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iPhone to launch officially in China shortly
Published by Ewan on Friday 26th September 2008, 09:33 Comments | Filed under: Devices, iPhone

Cellular News is reporting that the iPhone is shortly due to launch ‘officially’ with China Mobile:

China Mobile is expected to officially launch the Apple iPhone on its network shortly – but with some of the functionality removed to comply with Chinese regulations. The South China Morning Post, citing a report from the Daiwa Institute of Research said that the 3G and Wi-Fi services would be disabled on the Chinese model.

Apparently Apple is not insisting on revenue-share any more. One assumes they want to sell as many iPhones as possible to the estimated 28 million Chinese who’re up for buying one.

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  • Kirk "Grumpy" Bateman
    Ummm removal of 3G AND WI-FI ... that doesn't leave much, unless it still has EDGE or GPRS. Without any data connection ability it would be an extraordinarily expensive basic phone (although very shiny and multi-touch etc..) with the ability to sync media I guess ? and how are users supposed to know wether an app store application will work or not ?

    I'm probably jumping the gun a bit here, but it doesn't sound all that great, for users or apple.
  • It's all to do with the 3G systems they're deploying there in China. The
    device is going to need to be customised for the Chinese market if they want
    3G support :(

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  • Kirk "Grumpy" Bateman
    Oh, if its just replacing 3G with China-3G then thats not so bad... thought the original bit sounded like 3G was just being removed completely.
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