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The new iPhone will have a bigger display to compete with Android smartphones, such as the Samsung Galaxy Note that has a freakishly large 5.3-inch display. So how Apple is going to do it? Well, by using a vacuum constriction device that is called iPump to increase the size of the iPhone, according to those kooky Taiwanese animators from NMA. Watch the video after the break.
According to a report from Apple Insider, the iPhone 3GS, which first released in 2009, may stay in production for Apple to sell contract-free in developing markets, where prepaid smartphones are popular. Apple has inked an agreement with a leading distributor that new partnership is intended to push the iPhone 3GS in prepaid markets around the world. With the iPhone 4 replacing the iPhone 3GS as Apple’s entry-level smartphone, some might expect that the iPhone 3GS would be an end-of-life product. But Apple may have other plans to expand iPhone sales in markets like China where cheap Android-based smartphones are dominating …
There are so much news from China that passes by that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Here are the Chinese tech news that have left behind last week because we are just too busy or too lazy to post. There are stories on 300 million weibo user, Nvidia virtual GPU computing, Lenovo carbon ultrabook and so on, check them out after the break. Video for this week: could China rival Silicon Valley … Hope everyone have a fresh start to your week.
In Shenzhen, an unauthorized screen protection film for Apple’s iPhone sells for 10 yuan (US$1.60), more than 10 times its cost. The costs for each iPhone protection film just needs 0.8 yuan (US$0.12). According to industry insiders, the market of screen protection films for Apple devices and other related accessories are valued at more than 100 million yuan (US$14.64 million) in China. It has already become a huge industry chain consisting of over 1,000 Chinese manufacturers all located in Shenzhen …
Apple’s sales in China are set go even higher as iPhone sales for the first quarter of the year are quadruple more the numbers of same period of last year. The sales of Apple’s MacBook have also grown by 60 percent since the time the company entered China. The preference of Chinese consumers for major brands and the increasing respect that Apple has shown China for its massive market potential have shored up the success of the company in the country …
According to the China Ministry of IT, the country’s phone penetration rate will surpass 100 percent for the first time by 2015. Does this means every single Chinese will own a mobile phone ? As we know, some people may have several, after all the mobile phone market in China is extraordinary. China has already overtook the US as the world’s biggest smartphone market in the first quarter of this year, thanks to the booming sales of Apple’s iPhone and other cheap Android phones. China is expected to have 1.4 billion phone users with a penetration rate of 100 percent, compared with 85 percent at the end of 2010. 3G users will have about 450 million. The country will also start to improve the average broadband bandwidth capacity in urban regions to 20 megabytes per second, 5 to 10 times faster than the current level.
According to the prediction from Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank, who says that the iPhone is “just getting started in China.” He believes Apple will have an enormous potential to increase sales in China, and came up with a new estimation claimed the sales of Apple’s iPhone could surpass 25 million in China this year and soar past 35 million in 2013.
A Hong Kong 12 years-old high school girl had been caught for smuggling a total of 30 iPhones to Shenzhen China. The young girl looked like a regular student wearing school uniform but did not carry any school bag. When she passed through the customs regulatory site, she was much nervous unlike other students. The official stopped her and after inspection, they found lots of iPhone 4s tied secretly under her school dress. Surprisingly, her action was instigated by her mother …
Finally, Foxconn workers have the chance to have some experience on using the Apple’s iPhone while touring in Taiwan. Foxconn has invited over 200 employees to Taiwan for a seven-day free tour and the company will be footing the bill for all costs involved, rewarding them for their hard work and contribution. These high-performing workers are rewarded free iPhone and cash award, and they are scheduled to visit many popular tourist sites in Taiwan. This is certainly a 100 percent PR show plan out by Foxconn, telling the whole world their employees are working in a company with happiness …
The Chinese internet is currently engulfed in debate over the iPhone headphone jack which smells like pineapple while charging. It started with a thread on a popular internet message board in Japan. The crazy news quickly spread through news blogs and traveled all the way to SINA weibo, the most popular micro-blogging platform in China. The thread on weibo has been retweet more than thirty thousand times as Chinese Apple’s user confirming the claim too. A few also reported a similar fragrance coming from the volume control buttons. Some Taiwanese folks even found out their iPhone can be smell like peach, mango and even APPLE !
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