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Apple has disclosed that their first store in China will be in Beijing, scheduled to open in time for the 2008 Olympics.
It will be located on the to-be-renovated Qianmen Street, which, according to TUAW, will be "the city’s second pedestrian-only shopping street and it’s reported
that Apple will be forgoing it’s well-established storefront in favor
of a design that will blend with the Chinese architecture surrounding
it."
Photo of the planned look for Qianmen Street:
Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Photo from Beijing2008 website.
From a post on billdsue:
"According to this article, UUpark intends to make Leon the next Hello Kitty, and Sequoia and SIG invested $1.5M into the company in late 2006."
And so I went to check out some clips (not bad, not great) and then found some comic diaries, like this one (translations in maroon):
Cute. See more.
Advanced Chinese mobile phones are gaining an audience, but judging from the comments that are still piling up on this ChinaTech news item from May, there seems to be a growing need for a Chinese mobile phone hacking website — in English. Someone should do it!
UPDATE: Jeff writes, on Oct. 1, 2008: Hi there, you can find manuals and software for chinese phones easily: http://www.chinamanuals.com
Just check and ask for your specific model. They were very helpful to me (twice).
I checked the site and it looks good. END UPDATE
On May 21, 2007, ChinaTech posted a general news article/press release titled CECTs Mobile Handset Offers Fingerprint Recognition, which described the release of “the T100, a mobile phone featuring fingerprint recognition and streaming TV,” by Qiao Xing Mobile’s subsidiary CECT. A month later a reader named RUMELL posted the following:
I want to get CECT mobile phone software. please send this.
The comment has spawned a long scroll of desperate non-Chinese-speaking owners of CECT phones from all over the world, in search of help, hacks, software, CECT phones, and especially, manuals in English. People are exchanging emails. The article is the top Google hit for a search of “CECT mobile English.” Excerpted comments, including one exasperated reader who wonders why people buy phones they can’t operate, and even a Nigerian in search of business opportunities, below:
Arcia Says:
August 16th, 2007 at 6:49 am
I have the english manual for the CECT P186. e-mail me and I will send it
Tony Says:
August 21st, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Hi, I need copy of the P168 manual in english….
Thanks
Albert Says:
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:09 pm
can
any one help, I have got a Cect P168 but its arrived ni chinese, can
anyone tell me how to change it to english please, I am really stuck
Ralph Harris Says:
August 25th, 2007 at 4:06 am
Try this eBay listing: 270158049230
cenzurath Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
hi
i need a CECT mobile phone software too 
my phone looks like nokia
n73… but it’s not .. and i think it’s a CECT … send me pls the phone
software :(( thnx
Abhay Says:
September 1st, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Hi, I am unable to play any videos in my CECT phone that i am transferring from other phones. errror message is “invalid video file”. PLease Help me on this.
jagawar Says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:48 am
vidoes for cect are supposed to be in 3gp or mp4 format.
jagawar Says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:50 am
i
need an english manual for cect n99. need to know if i can install
applications and games. also how to transfer phone contacts from
another phone. jagawar@yahoo.com
Madu Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
can anyone e-mail me the official website for CECT
Indrajit Das Says:
September 9th, 2007 at 6:18 am
I
have purchased a CECT phone but not sure about which model.After a long
search i got to know that its a CECT mobile phone.can anyone send me a
CECT any model manual. can any one answer me some query regarding this phone.
1.What kind of OS is installed in CECT phone?
2. Can i installed additional software in this phone like i used to installed in Nokia N72
Symbian phone?? Thanks in advance.
Mail me at indrajit_dasin@yahoo.com
Richard Says:
September 10th, 2007 at 4:01 am
I have one CECT N95,which soft install for put java applications/games inside. I try with PC-Sync Manager but wont install JAVA app.
BABA BELLO Says:
September 11th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Please i need the instruction manual to enable me enjoy full usage of my set and software to install the set on my Laptop.
Murphy Says:
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 am
I
am a propectus business man in Nigeria. Due to the current trend by
internals on Nigeria(we are regarded as fraudstars) i will like to get
to know more about the tv phones and how i can enter into a fraudulent
FREE transactions. I reside in okokomaiko Lagos State and own a mobile
phone shop in CC234,Alaba Int’l Market. Pls reply urgently(anyone with
a good bargain)
711 Says:
September 26th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Why don’t you contact CECT and have them send you a bloody manual? Their web-site is located at www.cectelecom.com
Jacky Says:
September 26th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Hi,
Im a proud owner of CECT T888 and i wish they could add features like
bluetooth and pc sync.It sucks having to download almost everythin via
USB.But the fon is so cool!
wayne Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Hi, i would like to buy 1 and possibly more CECT mobiles. Who is the cheapest seller of these that can post to australia?
thank you
armstrong Says:
October 5th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Why
do all of you idiots need these manuals for CECT mobile phones? Why
didn’t you think of that when you bought those Chinese phones?
Obviously since so many don’t have a manual, they are difficult to
find, and therefore they probably are not available. Are there this
many stupid consumers on planet earth that still buy dumb Chinese
products?
PERKNOT Says:
October 5th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
HI
guys, i have a cect HLF-K808 phone - it has a chinese manual. i wonder
if some of you have an english maual for that and if do so can you
kindly send it to my emaol - r_flordeliz@yahoo.com
- another question - are cect phone capable of having other softwares
like java, or ebooks, is it instalble. what os is being use in it.
thank you for your help!
dmerrilldnd Says:
October 7th, 2007 at 9:45 am
I have the user’s manual for setting up the SMS, MMS and the internet settings. Just email me. I’ll send it to you.
