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iPhone 6 fever hits Beijing
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Re: iPhone 6 has a defect!
3rd party tests find that you would need 70 pounds to bend an iPhone 6 & 90 pounds to bend a iPhone 6+
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/18...n-iphone-6-suggests-bendgate-may-be-overblown
Consumer Reports test shows iPhone 6 Plus less 'bendy' than iPhone 6, suggests 'Bendgate' may be...
3rd party tests find that you would need 70 pounds to bend an iPhone 6 & 90 pounds to bend a iPhone 6+
http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/18...n-iphone-6-suggests-bendgate-may-be-overblown
Consumer Reports test shows iPhone 6 Plus less 'bendy' than iPhone 6, suggests 'Bendgate' may be...
iPhone 6 grey market puts China to shame, says Global Times
Staff Reporter
2014-09-27
One of the first buyers of Apple's new smartphone in Los Angeles, Sept. 19. (File photo/Xinhua)
The nationalistic Chinese tabloid Global Times has blasted people who buy parallel-import iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus handsets at extremely high markups in order to show off their wealth and that they are able to get smartphone before it is officially available in China. The paper also criticized grey market operators who buy overseas to sell in China for "putting China to shame."
Images of Chinese people fighting and being arrested, cutting in line, shouting, sleeping on the floor or discarding garbage in front of Apple stores make people in China blush with shame, the paper lamented.
Having successfully acquired the smartphones, buyers resort to extreme measure to get them into China. One smuggler was found hiding eight iPhone 6 handset in three layers of underwear he was wearing. The number of smuggled iPhone 6 handsets discovered by Shenzhen customs authorities reached 1,800 within five days after the smartphone was released in neighboring Hong Kong.
The shoppers were motivated by the huge profits to be made from selling the smartphones to buyers in mainland China, where the phone may not be officially available until next year. An iPhone 6 priced at 4,000 yuan (US$650) in Hong Kong could initially be sold at up to 21,000 yuan (US$3,400) for those determined to be the first in mainland China to get their hands on Apple's latest smartphone.
Global Times said buyers willing to spend much higher prices to get their hands on the smartphone "only a few days" earlier were guilty of overweening vanity.
"There is no shame if there were no trade," said the editors, who attributed the various marketing strategies built on iPhone 6 as a proof that Chinese are perceived as wealthy fools. Cast despicable looks on those who flash the smartphone! the paper harrumphed.
fucktard ang mohs....smugglers have existed since the beginning of mankind and has been and always will be a vital part of civilisation,the only problem is none of this will never happen,u will never see smuggling,idiocy and fucktard behaviour of this massive scale if apple hasnt created a colossal army,a legion of fucktards and imorons on the grandest scale the universe has ever seen willing to queue up by the thousands overnight for their icrap products.
idiots are like a nuclear fission reaction,when sufficient numbers of them gather together in dense enough numbers,a spark of idiocy is enough to set of the chain reaction of the biggest explosion of stupidity u have ever seen.
idiots are like a nuclear fission reaction,when sufficient numbers of them gather together in dense enough numbers,a spark of idiocy is enough to set of the chain reaction of the biggest explosion of stupidity u have ever seen.
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IPhones by hundreds hidden in luggage
China Daily, September 29, 2014
China is cracking down on smugglers bringing Apple iPhone 6 smartphones into the country ahead of their official release, with officials on Sunday reporting the seizure of 453 of the devices in Shanghai.
Hundreds more were seized during three separate raids on Thursday through Saturday in Hong Kong, Xinhua News Agency said.
The latest haul was found in the luggage of two passengers arriving at the Shanghai airport from Tokyo, one of them Chinese and one of them Japanese, the Shanghai customs agency said.
Hundreds more have been confiscated from passengers who did not declare them at customs, the agency said.
Apple delayed its original plans to introduce the iPhone 6 in China this month but did not comment on reports that it still hadn't received Chinese regulatory approval.
The already thriving black market for the phones in China, where Apple competes with less-expensive alternatives from local manufactures Xiaomi and Lenovo, plus Samsung, has drawn a rebuke in Chinese State media.
