Apple’s iPhone 4S was on sale on Hong Kong’s grey market at the weekend, attracting hundreds of fans paying up to six times official prices to get their hands on the latest model.
The smartphone, released in seven countries on Friday, was not yet officially for sale in the southern Chinese city but dealers had imported them, mainly from Australia and Japan, for resale to local customers.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sprint (NYSE: S) began selling iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 in Sprint retail stores nationwide this morning at 8:00am local time. Sprint is the only U.S. carrier to offer new and existing customers the iPhone experience with unlimited data plans starting at just $79.99 per month.
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NEW YORK (Xinhua) — The iPhone 4S went on sale at Apple store on the Fifth Avenue of Manhattan in New York early Friday.
An Apple store worker said people were waiting outside the store around 3 p.m. Thursday and underwent an overnight rain for an early purchase of the smart phone which started sale at 8 a.m. Friday.
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Apple fans in Australia and Japan on Friday became the first to get their hands on the new iPhone as the US technology giant unleashed its first device since the death of co-founder Steve Jobs.
In a party atmosphere, hundreds of people queued outside Apple’s four-storey flagship Sydney store and at its counterpart in Tokyo, filming the experience on their iPhones and iPads as staff inside clapped, cheered and chanted.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — To some people, Apple’s new iPhone 4S isn’t the complete overhaul they have been hoping for. Its model number, which doesn’t include a “5,” reeks of the status quo.
That’s ridiculous.
Sure, the 4S doesn’t render the iPhone 4 hopelessly obsolete, and on the surface they’re nearly identical. But with a faster processor, new software, a voice-activated personal assistant and a souped-up camera, it’s a major improvement over the current iPhone.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Xinhua) — Apple announced on Monday that pre-orders of its iPhone 4S have topped 1 million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day pre-order record of the company’s smartphone.
The iPhone 4S pre-orders surpassed 1 million in the first 24 hours and the previous single day pre-order record held by iPhone 4 is 600,000, according to Apple.
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CANBERRA (Xinhua) — The Apple iPhone is Australia’s most popular mobile phone, a consumer survey released on Thursday found.
According to the 2011 Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index, released by Aimia, the peak industry body for Digital Content, Services and Applications in Australia, 32 percent of Australians own an Apple handset, while 28 percent own a Nokia mobile phone, with Samsung (13 percent), HTC (eight percent), Sony Ericsson ( five percent), LG (four percent), Blackberry (three percent), Motorola (three percent) and Other (three percent).
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fter months of speculation, the iPhone 4S has finally been officially, truly, actually revealed. It’s not a groundbreaking redesign packed with new features, it’s a more powerful but same-looking iPhone 4. And in many ways, it’s a case of Apple catching up to Android, not the other way around.
Of the new features that the iPhone 4S sports, most of them are already available on comparable Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S II. Apple has made a big deal out of some of these improvements, and among iPhone owners, many of them are pretty cool. The A5 dual-core processor chip, for example, speeds up the iPhone’s capabilities for video and gaming, bringing them more in line with the iPad 2. Read More
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Several Chinese online stores are offering die-hard Apple fans the opportunity to buy the much-anticipated next-generation iPhone 5. There’s just one catch — the US tech giant hasn’t released it yet.
The fake smartphones are available for as little as 200 yuan ($31) on hugely popular websites such as China’s largest online marketplace Taobao.com, which has 370 million registered users.
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The storied issues concerning Apple and Samsung is nothing new and now it looks like the latter is broadening its legal coverage by reportedly filing a separate preliminary injunction which would block off the iPhone 4S in Italy and France.
Apparently the iPhone 4S is infringing two patents related to the WCDMA 3G standards that Samsung and Apple are debating about. And from the looks of it, Samsung may have a case until further deliberation of the matter has been resolved.
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