China’s R&D center for 3G warming up for iPhone Android development

Xi’an, well known for being R&D center for China’s top 3G vendors is rising on smart phone development, is speeding up with Smart Phone development, especially for iPhone and Android.

Xi’an Software Park, located at heart of Xi’an High Tech Development Zone,  is already the  home of R&D centers for China’s largest 3G vendors including Huawei, ZTE, Datang, and many other international companies, including, Sybase, SPSS,  Oracle, Emerson, Rockwell, TeleNav, Newegg, KnowledgeSurf, Objectiva, Active Network, Infineon, Platform, Fujitsu, NEC, NTT Data, Yokogawa, Sorun, ABeam, GrapeCity and many more.

Right now, beside KnowledgeSurf, there are many companies in Xi’an already start iPhone and Android development, from TeleNav Software (GPS Application), Zhongzhi (Mobile Streaming), Xiuyi (iPhone games), many others.

With the approaching of touch down of iPhone in China, as well as the release of China Mobile’s Android based OMS, smart phone development become a hot area, those mobile companies now are rising quickly.

 “We had been planning for the smart phone revolution for years” Catherine Li, the sales manager for smart phone in KnowledgeSurf said “With our rich mobile experiences in iPhone, Android, and Mobile platform development; we want to stay as the No.1 iPhone and Android development provider in China.”

 For more information http://knolwedgesurf.com/mobile

Google Android’s Biggest Hope – China

GlobalSourcingInfo.org – Google’s Android 1.5  is facing a tough competition in catching up with iPhone 3.0 in US, but not everywhere else. China absolutely is Google’s biggest hope.

China’s mobile released its version of mobile operation sytem recently, which is based on Google’s Android platform. With more than 400M subscribers, China Mobile failed to made agreement with Apple for its iPhone. As the result, China Mobile might be the largest operator for Android soon.

Besides OMS, several manufactors had reported plans to release Anroid based phone in China, of cause, not only for China Mobile. This makes China the biggest potential market for Android and most likely will not face the same level of competition it faced in US with Apple.

With a large resources pool of expereinces Java developers,  Android platform is far more popular than iPhone in the development communities.  Not only that, the Chinese operators and government all like the open source nature of the platform, so they can take over the control. I met lots of developers who are excited with Android development while I was in China one month ago. All of them were Java developers.

  Break down of subscriber data in Jan (sohu.com)

  China Mobile China Telecom China Unicom
The total number ofusers (by January 31, 2009) 463,920,000 28,930,000 134,000,000
Number of new users in January 2009 6,670,000 1,020,000 839,000
Number of new users in December 2008 7,070,000 -6 0,000 424,000