And the most recent comment, from ana, today, continuing the call for help:
Hi I need copy of the a380 fingerprint ecryption manual in english….Thanks
My IFTF colleague David Pescovitz, one of the editors of BoingBoing, one of the world’s most popular blogs, pointed out that BB is being selectively translated into Chinese on Little Waves / 小波波 blog. This all works with BoingBoing’s Creative Commons license. Nice!
One. There’s a mandatory category where you state your country: you can choose between the "People’s Republic of China," or "Other countries and places."
Two. The speckled dots is, I believe, a sign that the image is supposed to prevent spam entries (sort of like the enter-the-code in the warped image tests, technical term: captcha). Are Chinese characters are so hard to parse that only a few dots are needed to throw off the spam bots / automated hackers?
Get a QQ account today! (Also, for fellow Mac users, I’ve gotten LumaQQ and Adium to work, albeit without emoticons or pictures.)
An email arrived this morning from IFTF’s Jason Tester with the subject header: "What if France is making a backup copy of itself in China?"
The email contained a link to a post on Super Colossal titled: "China: USB External HD to the French."
The scenario, laid out by Super Colossal, is this:
- In the town of Tianducheng in Zhejiang province, the Chinese people are hard at work replicating French architecture, complete with its own Eiffel Tower clone.
- So the Chinese are copying instead of innovating again, nothing new right?
- But what if France, not China, was responsible for this construction.
- What if France was backing itself up, physically, just in case?
Thanks to Reuters/Aly Song for the great photograph.
People’s Daily Online, English version, announced a new feature last week:
From today, China Forum will publish a question or a topic on the forum
once a week, you are warmly welcomed to give your answers or opinions
or comments. And best messages will be edited and published on our
homepage attached with your registered name. For those non-registered
visitors, your IP will be attached.
Although it doesn’t say WHO gets to choose the question or topic, the first two topics were chosen from registered readers, and were edited and republished under the heading, "Readers Say." The first is on the value of money in daily life; the second expresses quite clearly changing perceptions of the relationship between college education and employment, and is titled, "Graduation Equal to Unemployment?"
I went into university in 1993, from then
I knew I would have a life that I have never wanted, but this is life.
I hadn’t any power to change it. I would study knowledge that I am not
interested in, and went the job I do not favor. But it is the life I
couldn’t change it so I studied hard, worked hard. It is the life and
destiny.
It would be great it they continue to choose the best topics and responses each week; it would be even better if they would offer the same service for Chinese-language forums. Wouldn’t you love a weekly translation of excerpts from the single most popular BBS post on any People’s Daily forum?
A gander at the China version of Google Labs reveals several "new" projects:
- Google’s Windows app for pinyin input:
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A Life (生活) search, which includes categories such as train tickets, food, work, and housing.
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A Navigation (导航) portal, which serves a giant page of text links. Nothing new by any means.
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A "Hot Charts" (热榜) section, which categorizes top search results the same way Baidu does in its "Wind Cloud Charts" (风云榜).
- Within the charts section though, is a banner for a Google-CCTV co-production: "Google and CCTV-2 co-planned "Qing Guo Qing Cheng, A program to present China’s most popular cities to the world".
The Google part of the site seems to be devoted to search results on certain cities and various related photos, charts and graphs.
Note the prominence of Google next to CCTV in the above banner.
Over on the CCTV site for the show (it seems like the city promotion is a TV show), the main banner focuses on CCTV & TsingTao:
With Google + CCTV on a small banner below. And it seems to suggest Google is responsible for its global outreach efforts. Doesn’t seem that impressive after all, huh?
More importantly though, stay tuned this week, for what Baidu’s been up to recently, and you can decide who’s coming out on top 
I can’t say much about other countries, but young people in China’s and India’s cities loooove the Fox TV show Prison Break. On the advice of a friendly DVD shop salesman in Beijing (who, incidentally, hated 24 and loved the Sopranos), we bought the first two seasons this summer in China and began watching. We were hooked. Who knew that Fox was enlisting the young urban elites of India and China in a giant conspiracy theory about the U.S. government that lots of them now half-believe…
You may have read about the amateur translation collectives who can translate and subtitle a new Prison Break episode within 4 hours of its broadcast in the U.S.. The Chinese PB fansite is here, and it has all kinds of fan art and miscellania such as Prison Break t-shirts for 55 RMB; video clip of Wentworth Miller’s appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show, with Chinese subtitles, for your cellphone; photo of a Chinese student abroad who met the actor who played Mr. Kim.
The site of course has a discussion forum with a special section on original works 原创剧场. There you can find a short story imagining Michael Scofield’s first experience of Sona in the first episode of Season 3 (which begins in the fall), as well as an MV, or music video, done by a Chinese fan, which puts scenes from Prison Break against music. There are tons of these on Youtube made by viewers from all over the world, but if you’ve watched the show you’ll appreciate the utter bizarreness of the words to this sugary sweet English-language ballad (original version by SuperGirl 3rd place winner Zhang Liangying), set to pictures of mortal enemies, scenes of sadism and torture, murder, and the occasional romantic moment of conjugal visits in prison and kisses between long lost lovers. Link.
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