Research in Motion and China Mobile Shanghai branch launched a BlackBerry service for individual consumers on Jan. 6, marking the first time the popular pushmail service has been made available for personal users in the city.
This year, Canada-based Research in Motion also plans to unveil a new phone that uses TD-SCDMA, China's own 3G standard, which was developed in Shanghai, according to Research in Motion China.
China's mobile game and application development market is attracting significant attention. Big deals and new funds signal that it will be one of the hottest markets in 2011.
In the past three months, two publicly-traded Chinese technology companies have launched funds targeting the mobile Internet market in China, and two start-ups have raised big rounds of investments to roll out mobile applications.
China Mobile will charge personal users 98 yuan (14.60 U.S. dollars) or 118 yuan for a monthly package that includes pushmail services for up to 10 email accounts. The world's No. 1 telecom company now has 30,000 BlackBerry users in Shanghai, which is more than any other city in China, according to Wan Guoguang, Shanghai Mobile's vice general manager.
For enterprise clients, Shanghai Mobile provides BlackBerry services for monthly fees ranging from 198 to 598 yuan.
Research in Motion, the world's third largest smartphone manufacturer, has invested heavily to establish two research centers in Beijing and Shanghai. Its local team is working on a "Shanghai Program," a new BlackBerry phone that supports China Mobile's TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) 3G standard. This model would debut before spring this year.
The two firms are also looking at setting up an application store in China, akin to Nokia-MM market developed by Nokia and China Mobile.
This year, Canada-based Research in Motion also plans to unveil a new phone that uses TD-SCDMA, China's own 3G standard, which was developed in Shanghai, according to Research in Motion China.
China's mobile game and application development market is attracting significant attention. Big deals and new funds signal that it will be one of the hottest markets in 2011.
In the past three months, two publicly-traded Chinese technology companies have launched funds targeting the mobile Internet market in China, and two start-ups have raised big rounds of investments to roll out mobile applications.
China Mobile will charge personal users 98 yuan (14.60 U.S. dollars) or 118 yuan for a monthly package that includes pushmail services for up to 10 email accounts. The world's No. 1 telecom company now has 30,000 BlackBerry users in Shanghai, which is more than any other city in China, according to Wan Guoguang, Shanghai Mobile's vice general manager.
For enterprise clients, Shanghai Mobile provides BlackBerry services for monthly fees ranging from 198 to 598 yuan.
Research in Motion, the world's third largest smartphone manufacturer, has invested heavily to establish two research centers in Beijing and Shanghai. Its local team is working on a "Shanghai Program," a new BlackBerry phone that supports China Mobile's TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) 3G standard. This model would debut before spring this year.
The two firms are also looking at setting up an application store in China, akin to Nokia-MM market developed by Nokia and China Mobile.
