Traffic overview

The Chinese government, and also the local Beijing government, have much information on internet, and also often in English. Beijing Traffic Management Bureau, 北京市公安局公安交通管理局, have an interesting page on the web that show a real time picture of the actual traffic situation in Beijing. (there are also a simplified English version)

If you have a special interest in infra structure or just like to see if you shall select subway or taxi, then this could be a good page for you. The engineering side of me like this type real time data.

Sometimes it it is easy to get pissed off because the taxi driver select strange ways, but I believe they pretty often have good knowledge about the traffic situation. The times when I re-direct the taxi cars, it is not usual that we end up in traffic jam, and then you will get a aggressive monolog from the driver that is not so easy to reply.

Green = Free Flowing

Yellow = Slow

Red = Congested

The traffic situation a typical thursday evening. 2:nd, 3:rd and 4:th ring road goes slow or are even congested on several places. At this time it is often not so funny to do a longer taxi ride.

iPhone launched in China....exactly....NOW!!!

This is (likely) my last posting about the way for iPhone to China.

Exactly now, 2009-10-30 at 8:00 PM Chinese time is the iPhone official launched in China.

The price for the 3G/8GB will be 4 995 RMB (unlooked!). Please note that this variant dont have "normal" WLAN.

iPhone soon official for sale in China

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.