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In perhaps the biggest sign that the iPhone actually is coming to China and soon, China Unicom has reportedly bought 5 million units from Apple for 10 billion RMB. What's more, it will finally begin selling them in September, with the 8GB standard iPhone set at a very reasonable 2,400RMB and the 16GB priced at 4,800RMB, according to the International Business Times. Sounds great for the many of us who have been waiting years for this to happen! Now to cross our fingers and hope this news is real, unlike the many instances where we've been burned before.

We've been burned so many times before, so we're taking this with a grain of salt - but China Tech News reports that China Unicom has reached an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone 3G to China by May 2009. If the rumor's correct, then it means that China Unicom will be launching the iPhone the same time it starts up its WCDMA 3G network nation-wide. Apple had allegedly been talking to China Mobile as well, but talks stalled over the tech company's iTunes app business.