Cui – On My Way

Seems iPhone coming to China becomes much closer, from the announced approval by State Wireless Inspection Center of China. See picture below. Source query page is here.

The device is marked as ‘GSM/WCDMA/蓝牙移动电话机’ ,which means ‘GSM/WCDMA/Bluetooth Mobile Phone’, not the famous ‘iPhone’. But is any other phone devices made by Apple?!

PCWorld has a detailed report here. But what I’ve learned is from Sina News(Chinese).

It even says due to the Apple’s nonnegotiable attitude on his business model of revenue sharing with the carrier China Unicom has become not so eager and enthusiastic as used to be.

Besides, to enter the mainland market there’s another barrier: WIFI module. ‘Coz MIT officially doesn’t allow the existence of such a mobile device with WIFI  function.

Update(Jul 13,2009): Sina says Apple has agreed that China Unicom will be the one that will sell iphone to the market. As to when and how, just a matter of time. And no wifi for sure.

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.