The iPhone 3G is now available for sale in Hong Kong. Funnily enough, there wasn’t any fanfare, but one interesting thing is that the phone will be unlocked.
The unlocked prices are, as you might have expected, rather high with the 8GB iPhone 3G selling for $5,400 HK, which is about $692 and the 16GB costs $6,200 HK, which is about $794. Users can activate their phones with any wireless carrier and Apple is allowing it so long as a SIM card is installed before you try to sync it with iTunes 8.
Interesting stuff, really. And to think just today China Mobile decided to sell an iPhone 3G without, well 3G, or even WiFi because China would prefer a local 3G protocol like the TD-SCDMA instead of HSPA.
[via MacNN]
the prices are high but at least your not locked int som horrifically overpriced tarrif.
a good example here in hong kong is how low the phone tariffs are.
pccw offers 68hk for 1200 minutes and intra 600 per month but u must include govenment tax of 12hk too. so a totall of 80hk
there are about 8 providers here and they are all dirt cheap.
so the price for the iphone is probably rather cheap in the longterm.
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