That new Baidu Cloud phone we told you about last week? You’re looking right at it! Following the flagship Dell Streak Pro D43 (which was branded with what was then known as Baidu Yi aka version 1.0 of the platform), this Foxconn-built Changhong H5018 is the second smartphone to have its Android Gingerbread system enhanced by Baidu, meaning it’ll come with 300GB of cloud storage space (instead of the old 100GB), voice search, voice control and a set of other online services offered by the Chinese search giant.
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New Baidu Cloud phone unveiled: Changhong H5018 with 300GB of cloud storage
According to a recent leak on Chinese site PConline , Lenovo’s reportedly working on an Ice Cream Sandwich slab with China Mobile said to be on the receiving end of the delivery. Currently known as the LePhone S899t, this handset’s allegedly friendly with the carrier’s TD-SDCMA 3G network, while it’s also said to feature a dual-core, NovaThor U8500 CPU, a 4.5-inch, IPS display for all viewing pleasures and, as stated earlier, it runs flavor of Google’s latest OS
China’s search giant Baidu has already got its foot in the mobile platform door , now it plans to wedge it open a little further. Reuters report that the firm will be announcing a new partnership next week that will involve a new smartphone running an updated version of its mobile operating system , this time called Baidu Cloud
Here’s another interesting tidbit from today’s HP event in Shanghai : according to Kevin Frost, Vice President and General Manager of Consumer Notebooks Business Unit, 15-inch is currently the most popular laptop screen size in the US, while the folks in China prefer 14-inch offerings. 
Jostling for attention among a crowd of China-focused smartphone card readers, 99Bill’s card reader has now been officially revealed. It plugs into your headphone jack and communicates with apps on both iOS and Android. 
Good evening or good morning, wherever you are. We’ve just sat down at HP’s Global Influencer Summit 2012 in Shanghai and will be seeing what the company’s got up its sleeves for the rest of the year, so sit back, relax, and enjoy our liveblog right after the break
The world’s second ( or third ) biggest PC manufacturer has announced plans to invest $800 million in a new mobile product-centric facility. Lenovo wants to get closely involved with the lucrative world of smartphones and tablets, promising that several thousand employees at the new base in Wuhan will focus on new mobile devices for both China and overseas. Lenovo’s pegged to launch the K800 , one the first Intel-powered Android phones, at the end of the month, but this marks a concerted effort to advance both its tablet and phone collections — and offer up more space for those other side projects . 
In a classic case of east meets west, Huawei and Intel have joined forces to create an interoperability test lab that will focus on China’s homegrown time-division LTE ( TD-LTE ) network. While the technology runs contrary to the more common frequency-division LTE (FD-LTE), the Chinese brand of 4G is situated to take root in the US under Clearwire’s banner. Through its partnership with Huawei, Chipzilla — a newbie in the smartphone arena — will be able to engage in end-to-end testing of its mobile equipment and verify its readiness for TD-LTE. 
