quality just one costing up to Rs forty,000, could have to compete with Indian handset makers like Micromax, Karbonn, Lava and Max Mobiles who have been endeavoring to capture the entry to mid segment in the smartphone market costing nearly Rs 25,000. “Over another few quarters, these Chinese manufacturers may possibly actually eat into the shares in the Indian makes,” stated an analyst that has a industry research business in India.

According to sector insiders, a consortium of forty five Chinese manufacturers, together with Zopo, UMI, JiaYu, Mogu, Iocean, Meizu, to tap the world’s speediest growing smartphone industry which has an extremely very low penetration when compared to China along with the U . s . - the world’s leading two smartphone markets, stated a consultant now doing work using a pair of these models to facilitate their entry into Indian industry.

The approach is always to flood the marketplace with endless possibilities to individuals with products and solutions that include high-end hardware, and excellent practical experience. Something is popular - they all seek the services of Bollywood stars to endorse their solutions, and the focus on phase is youth who devote atleast two or three several hours on their own handsets applying wise purposes, outside of building phone calls and messages.

The latest entrant within the marketplace is Oppo, which has launched its flagship N1 priced at Rs 39,999, final 7 days, has obtained on board Bollywood actors Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor to endorse its products and solutions. Gionee, which has entered the industry about ten months again, has got Farhan Akhtar as brand name ambassador for Aqua sequence. Lenovo, which commenced promoting smartphones in 2012, has Ranbir Kapoor as the brand ambassador.

But, the key Chinese manufacturers are focusing a lot more on expertise than pricing. “Price isn't the important thing for smartphones. We’re trying to convey to customers that it's not about price tag, nonetheless it is about efficiency when it comes to exhibit and other characteristics, which many handsets deficiency,” explained Arvind Vohra, India Head, Gionee Smartphones.

Huawei has before stated that it will have nearly 250 experience zones in India to press profits. Almost all of the Chinese smartphone sellers sell about 2-3 lakh units a month throughout India on an average, in metropolitan areas and semi-urban marketplaces.

Tom Lu, Director and CEO, OPPO Mobiles India, stated: “The fundamental product or service philosophy powering OPPO’s intercontinental accomplishment and reputation is our emphasis on anything very simple i.e. ‘experience’. I see an exquisite future for equally OPPO India and our partners plus the formation of the nutritious and long-term association centered on development and progress.”

Marketplace analysts, having said that, mentioned that though China Smartphone makers will eat into the shares of the big fellas in India, the dominance is unlikely to vary before long. According to some Canalys report, India’s smart-phone market place has grown 129% within the September 2013 quarter, although the growth fees in China were 108% and globally about 50%. The top five smartphone distributors in India include things like Samsung, Micromax, Karbonn, Sony and Nokia, it added.

Cheaper smartphones: Lenovo set to challenge Samsung, Micromax, Nokia & Apple in India

NEW DELHI: The competition in India's smartphone space could hot up further with Lenovo likely to emerge as a real threat to major players Samsung, Micromax, Nokia and Apple post the Chinese major's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, with consumers likely the biggest beneficiaries of cheaper devices with better features.

"We have ambitions of being a leading player in the PC+ space and Motorola Mobility will give us patents and technical talent that will be very relevant and helpful in emerging markets including India," Lenovo India's managing director Amar Babu told ET.
The Chinese smartphone maker - the world's largest personal computer maker - is one of the strongest brands to come out of China. It would like to replicate its success in India, among the world's fastest-growing smartphone market. With Motorola in the kitty, the company can push the throttle on branding and gain traction in emerging markets like India, say analysts.

India's fragmented smartphone market is dominated by global major Samsung and home-bred handset makers Micromax and Karbonn, who together accounted for over 60% of the smartphone market during the July-September period in 2013 when nearly 13 million smartphones were sold. Lenovo and Japanese consumer major Sony, along with some 24 others, made up for around 29% of the smartphone market, research firm IDC said.

With Motorola Mobility now in its kitty, Lenovo could offer innovative features on cheaper smartphones, forcing competitors to follow suit, say analysts. Microsoft recently said that its acquisition of Nokia's devices business will give the integrated company scale which could allow it to lower prices of its smartphones in India, a cost-sensitive market.

"The strategy is simple, we build scale in China and expand to the rest of the world," Babu said. "Our China business has grown 120% year-on-year last quarter, and they have 40 models. I need to make sure that I am picking and choosing the right models, customise and localise them before bringing to the Indian market." This, he added, will allow Lenovo to bring quality products at competitive prices, while the increasing scale could open up the window of beginning manufacturing in India.

