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I haven't seen a pinch of either Chinese brands anywhere I've been, and I live in Tokyo, frequenting all the major electronics areas to see if anything new catches my attention. Not sure why we haven't seen anything yet, especially in Akihabara (famous for it's "You can find anything here" electronics mecca).
On a side note, I've seen a ton of the Sony UMPC's available quite cheap second-hand. This kinda turned me off of one when I was in the market for something small and portable, because if so many are being traded in then people aren't happy with them. They usually run about anywhere from 90,000-110,000 yen (or $780 to $950 USD), that's darn cheap! I ended up finding a very cheap Sony PCG-X505, which is the lightest laptop out at ~850 grams. Might be a few years old, but it's still a 1Ghz Pentium-M. Now I just have to offload my TabletPC, may post in the markerplace sometime in the near future...
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