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Fortune Apple 2.0 has a post today summarizing a research note issued by Shaw Wu, a senior telecom analyst. Wu covers Apple (AAPL) for Kaufman Brothers and is known for his sources in Asia. In his note, Wu suggests that while China Unicom is now the frontrunner for an iPhone deal, China Mobile remains a [...]

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China Mobile calls on operators to hold firm against Apple’s revenue-sharing demands
by Cindy Geng
Beijing. June 26. INTERFAX-CHINA – A China Mobile employee has called for a united front between the country’s three telecom operators in order to challenge Apple’s precondition on any iPhone deal with [...]

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Update – June 10, 2009: Interesting factoid from Ultimi Barbarorum… China Unicom will be building 125,000 base stations in the first 12 months of their W-CDMA 3G network rollout. That’s more 3G base stations than all the operators in Western Europe have rolled out in the 9 years since the 3G wireless standard has been in existence.
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Developers who build apps for Mobile Market,*(China Mobile’s answer to Apple’s App Store) are in for a surprise. China Mobile will reportedly seek a 50% cut of all Mobile Market sales.
TelecomAsia is quoting a Shanghai Mobile (subsidiary of China Mobile) source; “China Mobile wants at least 50 percent of the revenues, and the rest goes [...]

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In the last quarter of 2008, China Mobile announced plans to develop OPhone, their own Android-based operating system in partnership with select handset manufacturers such as Levono, HTC and Nokia. “OPhone” is a codename for phones that will be based on China Mobile’s OMS (Open Mobile System) which is essentially re-coded Android + TD-SCDMA (China’s [...]

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BusinessWeek has just posted a rather pessimistic article on iPhone’s prospects in China. If you’re an iPhone fan take a deep breath, exhale and relax. In iPhonAsia’s opinion, this article – Why China won’t fall for the iPhone – is nothing more than straw man hit piece. To win the debate using the straw man [...]

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iPhonAsia comment: China Mobile is planning to launch a trial TD-SCDMA mobile (swipe) payment service in Shanghai within weeks. Participating merchants include Starbucks, McDonalds, and Shanghai Shentong Metro. Will China Unicom counter with their own mobile payments service on the soon to be unveiled “for China” iPhone 3G? iPhonAsia has speculated in several recent posts about Apple’s [...]

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花花公子 it’s a Dell TD Phone!
 
iPhonAsia comment: According to a report on Sina.com.cn, Dell is planning to build two new TD-SCDMA smartphones for China Mobile. Like several new customized TD smartphones (Levono, HTC, Nokia) being developed for China Mobile, the Dell phone mobile operating system (MOS) will be Android-based and specially coded to exclusively support China [...]

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Update – April 13, 2009: iPhonAsia reply to MacRumors post re new iPhone Models

Think BRIC countries

“According to its insider news, Apple has already ordered 4 million units of new iPhones and expected to receive the shipment by end of this quarter. These iPhones might be a combination of 3 new models, with one only supports [...]

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Backstory on iPhone negotiations

As has become more and more evident, the negotiations with China Mobile over a 3G iPhone have come to a standstill. There may still be some hope for a 2G iPhone deal (EDGE iPhone Nano) with China Mobile, but you might have better odds of winning at Three Card Monte than betting [...]

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