Benjamin Tan, the Senior Director of Microsoft’s GCR Mobile Team Unit in China, today stated that over 30 phones running on Windows Mobile 6.5 will be released before 2009 turns into 2010. Nice! :)
China Unicom will launch the iPhone on October 15th. There will be a 8GB and a 16GB version available. The price will be 1,999 yuan (210€) for the 8GB version, and 2,999 yuan (315€) for the 16GB version. Both phones will come with a 2-year contract with China Unicom, with the lowest price of 186 yuan (20€) a month.
We still don’t have anything official about the iPhone’s launch over there, but as China Unicom is preparing to ship the device, the info about it started trickling out from the regional offices and sales channels.
According to China Business Times, China Unicom has set an internal iPhone launch date for October 15th. Two iPhone models – 8GB and 16 GB – will be shipped. 8GB iPhone in China will cost 1999 yuan ($293), with 16GB model selling at 2999 yuan ($439). Both models with be offered on a 2 year contracts, starting at 186 yuan ($27) a month.
1.5 million iPhone have already been sold in China through unofficial channels, and with an average price of 600€ each. I’d guess that both Apple and China Unicom will make loads of cash with this deal :)
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The worlds largest carrier, China Mobile, has hit 500 million customers. That number is insane when you think it in a different way. It’s for instance nearly 70% of the population of Europe, or 100 times the population of Finland.
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The Vodafone shop UK lists on their page that the HTC Tattoo will be available in October. The price of the phone is still unknown.
If you check the official HTC Tattoo page, you can see that this phone will also come with Android 1.6, aka Donut.
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Last week we told that Sony Ericsson will host an event on September 21st, that was supposed to change the way you listen to music.
Today, Sony Ericsson announced their Motion Activated Headphones, the MH907. They will start playing music/radio immediately when you plug them in.
Can’t see how this will change the way I listen to music, but maybe it will for someone ;)
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Check out the video here.
If you have complained to Apple about poor battery life on your iPhone 3G/3GS, there’s a possibility that you’ll be contacted by Apple in the near future.
Apple is interested in things like Push, WIFI, Bluetooth and what applications you have been running. You’ll also be able to download a Battery Life Logging software, so that they could determine what’s wrong.
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The LG BL40 is now shipping in the United Kingdom.
The price of the phone varies from £15 (17€) to £169.99 (194€), depending on which carrier you choose.
Read our previous post of the phone here.
