Shanghaiist: Rumour: China Mobile to launch G1 Android phone by year's end

DaffyDuck

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:07:33 +0800

I guess China Mobile will be using the 'threat' of the G1 to pressure Apple into complying with providing them with a crippled iPhone 3G... or so they think! In the meantime, Apple has 'conveniently' started selling the iPhone 3G, completely unlocked, right across the border in Hong Kong, at attractive prices (attractive enough to make it worthwhile buying and grey marketing to China), ready to be used en masse to China Unicom. We'll see who blinks first, but I have a feeling that it won't be Apple.

blicket

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:28:17 +0800

i can not see this phone as it currently stands ever working out in the shanghai market. It's far to ugly for people to except. luckily I believe Motorola announced today that they're going to have android phones. and out of all places, shanghai is probably the last holdouts where motorola phones is still considered 'hip'. no?

Pirx

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:07:40 +0800

Another brick to schlep around, with features and functions that all of us could also live without before, with services that will drive our phone-bills up, not down. The only functions in excess of what any run-of-the-mill standard 200 gram flat mobile phone offers today there is only Wifi and somewhat MS Office compatibility in iPhone and similar products. My iPhone with latest firmware 2.1 is lying in the corner catching dust. My work-horse is the SonyEricsson W890i with superb sound and picture quality, flat, light, unmatched battery-life, Quadband and 3G, technologywise years ahead of what is coming out of Palo Alto, California.