Although we like to think of the US and European markets as the center of the cellphone universe, there are big (Big!) sales to be had elsewhere behind the unstoppable force of globalization. And when it comes to absolute numbers, markets just don't get any bigger than China with its estimated 700 million subscribers. Rumors of
BlackBerry and
Palm twist-ups with Chinese carriers are nothing new. In fact, RIM has already been a player in the Chinese market
for years. Today, however, we've got a rumored timeline for bringing their handsets to China Telecom: end of 2009 or early 2010, according to a
Reuters source. The move would give Telecom its first trendy western mobiles in hopes of improving its third place position behind
Unicom and market dominating
China Mobile in a battle for the hearts
and minds and treasure of China's burgeoning population. And while RIM would certainly be pleased by the additional revenue source, Palm, with its modest marketshare by comparison, would be downright ecstatic at the prospect of tapping into China with its new smartphones.
posted November 23rd 2009 3:54AM
Awesome shoop!
Macaulay Culkin... is that... you?!
Yes it is after the operation.
@i2ehan
snooks, u beat me to the macauley comment...
Keep in mind that CT's 3rd place is very distant- maybe a few percent market share compared to the other two even if you count the PHS network. Who knows how many people will switch for this phone or how many current customers will switch to it depending on what Sharp pushes out for them in January (a few Japanese models are set to arrive in China then- hope it's not MTK like last time).
They already have all of the world's leading headsets UNLOCKED!;)))
LOL
Except for a small thing... they are all replicas;)))
Nice photoshoping.
she's trying to tell us something.
fixed:
http://bit.ly/5I5d5S
Anyone else always think that palm commercial looks more like a soap or lotion ad than a cell phone commercial?
thats how Chieses people will look like due to mutation after nuclear holocausts which will take place coz of trade despite with us over trade
"Although we like to think of the US and European markets as the center of the cellphone universe" - well, probably Europe, but the US?! LOL!
What about the rest of Asia (HKSAR is generally lumped into that market because it's not dominated by the CT/CM/CU triad)?
Life is already hard as hell in China. Please don't screw us...
Oh well, what's the use of a smartphone when you don't have access to the internet? (Google the Great Firewall of China)
Anyway, since China Telecom is such a tiny player in the cell phone market in China (China Mobile's daily profit outshines the combined semi-annual profit of China Unicom and Chian Telecom), its chances are slim.
You get what you can get though. What Wang Leehom is up to this week or getting movie tickets probably falls outside of democracy and porn, after all.
This is the IDENTICAL rumor from August:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/china-telecom-talking-to-palm-for-the-pre/
No new info, either.
Identical? We now have a timeline.
Eyebrowless girl hates eyebrows.
I'm just trying to figure out if the carpet matches the drapes?
Or, is it hardwood floors?
burgeoning means sprouting, just beginning to grow. China's population is already huge, and it's actually shrinking. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/07/12/china8217s_one_child_policy_causing_working_age_population_to_shrink/
The writers on this site use more adjectives than they should. Please don't confuse people.