You’re alone in a room, or perhaps with a small group of friends, looking for a way out, searching all the walls and surfaces around you—even the furniture and objects—for clues. There is no apparent way out. There are no immediately visible doors.
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There’s no denying that China doesn’t have the best record when it comes to urban planning and development, particularly in regards to real estate
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The folks who happen to live in China were on the receiving end of a clamshell device earlier this year from Samsung, where said smartphone was known as the Samsung SCH-W999. The SCH-W999 took on a clamshell form factor that was long thought to be extinct in nature, but it seems that if you happened to have missed that particular “boat”, there is still a chance for redemption. After all, we have received word that there will be another clamshell form factor smartphone from Samsung that is headed to the world’s most populous country again – the Samsung SM-W2014.
This new smartphone is touted to run on a quad-core 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 processor, where it will feature a couple of Super AMOLED screens as well to up the ante. Right now, it is the most impressive dual-display clamshell smartphone in China, where both displays feature a 3.67” screen size at 800 x 480 pixels, accompanied by 2GB RAM to boot, a 13-megapixel camera at the back with a 2-megapixel front facing camera, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, all running on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean right out of the box. It does seem to shape up with be an exclusive smartphone for the Chinese market, and you can pick one up from China Telecom if you’re interested.
Samsung SM-W2014 Is Another Clamshell Smartphone To Hit China original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This week the folks at Xiaomi have been reported to conjure up the next smartwatch in the ever-growing market category of interest, perhaps taking cue from their recently Google-employed Vice President of Xiaomi Global Hugo Barra. Android’s next move to version 4.4 Kitkat has been tipped to be bringing on features that scale especially well […]
China is well-known for their censorship and have in the past (and still are) blocked access by their residents to well-known social media websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. While this is a great opportunity for businesses in China to develop alternatives, such as Weibo and Youku, safe to say the content will differ greatly from the original. One app on the Chinese iTunes App Store called Open Door allowed users to circumvent China’s censorship firewall by masking users’ identities while they surfed the web. Unfortunately Apple has since pulled the app from the app store, leading many to criticize the Cupertino company’s latest move.
This is not the first time Apple has done something similar in order to keep peace with the Chinese government, presumably to allow them to keep selling their products in China and not be slapped with unnecessary hurdles. Apple states that apps are beholden to the laws of the country in which they are sold. The developers of the app claim they were not notified beforehand before the app was pulled and stated that they will not challenge Apple’s decision in fear of retaliation. According to one developer, “Unfortunately we’re not aware of any app developer ever [who was successful] in challenging Apple’s decision. In fact, we won’t be surprised if Apple decides to pull our app from all App Stores and/or terminates our account in retaliation.”
Apple Faces Backlash After Removing Anti-Censorship App In China original content from Ubergizmo. 
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China’s internet is not exactly famous for its freedom, but it takes a lot of effort to keep it tied down. Folks have done math to suggest there are thousands of government employees censoring China’s Twitter-clone Weibo alone. Now the Beijing News is pegging that total at more like two million.
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It would appear that Samsung will be bringing on another advanced version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, this time working with the Active version – waterproof, that is. Like the original Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A, this version looks to carry the more advanced processor in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core SoC. This version also works […]
It would appear that the engineers at Huawei have decided that you need your USB ports open more than you need that SD card reader free as they’ve created a 3G-capable SD card for the masses. This device is able to connect to your laptop the same way you’d plug in a USB “MiFi dongle”, […]
While demand for the gold-colored iPhone 5s seems to have been high the world over, the oddest cultural response continues to be in China, where the device is given the nickname “Tyrant King.” It’s there also that some of the highest prices have been demanded, with some 3rd party sellers taking the opportunity to follow […]
Last week, China tested out a satellite that’s capable of grabbing and capturing other satellites as they orbit the Earth. This normally wouldn’t be such a big deal, except that it amounts to China conducting a weapons test in space. And that’s worrisome—especially to the Pentagon.
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