China cell phone customers have turned to Samsung, HTC and Lenovo phones instead.
In that same time, China saw mobile phone subscriptions increase more than ten-fold to more than 986 million subscriptions.
He also oversaw some of China's biggest overseas share sales, such as that of phone operator China Unicom and oil firm Sinopec.
After screening dozens of U.S.-traded China stocks against the model, one that stood out was cell phone giant China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) , which I featured in my most recent Forbes.com article. (Click here for that article.) But I also found a couple other smaller China plays that get solid marks from my Buffett-based strategy.
Apple had been negotiating with China Mobile to make iPhone its flagship phone to fuel further iPhone growth in China.
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Last month the Triumph, the first phone in China with the newest version of Windows, went on sale.
Among the companies attempting to lure foreign investors are phone company China Netcom, China Construction Bank, Air China, China Power and carmaker Dongfeng Motor.
Ultimately, a China-domestic smart phone operating system (with Chinese-made apps) plus a domestic mobile search engine will be the best strategic 3G smart phone combination for MII.
And China Mobile received only first lot of Lumias 920T around Christmas, the second and third lot and further have arrived China, and the phone is still selling out.
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After a market trial two years ago with one phone in China, the company introduced a whole lineup of phones last year in China, and in the past few months has started selling phones in Russia, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Telecom gear maker UTStarcom grew tenfold in four years by selling low-cost phone systems in China, then suddenly stumbled.
The analyst writes that the upgrade reflects higher smart phone demand in China and market share gains at HTC.
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The entire second floor is devoted to a major China Telecom trunk line and phone equipment, which cannot be removed.
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There was improvement though, as revenue increased sequentially, aided by demand for its products in the TD phone market in China.
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The biggest mobile- phone operator, China Mobile, is also a state company.
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed North Korea's "continued provocative rhetoric" in a phone call with China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.
Most of Netease's business is selling messaging services to mobile phone users in China--a profitable business that does not depend on the vagaries of advertising.
Android is cleaning up in the smart phone space in China.
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UTStarcom (nasdaq: UTSI - news - people ) is a California company that's in the business of providing wireless phone service in China.
Spending 18 hour days at his desk, Woodman went from drilling pieces together for prototypes to making 3 AM phone calls to China to obtain the right parts for his camera.
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To put that into perspective, there are now over 220 million 3G phone users in China (as of end of November), meaning the carrier still has plenty of catching up to do as it had a late start in the 3G game.
In addition, AMD has signed seven of China's ten indigenous cell phone makers to AMD chips.
The order from China Film Group came in a phone call around 10 a.m.
But look at how big the mobile phone market is in China.
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China is currently the largest mobile phone market in the world with 130 million users, followed by the US with 124 million users.
It's easier to bring a phone to market because China had fewer hurdles for Vizio to clear than here in the US. Plus, the massive (and growing) customer base doesn't hurt, either.
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The GSM selection ushered into China foreign network equipment and mobile phone vendors (Ericsson and Nokia, by holding important GSM patents, occupied an advantageous position for GSM network and handset development, which left Chinese firms in catch-up mode).
In the Early Childhood Care and Education category, Health Phone by Nand Wadhwani (China) was selected.
Examples include China Construction Bank, a huge backer of infrastructure projects, and China Mobile, a big mobile-phone carrier.
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