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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dead Route said 5:21PM on 11-17-2008
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.
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Peter said 5:42PM on 11-17-2008
Don't the Hong Kong phones have Chinese language support?
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BlackCoffeeNoSugar said 5:49PM on 11-17-2008
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.
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Panamajack said 1:26PM on 11-18-2008
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>
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