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JXD

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6109273
Source-derived summary

JinXing Digital CO.Ltd or Jianghang Digital (commonly referred to as JXD, Chinese: 金星电子有限公司) is a Chinese manufacturer of consumer electronics based in Shenzhen, Guangdong.

History

Established in 1995, Jinxing Digital Co. Ltd is a manufacturer that specializes in the production of MP3 players and other consumer electronic products.

In 2005, the company started manufacturing flash MP4 players, HD MP4 and PMPs.

JXD's first product to garner interest from retro gamers was the JXD 301, which had a Blackfin 533 MHz processor and could emulate a wide variety of retro video game consoles in a handheld format.

Android products

JXD produce a range of Android tablets which use a gaming console formfactor.

JXD started manufacturing tablets and gaming handhelds running on the Android OS in 2011. They are one of the first manufacturers to release an Android 4.0 firmware (Ice Cream Sandwich) for their tablets.

Editorial summary

“JXD” enters the record as company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what company can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2005, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995. Its strongest next move is a source search built around company.
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Why this record matters

“JXD” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, company provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6109273. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2005 and 2011.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “JXD”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow JXD primary sources, JXD archive and company research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “JXD”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from JXD” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.