News & Reviews: china
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Dec 21, 2022
Apple is reportedly planning to move its MacBook lineup’s production from China to Vietnam for the first time next year. This diversification move is following the rising tension between the United States and China, with the tech giant’s top supplier, Taiwan's Foxconn being told to start manufacturing MacBooks in Vietnam around May 2023.
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Dec 08, 2022
Apple has tweaked how AirDrop functions on the iPhone, whereby users now only have the option to toggle AirDrop sharing with ‘Everyone’ for 10 minutes. Previously, the toggle allows you to always keep AirDrop on, thus allowing anyone nearby to share files with you.
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Nov 24, 2022
The China Game Industry Group Committee, which is affiliated w the nation's gaming regulator has announced that young people in the country have curbed their addiction to video games. In a report by the committee co-authored by data provider CNG, it was concluded that 75 per cent of young gamers now played for less than 3 hours a week.
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Nov 09, 2022
Touch 'n Go eWallet just made another milestone. This time, the eWallet platform by TNG Digital Sdn Bhd has been expanded to Mainland China. The cross-border payment is made possible in a collaboration with Alipay+ which is operated by Ant Group.
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Oct 12, 2022
Apple has been shifting production of its products away from China recently amidst frustrations over supply disruption and restrictive Covid-19 regulations in the country. According to a new report, the tech giant is now planning to shift manufacturing of its MacBook lineup to Thailand, making the country the main non-China production site for the product category.
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Aug 10, 2022
India is reportedly seeking to restrict Chinese smartphone manufacturers from selling affordable devices in the country in a bid to support its faltering domestic industry. This proposal would ban smartphones cheaper than Rs12,000 or ~RM672 and would definitely affect Chinese brands such as Xiaomi, realme and more that dominate the segment in the country.
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Jun 02, 2022
Apple is reportedly shifting the production of some of its iPad lineup from China to Vietnam in order to soften the blow of supply disruptions in China caused by the country’s Covid-19 lockdowns. This move follows a similar move by the tech giant who previously shifted a chunk of its iPhone’s production to India.
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May 18, 2022
Chinese chip manufacturing giant SMIC recently posted its earnings for the first quarter of 2022 which saw a whopping year-on-year increase of 62.6 percent. However, despite the company’s immense growth, SMIC is actually projecting a terrible year for smartphone sales worldwide, claiming that it will drop by some 200 million units.
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May 09, 2022
If you ask any smartphone enthusiasts what's the best chipset, they would probably tell you it's the Snapdragon and Apple's A Bionic chipset series. However, both of these chipsets have been taken over by MediaTek as the most popular SoC in China recently.
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Mar 31, 2022
vivo has confirmed that the successor to its X70 Pro Plus, the vivo X Note will be launched in China this 11 April 2022. As we’ve reported previously, the launch event will also feature the company’s first foldable the X Fold as well as the vivo Pad.
As for the X Note, vivo today released official renders of its flagship smartphone for the first time. The images reveal the device’s design as well as the available colour options.
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