China gets the iPhone 4S tomorrow, Friday the 13th - thousands already lined up to pay $60 a month
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And the trend will seemingly continue - reports are that thousands of people have already lined up in front of Apple's retail stores in China's big cities, waiting for the clock to strike twelve, so they can be one of the first official owners of the iPhone 4S there. The Apple Stores in China are some of the most heavily trafficked in the world.
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Analysts estimated that China Unicom started losing money on the two-year, $45 a month contract for the iPhone 4 that it had last year, that is why it had added the additional year for the 32GB model this time around.
source: AppleInsider & Bloomberg
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11 Comments
1. 530gemini posted on 12 Jan 2012, 16:20 7 7
Hmmmm. Where are the fandroids laughing at Americans, saying Americans are sheeps? Almost any country where the iphone is released, there are lines and lines of people. So what about those non-Americans then? Hello? Fandroids?
Once again, fandroids are walking around pretending they didn't say such stupid statements :)
2. Gdrye posted on 12 Jan 2012, 16:23 7 2
dont forget though that the carrier isnt charging a dime for the iphone, the 16 and 32 are free, just signing up contracts for $60 a month...think that would sell like hotcakes no matter where the phone was sold
11. xiobnb posted on 12 Jan 2012, 23:10 0 2
oh plz .everyone knows chinese are sheep of everything.... look at how they swipe clean the luxury items like bags and stuff ..chinese ppl likes to show off a lot !!! its very normal for stores to get long lines ..so if you say they like the iphone ? not really they just need it because their friend have one .. and i know a lot of ppl who doesnt even use any other feautures except calling on their phones including android phones ..they just need a touch screen phones to catch up with everyone else
3. theBankRobber posted on 12 Jan 2012, 16:30 6 3
Yes if android oems here in the US had this kind of deal, thousands would also be lined up. I bet the carrier paid a huge amount of money to Apple to get this kind of deal going. This has nothing to do with how much people like iPhones, but the fact they are getting it completely free. Last year when the original evo 4g was free at best buy , lots of people went flocking to pick it up, just about all my friends got one because it was a decent phone for free. Thanks to the marketing of Sprint with the Evo, people knew exactly what the Evo was.
4. gallitoking posted on 12 Jan 2012, 16:42 4 3
ok lets get this straight.. people like free phones hmmmm.. thats why Android activates 500.000 + daily.... most come from free phones... hmmmm very interesting mr. bankrobber... mistery solved...
9. xiobnb posted on 12 Jan 2012, 23:04 0 0
you mean like how the free 3gs on att worked ..ppl like free phones duh..
6. christianqwerty posted on 12 Jan 2012, 17:07 6 1
Ughh.. you can get almost any android phone on amazon for 1 penny.
10. xiobnb posted on 12 Jan 2012, 23:05 1 1
whoa i hope you can get me a galaxy nexus or note for 1 cent
5. theBankRobber posted on 12 Jan 2012, 17:03 5 0
Yes people like free phones, my post has nothing to do with witch phone is better. Just to shut the hatters up who think this makes the iPhone better then android phones. People don't have $199 or even $99 to upgrade or buy a new phone. This is a great deal for people who are on a really tight budget. If its a iPhone 4/4s or a high end android phone, this is good deal regardless with out fan boys starting a flame war.
7. Johnny_Mnemonic posted on 12 Jan 2012, 17:29 4 2
Three year contract with the same icrap waist of time and money
