Iphone 4s coming in oct, will you buy one? [was "Iphone 5 coming in Sept"....}

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Reports coming in from M.I.C gadget and AppleInsider claim that Apple's Chinese launch of the iPhone 4S is not going particularly smoothly, with violence breaking out ahead of the opening at Apple's Sanlitun retail store in Beijing. According to reports, the violence has resulted in Apple delaying the planned early opening of the store by at least an hour, with the company potentially having canceled today's launch there entirely. From M.I.C gadget:

Lines outside the Apple store in Beijing’s Sanlitun district show no signs of shortening, causing frustration for the thousands of fans and scalpers desperate to get their hands on the iPhone 4S. Now some of that disappointment is turning to anger, with reports of fights breaking out between gangs of scalpers, and guess what, Beijing SWAT teams arrived. So, the Apple store employees later announced that the launch of iPhone 4S is cancelled at the Apple’s flagship store in Beijing, and all scalpers are pissed.
Bloomberg notes that Apple's "main store in Beijing" (presumably the Sanlitun store) is currently being pelted with eggs by customers upset with the delayed opening.

Apple has seen similar large crowds dominated by scalpers at many of its major product launches in China, with teams of people working to purchase as much of the available stock as possible for resale at higher prices. Violence has occasionally erupted both between scalpers and between scalpers and those upset with their strategies.

Update: Bloomberg now has an expanded story on the situation.

Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s main store in Beijing was pelted with eggs from a crowd of about 500 people after it failed to open on time for the start of sales of the iPhone 4S.

Apple had advertised that the store would open at 7 a.m. At about 7:15 a.m., the crowd began chanting “Open the door!” and “Liars!” after a man with a bullhorn said the phone would not go on sale today, without giving an explanation. The man also declined to identify himself to a Bloomberg News reporter. The crowd chased away a man who tried to stop the egg throwing.

 

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iphone 4S cause a disturbance in china apple store

 

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Apple suspends iPhone 4S sales at China stores

BEIJING - Apple said Friday it was suspending sales of the iPhone at its China stores after fans desperate to get their hands on the new model fought with a security guard and threw eggs at an official store.

Police detained at least two people outside the Beijing shop on Friday when angry crowds who had queued for hours in freezing temperatures for the Chinese launch of the iPhone 4S scuffled with security after being refused entry.

An AFP reporter outside the store in Beijing's upmarket Sanlitun district saw frustrated shoppers attack a security guard after police with megaphones shouted at the 1,000-strong crowd to go home and said the iPhone would not go on sale.

"We waited here all night. It's not fair," said 18-year-old Tom Sun. "We're angry because this American company told us it would open its doors at 7:00 am."

Apple said its other mainland China stores -- one in Beijing and three in Shanghai -- had sold out of the new device within hours of the launch.


"The demand for iPhone 4S has been incredible," said spokeswoman Carolyn Wu.

"Unfortunately we were unable to open our store at Sanlitun due to the large crowd, and to ensure the safety of our customers and employees, iPhones will not be available in our retail stores in Beijing and Shanghai for the time being."

Apple said customers could still order iPhones online and at other authorised retailers in China.

Some of the 1,000 or so people gathered outside the Sanlitun store from the early hours on Friday told AFP they had been paid 100 yuan (around $15) each by touts to stand in line and wait for the doors to open.

One young Chinese man who refused to give his real name said he planned to buy as many of the phones as he could and resell them at a profit of at least 500 yuan a piece.

"These are not fake iPhones," he said. "People want Steve Jobs' best."

Reselling is a major industry in China, where the new iPhone has been on sale for months at a premium on the black market, after being smuggled in from neighbouring countries and from Hong Kong.

The new model, whose features include high-definition video cameras and a quick-witted artificial intelligence "personal assistant" named Siri, had its global launch in October.

Die-hard fans in China, which has the world's largest online population with more than 500 million users, have been known to line up for days to get their hands on the latest Apple products.

"IPhone 4S is Steve Jobs' best, that's why I want one. I will be really upset if they don't open the doors," said the 29-year-old Li Tianye, who had travelled for two days by bus from the eastern province of Shandong to get to Beijing for the launch.

But not everyone was disappointed. Some Beijing shoppers bought the iPhone 4S in an electronics retailer one floor below Apple's Beijing Sanlitun store after seeing the trouble upstairs.

"There was a problem at the Apple store. Too many angry people," said one, a young Chinese man who gave only his surname, Du, and said he had been waiting since Thursday evening to buy the phone.

Calmer scenes were witnessed in Shanghai, where an AFP reporter said Apple stores had opened to large crowds and the phone was on sale.

Greater China -- which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan -- has become Apple's fastest growing region, with revenue there second only to the United States.

The California-based company has recently expanded aggressively in China, opening its first store in Hong Kong and its third in Shanghai last September, which brings the total to six in Greater China.

But Apple's popularity has also brought problems, with widespread counterfeiting and illegal smuggling of its products.

In July, an American blogger uncovered fake Apple stores in the southwestern city of Kunming, where even staff working there did not appear to know they were fake.

