"Wifiin" can manage accessing each Wifi services that different careers provide. It is a very useful mobile app for travelers and sojourners in China.

In China, 3 big careers (China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom) provide each different Wifi service such as CMCC or ChinaNet. And these users has to authenticate by their mobile phone number to use these each service. Furthermore, this service is not mutual use.
Ex) China Mobile user cannot use the service that is provided by China Unicom and China Telcom.

It is a little bit inconvenient for travelers and sojourners in China.

But "Wifiin" can solve this problem.

This app can be downloaded from here, and the user basically can use it without charge. And this app supports Android smartphone/ tablet (2.3 or later), iPad, jailbroken iPhone and Windows phone.
* This app doesn't support normal iPhone and Windows 8 at this time.

The utilization of this app is very simple. When first boot this app, you can get 100 points. 100 points means that user can use each Wifi service for 100 minutes via this app.

Next you have to click the wifi button in the lower side of the screen to search the available Wifi service.

Blue colored points mean that its service is available. All that's left is to click that button.

After you will use all of this 100 points, of course you can charge additional points. There are two methods to charge this point as follows.

1. Download the recommended app.

 

You have only to download the recommended apps for charging this point. The points that you can get is different by each app (40 to 100 points).


2. Buy points

If you are a heavy mobile internet user, of course, you can buy the additional point by cash. Basically its price is 0.05 RMB per a minute, so it can be said that it is very reasonable.


I think that this business model itself is making sense. Because this app can solve the problem that travelers and sojourners in China have. Furthermore, the provider of this app can get the ad revenue from the app developers who want to increase the number of downloads. Of course, they can also get the cash revenue from the heavy mobile internet users.



The sole concern is an interruption or impediment from each careers. Because this app has the possibility to decrease the service revenue of each career.

I wish that this provider of this app will reach an understanding with each career. :)


Source => The official page of Wifiin, TechWom

In 2012, Tablet PC shipments were 10.31 million in China. What kind of situation is Surface Pro that started to sell in China last month?

Eguan published the new report that is written about the sales status of Tablet PC in China as follows.

According to this report, Tablet PC shipments were 3,197,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2012 in China, and it increased 35.2% compared to the last year. And their shipments were 10.31 million units in throughout the year for 2012, and it increased 60.5% compared to 2011.

According to the report by IDC, Tablet PC shipments of worldwide were 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, so it can be said that the share of shipments in China was about 6.1% of the worldwide.

But Eguan said that 2013 will become the year of explosive growth for Tablet PC. Actually, many Android Tablet was already shipped to the market in China, and iPad is also welcomed as the status from many people.

And Microsoft also started to sell "Surface Pro" in China from last month.

But according to the sources, the selling status of Surface Pro is not so good. A staff of GOME said that its sales numbers are one-tenth of iPad.
I think this main reason is the price of it. The price of Surface Pro is 6588 RMB, and it is much expensive than iPad(= 3688 RMB).

We have to continue watching the market status of Tablet PC in China, and we also have to watch the strategy of Microsoft for Surface Pro in the future.


Source => Eguan, Wangyi Finance

Alibaba released the new smartphones that was adopted their customized OS with Chinese mobile vendors. They will accelerate the cooperation with Apps developer in this year.

Aliyun(It's a group company of Alibaba) has provided own customize mobile OS since September 2011, but they released the new smartphones that was adopted its OS with Chinese mobile vendor yesterday.

The vendor who provide these smartphones at this time are: Zopo, AMOI, GFIVE, KONKA, XLJ. And a part of these new smartphones are already introduced at corporate page of Aliyun.

The price zone of these smartphones are 799 to 1399 RMB(= 128 to 224 USD). And all of smartphones adopted quad-core CPU and 1GB RAM, so it can be said that the cost performance of these smartphones are very high.

And in the event, they said that they will accelerate the cooperation with apps developer in this year. Specifically, they will invest 1 billion RMB(= 160 million USD) for the cooperation with apps developer in this year. And they also said that they will pay 1 RMB per 1 units as the incentive to the mobile vendor who will adopt the Yun OS.


Yun OS is generally recognized as the Android based customize OS, but Alibaba said that it's not true. They said that Yun OS is the Linux based customize OS, and it is compatible with Android (apps). And according to the some resources, the apps that was developed on Android can run on Yun OS, but the apps that was developed on Yun OS can't run on Android.


