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Report: 400,000 unlocked iPhones in China – at least! E-mail
by Alex Zaharov-Reutt   
Monday, 18 February 2008
MacDailyNews continued quoting In-Stat’s Zheng, saying: “Secondly, high-end handset buyers significantly outnumber high-end mp3 player buyers. We estimate that 20% of handsets sold in China in 2007 cost more than 4,000 RMB (US$533). In another words, there are an estimated 28 million potential users for the iPhone in China”.

"Further, the iPhone is not just a successful product. In-Stat feels that the iPhone is leading the way to a new generation of smartphones that are very different from their older counterparts. One important trend is that revolutionary UI and UE, enabled by touchscreens and 3D sensor technologies, will be widely used in the next generation of smartphones in China and around the world," Zheng reported.

Continuing, Zheng said that: "Also, the trend toward the mobile Internet will drive handset makers to deliver more smartphone models. More Internet applications, such as social networking, maps, search, and e-mail, will be developed for smartphones, and these will make the iPhone and other smartphones more attractive to mobile users who like to use their handsets to pass the time”.

Finally, Zheng ended with: “In turn, the mobile Internet will become a new selling point for smartphones, and drive up sales. Taking the long view, In-Stat believes that the smartphone is evolving into a increasingly wide range of mobile devices, where cellular voice communications are just one function of the converged appliance”.

All China Mobile have to do now is to decide whether or not they’re happy to keep all those iPhone calling and data revenues for themselves, or whether there’s any merit in further sharing them with Apple.

Given that there are more than a billion people in China, 400,000 iPhones is but a drop in the bucket – but not every Chinese citizen is wealthy enough to buy an iPhone, let alone any other expensive phone, with plenty of much cheaper Chinese brand phones on the market.

Still, it demonstrates the insatiable demand the iPhone has generated, with plenty of people in countries around the world either waiting for Apple to introduce there – or get release the long-awaited and much desired 3G iPhone model.

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