If you’ve been following the verbal sparring between Apple and China Mobile’s vocal CEO Wang Jianzhou, PhoneMag has an incredibly detailed analysis of the current battle for what could potentially be the iPhone’s biggest market.ÂÂÂ
“There is more than $115 million US Dollars at stake for Apple in China. [T]he competitors at the table are deadly serious. And they should be. They have turf to protect. Nokia, for one, sold more than 50 million mobile handsets in China during the first 3 quarters of 2007. Research in Motion (RIM) is another key player. RIM recently signed a deal with China Mobile to distribute their Blackberry 8700 smart-phone. RIM has bet big on the China market” Dan Butterfield, PhoneMag
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Written by Chris Davies on December 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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While the iPhone’s EDGE capabilities appear to be slow, it’s rendering of web pages makes up for difference in speed between EDGE and 3G. Here is a video of the iPhone on EDGE, and a Nokia E61i on 3G. You can clearly see that both of their loading bars end at around the same time, with the iPhone finishing before the E61i loading eBay. If the iPhone had 3G, it would blow all other 3G devices away in website loading times.
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Written by Ken Allen on December 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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It appears we might have an idea where the next stop on the iPhone Europe train might be. It started in the UK then traveled to Germany and France. Two more companies are vying for a spot on the list of carriers, Telenor and TeliaSonera.
The next stop could lead Mr. Jobs to the Nordic region. There are two companies, I don’t know if they are quite in competition as I understand it that the two combined cover the whole Nordic region, but they don’t overlap too much.
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Written by James Allan Brady on September 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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