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Tencent Challenges Apple’s Facetime with Weishi, a cross-platform video calling app

Tencent launched a cross-platform video calling software Weishi in beta last week, which enables iOS and Android device users to video chat with each other. Weishi is integrated with mobile device address book, providing not only video calling functions but also SMS and email features. Users who want to try out this application need to [...]

China’s Total Mobile Phone Subscribers Increased by 51.1 million

China’s total number of mobile phone users continued to rise in the first five months this year, led by a surge in the number of 3G subscribers, according to official data released Friday. From January to May, China’s total mobile phone subscribers increased by 51.1 million, more than half of which came from 3G users, [...]

China’s Mobile Phone Users Exceed 900 Million

China’s cell phone user grew by 41.39 million in the first four months of 2011 to 900.39 million in total, covering nearly two-thirds of the nation’s population, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The number of telephone subscribers exceeded 1.19 billion by the end of April, with the number of fixed-line [...]

China Mobile Internet Market Update Q1 2011

According to the latest report from iResearch, China’s mobile internet market reached 6.44 billion yuan (USD 989 million) in Q1 2011, up 43.4% compared to Q1 2010. eMarketer predicts advertisers in China will spend $717.8 million on mobile in 2012.

73% of Chinese mobile youth used the mobile internet in the previous 30 days

73% of Chinese mobile youth ages 15-24 reported using the mobile internet in the previous 30 days compared to 48% of U.S. mobile youth and 46% of U.K. youth. China skew male when it comes to messaging, but by a more narrow margin.

China Mobile has the largest share of the 3G market by subscribers

As shown in the graph above, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom each had more than 10 million 3G subscribers at the end of October 2010. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the total number of 3G service subscribers reached 38.64 million at the end of October, up 10.4% month-on-month, [...]

Physical newspaper are read least frequently by users in China and the US

According to Opera’s report, physical newspapers are read least frequently by users in China and the United States.

Mobile IM Q2 2010 Market Share by Active Users

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According to data released by Enfodesk, Q2 mobile IM market went up by 40 million more active users.

Baidu Launched Baidu Mobile Apps

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), [...]

China Mobile Internet User Behavior Study 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 [...]

NetEase Enters Mobile Race

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

Google to Launch Chinese Voice Search on Mobile

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, [...]

Top 10 Mobile Websites in China (Opera Mobile Report)

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 [...]

Chinese Spend on Average 4.47 Mins per Day Reading on Mobile

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 [...]

China Mobile Phone Users: 703 million

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 [...]

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

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.