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Baidu Launched Baidu Mobile Apps

November 26, 2009

Baidu launched its mobile application client in public beta – “Zhangshang (or palm in English) Baidu” on Nov 25, 2009. It currently supports Symbian S60 V3/V5 and windows mobile 5/6.0/6.1 mobile OS.
Mobile applications include Baidu search, Baidu Post Bar (provides users with a query-based searchable community to exchange views and share knowledge and experiences), and [...]

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China Mobile Internet User Behavior Study 2009

November 17, 2009

Do you know that 82.2% of China mobile Internet users are male? At least, it is true at the moment. It’s a cool thing for guys to surf Internet by mobile phones. Not many ladies have enjoyed mobile Internet yet.
Age. Overall China mobile phone Internet users are very young, with over 50.7% between age 18 [...]

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NetEase Enters Mobile Race

November 3, 2009

Everyone wants a piece in capitalizing on China’s recent launch of high-speed 3G services. What’s NetEase going to fight with?
NetEase will focus on three areas: augmented reality, which allows users to conduct searches based on mobile phone photos; mobile language translators; and barcode scanning.
Source: Reuters

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Google to Launch Chinese Voice Search on Mobile

October 15, 2009

Google vice president for global mobile search, Vic Gundotra, for the first time in Beijing demoed the Chinese voice search service for mobile that will be launched in a few weeks. The service will be initially made available for Nokia S60 platform.
Chinese version of Google mobile search adopts the cloud computing and supports Mandarin, English, [...]

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Top 10 Mobile Websites in China (Opera Mobile Report)

October 4, 2009

According to Opera, the top ten mobile websites in China (by the number of total unique users) are:

Kong.net
baidu.com
google.cn
xiaonei.com (which is now renren.com)
sina.com.cn
qq.com
hao123.com
sohu.com
operachina.com
taobao.com

Top mobile handsets in China for May 2009

Nokia 5000
Nokia 7100s
Nokia 5220
Nokia 6300
Nokia 7310c
Nokia 5130
Nokia 5300
Nokia 6120c
Nokia 7610s
Nokia 3110c

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Chinese Spend on Average 4.47 Mins per Day Reading on Mobile

September 13, 2009

China Publishing Science Research Institute has revealed the “National Reading Survey Report”: 18-70 year-old nationals spend on average 4.47 minutes per day reading on mobile phones, which cost on average 17.04 yuan (about US$2.5).
Over 10% of Chinese nationals, whose age is between 14 and 70, use mobile phones to read. Most of them who read [...]

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China Mobile Phone Users: 703 million

September 5, 2009

via People.com.cn,
According to a telecommunications industry operational report released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, between January and July, the number of telephone users in China rose by 48.99 million to 1.03 billion, of which the number of fixed telephone users dropped by 12.42 million to 328 million, and the number of mobile [...]

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Netpop: 102m Mobile Consumers & 182m Web-enabled Phones in China

August 10, 2009

ccording to a NetPop report, there are currently 102 million mobile consumers and 182 million web-enabled phones in China. The US has only 18 million mobile consumers with 57 million web-enabled phones.
Netpop | Pocket: Growing The Mobile Marketplace Preview
View more documents from Netpop.

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