Apple came in for criticism from the media last year when it was reported for fixing internal components of faulty iPhones in China under warranty but elsewhere was replacing faulty phones. Apple later clarified that it would be replacing handsets in China and apologized about the concerns, and the furor subsided.
iPhone 6 gets green light for mainland sales - officially
Parallel traders to feel the squeeze after US tech giant finally gets the needed certificates
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 30 September, 2014, 2:56pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 01 October, 2014, 9:37am
Andrea Chen and Nectar Gan
Apple sold a record 10 million of the iPhone 6 models in the first weekend after their launch. Photo: Xinhua
Apple's iPhone 6 and the slightly bigger iPhone 6 Plus have finally received approval to be sold on the mainland and will be available from October 17, the US-based technology giant said yesterday.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced earlier on its website that the new smartphone models had passed tests and been issued a telecoms network access licence, but only after the company had given assurances about users' privacy and security.
The price of a 16-gigabyte iPhone 6 will be 5,288 yuan (HK$6,670) and the iPhone 6 Plus with the same storage will sell for 6,088 yuan.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook said both models would be sold using "all three carriers" at launch, referring to China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, and would have access to high-speed, fourth-generation telecommunications networks.
The new models are on sale in 26 countries and regions across the world, including Hong Kong, but the mainland, the company's second largest market, was absent from the first and second waves of the launch.
Apple sold a record 10 million of the iPhone 6 models in the first weekend after their launch.
The ministry initially had concerns that phone users' personal data might be at risk, but the licences were issued after Apple gave assurances that diagnostic software was included in the handsets to detect hardware problems and could not access stored personal information.
Apple has also promised that it would never allow any institution or government to access users' data, the ministry said.
The network access licence is the last of the three permits a new smartphone model needs before it can go on sale on the mainland. State media reported last month that the iPhone 6 had already been issued the other certificates.
Prices of the smartphone already on sale on the mainland before the official launch dropped within hours of the announcement.
The price of a 16 GB iPhone 6 fell by 200 yuan to 5,800 yuan by 5pm yesterday when offered by one vendor in the Zhongguancun area of Beijing, the main district in the capital for buying phones and other electronic goods. The price of a 128 GB phone at the store dropped about 500 yuan to 7,600 yuan.
The vendor quickly managed to sell 40 iPhones in stock.
"It's better to sell them before the price dives further. Everyone is trying to get rid of them as soon as they can," he said.
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1 million preorders for iPhone 6 in China in six hours
Staff Reporter
2014-10-02
Apple vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller introduces the iPhone 6 in Cupertino, California, Sept. 9. (Photo/Xinhua)
China's "big three" telecom carriers — China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile — recorded over 1 million preorders for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus only six hours after they began accepting them for the new phone's Oct. 10 debut. Apple retailers began allowing for preorders on Sept. 17 of this month. The October release of the newest Apple smartphone models comes nearly a month after its initial release in selected countries, reports Chinese technology news website Tencent.
Buyers have been able to place their preorders at operators' online and brick-and-mortar stores as well as their subsidiaries. The total number of preorders could exceed 2 million if they included those sold through distributors such as Suning Appliance and D.Phone.
China Telecom will offer the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, supporting network formats such as 2G, 3G, 4G as well as LTEFDD, TD-LTE, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, EVDO and GSM. Buyers will be able to connect to all major Chinese networks. Operators do not have any plan to sell an unlocked version of the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus at present, but will allow its subscribers to pay 100 yuan (US$16.30) for 400 yuan (US$65) of calls, voice mails and text messages.
China Unicom plans to offer iPhones that support all network formats but has not yet revealed its package plans. The carrier also has no plan to sell unlocked iPhones but will allow its customers to preorder and later switch to the latest iPhones without changing their number.
China Mobile, the country's largest carrier by subscriber numbers, offers an unlocked version of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus as well as smartphones with a contract agreement. Buyers of the unlocked version will be given 2GB of data for use with 2G, 3G or 4G networks and receive discounts if they purchase an installment plan. Contracted iPhone buyers will be offered discounts or free calling options. The locked phones will not support WCDMA and FDD-LTE network formats in China but these can be activated if the phone is used abroad.
Preorders are predicted to influence sales of parallel-import iPhones though the result should be negligible, say analysts, who added that sellers who hoarded iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets have nearly sold out their stocks and now only have few, low-spec devices.
