Buyers snap up smuggled iPhones

Despite warnings that up to 80 percent of smuggled iPhones on the market are fake, there is strong demand for bootleg handsets in Beijing.
China Unicom has reported lackluster sales of just 100,000 since the iPhone was officially launched in China on Oct 30.

Tags: 3G, Apple, China-Unicom, iPhone, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, telecom

Apple’s iPhone sales fail to flatter on mainland debut

Apple Inc’s mainland partner sold fewer iPhones than analysts anticipated in the product’s debut last week, raising concerns the price is too high to attract customers in the world’s biggest mobile phone market.
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd said it sold 5,000 iPhones since the Beijing-based carrier began offering the product on Oct 30. The phone [...]

Apple’s iPhone 3G to debut on Chinese mainland market on Oct. 30

Apple’s iPhone 3G will make its debut on the Chinese mainland market on October 30 as scheduled and aspiring users will have to sign a two-year contract with China Unicom, the country’s No. 2 telco said yesterday.
Getting users to sign a contract is one way for China Unicom to lure subscribers to its network and [...]

Deal ties in iPhone 3G users

Apple’s iPhone 3G will make its debut on the Chinese mainland market on October 30 as scheduled and aspiring users will have to sign a two-year contract with China Unicom, the country’s No. 2 telco said yesterday.
Getting users to sign a contract is one way for China Unicom to lure subscribers to its network and [...]

Mainland debut for Apple’s iPhones

Apple’s iPhone is scheduled to debut in China’s mainland, the world’s biggest mobile phone market, in three weeks in a partnership with China Unicom, the telecommunications carrier said yesterday.
The iPhone’s official entry has been keenly anticipated and expected to increase competition in the smart phone market with rivals such as Nokia and Dopod, said Wu [...]

Lee heads fund for start-ups

Kai-Fu Lee, Google China’s departing president, will operate an 800 million yuan (US$115 million) fund to invest in Chinese startup firms.
The fund, called Innovation Works, is invested by WI Harper Group, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, Foxconn Technology Group, Legend Group Ltd and New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Lee, the fund’s head, said yesterday in [...]

Page 1 of 41234»