My small serial from this spring about iPhone's way to China seams to have found its end.
China Unicom (one of the three big operator in China) have now the deal ready with Apple, which means that iPhone soon will start to be sold official in China. During long time it has been possible to by imported iPhones with its origin from Hongkong or USA in the electronics markets, but so far not in Apple's own stores.
The rumor says that the selling will start "early Q4" which means october, and that China Unicom initial have bought 5 millions units for the introduction. Because the number of cellphone user in China is more then double the complete USA population, this is of course a very good deal for all involved, even if the bigger part of the cellphone market in China is the low cost models.
It seams to be the older iPhone 3G and NOT the new iPhone 3GS that will be launched, and also without WLAN and later will be delivered with China's own wireless standard WAPI.
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