1 million preorders for iPhone 6 in China in six hours
Staff Reporter
2014-10-02
Apple vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller introduces the iPhone 6 in Cupertino, California, Sept. 9. (Photo/Xinhua)
China's "big three" telecom carriers — China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile — recorded over 1 million preorders for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus only six hours after they began accepting them for the new phone's Oct. 10 debut. Apple retailers began allowing for preorders on Sept. 17 of this month. The October release of the newest Apple smartphone models comes nearly a month after its initial release in selected countries, reports Chinese technology news website Tencent.
Buyers have been able to place their preorders at operators' online and brick-and-mortar stores as well as their subsidiaries. The total number of preorders could exceed 2 million if they included those sold through distributors such as Suning Appliance and D.Phone.
China Telecom will offer the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, supporting network formats such as 2G, 3G, 4G as well as LTEFDD, TD-LTE, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, EVDO and GSM. Buyers will be able to connect to all major Chinese networks. Operators do not have any plan to sell an unlocked version of the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus at present, but will allow its subscribers to pay 100 yuan (US$16.30) for 400 yuan (US$65) of calls, voice mails and text messages.
China Unicom plans to offer iPhones that support all network formats but has not yet revealed its package plans. The carrier also has no plan to sell unlocked iPhones but will allow its customers to preorder and later switch to the latest iPhones without changing their number.
China Mobile, the country's largest carrier by subscriber numbers, offers an unlocked version of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus as well as smartphones with a contract agreement. Buyers of the unlocked version will be given 2GB of data for use with 2G, 3G or 4G networks and receive discounts if they purchase an installment plan. Contracted iPhone buyers will be offered discounts or free calling options. The locked phones will not support WCDMA and FDD-LTE network formats in China but these can be activated if the phone is used abroad.
Preorders are predicted to influence sales of parallel-import iPhones though the result should be negligible, say analysts, who added that sellers who hoarded iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets have nearly sold out their stocks and now only have few, low-spec devices.
everybody queues for ang moh stuff but wtf are ang mohs?
Re: iPhone 6 has a defect!
New iPhones to go on sale on mainland at midnight
Reservations and pre-orders likely to make up large percentage of first-day buyers of 6 and 6 Plus models
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 16 October, 2014, 2:12pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 16 October, 2014, 6:28pm
Adrian Wan [email protected]
A woman holding an older version of an iPhone walks past an Apple store in Beijing. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models go on sale on the mainland at midnight. Photo: AP
Apple’s new iPhones will go on sale on the mainland starting at midnight amid signs of strong demand, as some reports claimed more than 20 million have been pre-ordered.
The devices, which went on sale about a month ago in the first roll-out in nine global locations, including Hong Kong, will be available in the mainland’s Apple retail stores, at the three mobile carriers and various other authorised sellers.
The carriers would likely see high demands for the sale of iPhones bundled with their data plans, Shanghai-based The Paper reported today citing industry experts. While China Unicom and China Telecom offered phones that could be used on all carriers, China Mobile offered slightly cheaper phones that could only be used on its network on a contract, it said.
More than 20 million iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus models have been ordered through Apple’s online store, the mobile carriers and e-commerce giant Jingdong since pre-order became available on Friday, Tencent news portal reported citing industry estimates.
JD.com says on its website it received 4.6 million orders for the iPhone 6 and slightly more for the bigger 6 Plus.
An Apple staff member in Sanlitun in Beijing said it expected overwhelming demand for the new phones in its retail store tomorrow, though most of the people would likely be those who have made reservations or pre-ordered online.
“If you come without having made a reservation or a pre-order, you will likely have to queue up for a long time,” she said.
The price for the iPhone 6 starts at 5,288 yuan (HK$6,700), and the 6 Plus at 6,088 yuan, making them beyond the reach of average Chinese buyers, who have propped up the popularity of local smartphone makers, including Xiaomi, Lenovo, Huawei and ZTE.
Smartphones with bigger screens – between 5 and 7 inches – have become increasingly popular on the mainland, making up more than 20 per cent of all smartphone shipments last year with the trend likely to continue, said consultancy firm IDC.
