“China Telecom has accidentally confirmed plans to carry the iPhone 5S and 5C, reports say,” Electronista reports.
“Earlier today the company posted a statement to that effect on microblogging site Sina Weibo, but it has since been deleted,” Electronista reports. “Telecom is one of the two official iPhone carriers in China, the other being China Unicom.”
Electronista reports, “The missing Weibo message offered to sign people up for pre-orders, with a gift bag as a bonus.”
Read more in the full article here.
Well ain’t that a kick in the teeth. Not that it was a surprise but still.
Bet that hurts. 👞👄
Spoiler Alert! Just don’t read the headline.
Sounds like Apple’s got a trustworthy new partner in China Telecom…
More like not very bright. 😎
I dearly hope that this isn’t true. The iPhone 5C is a useless product and is trying to get the 3.5 inch display and the 30-pin connector out far too quickly. If Microsoft is any indication, you don’t force big change on a user in one instance, you gradually adjust them to the change. The 5C is looking like the only product that is making me doubt Tim Cook…
I like the 5c, and it isn’t forced change. People will buy what they want, and the biggest deciding factor for non technically inclined people would be the colors it comes in over spec and hardware
I’m still buying the top of the line iPhone model, not sure how crappy plastic versions could affect my life in any way.
It’s clearly not going to change your life, is it, as it’s not aimed at you! Are you being deliberately obtuse?
You know? I never had a problem with the “crappy plastic” 3GS. Metal might look cooler, but there’s nothing wrong with a good plastic design.
Exactly. Hi-tech carbon fibre is really just a plastic and you wouldn’t call a well executed piece cheap or crappy. It all depends how it’s done and Apple doesn’t exactly have a record of doing these things poorly.
The iPhone has been around six years. The Lightning connector has been around a year now with the iPhone 5 and latest gen of iPad and iPod mini. A year is an eternity in consumer tech, not “an instance”.
Since the furor was unleashed last fall, everybody has known that the 30-pin connector would soon be obsolete. Everybody has three options: Move along with the changes and newer (indeed better) technology, use adapters for legacy devices, or stay with the old and don’t change.
I don’t see how the 5C is useless. If it can be manufactured considerably less expensively than the premium iPhone, but sold at price points (and margins) similar to the current entry-level iPhone 4S (now two years old), then it serves an important purpose, which is for Apple to be able to sell a current, modern device to more of the market. That’s a good thing no matter how you look at it, and certainly no reason to doubt Tim Cook.
I just don’t understand the furor over the idea of the iPhone 5C – especially since it hasn’t even been announced yet.
Agreed. I remember the days when every phone you got had a different charger.
I love the new connector on the iPhone 5, and we kept a few of the old connectors for our old iPods, and gave the rest away to friends who bought iPhone 4’s. Happy friends.
You’re absolutely insane.
You’re kidding or trolling, right?
The 5C is hardly useless, and you seem to be deliberately ignoring a very important point; Apple aren’t trying to get the 3.5″ screen and 30-pin connector out of the way too quickly in THIS MARKET. There is no long-term attachment to those details in an emerging market, and a cheaper, multicoloured version will have enormous appeal to a young market eager for an iPhone that they can afford, and is coloured to appeal to them, not to grown-ups.
It’s a cell phone. The only way a cellphone can be a “useless product” is if either it or telephone networks don’t work.
Or if you’re underwater. Otherwise, your comment makes no sense, though I am glad to know that you can run a multi-billion dollar company as well as Time Cook has been (and don’t blame him for the stock price fluctuations, seeing that it has very little to do with him.
You are so right. Apple shouldn’t have ever introduced the iPhone back in 2007 all at once. They should have introduced it in bits an pieces. Everyone is just like you and can’t stand change because they are deathly afraid of change.
Microsoft isn’t any kind of indication of what Apple can get away with. Microsoft doesn’t make products people want. Apple does.
iPhone 5C sounds like a great product. And I’m sure developers don’t think it’s too soon to reduce the number of different screen sizes being produced.
Original iMac was first to sport USB I/o and no floppy. That was kind of abrupt and it put Apple back on the map with Steve’s return. Don’t forget history so quickly.
I remember I freaked a bit when they took out the floppy drive, now I look back on it as a point of embarrassment. A “Duh” moment. The change made perfect sense of course.
Now taking the DVD drive out of the latest iMacs: at home it doesn’t bother me at all, can’t even remember when I last inserted a DVD/CD. At work, I get a lot of stuff on DVD from clients. So an external drive will have to be bought. Which isn’t a huge deal, sometimes you have to wait for the rest of the world to catch up.
This phone is for pushing into new markets. Not you dagger.
“Accidentally”?
haha yeah, just like photos and details of Samsung new products are “leaked”
Wait. Did this giant corporation supposedly use a “leaked” photo of a bin of iPhone 5c boxes in an “official post”?
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If so, I call shenanigans!
The iPhone 5C will be a huge success. I have already heard people say how they will get more than one on family plans for their kids. Having them in multiple colors and running iOS 7 will make it an instant success in the US and abroad.
Wow…what a professional business partner… posting product shots of the most popular tech product days before the big launch. On a wannabe Twitter site no less. Bush league. Typical…. And you wonder why Apple has to invest in backup plans (eg even more vertical integration)
These chumps couldn’t copy Apple in a million years.
Note. I worked in Mainland China since 2007.
Given that you’ve worked in China, you’re aware of how common this is. It’s dog eat dog there, in many cases literally.
It’s actually FUBAR and foo fighters.
ooooo, a gift bag!