Though they're 'cloned' products, the Chinese mobile phones that copy the designs of other popular brands are flying off the shelves. It's even reported that their sales is higher than that of the third largest cell phone vendor in the world.
The cause of this rise in sales is the 'clearing' strategy done by the distributors and the high number of sales for second-rate Chinese cell phones without license. These imitated products copy the models of more famous brands and also use similar names those brands, such as "Mokia". Most of these cheap cell phones use chips made by Mediatek.
Gartner calculates that the total sales of those cloned cell phones reaches 150 million units, which is much higher than the sales of LG Electronics, the third largest cell phone producer in the world. The producer from South Korea can only sell 117 million cell phones. Gartner mentioned the calculation based on the sales from stores to the last consumer.
These cheap phones are selling hard in the midst of the globally declining sales of cell phones. However, the declining trend of cell phone sales in the global market stopped in the third quarter. Based on the calculation of Gartner Global, the marketing research institution, the global sales experienced a year on year growth of 0.1 percent at the third quarter of 2009. (Thomas Hadiwinata/KONTAN/C17-09)
Movie review: 'Precious' a find full of Oscar-worthy performances
As Hollywood closed specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly wondered, who's left to make great American movies?
For one, the makers of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," who assembled some of the unlikeliest ingredients - Mariah Carey, Mo'Nique, and a lead actress plucked from an anonymous casting call - to create a wondrous work of art.
The film isn't easy to watch and will test your tolerance for despicable behavior as a long history of physical abuse and incest unfolds involving an illiterate, obese Harlem schoolgirl.
Yet "Precious" - both the film and its grandly resilient title character - will steal your heart. Lee Daniels, in just his second film as director, crafts a story that rises from the depths of despair to a place of genuine hope.
This isn't a fairy tale. "Precious" doesn't strain to present some happy-ever-after transformation that simply never could happen considering the harsh reality in which it's set.
Rather, the film reflects an inner spirit everyone can recognize, that role-playing game we indulge in to get us through our big and small hard times, imagining our lives are different, better. That we are different and better.
Claireece "Precious" Jones literally wills it to be so, and as played in a phenomenal screen debut by Gabourey Sidibe, she makes an utterly believable and electrifying rise from an urban abyss of ignorance and neglect.
Adapted from the novel "Push" by Sapphire - who taught reading and writing for eight years in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx, to students like Precious and her peers - the film is simultaneously tender and savage as Precious learns to apply that simple verb: Push yourself, push your boundaries, if others try to stop you, push them out of the way.
(The film debuted as "Push" at January's Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the top jury prize and the award as the audience's favorite film; the title was changed to avoid confusion with Dakota Fanning's sci-fi adventure "Push," released last February.)
When we first encounter her, Precious is pregnant with her second child by her own father, who raped her repeatedly while her mother, Mary (Mo'Nique), looked the other way and later heaped abuse on her daughter out of jealousy and spite.
by The Associated Press
For one, the makers of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," who assembled some of the unlikeliest ingredients - Mariah Carey, Mo'Nique, and a lead actress plucked from an anonymous casting call - to create a wondrous work of art.
The film isn't easy to watch and will test your tolerance for despicable behavior as a long history of physical abuse and incest unfolds involving an illiterate, obese Harlem schoolgirl.
Yet "Precious" - both the film and its grandly resilient title character - will steal your heart. Lee Daniels, in just his second film as director, crafts a story that rises from the depths of despair to a place of genuine hope.
This isn't a fairy tale. "Precious" doesn't strain to present some happy-ever-after transformation that simply never could happen considering the harsh reality in which it's set.
Rather, the film reflects an inner spirit everyone can recognize, that role-playing game we indulge in to get us through our big and small hard times, imagining our lives are different, better. That we are different and better.
Claireece "Precious" Jones literally wills it to be so, and as played in a phenomenal screen debut by Gabourey Sidibe, she makes an utterly believable and electrifying rise from an urban abyss of ignorance and neglect.
Adapted from the novel "Push" by Sapphire - who taught reading and writing for eight years in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx, to students like Precious and her peers - the film is simultaneously tender and savage as Precious learns to apply that simple verb: Push yourself, push your boundaries, if others try to stop you, push them out of the way.
(The film debuted as "Push" at January's Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the top jury prize and the award as the audience's favorite film; the title was changed to avoid confusion with Dakota Fanning's sci-fi adventure "Push," released last February.)
When we first encounter her, Precious is pregnant with her second child by her own father, who raped her repeatedly while her mother, Mary (Mo'Nique), looked the other way and later heaped abuse on her daughter out of jealousy and spite.
by The Associated Press
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