 

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Apple aborts China debut of iPhone 4S

The Apple store in an upscale shopping mall in the Sanlitun district remained closed on Friday after people who had been queuing overnight in freezing temperatures became aggressive.

When told by shop personnel at sunrise that there would be no iPhone 4S that day, two men in the queue threw eggs and started pushing a security guard, eyewitnesses said.

At noon, two dozen policemen and many more government and private guards cordoned off the empty Apple store. Office workers spent their lunch break taking pictures of the shop front adorned with two traces of egg yolk and a sign saying: “No iPhones will be sold at this store for the time being”. Twelve police cars including a SWAT vehicle were parked outside the shopping mall.

“The demand for iPhone 4S has been incredible, and our stores in China have already sold out,” said Apple spokeswoman Carolyn Wu.

“Unfortunately we were unable to open our store at Sanlitun [in Beijing] due to the large crowd, and to ensure the safety of our customers and employees, iPhones will not be available in our retail stores in Beijing and Shanghai for the time being.”

Customers can still order the device from Apple’s online store and through China Unicom, the country’s second-largest mobile operator and the only official channel through which Chinese consumers can buy the device apart from Apple itself.

Apple accounted for 10.4 per cent of China’s rapidly growing smartphone market with 5.6m iPhones sold in the first nine months of 2011, according to Gartner, the research firm.

It is not the first time an Apple product launch has triggered unrest in China. Last year, the same Sanlitun store saw a fight between queuing men and security staff during the launch of the iPad 2, which left one man injured and a glass pane smashed.

Apple’s limited retail presence in China and its practice of launching its products later in that country than in the US have long stoked consumer desire for the gadgets. But the recent violence around product launches is not a result of consumers going crazy but fights between black marketeers. or scalpers.

When the iPad 2 was launched in Beijing, the people hanging around the Sanlitun store were almost exclusively black-clad young men who bought entire stacks of white iPads, only to squat in a corner of the mall and offer the device for a 30 per cent surcharge.

 

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Beijing Apple Store Egged After iPhone Delay



Angry customers and gangs of scalpers threw eggs at Apple Inc.'s flagship Beijing store Friday after its opening for the China launch of the iPhone 4S was canceled due to concerns over the size of the crowd.

Apple reacted to the scuffle by postponing iPhone 4S sales in its mainland China stores to protect the safety of customers and employees. It said the phone still will be sold online and through its local carrier.

Customers including migrant workers hired by scalpers in teams of 20 to 30 to buy iPhones for resale at a markup to Chinese gadget fans waited overnight in freezing weather at the Apple store in Beijing's east side Sanlitun district.

The crowd erupted after the store failed to open on schedule at 7 a.m. Some threw eggs and shouted at employees through the windows.

A person with a megaphone announced the sale was canceled. Police ordered the crowd to leave and sealed off the area with yellow tape. Employees posted a sign saying the iPhone 4S was out of stock.

"We were unable to open our store at Sanlitun due to the large crowd, and to ensure the safety of our customers and employees, iPhone will not be available in our retail stores in Beijing and Shanghai for the time being," said Apple spokeswoman Carolyn Wu.

Other Apple stores in China opened Friday and Wu said iPhone 4S quickly sold out. She said the phone still will be sold in China through Apple's online store, its local carrier China Unicom Ltd. and retailers that are authorized resellers.


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Hundreds of customers queue up to purchase a new smartphone iPhone 4S at an Apple Store early Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)Wu declined to comment on what Apple might know about scalpers buying iPhones for resale.

China is Apple's fastest-growing market and "an area of enormous opportunity," CEO Tim Cook said in October. He said quarterly sales were up nearly four times over a year earlier and accounted for one-sixth of Apple's global sales.

Apple's iPhones are hugely popular in China and stores are mobbed for the release of new products.

iPhones are manufactured in China by an Apple contractor but new models are released in other countries first. That has helped to fuel a thriving "gray market" in China for phones smuggled in from Hong Kong and other markets.

Last May, the Sanlitun store was closed for several hours after a scuffle between an employee and a customer during the release of the iPhone 4, the previous model in the series.

Customers began gathering Thursday afternoon outside the Sanlitun store. People in the crowd said the number grew to as many as 2,000 overnight but many left before dawn after word spread that the store opening would be cancelled. There were about 350 people left when the protest erupted after 7 a.m.

"On the one hand there is poor organization and on the other there were just too many people," said a man outside the Sanlitun store Friday, who would give only his surname, Miao. "I don't think they prepared well enough."

Another man who refused to give his name said he was a migrant laborer who was paid 100 yuan ($15) to wait in line overnight.

Others in the crowd said scalpers had organized groups of 20 to 30 migrant workers to buy phones or hold places in line. Organizers held colored balloons aloft to identify themselves to their workers.

Others said they were waiting to buy the phone for themselves.

"I just like the 4S," said Zhu Xiaodong, a Beijing resident. He said he was upgrading from the previous iPhone 4 model.

 

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5000 years of recorded civilisation and they still behave like wild beasts!!!

