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Mobile Phones in China: Local Rates, Fashion, and Fakes – Tech-Web

www.isidorsfugue.com — An overview of some key themes found in how youth in China use and choose mobile phones. It covers the topics of how local phone call rates, fashion & image, and fakes play significant roles -- sometimes in surprising ways.

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Taiwan's HTC Launches Facebook Phones, Tablet – Taiwan News

online.wsj.com — Taiwanese phone maker HTC Corp. Tuesday released a new set of smartphones targeting Facebook users, as the group looks to cash in on the rising popularity of social networking. HTC was the world's No. 9 handset maker by shipments at the end of 2010.

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1m Chinese smartphones reported to be infected with pay-per-text malware – Tech-Web

www.guardian.co.uk — Unconfirmed reports suggest that a mobile phone virus is spreading like a zombie plague among Chinese smartphone users - and that it has so affected 1m phones which are costing their users a total of around 2m yuan (£150,000) per day as they send out premium-rate text messages to people in the owners' contact books.

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HTC trying to make name for itself in China – Tech-Web

news.cnet.com — I'm a fan of HTC, so this could be good news for me skipping the iPhour and getting an Android-powered HTC. "HTC announced Tuesday that it's launching its own name brand of smartphones in China, with four phones set to take the stage this year. Although the mobile phone maker already holds a presence in the Chinese market, its phones there have previously been sold under the Dopod brand.

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Tiger-tiger that text – Learning Chinese

www.sinoglot.com — Relatively new blog Sinoglot offers a bit of explanation (and examples) for Chinese New Year/Year of the Tiger text messages.

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Reactionary Ringtones – Humour

peavine.blogspot.com — West Peavine reacts to news that people in Tibet are being rounded up for having reactionary ringtones on their mobile phones and suggests which songs might be seditious.