Anyway, we have to continue watching their actions as ever.


Source => Sohu IT, WEST-E,  SXdaily

[PR] Anhui OSS strengthen mobile solution of Weibo style enterprise social networking system “Crowdroid for Business” for making more smooth your enterprise mobile collaboration.

Today, our company published the new press release as follows, so please allow me to introduce it here.

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 Anhui Opensource Software inc. （Anhui OSS, President：Takamitsu Nakao） announced that published the lightweight WAP version and iPhone/iPad client to strengthen our mobile solution.

 Enterprise social networking system is increasingly needed in all over the world, but its mobile solution is also increasingly needed at the same time. We have provided its Android client for many years, but we start to provide its lightweight WAP version and iOS client to meet this expectation.

  According to the report by Forrester Research, the scale of enterprise socila networking market will be 6.4 billion USD in 2016. And its market is growing in China too, according to the report by CCW research, the scale of its market gained 246% growth in 2012.

 Because of this, its mobile solution is also increasingly needed at the same time. The number of mobile internet user is rapidly increasing. For example, its number in China was 420 million people in the end of 2012, and its increase number was larger than the whole internet users.

 We have provided its Android client for many years, but we start to provide its lightweight WAP version and iOS client to meet this expectation at this time.

 The detail of lightweight WAP version and iOS client is as follows:


1. Lightweight WAP Version
    According to the report by CNNIC, the mobile internet users in China were 420 million people in the end of 2012, and mobile device already became the top of all method connecting to the internet in China.

    But on the other hand, Baidu said that about 75% of mobile internet users in China were still using 2G connection in the last second quarter. So we start to provide the lightweight WAP version for these users. The UI of lightweight WAP version is very simple, so such users also can realize mobile collaboration very smoothly.
You can see the login page of lightweight WAP version here.
http://saaswap.crowdroid.com/

          




2. iPhone/iPad client “Crowdroid”
    iPhone have the second large market share in the smartphone market all over the world. And iPad also have the great popularity, and the user is increasing the day by day. According to the report by MIIT, the shipment number of smartphone in China was over 250 million units in 2012. We have provided its Android client for a long time, but we start to provide iOS Client at this time, so we can cover the most of smartphone users.

 


You can download its iOS client from here (free):
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crowdroid/id598535437

You can check the manual of Crowdroid here.
http://www.anhuioss.com/en/crowdroid/ios/manual1.html

We define these two products as prologue of enhancing our mobile solution, and we will add chat function to this in near future.



■About Crowdroid for Business(CFB)
CFB is a Weibo style enterprise social networking system that is suitable to mobile using too. CFB support three language(English, Japanese and Chines), and it have easy translation feature, so it is useful for using in the international companies/ communities. CFB also support the communication of n-to-n, so customers can understand the situation in their companies clearly, timely, easily.

Its detail and screen shot： http://www.anhuioss.com/en/crowdroidbiz/function.html

■About its price and license
Weibo style enterprise social networking system “Crowdroid for Business” have three types edition.
[Provide as License]
・Crowdroid for Business License Edition
[Provide as SaaS]
・Crowdroid for Business Professional Edition
・Crowdroid for Business Free Edition

※You can use "Crowdroid for Business Free Edition" freely within 30 users from here.
http://saas.crowdroid.com/
Lightweight WAP version： http://saaswap.crowdroid.com/

You can check the price list of each versions here:
http://www.anhuioss.com/en/crowdroidbiz/price.html

■About Anhui OSS
１）Company: Anhui Open Source Software Inc.
２）Legal Representative: Takamitsu Nakao
３）Address: Room402, Ma'anshan Software Park, No.798 Huolishan Road, Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province, China
４）Established Date: July 1, 2009
５）Main Service:
- Development of own products (Weibo style enterprise social networking system, Weibo and Twitter client for Android and so forth).
- Provide the outsourcing services related to social networking, Android apps, HTML5 apps and so forth.
- Provide the total consulting of related to open source software.
６）Registered Capital: 1,000,000 RMB
More：http://www.anhuioss.com/en/company.html

■Contact Us
Anhui Open Source Software Inc. Sales Team
http://www.anhuioss.com/en/ajaxmail/index.html
Twitter：@anhuioss_en(English)
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/weibo4biz


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Thanks!

