OPPO claims win in Chinese offline sales for April

A quick follow-up to our story yesterday about Xiaomi topping the market share pie chart in China — apparently, one chart doesn’t tell the whole story. An OPPO representative clarified to us that while Xiaomi did take a win in Sino Research’s April report, OPPO got another one.Xiaomi led the market in online-based sales while OPPO had the most offline sales for the month.Here’s how those numbers stack up:OEMShare ...

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T-Mobile will hand you a free phone (with rebate) if you sign up to a prepaid plan

The net neutrality controversy surrounding the recently launched Binge On service is far from over, and some of you may understandably be opposed to the way T-Mobile is advertising its service at the expense of the competition.But everybody likes free money, and that’s what the “Uncarrier” is currently offering its new prepaid clients to make amends for any false ...

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Back to the Future specs with the Coolpad Rogue on T-Mobile

Guess what? It’s 2015. And guess what else? Starting on September 30, you’ll see a top-of-the-line phone from 2011 make its way to the shelves of T-Mobile.We’ve seen what the HTC Desire 626 do with a Snapdragon 210 processor and while the company tried to make the phone viable at $200, we might think otherwise. So, what does Coolpad have to offer at $50 a pop? Apparently, a device called ...

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World’s (currently) thinnest phone stars in new pics

A couple weeks back we got word of the latest smartphone to challenge the crown for the thinnest handset around, as Chinese manufacturer Coolpad teased its upcoming Ivvi K1 Mini, boasting a body just 4.7mm thick. While not by much, that was just narrow enough to squeeze past the most recent smartphone to hold the title, last year’s Vivo X5 Max. At the time, all we had to go on was a single promo image from Coolpad. Now the ...

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