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.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:04 am
I would guess that everyone has already seen this but just in case. The prices above are only valid if you take a 2 year contract with ATT. So for us in China these will be of no use. There will be a No Commitment iPhone price: $599 (8GB) and $699 (16GB). These are the phones will be coming to China via the gray market. But maybe China Mobile will make a deal with Apple and we do not have go to the gray market.