In China, Android apps were downloaded over 6 billion times in 2012.

91 helper and HIAPK are each the one of biggest Android apps market in China,and both market are operated by NetDragon Websoft Inc.

And according to the recent report by this company, over 6 billion Android apps were downloaded from 2 app market above in 2012. And these market have about 610,000 titles of Android apps on their site as of the end of 2012, and 40,000 apps are averagely uploaded per one month.


And they provided some detailed data about this as follows.

1. The history of Android apps download number(2012 Jul - 2012 Dec).

Jul    490 million times
Aug  570 million times
Sep   700 million times
Oct   730 million times
Nov  760 million times
Dec   790 million times

Blue : Non-game apps
Orange : Game apps



2. The history of Android apps upload number(2012 Jul - 2012 Dec).

Jul    37,000 titles
Aug   40,000 titles
Sep    40,000 titles
Oct    41,000 titles
Nov   46,000 titles
Dec    46,000 titles

Blue : Non-game apps
Orange : Game apps



You can download the complete report from here.
*This report was written in Chinese.
** For downloading this report, login to Sina Weibo is required.



According to the report by Kantar, the market share of Android was 71.5% in China as of January. And its market share continue rapidly increasing.

But this report also said the penetration rate of smartphone is still about 22%, so I think that there is still a lot of chance in this market.


Source => DoNews

Baidu published voice assistant apps similar to Siri. Now it supports only Mandarin.

Baidu published voice assistant apps similar to Siri today.

Its utilization method is also similar to Siri. 

If you ask to it what you want to know, then it will reply the relevant answer.

Now it supports only Mandarin, but they said that they will extend the support language such as English and Chinese dialect. And it supports only Android devices, but they didn't mention to extend the support of other systems.


Recently Sogou also started to provide the voice assistant apps.

At this moment, it's not clear whether this kind of apps will become popular or not in China, so we have to keep watching trend of this in future.


Source => Techweb

The trend report of tablet PC user in China (Apps Edition).

The last time, I introduced the summary of tablet PC user report in China. And today, I will introduce the report that focused tablet apps.


1. How many apps installed in your tablet PC?

Less than 5 apps      4.8%

5 to 10 apps           21.9%

11 to 20 apps         28.4%

21 to 30 apps         21.0%

31 to 40 apps           8.8%

41 to 50 apps           4.1%

More than 50 apps 11.0%






And the diagram below is a breakdown by each smartphone OS.

Left diagram is the data of iOS user, and right diagram is the data of Android user. Watching this diagram so far, it seems that iOS user tend to use more apps than Android user.


2. How many apps do you often use?

Less than 5 apps    21.6%

5 to 10 apps           54.1%

11 to 20 apps         17.4%

21 to 30 apps           4.3%

31 to 40 apps           1.3%

41 to 50 apps           0.4%

More than 50 apps   0.9%






And the diagram below is a breakdown by each smartphone OS.

Left diagram is the data of iOS user, and right diagram is the data of Android user. And about the often using apps is also the same result that iOS user also tend to use more apps than Android user.

3. Online or offline, which case are you using more time on your tablet?

Online       61.9%

Offline      19.5%

No difference    18.6%

4. Which type of apps have you installed?

News apps is the most popular one, but this is a convincing result. Because the last report also said the most popular purpose of using tablet PC is reading the news.

5. Which type of apps do you often use?

6. Usually, where do you download your apps?

Third-party app store  28.4%

By search engine             27.8%

OS default app store     23.2%

Download site                 11.4%

App store of device maker  4.2%

App store of each career  2.0%

Other   3.0%

And the diagram below is a breakdown by each smartphone OS.

Left diagram is the data of iOS user, and right diagram is the data of Android user.

Google have not provided their Play Store market in China, and generally the regular Android devices in China are not installed Play Store apps. So as a result, the downloading from third-party app store is the most popular method.

And about iOS, 42.4% of iOS user jailbreak their devices in China. So as a result, it seems that the percentage of downloading from third-party app store is relatively high.

7. How much spent for apps in a month?

Not spend at all       42.4%

(using only free apps)

Less than 10 RMB   17.8%

10 to 20 RMB           15.4%

21 to 50 RMB           14.0%

More than 50 RMB   10.4% 

And the diagram below is a breakdown by each smartphone OS.

