iPhone in China | 苹果中国

If you are one of the unlucky ones, you may be asking yourself ‘Why is the internet so slow in China today?’ Many people are unable to use MSN Messenger, some VPN services,  nor able to access sites such as Yahoo and Apple.com. The good news is it doesn’t have anything to do with the Great Firewall. The bad news is it is apparently caused by seabed movements from Typhoon Morakat and affecting several countries Asia wide.

According to China Unicom the FNAL / RNAL cable from Hong Kong to Taiwan, an important information channel, has been damaged on August 12th by typhoon Morakot. However routing was not interrupted due to certain protections so there was no impact on communications at that time. Today at around 14:20 Beijing time, the cable protection routing China’s gateway to North America, Europe and other international communications via Pusan, South Korea was damaged, caused by impacts of varying levels.

The International Business Department of China Unicom said there are currently related organizations and outside partners taking necessary measures in order to resume normal communication as soon as possible.

Although you may have trouble getting on your favorite sites today, please keep in mind there are several people who are suffering much worse due to the typhoon and I ask that you keep them in your thoughts.

While it’s not known the exact reason for removing Wi-Fi capabilities on the Chinese version of the iPhone, many people speculate it is because the PRC government wants to monitor all traffic through their servers. After all, the iPod Touch sold at the Apple stores are Wi-Fi enabled. In my opinion, it was a way for the cell phone providers on the mainland to make more money selling internet plans, however the idea is somewhat flawed since it was the government who established the rule and not China Unicom.

Whatever the reason may be, Anchor Free allows a free VPN solution that will allow you to access Twitter and Facebook which happens to be blocked by the Great Firewall. A VPN will also anonymize and secure your internet connection while accessing any other censored sites using any data service over Wi-Fi/GPRS/or 3G. Point your browsers to HotSpot Shield to get started.

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It is now confirmed that provider China Unicom will be pushing Apple’s 3G version of iPhone mobile phone with recent photos revealing the first upcoming Chinese version of the iPhone 3GS from Sina Technology test reviews.

The recent photos taken from Sina Technology Zhiguo show the carrier signal on the top left hand corner revealing “中国联通” (China Unicom) along with the 3G signal. Since China Unicom is mainly a WCDMA provider, this may be very good news for Verizon wireless in the States who is reportedly subsidizing Apple’s tablet may also contract with Apple to provide the iPhone.

The back of iPhone mobile phones reveals simplified Chinese which is only exclusive to China. It is noted that the iPhone released in Hong Kong uses English on the back.

Booting up the device reveals the typical “Dear user, you are welcome to use the China Unicom’s business” message found on Chinese phones.

The battery percentage meter reveals it is a 16GB 3GS model and it is unclear if China will also receive the 8GB 3G or the 32GB 3GS.

As early as May this year, the national radio frequency spectrum monitoring and testing center on the site show that Apple’s phone has been through the national radio transmitting equipment, type approval, access to 5-year market access time, the news industry as a Progressive Apple Mainland turn for the better. The industry speculated that the submission of Apple products are customized for the Chinese market, especially the 3G version of iPhone mobile phones, for Unicom WCDMA standard. The mobile phone that has appeared online in the Foxconn foundries might be OEM production.

(via Sina Techonology)