iPhone coming to China Unicom in Q4 -- it's official (updated)

by Thomas Ricker Aug 28th 2009 @ 4:32AM

And now it's official: China Unicom has struck a 3-year ~~exclusive~~ deal to finally bring the iPhone to China's massive subscriber-base potential. The carrier will offer two different "3G iPhones" to its 141 million subscribers and it will buy the phones wholesale from Apple -- no revenue sharing deal here kids. Neither Apple nor China Unicom will reveal specs on the phones (WiFi?) or pricing. So that's it, short and sweet after what feels like years of rumors. But really, unless you live in China and subscribe to China Unicom what else is there to know?

Update: There was apparently an error in the WSJ piece -- the deal is not exclusive to China Unicom.

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Praetor @ Aug 28th 2009 5:57AM

Becasue the Unicom have 3G network.

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CEO @ Aug 31st 2009 8:11AM

Apple now has the chance to monetize ephemeral solutions and grow grow efficient morphologies. This will enable Apple to expedite interstitial synergies leading to innovation of frictionless phase-states. China will now engage front-end armatures and can now threshold intermodal territories with the help of the iPhone.

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Lithoss @ Aug 28th 2009 7:35AM

Fallout 3 is FAR to open ended to represent anything Apple.

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000000 @ Aug 29th 2009 1:30PM

Did engadget get permission to use that "icon"?

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