Left diagram is the data of iOS user, and right diagram is the data of Android user.

Watching this diagram so far, it seems that iOS user tend to spend more money for apps than Android user. 

As I reported before, the sales volume of tablet PC in China was 2,604,000 units in the third quarter, and this volume is estimated to continue increasing in future. So for many apps developer, there is a lot of chance in Chinese tablet PC market.

Source => ZDC

ZDC published the trend report of tablet PC user in China.

Recently, tablet PC user is steadily increasing in China. Well, how purpose they use their tablet PC for? ZDC published the one of answer for this, and it is a user research of tablet PC as follows.


1. Which tablet maker do you use?

Apple  41.1%
Lenovo  23.8%
Samsung  9.1%
Newman  6.7%
Asus  2.7%
SmartDevices  2.5%
DELL  1.9%
Acer  1.6%
Huawei  1.4%
Aigo  0.8%
Other  8.4%






2. Which tablet OS do you use?

Android  56.3%

iOS  41.2%

Windows  0.8%

Other  1.7%







Android tablet have a over 50% market share, and Apple iOS have 41.2% of market share in China. So it can be said that tablet PC market in China is still the status of two top era.
Microsoft already published "Surface". But they haven't started to provide it in China formally, so their market share is very few at this moment.


3. Which price range is your tablet PC?

Less than 500RMB  2.5%

500 to 1000RMB   20.6%

1001 to 2000RMB  19.1%

2001 to 3000RMB  18.1%

3001 to 4000RMB  27.2%

More than 4000RMB   12.5%




The price range of 3,001 to 4,000(477 to 636 USD) have the biggest share in this report, and the price range of 500 to 1000(79 to 159 USD) is the next position. So it can be also said that the price range of tablet PC in China is the status of bipolarization now.


4. How long do you use tablet PC?

Less than 3 months  7.4%

3 to 6 months  21.4%

6 to 12 months  25.6%

12 to 24 months  27.6%

More than 24 months  18.0%








5. Usually, what time do you use your tablet PC?

20 to 22 o'clock is the most used time range, and the next is 18 to 20 o'clock. So it can be said that many tablet users use their tablet after their work.


6. Which purpose do you use tablet PC for?

News   86.2%
Instant Messenger  67.4%
TV/Movie/Video  67.4%
Book   59.7%
Game   58.0%
Music   56.9%
Search   50.8%
Download apps   44.3%
Mail   41.2%
Online shopping   39.3%
GPS or LBS   30.3%
BBS/Weibo   27.3%
Stocks   21.4%
Other   13.7%




Watching this report so far, I felt that consumer tablet user is more than business user, but there is also the another fact that business tablet user is gradually increasing in China. I will keep watching the trend of this market as before.


Source => ZDC

The ratio of 3G network mobile internet user is increasing in China, but its ratio was still less than 20% in the third quarter.

Baidu released "Chinese mobile internet trend report in the third quarter", but this report said that the ratio of 3G network mobile internet user is increasing in China, but its ratio was still 19.8% in the third quarter.

Next graph is a usage by each career.

China Mobile     56.6%

China Telecom  23.4%

China Unicom    20.0%

The market share of China Mobile is gradually decreasing, on the other hand China Telecom and China Unicom is gradually increasing their market share.

And in case of focusing iPhone and Android devices, these gap is more narrow as follows.

China Mobile    41.3%

China Telecom 32.0%

China Unicom   26.7%

And next graph is the market share by each mobile operating system.

Android              33.9%

S60                     13.4%

Feature phone  13.1%

iOS                       10.7%

MTK                       9.1%

S40                        3.2%

Windows              1.6%

Other                    5.1%

As I reported before, Android devices have 90.1% market share in Chinese smartphone market, but it also can be said that Android have 33.9% market share in mobile internet devices.

Next graph is a market share by each mobile device maker.

Nokia         16.8%

Samsung    12.1%

Apple          10.7%

Shanzhai      8.8%

HTC               5.8%

Huawei         4.7%

Lenovo          3.3%

ZTE                3.2%

Motorola      2.9%

Coolpad        2.3%

Sony              2.2%

LG                  2.0%

Nokia and Shanzhai is still decreasing their market share, but on the other hand Samsung, Apple, HTC and Lenovo is increasing their market share.

