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Easily ROOT, and flash your phone with Shuame one-click flash ROOT tool
Chinese software company Shuame are developing an English version of their tool to allow international users to easily ROOT and flash their Android phones.
Xiaomi has sold 10 million M2 series phones in under a year
Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun has just posted on his official Weibo that his company has sold 10 million phones in just 11 months!
JiaYu G5 teardown
The guys over at JiaYu have taken some time out of their busy schedule to take about the stainless steel JiaYu G5 and give us a sneak peak on the inside.
Purported Octa-core HTC One with 3GB RAM in the works
Do you have your bags of salt ready? Good, because reports from Greece claim that their is an Octa-core HTC One on the way with 3GB RAM!
Coolpad Grand, 5.9-inch and Nvidia Tegra 4! On sale October!
Just ahead of the Oppo N1 launch, Coolpad launched their CoolPad Grand also in Beijing featuring a 5.9-inch display and 1.8Ghz Nvidia Tegra 4 CPU.
Vivo working on camera-centric phone with rotating main camera?
A couple of images have shown up on Weibo today both of which showing a possible rotating main camera arrangement on a future Vivo Android smartphone!
9 Chinese tech stories you have to read!
What an amazing week for Chinese technology fans! We have seen next gen phones, seen amazing collaborations and more!
How to drive Mediatek closer to custom ROM developers
The question put up by Andi, whether Mediatek should embrace GPL (or at least offer more tools to custom ROM devs) can, in my opinon, be easily answered with “Yes”. If you buy a device, its always great to have the opportunity to fiddle around with it and change things. Theres already a lot possible, once you acquire root rights on your Android system, but if the hardware base is open too, the possibilities are even bigger.
Should Mediatek honor GPL or shall Chinese phone makers use rival processors?
Chinese phone makers are finally looking to offer their phones to the international community, but with very little developer support available for MTK phones should we push Mediatek to honor GPL, or push manufacturers to rival processors.
HTC could be the official partner of CyanogenMod
We know that CyanogenMod will be working with a hardware manufacturer to produce CM phones, but could that company by HTC?
It’s official 5-inch displays or smaller are more popular!
At the start of the week we posted a poll asking which if GizChina readers wanted larger 6.44-inch phablets. Well the results are in and we can confirm that smaller screen are still more popular by a long stretch!