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According to a report from Chinese tech industry watchers MIC Gadget, the biggest mobile phone company in the world’s largest smartphone market is one network permit away from carrying Apple ‘s iPhone 4S.

It looks like it’s time to pick up some AAPL, which closed +9.00 at 382.20 today, a stock that many believe is still undervalued, despite Apple ‘s continued success in the marketplace.

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Though some will argue that pictures don't lie, the offer looks unrealistic for more than one reason.
Firstly, it seems unbelievable that an official iPhone carrier will offer a service like jailbreaking, which Apple has always maintained is an
.
Secondly, the latest version of iOS,
and hence cannot be jailbroken. In fact, the
.
Also, as an official carrier, China Unicom is likely to offer microSIM cards with the purchase of
and (more…)

This follows easing of regulations placed earlier by the Chinese Government that restricted Wi-Fi access from handsets and instead encouraged the use of a homegrown wireless standard called WAPI. This had forced Apple to launch a China-specific model of the iPhone that came without the usual Wi-Fi feature.
Announcing the launch of Wi-Fi enabled handsets, China Unicom chairman Chang Xiaobing said that his company was contemplating a process to compensate (more…)

Reuters reports that the total number of iPhones sold in the first couple of days since launch was 5000.Compare this with the
that was sold in the first three days of launch late last year and you will get an idea about the contrasting levels of customer anticipation.
In our earlier piece announcing the launch of the iPhone in China, we had discussed the numerous challenges that China Unicom faces in the Chinese market which included the easy (more…)

China Unicom, China’s No 2. carrier with more than 140 million mobile subscribers
that they have struck a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to China.
According to a report, China Unicom, the second largest telecom player in China with more than 140 million mobile subscribers will be launching the
soon after the October 1-8 National Holiday in four different models – 3G 8GB, 3G 16GB, 3GS 16GB and 3GS 32GB. It's not clear whether these (more…)

“We believe China Unicom's high-speed mobile broadband network, coupled with … (the iPhone ) will create new communication and different experiences for customers in China,”
said Unicom CEO Chang Xiaobin at a news conference.
If China Unicom wants to be successful then it should take some pointers from the failure of the iPhone in India, the world’s second largest mobile phone market. Since the carriers there don’t offer any subsidy, (more…)