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Currently, over 400,000 unlocked iPhones are roaming around China. Now that China Mobile is about to officially launch Apple’s latest handset in the world’s most populous country, we can only imagine that figure going up. In a bizarre twist of trying to keep a homegrown 3G standard (TD-SCDMA) alive, the carrier has announced that it is intending to launch the mobile with WiFi and 3G disabled — a move that would make it less appealing to those who may be considering buying one, unlocking it and using it on the expected W-CDMA network from China Telecom. Uncool, China Mobile. Very uncool.

[Via mocoNews]

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Original post by Darren Murph

This entry was posted on Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 3:31 am and is filed under china mobile, barebones, ChinaMobile, stripped iphone, TD-SCDMA, StrippedIphone, 3gIphone, 3g iphone, 3G, iPhone 3G, wifi, China, Iphone3g, iPhone. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.