No, it didn't say "If your China based"; it said "If you're China-based." Note the hyphen, but, more importantly, from a quite basic literacy standpoint: "Your" is possessive; "you're" is the contraction of "you are"--as we all learned in third grade. Don't mean to pile on you, personally, but the level of writing skills in this country--as evidenced by this and every other friggin' thread--is just appallingly, embarassingly, bad! But, to the point:
You will undoubtedly be able to snag this from a Chinese exporter upon release (hopefully a Hong Kong English-savvy affiliate, although if you check out ITG's website, I think you'll find that their English is far better than the norm)--perhaps even from a U.S. importer at some point, further down the road. In any event, the manufacturer is in Shenzhen, I believe, and although the stated market is worldwide (given the wide compatibility with 3G worldwide standards), "China first" is the watchword from ITG, who's NOT manufacturing this as an OEM for a western company, but is directly making and marketing the unit on its own; as is typical, then, the first hint of the unit's price range given is, not surprisingly, in Chinese currency, for that (huge) local market.
As an aside, I recently bought a PMP from a Hong Kong exporter with long experience catering to the west (mp4Nation), and have absolutely no regrets going that route for that product...and if I must buy this unit directly from China--particularly from ITG directly, eliminating the middleman, if possible--I'll happily do that, too. YMMV. But as a "currency trader," surely you can see the cost-lowering benefits of dealing with the Chinese directly, hmmm?! (Warranty issues are a different matter, but this thing weighs only ~400 gms, and would be cheap to ship back, if necessary).
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No, it didn't say "If your China based"; it said "If you're China-based." Note the hyphen, but, more importantly, from a quite basic literacy standpoint: "Your" is possessive; "you're" is the contraction of "you are"--as we all learned in third grade. Don't mean to pile on you, personally, but the level of writing skills in this country--as evidenced by this and every other friggin' thread--is just appallingly, embarassingly, bad! But, to the point:
You will undoubtedly be able to snag this from a Chinese exporter upon release (hopefully a Hong Kong English-savvy affiliate, although if you check out ITG's website, I think you'll find that their English is far better than the norm)--perhaps even from a U.S. importer at some point, further down the road. In any event, the manufacturer is in Shenzhen, I believe, and although the stated market is worldwide (given the wide compatibility with 3G worldwide standards), "China first" is the watchword from ITG, who's NOT manufacturing this as an OEM for a western company, but is directly making and marketing the unit on its own; as is typical, then, the first hint of the unit's price range given is, not surprisingly, in Chinese currency, for that (huge) local market.
As an aside, I recently bought a PMP from a Hong Kong exporter with long experience catering to the west (mp4Nation), and have absolutely no regrets going that route for that product...and if I must buy this unit directly from China--particularly from ITG directly, eliminating the middleman, if possible--I'll happily do that, too. YMMV. But as a "currency trader," surely you can see the cost-lowering benefits of dealing with the Chinese directly, hmmm?! (Warranty issues are a different matter, but this thing weighs only ~400 gms, and would be cheap to ship back, if necessary).