Apple has signed an agreement to launch a specially-built version of the iPhone in China, perhaps as early as September
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Stewie (aka whysoserious)
Jul 19 '09, 16:46
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Under its terms, Hon Hai — using its tradename Foxconn — will build a special version of the iPhone for the Chinese market with Wi-Fi disabled, allowing Apple to get around Beijing’s restrictions on handsets with high-speed Internet capability.
"I believe we are at the beginning stages of a mobile revolution," says iPhonAsia editor Dan Butterfield, who explored the implications of the deal Friday in a long Q&A with China’s Mobinode.tv
"Using conservative estimates, I believe Apple can capture a full 2% share of the wireless market in China within the first 12 months of an official iPhone launch. That’s 14 million iPhones and perhaps another 2 million or so coming via grey-market iPhone sales."
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