Vietnam Smartphone Sales Thrive Despite Inflation

Smartphone and feature phone sales in Vietnam increased by 27 percent in unit shipment and 21 percent in value in the first seven months of 2011, despite cutbacks in general consumer spending, reveals a new report released Monday by GfK Asia. Read More »

Unauthorized Apple Stores Becoming Common in Vietnam

Stores using the Apple logo or its look-alike to sell products without authorization have been mushrooming in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. Read More »

Another ProtoType Shows Up in Vietnam: HP TouchPad

Seems Vietnamese tech site TinhTe.vn has done it again, leaking a yet-to-be-released piece of electronic hardware into the wild before its official launch.

In the past, videos surfaced online of devices such as the Sony A290 Digital SLR camera, a new model of Apple’s MacBook computer and the popular Apple iPhone 4 (the Youtube video leak received over 3 million hits). Click here for more… Read More »

Vietnam’s $15,000 US Luxury iPhone Case

Despite an average salary of less than $10 US a day, and one of the lowest GDP per capita in the world, Vietnamese remain quite optimistic about the economy and the future. At the same time, growing affluence and… Read More »

2010 Replay: Top 10 Viral Videos from Vietnam

Here are some of the most popular videos from Vietnam that became viral in 2010. Some are funny, some are not, but all made their mark on the online consciousness of Vietnamese Internet users in some way or another… Read More »