China was included last year in the first wave of countries that received the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, with their sales amounting to 2.75 million of the total 9 million sold worldwide during launch weekend.
But the mainland was absent from the first list of markets for the new phones’ launch on September 19, and grey market vendors have taken advantage by reselling the devices brought in from the US and Hong Kong at a premium.
Apple had said the new phones would arrive in the mainland just hours after the regulator had approved them on September 30.
The regulator initially had concerns that phone users’ personal data might be at risk, but the licences were issued after Apple gave assurances that diagnostic software was included in the handsets to detect hardware problems and could not access stored personal information.
Jane Zhang, a Beijing-based analyst with Gartner, a US technology research firm, said the mainland’s three network carriers and numerous e-commerce outlets, for instance JD.com, had been accepting reservations and pre-orders before yesterday, so Apple had a clear idea how mainland customers’ demand was shaping up.
“Since the new iPhones went on sale elsewhere in the world about a month ago, multiple outlets in China began taking reservations and pre-orders long ago. So, they saw the orders coming and have a good gauge of the demand,” she said.
New iPhones to go on sale on mainland at midnight
Reservations and pre-orders likely to make up large percentage of first-day buyers of 6 and 6 Plus models
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 16 October, 2014, 2:12pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 16 October, 2014, 6:28pm
Adrian Wan [email protected]
A woman holding an older version of an iPhone walks past an Apple store in Beijing. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models go on sale on the mainland at midnight. Photo: AP
Apple’s new iPhones will go on sale on the mainland starting at midnight amid signs of strong demand, as some reports claimed more than 20 million have been pre-ordered.
The devices, which went on sale about a month ago in the first roll-out in nine global locations, including Hong Kong, will be available in the mainland’s Apple retail stores, at the three mobile carriers and various other authorised sellers.
The carriers would likely see high demands for the sale of iPhones bundled with their data plans, Shanghai-based The Paper reported today citing industry experts. While China Unicom and China Telecom offered phones that could be used on all carriers, China Mobile offered slightly cheaper phones that could only be used on its network on a contract, it said.
More than 20 million iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus models have been ordered through Apple’s online store, the mobile carriers and e-commerce giant Jingdong since pre-order became available on Friday, Tencent news portal reported citing industry estimates.
JD.com says on its website it received 4.6 million orders for the iPhone 6 and slightly more for the bigger 6 Plus.
An Apple staff member in Sanlitun in Beijing said it expected overwhelming demand for the new phones in its retail store tomorrow, though most of the people would likely be those who have made reservations or pre-ordered online.
“If you come without having made a reservation or a pre-order, you will likely have to queue up for a long time,” she said.
The price for the iPhone 6 starts at 5,288 yuan (HK$6,700), and the 6 Plus at 6,088 yuan, making them beyond the reach of average Chinese buyers, who have propped up the popularity of local smartphone makers, including Xiaomi, Lenovo, Huawei and ZTE.
Smartphones with bigger screens – between 5 and 7 inches – have become increasingly popular on the mainland, making up more than 20 per cent of all smartphone shipments last year with the trend likely to continue, said consultancy firm IDC.
China was included last year in the first wave of countries that received the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, with their sales amounting to 2.75 million of the total 9 million sold worldwide during launch weekend.
But the mainland was absent from the first list of markets for the new phones’ launch on September 19, and grey market vendors have taken advantage by reselling the devices brought in from the US and Hong Kong at a premium.
Apple had said the new phones would arrive in the mainland just hours after the regulator had approved them on September 30.
The regulator initially had concerns that phone users’ personal data might be at risk, but the licences were issued after Apple gave assurances that diagnostic software was included in the handsets to detect hardware problems and could not access stored personal information.
Jane Zhang, a Beijing-based analyst with Gartner, a US technology research firm, said the mainland’s three network carriers and numerous e-commerce outlets, for instance JD.com, had been accepting reservations and pre-orders before yesterday, so Apple had a clear idea how mainland customers’ demand was shaping up.
“Since the new iPhones went on sale elsewhere in the world about a month ago, multiple outlets in China began taking reservations and pre-orders long ago. So, they saw the orders coming and have a good gauge of the demand,” she said.
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