Lenovo's $100m sale of the company's cellphone arm has been approved by shareholders, clearing the final hurdle necessary before buyer Hony Capital can take over the dwindling business.  Hony Capital, a private equity firm, have paid just $8m less than sales of Lenovo's cellphones made in the last quarter, after a 31-percent drop in shipments. The sale actually completed on March 17th, ... continued »

Chinese manufacturers often get maligned for "borrowing" technologies and "forgetting" to pay the licencing fees; in an attempt to stay one step ahead in the rush for 3G cellphone connectivity (and take maximum advantage of all those new first-time users in the country) the government there has developed their own 3G standard, TD-SCDMA, and is pushing domestic carriers to adopt it ... continued »

I'm not entirely sure how a prototype of Motorola's A1600 MOTOMING 2 cellphone could turn up at a Shenzen market in China, but then I'm an naive type of guy.  What I do know is that it looks to be a Linux-powered touchscreen smartphone with a 3.2-megapixel camera, WiFi and GPS, and certainly isn't one of the handsets featured in ... continued »

Lenovo has revealed a deal with Hony Capital to offload its cellphone business, a branch of the company little known about outside of the Chinese market.  The private equity firm will pay $100m for the group. continued »

Who ever has the desire to buy Motorola’s mobile division better have deep pockets and a solid strategy. I doubt this will ever happen – at least in my lifetime. Richard Windsor, an analyst with Nomura International believes that there is a chance Motorola will exit the handset business in order to focus more on becoming an enterprise and government ... continued »

Yes, I know we have the iPhone stateside and the Chinese don’t. But other than they, folks abroad definitely get their share of cool phones. Take for example this new LG KW838 full touchscreen phone available only in China. continued »

The current Apple iPhone negotiations with China Mobile bring to mind the recent James Bond film Casino Royale. Bond loses the first major hand in a high stakes poker game to the nefarious Le Chiffre: “Oops … You must have thought I was bluffing Mr. Bond.” Adding injury to insult, Le Chiffre’s girlfriend poisons 007’s vodka martini. Bond is ... continued »