The greatest smartphone in the world has landed on the most populous country in the world. The Chinese iPhone is officially available today and there are queues! Not as long as the queues in the iPhone’s US release but there queues nonetheless.
Unicom is China’s official iPhone provider, but the big guns has a sticky problem waiting for them: the iPhone clone market. We at PMP Today are clearly aware how popular iPhone clones are. The market is big and clones have one winning feature the iPhone will probably never have: cheapness. Unicom iPhones are priced from $730 to $1,020 before contract discounts. Compared to the under-$200 iPhone clones, it’ll wage a losing battle in the cheapo market. And it’s not just the clones as unofficial iPhones are available for half the official price at Unicom ($440 to $840).
It will also be interesting to note that the iPhone will not have WiFi connectivity in China. So how does one download the popular and addicting iPhone apps? Read on for more interesting stories about the Apple iPhone Chinese launch from the Wall Street Journal online at the link.
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