I reported the summery of this report, but you would like to check this full version, please visit here. (This report is written in Chinese.)

Source => Baidu : Chinese mobile internet trend report in the third quarter

Android continue to increase their market share in China. Their market share exceeded 90% in Chinese smartphone market in the third quarter.

According to the recent report by Eguan, the smartphone market share in China of Android exceeded 90% in the third quarter.

In the second quarter, the market share of Android was 82.8%, hence it follows that their market share increased 7.3% compared to the second quarter.

iOS and Symbian both decreased their market share, both had 6.0% market share in the second quarter, but iOS decreased to 4.2%, and Symbian decreased to 2.4% in the third quarter.


According to this report, the sales amount of smartphone in China was 49.17 million units in the third quarter, the sales rate of smartphone continue to increase in the third quarter too.

*Yellow colored graph is the sales rate of smartphone, and blue colored graph is non-smartphone one.


More and more mobile vendors entered Chinese smartphone market, Android and related business in China will be more and more brisk in future.



Source => Eguan-1, Eguan-2

Xiaomi CEO Leijun announced that Xiaomi will start to sell their set-top box on November 14th.

On the Sina Weibo, Xiaomi CEO Leijun announced that they will start to sell the set-top box on November 14th.

"I have tested it fixed time, and I was convinced that  this will become the best product in our history. It will start to sell on November 14th.", he said on Sina Weibo.


According to the news, the price of this set-top box "Bingo" will be 499 RMB(= 79.21USD). This set-top box was equipped with customized Android, and this can support Airplay and DLNA, and user can use Android devices and iPhone as this remote controller.


Xiaomi continue steady advance on their mobile devices, but we have to keep attention whether they can keep or accelerate their advance or not.


Source => China Daily, Tech Web

MIIT said 3G mobile phone user exceeded 200 million people in China. The ratio of smartphone is rapidly increasing.

MIIT(Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China)  said Chinese 3G mobile phone user increased 10.08 million people in this month, and its user totally reached 202.639 million people as of September.

And they said the share of 3G user number by each career as follows.

As of September, China Mobile have 75.595 million 3G users, and China Unicom have 66.863 million 3G users, and China Telecom have 60.181 million users. As I said before, 3G market in China is still in the situation of competitive.


MIIT also said that smartphone shipment is rapidly increasing, the total its shipment was 172 million units as of September, and its number is increasing 183.4% compared to the previous year. In addition according to them, 83.2% of smartphone shipment was Android devices.


Total number of Chinese mobile user was 1.0847 billion at the same period of time, so Chinese mobile market may be more accelerating in future.



Source => IThome

Apple decreased their market share in the third quarter, but they still dominate more than 70% of Chinese tablet market.

According to the report by Eguan, sales volume of tablet PC in China was 2,604,000 units in the third quarter.

It increased 11.3% compared to the previous quarter, and increased 63.9% compared to the previous year.


Next is the market share of each tablet company.

#1  Apple       71.42%
#2  Lenovo    10.52%
#3  Eben          3.61%
#4  Samsung   3.53%
#5  Acer           3.03%
#6  Asus          1.74%
#7  Teclast     0.96%
#8  Ramos       0.53%
#9  Aigo           0.29%
#10 Motorola  0.26%

Other  4.11%



Its order was not changed compared to the second quarter, but Apple decreased 1.24% of their market share, on the other hand Lenovo increased 2.14% of their market share in the third quarter.

Lenovo started to sell two new tablet PC(S2107 and S2109) in the third quarter, so it became the reason that increased their market share.

Actually Apple decreased their market share in the third quarter. But they still dominate more than 70% of Chinese tablet market, and it means their tablet was sold 1,860,000 units in this quarter.


According to the rumor, Apple will announce "iPad mini" next Tuesday, but it may be next year that Apple will start to sell "iPad mini" in China. In that case, does other Android have a chance to increase the market share? The answer is Yes.

Google started to sell their "Nexus 7" in Japan this month, and Nexus 7 is also popular in China. So if Google will decide to sell "Nexus 7" in China too, Android tablet have possibility to expand their market share at a stroke.



Source => Eguan