I see the Chinese have good taste in smartphones. I hope five million is just a start. If the iPhone catches on maybe it can grab more of that nearly half-billion person user base of China Unicom. Apple can pick up some fat revenue for another few quarters and maybe pass RIM in smartphone market share or at least get a lot closer.
Except that you're forgetting the bit where Chinese wireless regulations prohibited Apple from including WiFi in the officially-launched version if they also didn't include the Chinese short-range wireless networking technology WAPI. They didn't bend to China so there's no WiFi in this version of the iPhone. Deal-breaker for me as a China Unicom subscriber; I'll go for the Sharp SH0902C (sold as the 923SH in Japan) instead, thank you very much. If I'm going to be limited to the 3G network, mught as well have a phone with a screen that can actually be called "high-res" (480x854).
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iphonerulez @ Aug 14th 2009 8:08AM
I see the Chinese have good taste in smartphones. I hope five million is just a start. If the iPhone catches on maybe it can grab more of that nearly half-billion person user base of China Unicom. Apple can pick up some fat revenue for another few quarters and maybe pass RIM in smartphone market share or at least get a lot closer.
Jamar @ Aug 16th 2009 1:09AM
Except that you're forgetting the bit where Chinese wireless regulations prohibited Apple from including WiFi in the officially-launched version if they also didn't include the Chinese short-range wireless networking technology WAPI. They didn't bend to China so there's no WiFi in this version of the iPhone. Deal-breaker for me as a China Unicom subscriber; I'll go for the Sharp SH0902C (sold as the 923SH in Japan) instead, thank you very much. If I'm going to be limited to the 3G network, mught as well have a phone with a screen that can actually be called "high-res" (480x854).