China unicom Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daily Update for January 13, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

iPhone reportedly ready for China Telecom's CDMA2000 network

by Chris Rawson (Jan 9th, 2012)

The iPhone 4S is set to launch in China a few days from now via China Unicom, a GSM-based provider that has been the sole iPhone-compatible Chinese carrier thus far. According to AllThingsD, China may be getting ready to add a second carrier to the mix: CDMA-based wireless carrier China ...

China Unicom offers free iPhone 4S on contract

by Steven Sande (Jan 6th, 2012)

Want a free iPhone 4S? If you're a customer of China Unicom, you're in luck -- the company announced today (one week from the first day of iPhone 4S availability in China and 21 other countries) that they'll give users a free iPhone 4S for signing a multiyear service contract. It gets better. ...

Daily Update for November 21, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 21st, 2011)

iPhone 4S has reportedly received China's network access permit

by Steven Sande (Nov 21st, 2011)

Chinese website M.I.C. Gadget is reporting that the iPhone 4S has leaped an important hurdle in preparation for sale by cellular carrier China Unicom. The newest iPhone has apparently been tested by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and is about to be given the ...

Rumor: iPhone 5 supports HSPA+ '4G'

by Steven Sande (Sep 29th, 2011)

Less than one week before Apple's announcement of a new iPhone or two, Japanese blog Macotakara has published a photo of a slide shown by China Unicom during a presentation at Macworld Asia. What's on the slide? Notes about an 'iPhone 5' to be delivered in 2011 that supports the HSPA+ '4G' ...

iPhone poised to take China by storm

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 23rd, 2011)

It's that time of the year when wireless carriers are reporting their quarterly earnings and leaking tidbits of information about their future financial prospects. Though many carriers focus on ARPU and churn, both China Mobile and China Telecom have been forthcoming about their future iPhone ...

China Unicom offers $10 monthly iPhone plan amid stiff competition

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 25th, 2011)

China Unicom is trying to grab additional customers before its exclusivity with the iPhone ends. The wireless carrier is kicking off a new promotion that drops the price on its lowest iPhone plan to a rock bottom 66 yuan (US$10) a month. Right now, its larger rivals China Mobile and China ...

Apple's mobile partner in China announces its own iPhone rival

by Dana Franklin (Mar 1st, 2011)

The parent company of China Unicom, Apple's sole partner for carrying the iPhone in China, revealed plans on Monday to release its own mobile computing platform. Dubbed "Wophone," the platform will compete directly with Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Last year, Apple partnered with China ...

China Telecom close to inking deal with Apple for the CDMA iPhone 4

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 18th, 2011)

In a research note, Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White suggest China Telecom is close to completing a deal with Apple to carry the CDMA iPhone 4. White cites a report on Chinese website NetEase that claims one branch of the wireless operator is already accepting pre-orders for the CDMA ...

China Mobile says Apple to support TD-LTE

by Rick Martin (Jan 26th, 2011)

In an interview with Chinese news portal Sina, China Mobile's Chairman Wang Jianzhou was quoted (Chinese) as saying that Apple would get behind the carrier's next-gen TD-LTE network technology: "Apple has its own problems to deal with and has many things to develop, and currently TD development is ...

China Unicom sells 100,000 iPhone 4s in four days

by Dave Caolo (Sep 29th, 2010)

After four days of availability, China Unicom (CU) has sold 100,000 iPhone 4s in China (here are some photos from launch day). Pre-orders began on September 16th, and CU reported earlier this week that 200,000 orders were taken. Today, all online reservations have come to a halt. Customers must be ...

China Unicom offering in-store jailbreaking

by Dave Caolo (Aug 30th, 2010)

Chinese customers who want a jailbroken iPhone but lack the nerve or time to do it now have a reliable option, as distributor China Unicom (CU) is offering jailbreaking as a service in their retail stores. Chinese language site WeiPhone notes (here's the English translation) that customers can ...

Apple gains control of "i-phone" trademark in China

by Dave Caolo (Jan 4th, 2010)

Back in 2002, Apple applied to register the iPhone trademark in China, but that application was limited to computer hardware and software, not mobile phones. A year later (three years before the iPhone's introduction), Chinese manufacturer Hanwang Technology applied for the trademark "i-phone" for a ...

China Unicom has now sold 300,000 iPhones

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 30th, 2009)

Things started off looking grim for the iPhone when it went on sale in China in October of this year with sales of only 5000 phones in the first week. Forty days after the initial launch however, China Unicom reported they sold 100,000 iPhones. Now, just twenty days after that 100,000 mark, Dan ...