iPhone 2G Prices Sky High in China
June 22nd, 2008
iPhone 2G(firmware 1.x): 8G, RMB4300($625); 16G,4800RMB($698). Source here(chinese,sorry)
it’s in Shanghai, China. Crazy, isn’t it?
You may wonder why that. Actually, it’s all about the iphone 3G.
The new 3G iPhone is priced $199/$299, which really makes the current sellers worry about the 2G iphone on hand. Imagine: who still wanna buy the 2G if they can get the 3G in such a price?!
As a result, the sellers stopped trying getting more phones to china. They wanna sell out all the 2G phones before they start to get 3G ones. For the end user, it means the number of iphones they can buy are becoming less and less.
Meanwhile, due to the uncertainty of 3G phone, like final price, unlock or not, people are more comfortable on the 2G now, at least they are sure of working here, not mention those tons of third party applications.
All in all, 2G phone prices much more than it deserves now. As to when it comes to a resonable one, perhaps after Jul.11, when everything about 3G is clear.
Wait and see.
SwirlyMMS v1.0 for $8
June 15th, 2008
SwirlyMMS v1.0 beta is finally out there.
It’s long-waited as it promises some big enhancements, like built-in MMS reader, sound and video mms support, mms email-like actions like reply and forward, and something more as well.
Just one more thing, if you wanna use it later on your phone, you have to pay for that. $8, that’s the price. Not free any more.
Well, That’s understood. Good work deserves more.
Keep good working and they’ll get a good luck.
BTW, this is a report from iResearch(chinese), by which you may know how big the MMS cake is.
iPhone Coming To China On July 22?
June 15th, 2008
Rumors are all around, in both English and Chinese.
I’m not sure but i guess the orginal source is from here(Chinese).
Well, in my view of point, it’s very reasonable. The New China Unicom does need a breakpoint to attract more people to use their service, esp. when they’re gonna push the testing and deployment of 3G WCDMA network as soon as they get the 3g license from the goverment which is for sure a-matter-of-time thing. iPhone 3G is just released at the right time by Apple, which has failed in the first talk with China Mobile in the iphone 1 stage.
Let’s wait and see then.
Chasing iPhone 2? Perhaps.
June 4th, 2008
iPhone 2 DOES has some new features which is really attractive to me, like native support to Chinese in Email and IME, like GPS, etc. Exchange support, not so much. I have no plan to use personal my iPhone to check those company emails.
Even though so far the 3-rd party apps cannot be allowed to be running, I’m pretty sure it’s a matter of time. I do have a strong belief on those very talented guys in the community like the iPhone Dev Team, even I have completely no idea of who they are, where they come from and how they look like.
Perhaps, I should start thinking of reselling my iPhone, just like everyone else. The best target is someone here in Beijing,China.
Actually my iPhone works pretty good in every functionality. No physical damage at all. If you decide to get it you will also have my full support in my convenient time. Software only,btw.
