On Friday, China had a premiere of the Apple phone. Of course, talking about the premiere of the official, since the iPhone in China, you could buy a long time - on the black market. Several hundred people waited in line for the phone with apples. The first received a lucky iPhone in Beijing at 18 local time. China Unicom also offered their services to the holders of unlocked illegally purchased iPhones.

In spite of everything, with big crowds waiting in the queue long hours tend to talk you can not. Introduction to offer the Chinese operator's iPhone is not met with such an overwhelming response, the main interest in what they expected, or the like. One reason may be determined by the price of China Unicom phone. 8GB iPhone 3G without Wi-Fi is expected to cost $ 730 and the 32GB model 3GS up $ 1,000. For comparison on the black market have to pay for them respectively 430 and $ 730 - with phone calls from illegal sources do not have Wi-Fi lock. Currently it is estimated that even before the official launch in China were already more than 1.5 million of these devices.