http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/ Engadget Comments for China Unicom prices iPhone for October 1st launch http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/For one thing the Chinese have a larger automotive market than even the US now, let alone India. The Chinese are pretty big consumers now. I don't think it'll do as well in terms of percentage of the population as it has in the US of course, but with so many people I suspect that it'll still sell a fair number of phones.
One thing that's probably going to hold it back is just how painful it probably is to try and type in Chinese on the iPhone.]]>Sep 28th 2009 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
Sorry to disappoint.]]>Sep 28th 2009 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
And yes, there are no bears in Russia. :(]]>Sep 28th 2009 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
P.S. I don't like the battery life.]]>Sep 28th 2009 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/No one, not even MS can stop the iPhone Cyclone now.
The velocity just picking up! HAHAHA!









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iPhone already has official phonetic inputs and hang writing recognition for both traditional chinese and simplified chinese. If that's not enough, there are a lot of other IME one can installed in a jailbroken iPhone. So, typing chinese will be as hard as typing english, really.]]>Sep 28th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
But well uh... Now that we've got HTC Leo... who cares about iPhone?]]>Sep 28th 2009 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
* just an estimate]]>Sep 28th 2009 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
People spend way more than $5000 yuan to buy cell phones, and it's nothing... A bottle of knock off vodka or scotch would easily run well over $150 at normal clubs. and people ordering them like crazy.

The gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger also though...]]>Sep 28th 2009 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
Also a correction: the Chinese iPhone is the 3G model (but not the 3GS). Although most of China is still covered by 2G network only.]]>Sep 28th 2009 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
I wonder how long it will take for whatever share of Unicom's iPhone subscription revenue Apple gets to make up for the lost iPhone handset sales while Apple struggled to export the repugnant US/ATT model to China. And notice Apple finally ended up with number 2, not the gargantuan China Mobile.

To me it's just a shame to see the US/ATT model being exported to China . . . not the phone, but the model of slaving devices to carriers. One of the delights of Asia is that you buy your phone, then your network access (and change either as you wish). It's one of the reasons device uptake is stronger in China (it's common in HK for people to have multiple phones), and it makes travel across countries so much easier. The greed of carriers who want to lock consumers into long term deals (and device makers who want part of that carrier revenue stream) is causing the anti-competitive, anti-innovation US wireless telecom model to be exported.

Hope phone freedom continues to be at least one area where China outshines the US.]]>Sep 28th 2009 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
And the delay was mainly due to the unwillingness of Apple to remove Wi-Fi.

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Now Chinese folks can live behind the same walled garden they were only allowed to build before!

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This $18 plan is probably 0 minutes and 150 texts.]]>Sep 28th 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
The US has some of the highest rates & most restrictive policies for cell phones.

2 year contracts ( i just wanna make a few calls, not marry the phone company - that's a long time)
locked phones (these policies make cell phones disposable - what wrong with competition)
about as many network standards as thier are phone companies (settle on 1, make manufacturing a lot cheaper, help the consumer)


as for the chinese unicom iphone plan $18 will get you. 330 minutes, 120 sms,15 mms & 450mb data, the other package go up from there (not too shabby)

I was in China this past Febuary got a new sim card & plenty of minutes for $10, friend loaned me an old Nokia since only staying a few weeks. ]]>Sep 28th 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
Does the iPhone come preloaded with Green Dam-Youth Escort, too?]]>Sep 28th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
http://lambdajive.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/isinglepayer-iphone-app-censored-by-apple/]]>Sep 28th 2009 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
You say batman I saw Vawncast the world changes..]]>Sep 28th 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
And the App Store… unless Apple decides to release an iTunes store for China, I don't see it working out very well.]]>Sep 28th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/Sep 28th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/28/china-unicom-readies-october-1st-iphone-launch/
Lol]]>Sep 28th 2009 6:46PM