"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

Android already dominate 80% of China's smartphone market.

According to the report by Eguan, the market share of Android was 82.8% in China's smartphone market in the second quarter.

The market share of Android in the first quarter was 76.7%, so that is to say it increased 6.1% in a quarter.

Recently MIIT also said that the market share of Android was nearly 80% in China's smartphone market in the first half of the year, so it's no doubt that Android already dominate 80% of China's smartphone market now.

And according to MIIT, the number of smartphone shipments was nearly 100 million units in the first half of the year, and it increased 197% over last year.

On the other hand, Symbian still continue to decrease their market share, and it had finally fallen to 6.0%. The decline of Symbian is equivalent to the decline of Nokia, but they already changed direction to the cooperation with Windows Phone.

Yesterday, Nokia released Lumia 920 that is equipped with Windows 8, but the market share of Windows Phone( include Windows Mobile) was also small at this stage in China.

So we have to keep attentions whether this new mobile phone will get the popularity or not in future.

Source => Eguan, ChinaByte

Smartphone users in China already exceeded 250 million people.

According to the report by iimedia, smartphone users in China already exceeded 250 million people.

This number was increasing 13.0% compared to the previous period, and they also said mobile internet users in China was 372 million people.

And the market share of each operating system was as follows:

Android had 55.4% market share, so it also can be said about 140 million Android smartphone devices are floating around in China. And this report also said that there are more 2,000 type of Android devices in Chinese market now.

Well, Symbian had 25.6% market share , iOS had 12.4%, Windows had 2.4%, and they can catch-up Android in the future, or Android continue to run the top share as ever, or new mobile OS will come to fore...

It cannot take our eyes off in the future too.

Original article => iimedia

MIIT released "China mobile device white paper 2012".

Chinese government MIIT(Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China)  released "China mobile device white paper 2012", but according to this report, total shipment number of mobile device in China was 455 million units in 2011.

In 2005, the shipment number of mobile device was 129 million units, so it was increased more than 300 million units in last 6 years.


And the shipment number of smart mobile device(*that means smart phone and tablet PC) in China was 117.74 million units in 2011, and the breakdown of mobile smart device shipment number by mobile OS as of Q4,2011 were as follows:

Android  73.99% ; Symbian  12.53% ; iOS  10.67% ; Windows Phone  0.34% ; RIM  0.03%

In the end, this is a ratio of mobile device shipment by Chinese company and foreign company.

In 2011, Chinese company has been occupied 71.68% share of mobile device shipment, and its number was over than 300 million units.


And this report also said we have to pay attentions the further growth of smart mobile device and "Nokia + Windows phone" can catch-up in Chinese market or not.


Original article => CATR