While the iPhone got
an official announce for China last month, its retail pricing and delivery date have remained a mystery. That's going to change later today when China Unicom is expected to announce an October 1st launch for Cupertino's darling. Eight service packages ranging in price from 126 yuan (about $18) to 886 yuan (about $130) per month will be available to Unicom's 141 million subscribers from a pool of 700 million cellphone toting Chinese. How much will it cost? 5,000 yuan or a steep $733 green retail. Subsidies of about 893 yuan (about $131) to 4,253 yuan (about $623) will be offered for those signing to long-term plans on Unicom's fledgling 3G network. Looks like somebody's standard of living is on the rise.
posted Sep 28th 2009 3:35AM
I live in Shanghai and original iPhones sell here for about 350$ off contract for years already...
which is absolutely useless info for the 99.9999 rest of the world who doesn't live in shanghai.
No its not useless, those are black imports from Hongkong, with wifi, gsm and 3g. Mine works fine in Europe.