In China, Fake Phones Are Losing Appeal

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(1) David Pierson, In China, Fake Phones Are Losing Appeal; Falling prices of popular high-end mobile phones and consumer demand for features that crude clones lack are helping China shed its label as a knockoff haven. Los Angeles Times, Oct 4, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-fake-phones-20111004,0,7159541.story
("Slightly more than 24 million shanzhai phones were ordered in China last year; that's down about half from the peak in 2007 when the devices accounted for 20% of all shipments. Today, shanzhai handsets represent just 7% of new factory orders for phones and could be half that within a few years")

Note:
(a) Meizu  珠海魅族科技有限公司
www.meizu.com
(b) Xiaomi  小米手机
www.xiaomi.com

(2) Ken Liu, Excessive Handset Sales Have Lenovo Send MediaTek Urgent Contracts. CENS (Taipei), Sept 28, 2011
http://news.cens.com/cens/html/en/news/news_inner_37897.html
(MediaTek MT6573 chip)

(3) A couple of tablet makers in China tested MT6573 with their tablets with excellent results. Still, MediaTek  will soon supply a dedicated chip solely for tablets. Ken Liu, MediaTek to Deliver Tablet Chip in Q4. CENS, Sept 30, 2011.


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