Iphone 4 Is More Popular Than Iphone 4s

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One hand, iPhone 4S sales "tepid", on the other hand, the price of iPhone 4 continues to climb. A parallel importers Huang admits, iPhone 4 appeared rise in price of different magnitude recently, which is that no one anticipated . "Before National Day, businesses bid only 3998 yuan for iPhone 4, the highest price now has reached 4780 yuan, it rises nearly a thousand, even more than the Apple store and the Unicom channel bare metal price of 4548 yuan." And another principal in charge of shops said that two days ago his iPhone 4 is 4,000 yuan, are now it rises around, so the latest price of iPhone 4 is 4400 yuan.

There are parallel importers said he can sell 10 iPhones a day, many businesses have been out of stock, including Suning Tesco and Jingdong Mall, the 16G version shown as stockout in Guangdong. Apple's official website also shows thatChinaiPhone4 are not supplied neither 16G nor 32G version. In fact this is already there in a week ago. Last Wednesday reporter of Nandu saw in Hong Kong Apple stores, in front of the door erected notice of sold out iPhone4, which retail outlets ...
... has always been the main sources of supply in Guangdong of Hong Kong version.

It is noteworthy that the business begin to focus on 8GB version of the iPhone 4 which had just opened in the overseas. The bare metal price is approximately 3,400 yuan equivalent to RMB, while the retail price of the first arrival of the machine inGuangdongis 4400 yuan in general, it’s slightly lower than the 16GB version, but it has a high profit margins, which made a lot of parallel importers scrambling for it.

War of operators

Compared to the bustling gray market, it is still unknown that when iPhone 4S and 8GB version of iPhone 4 could enter the mainlandChinamarket through formal channels. But behind the seemingly placid, China Telecom and China Unicom were racing to introduce new iPhone, to obtain first-mover advantage. Sources from China Unicom that now China Unicom-related business is working for adaptation for network and client aiming at the iPhone 4S, and has submitted a permit application of the network for iPhone 4S to the Ministry of Industry, "If all goes well, China Unicom is expected formal introduce of the iPhone 4S before the end of the year. "

China Telecom esurfing terminal management director Ma Daojie this month for the first time stated publicly that "As the person in charge of telecommunication terminals, I have responsibility and duty to push Apple to the Chinese consumer market CDMA users as quickly as possible. Because the Apple CDMA mobile phone appeared in the market ofU.S., I believe it’s not far away fromChina, we will accelerate the progress. " At present, China Telecom is actively introducing the detached card and phones, and the corresponding marketing systems, IT support systems and service systems.

Even the China Mobile, that seems far away from the iPhone 4S(wholesale iPhone 4S accessories), it is also ready to do something. This Monday, China Mobile chairman Wang Jianzhou said publicly that, although they (China Mobile) has not been reached with the Apple iPhone sales co-operation agreement, but the mobile iPhone users has reached 10 million(best iPhone 4S accessories). "We do not provide any subsidies." It implications, at least when 10 million iPhone users choose to use iPhone(accessories for iPhone 4S), they don’t consider too much about the subsidies of telephone charge, and they remain "faithful" in China Mobile's network.