December: White-market iPhones coming to Taiwan

The iPhone 3G will be officially arriving in Taiwan during the month of December, according to Kaddy Chung and Adam Hwang of Digitimes.

Chunghwa Telecom will be "exclusively" offering the phone for sale, but did not release any details about pricing or when exactly it will hit store shelves. Gray market handsets have been available in the country for as much as NT$28,500 (≈ US$865).

According to NetworkWorld, the iPhone might be next destined for China, as a release in Taiwan suggests that Chinese input support is finished (or nearly so).

[Via Cult of Mac.]

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Source: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20081117PD203.html

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Panamajack

All iPhones with 2.0 or higher have Chinese language support, as do plenty of jailbroken 1.4 2G iPhones which have sold well in the PRC>

November 18 2008 at 1:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

blackcoffeenosugar

What I would like to point out is the Chinese language issue must have been solved long time ago, as iPhone has been released in Hong Kong since when... Plus, Taiwan uses Traditional Chinese and China uses Simplified Chinese. I think the obstacle for iPhone's invasion to China is Apple and local mobile companies can't agree with a revenue scheme.

November 17 2008 at 5:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pete

Don't the Hong Kong phones have Chinese language support?

November 17 2008 at 5:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dead Route

About time! I recently chose between an iPhone or a trip back home, they're the same price NT$28,000 goddamn it. I suppose they'll be contract only, which will be hard for me.

November 17 2008 at 5:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply