The Other Real News of China Unicom Eunuch(Wi-Fi less) iPhone: China Unicom Owned App Store

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:53:54 -0700

Today, so much coverage has been focusing on the official announcement of iPhone and China Unicom deal to bring iPhone to China at the end of September. The first version of iPhone in China is confirmed not to have Wi-Fi but WAPI(A China home-grown wireless standard). China Unicom has denied about pre-ordering 5 million iPhones for 10 billion RMB(14.7 billion US dollars) and said the number of iPhones to be ordered depending on the market demand. The rumored price for a 8GB iPhone is 2999RMB with a pre-purchase of 3000RMB phone service credit.

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The Other News of China Unicom Eunuch(Wi-Fi less) iPhone: No iTunes, No App Store

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:37:03 -0700

On July 31st, 2009, Sina Tech presented some images of iPhone that will be sold through China Unicom in China. There are lots of English news coverage. But all the news focus on iPhone of not having Wi-Fi.

Hello? That's not the only news! The China Unicom iPhone does NOT come with iTunes or the App Store.

One reason can be that iPhone(already) mandates anything over 10MB(lots of gaming apps exceeding 10MB) needs to be downloaded via Wi-Fi which won't be present in iPhones sold through China Unicom.

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The Other Real News of China Unicom Eunuch(Wi-Fi less) iPhone: China Unicom Owned App Store

The Other News of China Unicom Eunuch(Wi-Fi less) iPhone: No iTunes, No App Store