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Could someone explain the URL?

www.10010.com is the consumer website for China Unicom, which is the official distributor of iPhone in China. 10010 is also the telephone number of the customer service line of China Unicom.

For the actual rates chart (but still in Chinese) the link is:
http://shop.10010.com/iphone/toEnteryInfo.action

3GS was launched in China by Unicom just relatively a short time ago.

Yes, Youtube.com and facebook.com can not be viewed without installing special illegal software that tunnels under the Great Firewall.

Does anyone knows if a Bring Your Own (iPhone) option is allowed and what the rates are?
 
Are you sure? I just looked up the US site and it says it comes with a wall charger. It would be absurd not to include one with a phone.

Well, all iPhones do come with a charger, so he's wrong, but it's not so absurd.

Most phones bought in Japan now don't come with a charger, as they are all the same standard and the market is saturated - i.e. no need for a new charger with every new phone.
 
Approved by the government? Where do you see that in the post?

Communications equipments require government approval in most countries. Nothing different with the US, EU and Australia amongst others.

In China, the govt requires a certain local standard of WiFi implemented, that's all.
 
China and its regulations are simply ridiculous. no that much talking about this case in particular, but in general. anyway, perhaps you have a good source where the matter is explained in more detail.

Show us the ridiculous bit as relates the iPhone.
 
You get a few red envelopes and put money in them and give them to the right people and then your device is allowed to be sold.

That's how china works.

LOL! Go and try that and see how far you can get? And absolutely, there's no corruption in other countries, NOT.
 
I'd like my iPhone 4, please. The one that's backordered because of supply constraints. Maybe those could be cleared up first before enormous new markets are added to the list. At this rate, I won't get one until the iPhone 5 is announced. :/
 
One billion iPhone 4 handsets please!! Will be interesting to see the iPhone 4 sales figures at the end of the year with this launch due.

:D

But I have it on good authority, people on this forum, that nobody is going to buy this,this.....spawn of satan ;):D

Seriously is this how the iPhone 4G is packaged in the States? I have never seen one in the package as purchased.
 
Enough with the social commentary. It's just an iPhone launch.

haha what else is there to talk about when macrumors puts up a post about China getting the iPhone there must be some social significance...

But honestly, why does that matter, im pretty sure MOST MR forum members are not from mainland China, or live there
 
Folks, China is NOT the West. Different world, different rules, different society. Let's leave their politics and socio-economic development up to *them.*
 
It's interesting that the iphone4 ships with a charger in China, whereas the rest of the world has to buy it separately!

Mine came with a wall charger, bought in Apple store Kansas City USA. Not sure where you got that info?

So is this where they are shipping all those white phones? /g
 
In China, the Apple iPhone is seen is as a status symbol. The same people who now pay for blackmarket iPhones in china will certainly buy direct from the Apple store. As for the common workers, they're SOL like the Foxconn workers who can only afford imitations and lookalikes. In that respect Terry Gou owner of Foxconn didn't emulate Henry Ford. Henry Ford payed his workers enough money so they can afford to buy the cars he was selling.

On an average chinese income of 150 USD/month, who can afford a 750 USD phone?
 
Wow, two pages so far, and almost every single comment has been either ignorant nonsense, or uninformed iPhone gibberish.

Gotta love this site.

or not.
 
Could someone explain the URL?

it's one of many essential (telephone) service numbers.
10010 is Unicom's service number.



Emergency
Fire: 119
First Aid: 120
Police: 110
Traffic Accidents: 122
Directory Service: 114

Telecommunications
Telephone Line Repair: 112
China Telecom: 10000
China Mobile: 10086
China Network: 10060
China Tietong: 10050
China Unicom: 10010


etc...

P.
 
On an average chinese income of 150 USD/month, who can afford a 750 USD phone?

Well, not every single person in China is poor. There are a lot of wealthy and middle class people there as well and with a population that big...they probably have more people who can afford the phone than the entire US population. But, either way, just because many people can't afford it doesn't magically make the phone cheaper or easier to produce and sell.
 
So anybody that wants to buy one, has to be approved by the government? How does the process go in China?
it's actually much easier to buy it in China, basically most people just use prepaid phones, no schemes so complex as in US, of course you always have the option to get a contract, and the bill is about 1/4 as in the States, the coverage is better than any of the US carriers because China only have two carriers. And it's national, that's village-level national. Sometimes I just like how the capitalism works in china, it's better than the US in some aspect. But then again, China just distribute power by wealth, and most of the wealth is taken by the government.

also, the china union always uses their CDMA network, so there is already a CDMA iphone in the world-why people speculate that's so hard to make? Since apple is also selling unlocked phone in their store, and it's not so much more expensive than their china union ones, this iphone is also compatible with China Mobile's GSM cell network, except not compatible with their 3G network, so you have to get a China Union number to use the 3G WCDMA network-according to another blog from China.

The bigger news here is that apple is opening up two new stores in China, confirming their plan of open up 25 stores by the end of 2011 fiscal year. macrumors is saving that up for another post?

And here is a hint is how rich Chinese consume: they just update their phone once a year to whatever the most fancy phone there is-not minding if the phone runs apps or not, maybe it's just like the States.
 
It's ironic that the companies that make the iPhone are in China, yet it costs them $743.57 and $892.31 for the 16GB and 32GB models, respectively. Not to say that no one in China would be able to afford it because they are certainly NOT a poor country.

I don't think I would buy an iPhone for THAT much money. :(
 
Isn't it time for Apple to stop using plastic [wrappings] and cut less trees – I have yet to read any of the paper stuff that came with the iPhone 4, and since we're using iTunes to activate the phones... why not simply pull it from the Internet, when people want to read it?

One word: lawyers.

Apple ships a lot less of that crap than other suppliers do - but there are legal issues forcing them to put some of it in writing in the box itself. I agree it's a waste, but so is the state of our legal system.

MadCow.
 
One word: lawyers.

Apple ships a lot less of that crap than other suppliers do - but there are legal issues forcing them to put some of it in writing in the box itself. I agree it's a waste, but so is the state of our legal system.

MadCow.
Agreed. I would not be happy if my new MBP came with all the warnings and required legal mumbo-jumbo etched onto the case.

The lawyers require warnings and such to be made available the instant someone uses their product so just having a slip with a web address for the manual wouldn't guarantee the consumer from NOT using their product before being able to read the warnings. (sorry for that run-on sentence)
 
AC Adapter

Anyone know why Apple ships the older, larger AC to USB adapter in some markets? Seems like all of them are 110-240 and 50-60 Hz, so why not standardize on the smaller, newer one? Maybe there are problems with extra heat or something if the smaller one is operated primarily on 220V? I used my smaller/newer AC adapter with my iPhone in Europe for a couple of weeks last year and had no issues. What gives?

Also, the phone is clearly not CDMA or it would not ship with a SIM removal tool.
 
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