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China Unicom to bring Wi-Fi enabled iPhone 3GS to market come Monday

Following up on yesterday’s story about wireless carrier China Unicom selling Apple’s iPhone with Wi-Fi capabilities, Wen Baoqiu, a spokesman for China Unicom, has announced that starting Monday the Beijing-based telecom operator will offer an 8-gigabyte model of the iPhone 3GS with Wi-Fi capability. 16- and 32-gigabyte versions without Wi-Fi will continue to be available […]

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China Unicom to begin selling Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones by end of August

Wait long enough and the good stuff gets sorted out. Per Macworld UK, Chinese law is set to change, allowing wireless carrier China Unicom to sell iPhones with Wi-Fi capabilities later this month. A spokesman with the iPhone carrier China Unicom said the company will start offering the 8GB iPhone 3GS with Wi-Fi support possibly […]

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Apple move closer to obtaining Wi-Fi license for Chinese market iPhones

Since its inception into the Chinese marketplace, Apple’s iPhone has been restricted from incorporating a Wi-Fi capability. That may be about to change as this week, Chinese regulators issued a network access license for an Apple iPhone that is equipped to use the China-developed wireless LAN security protocol, WAPI (WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure). China’s […]

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Apple alters Chinese iPhone Wi-Fi protocol to adopt government standard

Apple fought for years to break the iPhone into the Chinese marketplace and appears to be doing what it takes to stay there. Per Macworld UK, the company appears to have tweaked its iPhone to support a Chinese security protocol for wireless networks. This follows suit as companies increasingly adopt Chinese government-backed technologies and standards […]

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Rumor: Foxconn Prepping WAPI iPhone for Chinese Marketplace

Long-time component supplier and Apple partner Foxconn is reportedly preparing a WAPI-based iPhone handset that will be distributed to China Unicom. Per Cloned in China, WAPI is the local wireless standard that is compatible with Wi-Fi, unlike the current iPhone version which omits the Wi-Fi functionality due to government regulations. The lack of Wi-Fi has […]