Something about sticking it to the man, and chinese manufactured pride. It is like when people buy “made in u.s.” even if it is inferior to made in china

“I earn 3500RMB a month… spent 4750RMBto buy an Iphone3gs”

i earn 3500RMB a month let’s say you make 3500 dollars a month so the number is the same last month i spent 4750RMBto buy an Iphone3gs from HongKong would you spend that much (4000 dollars) on it? there are more than 1 million iphones in China do you still think we are poor?

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GSM and 3G (WCDMA/HSPA) have been in Europe well before in the United States.

This is very true.

In North America, the cell industry got started and was more heavily adopted way earlier than in Europe.

But because of this North America got saddled EARLY technology (Analog).

Europe never did deploy analog on any significant scale, because by the time cell phones were ramping up over there it was already clear that Analog was going no where. Not enough band width, virtually no features, and power hungry as hell.

Most EU countries built straight into GSM.

In North America, we hadn’t even paid off the Analog build out when it was decided that a major DO-Over was needed, so they rebuilt the entire system in CDMA and GSM.

But because Analog had such great range, there were fewer tower, and the rebuild entailed adding tons and tons of towers, not just hanging new transmitters on existing towers as can be done in Europe.

So EU got GSM and then UMTS way sooner the NA, and the tower density didn’t have to be amped up, except in urban areas, because it started with adequate towers.

This is just one reason cell costs are so high in NA compared to EU. North America made an expensive false start with the wrong technology (it was the only tech available at the time).

(tinyurl’d pcworld article) http://tinyurl.com/ykvf39l

http://mobile.cnbc.com/cnews/AAPL/33549049

“by the end of the year”

The fact that the iPhone isn’t somewhere has more to do with Apple not setting up agreements with carriers than it does the ‘advanced-ness’ of the infrastructure. GSM and 3G (WCDMA/HSPA) have been in Europe well before in the United States.

CBNC has a story that Unicom officials stated the wifi ban has been or will be lifted and they expect to have wifi in their next big shipment from apple.

I’d post a link or you could download the CNBC Real Time app and read it yourself. It’s a great app.

Also, I’m willing to bet that 95% of the iPhones in China will be jailbroken, as I don’t think they will stand for some silly Apple lockdown on a device.

My wife and I both got our iPhones officially(illegally?) in Shanghai.

450€ for 3GS 16GB and 580 € for 3GS 32 GB. How can Unicom beat that? No chance!

Secondly (and actually on topic!!!) – Glad to hear our chinese friends can now get hold of them officially, but i cant help thinking the overbearing chinese government will have got some kind of stupid lockdown in there, like no twitter apps or something equallty stupid.