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China Unicom places gigantic iPhone 3GS order

14 August 2009 20:31 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 4 comments

Earlier this month, China Unicom and Apple finally came to an agreement to bring the popular smartphone, the iPhone, to China, albeit with Wi-Fi missing.

Today, showing they mean business, the Chinese carrier has ordered 5 million iPhone 3GS units, for about $1.46 billion USD. As a notable comparison, Apple sold just over 5 million iPhone units globally in the last quarter.

Says China Unicom GM of Customer Development Yu Zaonan, via BGR, the 3GS will sell for �2,400/$352 (16GB model) or �4,800/$704 (32GB model).

Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst from Sanford C Bernstein, expects Apple to make profit of �1100 for each unit sold.

Permalink to this article | Topic: Phones

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salsa36 (Junior Member) 14 August 2009 20:39
Now we are selling stuff to the chinese people, it is a great change! Go Apple!! [ + quote]
cart0181 (Junior Member) 14 August 2009 23:25
I don't expect they'll have much trouble selling these, since the company is owned by the government. They'll just make a law that says you must buy the phone. Done deal. [ + quote]
KillerBug (Senior Member) 15 August 2009 3:47
*Originally posted by cart0181:* I don't expect they'll have much trouble selling these, since the company is owned by the government. They'll just make a law that says you must buy the phone. Done deal. Even the chinese are not that heavy handed. Their government run companies act a lot like the companies that run the governments in other countries like the USA. Still, they should not have any trouble unloading 5 million phones onto a population like China's. [ + quote]
Gnawnivek (Junior Member) 20 August 2009 12:12
Well, got to hand it over to Apples, that's mass marketing! [ + quote]