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Japanese NTT DoCoMo has established its new subsidiary, DOCOMO China Co., Ltd, in Shanghai, China. It will begin its operation sometime in the end of July and will focus on “providing mobile solutions for corporate customers, especially locally based Japanese companies”.

That's good, but what's in it for average end users? Guess we'll have to wait and see.

The FCC has recently approved the Motorola L800t candybar cell phone, which is apparently headed for the Chinese market.

The details are unknown currently, but It looks like a simple mid-range handset, which (according to the FCC) will at least have GSM (1900MHz), 2Mpix cam and a VGA camera on the front.

That's all we can tell you.

LG has introduced a new low-end music-centric handset in China with a model name KM380.

There's not much we can tell about it, just note that it has a 3.5mm headphone jack - exactly what any music phone need - and a clever set of external music controls.

Pity that it's a China only handset...

LG presents a downgraded version of the LG KU990 Viewty for the Chinese market.

The new KE990 model offers support for EDGE data instead of 3G HSDPA, but other features seem to have remained the same.

Replacing HSDPA with EDGE will reduce the price and increase battery life.

Nokia 5700 was cloned again.

This is the second clone you see here; the first one was a pure media player in disguise. :) Despite that its features seem pretty decent, including a 2Mpix camera, 3" QVGA touch-screen, FM radio, TV receiver, Bluetooth, and a microSD slot, their quality leaves much to be desired.

The new Xing Bao N98 is yet another iPhone clone from China.

This one however has two displays: a front 3" touch-screen and a non-touch one of 1.2" on the back with a simple numeric keypad and an Apple logo (unlicensed, I guess). It also comes with a 1.3Mpix camera, Bluetooth, handwriting recognition, a microSD expansion slot, and supports 900/1800 MHz GSM network.

Meet the new LG KF600, the Chinese version of the popular LG Venus.

It uses the same InteractPad touch-screen display technology, which changes the interface depending on the active application, and features a 3Mpix camera, GPRS/EDGE data, a 240x320 QVGA screen, Bluetooth, and USB 2.0 support.

We know that Chinese are good at cloning popular handsets.

Well, here is something original, a hybrid phone looking like a two-sided Samsung F300 Ultra Music with an iPod-like scroll wheel on the back. Nice. :)

The device is called Shuang Mian Yi Ren V8 and comes with two displays, the 1.

And here's another Chinese clone, this time of the yet unavailable Nokia AEON.

The device is called GF-W168 and features a dual-touch display similar to the original, a touch-sensitive keypad, a 3Mpix camera, stereo Bluetooth, media player (3GP/MP4 video), dual band GSM connectivity.

Well, close enough to the real thing, but still not the same.

The handset you see on the picture is "iMobile", a new Chinese iPhone clone that supports quad band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and looks exactly like the original iPhone.

It comes with a 3.2" QVGA touch-screen, 1.3Mpix camera, and supports both SMS and EMS messaging, T-Flash cards (up to 1GB), and stereo Bluetooth.