Ainol Novo 7 Elf ⅡDual Core Android 4.0 Tablet PC

Model		Ainol Novo 7 Elf Ⅱ16GB Version
CPU		Amlogic 8726-M6, 1.5GHz, Cortex-A9 dual core; GPU: Mali-400
Operation System		Android 4.0.3
RAM		1GB (DDR 3)
ROM（Memory）		16GB Nand Flash
Shell Material		Plastic
Screen	Size	7 Inch
	Type	Capacitive Screen
	Display	LCD
	Resolution	1024 x 600px
	Visible Angle	160°
Extend Card		Support TF card up to 32GB extended
Camera		Front camera is 2.0 Megapixels
Gravity Sensor		Yes
Multi-Touch		Yes, 5 points multi-touch
Flash		Support Flash 11.1
Google Play		Yes, built in
Bluetooth		No
GPS		No
Video		1080P, AVI/MOV/MP4/RMVB/FLV/MKV…
Music		MP3/WMA/WAV/APE/AAC/FLAC/OGG
Ebook		UMD, TXT, PDF, HTML, RTF, FB2…
OTG		Yes
USB HOST		2.0
Email and Browser		Yes, built in
WIFI		Yes, 802.11 b/g/n
3G		Not built in, support external 3G dongle: E1916, ZTE AC2736, HUAWEI E1750, HUAWEI EC122, HUAWEI EM770W
Earphone Interface		3.5mm
Work Time		Up to 5 hours
Battery		3700 MAh

Onda V973 Allwinner A31 Quad Core Book PC Android 4.1 9.7″ Retina IPS Awning 2048×1536

Onda V973 Allwinner A31 Quad Core Book PC Android 4.1 9.7″ Retina IPS Awning 2048×1536
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MYSAGA C4 Dual Core Android 4.2 Smartphone-MT6572M, 3.5" Capacitive, Dual SIM Cards, Dual Cameras

Front & back camera, capture every moment of your life, wanna share your pictures with your friends through facebook or pinterest whenever and wherever? With MYSAGA C4, it's not a dream, but reality!

Main Features
OS: Android 4.2
CPU:MT6572M,Dual Core, 1.0GHz
RAM: 256MB
ROM: 512MB
Screen Size:3.5 Inch
Resolution: 320 X 480px
Camera: Front Camera 0.3MP, Back Camera: 0.3MP（Interpolation To 2.0MP）
Dual SIM Card Dual Standby
Brand Model: MYSAGA C4
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Network
Network Type: GSM
 Frequency: GSM: 850/900/1800//1900MHZ.
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Bluetooth: Bluetooth 3.0
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Lenovo LePhone A660 Dual Core Android 4.0 Smart Phone 4.0 Inch MTK6577 3G GPS 5.0MP Camera

Basic Information
Model Lenovo LePhone A660
Band 2G: GSM 900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA 2100MHz
Sim Card Dual Sim Card Dual Standby
Service Provide Unlocked
Style Bar
Color Black
Shell Material Plastic

Lenovo LePhone A660

System
OS Android 4.0
CPU MTK6577, 1.0GHz
ROM 4GB
RAM 512MB

Screen
Display Size 4.0 Inch
Type TFT, capacitive touch screen
Resolution 800 x 480 pixels
Screen Color 260K Colors

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Ringtones Type Polyphonic/MP3
Audio File Format MP3/WAV/AMR/AWB
Video File Format 3GP/MPEG4
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E-book Format TXT/CHM/DOC/HTML
FM Radio Yes
Earphone Port 3.5mm
Card Extend Support TF card up to 32GB extended