 

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5000 years of recorded civilisation and they still behave like wild beasts!!!

yes truely disgusting behaviour of china PRC ah tiong. But the apple store have to be blame too, for disappointing people who line up there the whole night at freezing sub zero temperature. They can disperse part of the crowd at night to prevent overcrowding.

 

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Why would chinaman bring fresh eggs to queue for iphone 4s overnight???

 

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They definitely have more spurs stuck in their hinds than Singaporeans.

They will sell their mother, wife and daughter to get an iphone.

5000 years of recorded civilisation and they still behave like wild beasts!!!

 

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Don't forget their kidneys or virginity as well.

They definitely have more spurs stuck in their hinds than Singaporeans.

They will sell their mother, wife and daughter to get an iphone.

 

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iPhone 5 coming in June, says Foxconn workerReported by Steve Dougherty on Thursday, January 26 2012 4:10 pm

A fresh rumour has started circulating that originates back to a Foxconn employee who says the much anticipated iPhone 5 will arrive in June of this year.
0NEWS Of course, this isn't the first time we've heard similar rumours about the birth of the iPhone 5, with rumours running rampant across most of 2011 suggesting a launch of September 2011, which of course never happened; instead with Apple bringing us a semi-delayed iPhone 4S and talking up a feature most of us could care less about, Siri.



The Foxconn worker has said they are currently gearing up for iPhone 5 production now. What it will look like and pack inside is still a mystery, but previous rumours whisper of a 4.2 to 4.3-inch qHD screen with a resolution of 960 x 540. Supposedly it will be powered by a quad-core A6 28nm SoC that's been co-developed by Samsung, the same SoC apparently being used in the yet to be announced iPad 3.

 

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New video show the rumor iphone5

The video that could finally confirm the iPhone 5 DOES have a bigger screen: New leak claims to show new handset being switched on


It is the latest in a long line of leaks surround Apple's new iPhone.

But the newest video claims to show something no other leak has - an iPhone with a larger, 4 inch screen being switched on.

It comes amid a flurry of leaks claiming to reveal the new handset.

The video, first spotted by a Dutch website, shows an iPhone with a 4 inch screen being switched on and displaying the Apple logo, then a prompt to plug it in.

The video, which was upload to YouTube by an anonymous users, claims to show an iPhone 5 new to an iPhone 4S.

In the video, the new handset's controversial connector can be clearly seen, along with the larger 4 inch screen.


However, the user is unable to get past the 'connect to iTunes' messages on the screen, suggesting that while they may have the handset, they may not have a cable - or are concerning about Apple tracking them should they connect it to a PC to activate it.

It is believed the new handset will use a new type of display called an in-cell panel that allows the handset to be thinner.
The video also shows the difference between old and new iPhone dock connectors.

The video also shows the difference between old and new iPhone dock connectors.

The new technology that makes the smartphone's screen thinner by integrating touch sensors into the LCD, eliminating the need for a separate touch-screen layer.

However, in-cell panels are believed to be technologically more difficult to mass produce compared than conventional LCD panels, and it is already believed one of the three firms making the panels, Sharp, is behind on its manufacturing.


The latest video comes amid a flurry of last minute leaks.

A Taiwanese pop star casually shared photographs of his brand new 'iPhone 5' with his 13.5 million followers this week on Weibo, the Chinese micro-blogging equivalent of Twitter.

'Today I confirmed that the iPhone 5 will be longer and have an aluminum back like the iPad,' Jimmy Lin wrote, sharing that the new Apple phone will indeed have a smaller USB connector, much to many's chagrin.

Though information has been known to leak about Apple's secretive phone updates, many have dismissed Mr Lin's new toy as just another knock off.

After Mr Lin shared several photographs of his new device, it was shared more than 80,000 times across the web, according to The Next Web.

'While it has a four-inch screen, it’s thinner, though it feels about the same in the hand,' he said. 'The headphone jack has also been moved to the bottom.'


Mr Lin has skyrocketed to fame thanks to his singing, acting and race card driving career.

He appeared to confirm Apple fan's biggest fear that the tech company would be phasing out their old USB design, making many Apple compatible devices obsolete.

'As for the dock connector, the iPhone 5 doesn’t use the 30-pin connector, instead changing to a smaller 19-pin connector,' he said.

Sharing numerous photographs of his phone, many have debunked it as a high quality fake due to the irregularities on the front and back of the device and it's cheap looking bottom.

The fifth incarnation of the smartphone, which despite its hefty price tags still commands a huge chunk of the market, is expected to launch this October, a year on from the launch of the 4S.



Shame: The newer, slimline port means that thousands of current Apple accessories will need a potentially clunky adapter to work with the 'iPhone 5' - or their devices will become unusable

So far, purported leaks of the phone's casing have been circulating, but the company has declined to comment or confirm on the device's updates.

There was a public outcry when it was revealed that the next iPhone would get a new docking port connector.

The newer, slimline port means that thousands of current Apple accessories will need a potentially clunky adapter to work with the 'iPhone 5' - or their devices will become unusable.