It’s about a month and a half since the Chinese version of iPhone was released.

china iPhone ad

Now we can see ads everywhere.

According to the news last week (http://www.cs.com.cn/ssgs/02/200912/t20091210_2288305.htm), the Chinese version of iPhone sales quantity reached 100,000 in total. But compared with population ratio, kind of moderate growth??

As I wrote “Next time is about gray-market iPhones” in the last post, I guess I got to mention something about it.
Shuihuo in Chinese, translated gray-market in English. Sounds suspicious, though, it seems like they are not always fake. They also include genuine iPhone of other countries. But there are also fake ones.
Well then, foreign versions of iPhone that I saw.
1, US version. Was on sale. Um… I thought US version is not SIM free…?
2, Hong Kong version. Also on sale. Maybe the largest in number. This one is SIM free and expensive than US version.
3, Taiwan version. A sales attendant recommended me this one when I was looking for a dual SIM cell terminal. SIM free and dual SIM. Sounded really nice, but I thought that one was sold too cheap and bit suspicious, and I already have iPod touch, so…I just passed it up.
4, Japanese version. I’m not sure if I should include this one..It was not on sale. I just saw a Japanese using it.

By the way, recently I see ads of China Mobile OPhone very often.