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Apple’s iPhone is making its long-awaited formal debut in the world’s most populous mobile phone market, without a key feature and at higher prices than widely available black market models. Apple’s local service provider, China Unicom, hopes the iPhone will give it an edge against giant rival China Mobile, the world’s biggest phone company by subscribers.
Google faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party’s main newspaper accused the U.S. search giant of trying to keep Internet users away following its reports on a copyright dispute. The online People’s Daily book section said the three-day disruption began last Wednesday.
State-owned China Unicom said Friday it is talking with Apple about becoming an iPhone carrier but denied a report it has reached a deal and will buy 5 million handsets. China is the world’s most populous mobile phone market, and iPhones are produced in China by an Apple contractor for export. Apple has yet to sign up a Chinese partner, but thousands of unlocked iPhones brought in from other markets are in use in China.
China said Thursday it might appeal a major World Trade Organization ruling that told Beijing to ease restrictions on imported movies, music and books in its latest trade dispute with Washington. The Commerce Ministry insisted Beijing does not hamper imports of media products, despite Wednesday’s decision by a WTO panel of experts that it violates free-trade rules.
Lenovo, the world’s fourth-largest personal computer maker, reported a US$16 million quarterly loss Thursday and said it faces pressure from weak global demand and intense competition. The loss for the three months ending June 30, equal to 0.18 cents per share, compared with a $110 million profit a year earlier.
PC maker Lenovo announced a $96.7 million quarterly loss Thursday as sales dropped in the global economic turmoil and said CEO William J. Amelio resigned in a management reshuffle. Amelio will be succeeded as chief executive by Chairman Yang Yuanqing, Beijing-based Lenovo announced.
China will issue third-generation mobile phone licenses as early as this month and expects companies to spend about $30 billion on installing equipment, the industry minister said Friday. China has the world’s biggest population of mobile phone users, and adoption of 3G was eagerly anticipated.
China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday. The latest figure on Web use at the end of June is a 56 percent increase from a year ago, the China Internet Network Information Center said.
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