“Long-rumored Apple carrier partner China Mobile has begun readying advertising materials for 3G variants of Apple’s iPhone 5s and 5c,” Shane Cole reports for AppleInsider.
“A poster advertising the upcoming availability of the iPhone 5s and 5c from China Mobile has been spotted on the mainland, according to Chinese media conglomerate Sina’s Sina Tech,” Cole reports. “If legitimate, the poster would represent the first official acknowledgement of the long-rumored deal that would send Apple’s iPhone to the world’s largest mobile carrier and its 740 million subscribers.”
Cole reports, “The poster touts the 3G variant of the newly released handsets, suggesting that the carrier may be angling to open sales of the devices sooner rather than later…. [since] Chinese government has yet to issue 4G operating licenses to carriers.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
China love the iPhone 5c because it reminds them of the Apple rip offs that China is known for. Looks like they finally have something to be proud of…not! America will always be the best since Apple is an American company. No other country can come close to America’s technology. (Except for Korea, but that does not count, since they like to rip us off)
and they love to be ripped off by Germany for cars…
(WTF??)
oops, got “Apple rip offs” wrong
I hope that was an attempt at some kind of humorous spoof. Kind of embarrassing
The hint is in the name. Can you really take someone who is sporting a mullet seriously?
Holy crap, this is huge.
I think the pressure on China Mobile just got 9 million iPhones bigger. I think the backlog of iPhone desire is ready to explode in China. It’s going to be a big year for Apple.
More massive sales on the horizon. I see it as a meteor of doom, blazing through the stratosphere on its way to Yucatan, its destiny a fireball to melt Cretaceous eyeballs, extinguish the dominant land predators and cradle the emergence of newer, smarter creatures.
I laughed out loud on reading this post hannahjs. Very nicely done.
Sure.
If they can supply the stock then they will have massive profit next year. But hope supply is not an issue. Good luck Apple!!!
I hope not. I’ve already been through that once.
and the hits just keep on coming.
Don’t get so cocky, people. Wall Street cannot be trusted. A large portion of Wall Street’s big money is dead against Apple and the way it operates for profits. They don’t seem to quite get behind any company that doesn’t go mainly after high market share. Android’s 80% market share is like the elephant in the room to the hedge funds. They see Apple as merely a peanut and value it as such. Like the tech pundits and analysts, they really can’t see any difference between an iPhone and some mid-tier Android smartphone except they favor the Android smartphone because it is cheaper.
As much as I’d like to see a China Mobile deal, do you really think CM would announce it with one poster that looks like it was created by a 10 yr old? Looks like a spoof to me.
The advertisement looks cheap but as long as it works then it’s okay
Stupid american. (The capitalisation (or lack thereof) was intentional) Just because Apple is located in your country does NOT mean you are the best. BlackBerry is located up in the Great White North, and we are still respected in the world community. Remember the story of the Canadian soldier who was mistaken for an american, and an Iraqi spit on him, but when he said he was Canadian, he got a swift apology? Yeah, that’s pretty telling, huh?
let’s see, 2nd or 3rd tier economy and y’all are perceived to be at that same level in military and political influence, perhaps lower
in technology, so, yeah, pretty telling that y’all have that small
thing self-doubt and all. But, hey, thanks for sharing. See, opinions are like ass holes, we all have them, but, some seem
to be stopped up and, y’all know, full of stuff.
Happy trails
China mobile will announce it at least a week before the double 10.