PiPo Max M9 Review - The First Available Quad-Core RK3188

Let's start by talking specs... and I will highlight some of the good and bad I as move through. Hardware IS something this device packs in well... The Pipo Max M9 is the first unit out of China to offer the much anticipated Rockchip RK3188. Why is this much anticipated? Frankly, in this reviewer's opinion it is highly anticipated because of the RK3066, a dual-core chip from Rockchip that has transformed the China mobile chip market's target audience from the occasional (and serious) Western a hobbyist to the much more... harder to please... Western consumer. Why harder to please? Because the Western markets have been dominated by devices packing IPS displays and dual-core Tegra II and now quad-core Tegra III chips for the better part of 3 years now. Yes, a dual-core A9 chipset for the better part of 3 years in Western devices. The RK3066 was the first quality dual-core A9 chipset to come out of China that could even begin to compete on a level with what we have had in the West. Better yet, rather than just beat out a Tegra II by some slim margin, the RK3066 (with only 2 cores) easily offers Tegra III levels of performance which is anywhere from 2 - 3x faster than a Tegra II. Previous China chips couldn't even touch a Tegra II. So that is the interesting history lesson which brings us to the present, the RK3188. Rockchip announced the RK3188 as a cool-running 28 nm Quad-Core A9 chip that would be clocked at 1.8 Ghz and while having the same GPU as the RK3066, the Mali-400 MP4, it's GPU would be nearly double-clocked. So... hotly anticipated considering what an incredible success the RK3066 was (and still is)... we basically expected a "double helping" of RK3066... and therein also lies the biggest disappointment regarding the M9... but we will get to that later.
Continuing on down the specs list for the M9... here is something that makes this device extremely unique in both the Eastern AND Western Tablet world... 2 GB of DDR3 Ram... Yeah... 2 GB.... In a tablet, that is massive. Pretty much double of every top device presently on the market... and I mean EVERY TOP device. The only tablet currently on the Western Market to offer 2 Gb of Ram that I am aware of is Google's Nexus 10... which is an absolute beast... but is well outside of the price-range of the M9 so it isn't a fair comparison :). In short, the fact that the M9 packs 2 Gb of ram is nothing short of wonderful and quite unique at present. (Yes there are some Allwinner A31 tablets that also now offer 2 Gb of ram, but the A31 can't touch the RK3188 in regards to performance so it is being ignored for the moment).
So far so good...
Let's talk screen... The screen on the Pipo M9 Pro is what I would now call high-end "China Tab" -standard- fare... What does that mean? It means it is a 10.1" IPS panel with a respectable 1280x800 display resolution. In regards to quality, it is quite good but not excellent. It is decent bright and viewing angles or good. But it does look a bit muted and a bit darker next to say the panel in the Ployer Momo 12 or the Yuandao N90 II/Quantum Meson..., which are IMHO the two best/brightest "normal resolution" IPS panels currently available on the market. It is VERY good, don't get me wrong, and I am quite happy with it. Colors are decently vibrant and the panel is bright enough that I have been using my unit on the lowest brightness setting all week (all indoors in well-lit settings) and haven't been bothered in the least. I also am reviewing a Freelander PD80 Vogue (TNT WILL NOT BE SELLING THIS MODEL BECAUSE OF THE PANEL) which has a pretty aweful IPS 9.7" panel. I have some comparison pictures showing the PD80 Vogue (which is bad) next to the PiPo Max M9 (which is quite good) next to the Quantum Meson (excellent) and you can see the difference. Now, I am talking strictly about the brightness and color vibrancy here, not resolution. Once again, in my opinion, 1280x800 on a 10.1" screen Cheap Tablet PC is just about the perfect amount of Pixels per inch of screen. Everything is very sharp and that is one thing that I do miss when I switch back to the 9.7" Meson screen at a resolution of 1024x768 which equals a lower PPI. I will also mention that my unit did have a single dead pixel near the top edge of the display but it hasn't been too bothersome (because the pixels are so tiny...) so no major complaints.

Meizu MX4 – нов китайски флагман с 4G LTE

Набиращият скорост китайски производител Meizu подготвя нов смартфон от серията MX. По-точно, компанията ще пусне два варианта на Android устройство, известно засега като Meizu MX4.
Флагманският модел Meizu MX4 Pro ще предложи 5,5-инчов сензорен екран с резолюция 2560×1536 пиксела. Според публикация в gizchina.com, смартфонът ще поддържа работа в мрежи от четвърто поколение 4G LTE. Процесорът засега е неизвестен.
В допълнение, Meizu ще пусне и по-евтин вариант на MX4. Основната разлика ще бъде дисплеят – 5-инчов Full HD 1080p. Моделът стъпва на осемядрен процесор MediaTek MT6592 и също поддържа 4G LTE.
Официалната премиера на Meizu MX4 ще се състои през следващата година. Твърди се, че това ще бъде първият смартфон на Meizu, който ще се продава на световния пазар. Освен това се очаква компанията да вгради за първи път Lytro камера в Android смартфон. See more Meizu Smartphones