Since wordpress.com is not accessible from inside China, I won’t be able to post to it once I move to Beijing at the end of this month. So… my blog at http://trigram.wordpress.com is now at this new home. Thanks for coming along!
Seems like maybe it’s a good time to be going to work in China, and accumulating a pot of RMB…
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Yahoo! Finance’s exchange rates for today… Hmmm. My gut feeling tells me that the Olympics remains very important to the Chinese government; too much effort has been put into winning the Games, and preparing for them. [...]
Slashphone brings the news that when the Meizu M8 is released in February next year, it will hit the market not just in China, but also in the US. Apparently it will be previewed at a trade show in the States in January.
Hm. So much for my hopes of making a fortune by selling them [...]
I’ve been under the impression that when the iPhone is launched next year in Asia, it will have Korean and Japanese input, but not Chinese. Unfortunately, I can’t locate the source that originally mentioned it. Anyway, it seems there’s already a hack that allows the ‘Sinification’ of the iPhone.
However… this only appears to change the [...]
Interesting to see a lot of traffic recently coming from a post on Yahoo’s finance boards; this is to my post discussing the CECT T100 - the phone with biometric security. It seems I’m not the only one interested in what’s going on with Chinese phone design.
From that Yahoo! thread, I see that the T100 [...]
I’ve just found Tim O’Reilly’s report from the Beijing Foo Camp, posted a week ago. It chimes with everything I feel about Beijing after my time there, and in particular, this:
There are (reportedly) very large differences between the tech cultures in Shanghai and Beijing. Shanghai is very entrepreneurial, with money as a common language. Beijing [...]
New shots of the Meizu M8, aka MiniOne:
A new colour scheme… It seems that the release date has been pushed back to Feb/March next year - around the time I’ll be in Beijing… Pity, had hoped to get one before then… I wonder if it’s any coincidence that the iPhone is due to be released [...]
IBM’s Innovation Factory is going to be working with China Telecom to set up a research centre in Shanghai. What I find interesting is that the centre will be based around collaborative media and social technology, pulling in knowledge from not just the two partners but also their customers, suppliers and the rest of their [...]
Losing my phone recently has focused my attention on design issues in the industry; as I’ve mentioned, I’m hanging on and using my old Nokia 6108 while I wait for my chosen new model - the Meizu M8 - to arrive on the market. The 6108 was the first Nokia model to be designed in [...]
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Tagged Asia Times, CECT, cell phones, design, handphones, Meizu, mobile phones, Nokia, Olivia Chung
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I was writing recently about losing my Nokia 6708, and was talking about it off-line with Niti. One of the annoying things about it was the lack of a password, meaning that the handset can be sold on and re-used by whoever’s got it now. The only security measure available was for the SIM card, [...]
