Oh sure, VoIP on the iPod touch is hardly breaking news these days, but what if you could actually slap on a regular SIM card and make calls on said device? That’s what Yosion’s appropriately named Apple Peel 520 claims to do. Powered by an Infineon baseband chip, this adapter not only offers voice calling and text messaging (presumably requiring a jailbroken iPod touch for the apps; GPRS not possible yet), but it also doubles up as an 800mAh battery and provides 4.5 hours of call time or 120 hours of standby juice.

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iPod touch becomes iPhone using Yosion’s Apple Peel 520?

It’s long been the case that if you wanted a HTC handset over in the world’s most populous nation, you’d have had to look for its rebadged variant under the Dopod brand. But, as of today, that is no more.

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HTC starts selling phones in China under its own name

Man, if you thought the lawsuit action in the mobile space was crazy before, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet — Motorola just sued Huawei and over a dozen former employees for conspiring to steal its wireless trade secrets and other proprietary technology over a period of years starting in 2001.

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Motorola sues Huawei and several former employees for stealing wireless trade secrets

Gemei ’s just rolled out a pretty attractive looking e-reader in in China, the GM2000. This attractive looking device has a choice of 7-inch, color LCD with 800 x 400 resolution, or a 6-inch, e Ink display.

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Gemei outs GM2000 color screen-boasting e-reader

Thanko has given us much joy over the years, from e-cigarettes to necktie / spy cameras . But the Bluetooth Headset Wristwatch? Hell, this one looks almost useful: your watch can be popped out of the wristband to do double duty as a Bluetooth earpiece

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Thanko’s Bluetooth earpiece / wristwatch for the on-the-go, shameless tech professional

Liu Jun, Senior VP and President of Lenovo’s Consumer Business Group, has revealed his company’s intention to deliver an Android tablet by the end of this year. To be known as LePad, this apparent resurrection of the Skylight / U1 Hybrid R&D effort seems destined to follow LePhone in seeking its fortunes in China first before expanding out to the rest of the world. Lenovo’s chairman did recently note that Apple’s relative inaction toward mainland China creates opportunities for others, so this may well represent the IdeaPad maker’s play for that burgeoning market

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Lenovo promises LePad Android tablet for the end of the year

The China versus Google spat seems to be drawing to a conciliatory end today, as a senior state official has announced China is “satisfied” with Google’s latest round of changes . This was somewhat predictable given that the country just recently renewed El Goog’s license to host sites within its borders, but it’s always reassuring to get confirmation from an official source.

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China happy with Google’s latest tweaks, saga appears at an end

This almost goes without saying, but it’s truly been a wild ride for the iPhone 4 over the last three weeks. While most of us will just happily open our hands to Stevie J’s freebies , there’s one question that’s still bugging us: what’s actually holding back the white iPhone 4

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White iPhone 4 delay: the challenges faced by Apple’s glass supplier

Ericsson — one of the world’s top-tier infrastructure suppliers for mobile networks — has crunched some numbers recently, figuring the five billionth cellphone line came into existence last Wednesday, July 8, largely from major surges in uptake in emerging markets like China and India. Mobile broadband access (which we take to mean access to 3G speeds and beyond) still trails significantly at just 360 million in 2009, though they’re predicting a cool 3.4 billion users by 2015.

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Ericsson estimates mobile lines have hit 5 billion, gives shout out to China and India for the help

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