by cellphone on August 31, 2010
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It has been recently reported that Apple has refused to include its iPhone in the first green ranking scheme for the handsets conducted by UK. This scheme will provide a ranking from 0 to 5 to the mobile phones and this ranking will be based on the environmental credentials of the handsets.
Other major mobile manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson has got ready to participate in the scheme and get a ranking for their handsets. The spokesperson of Apple did not commented anything as to why they have not agreed to participate in this voluntary labelling scheme.
This latest green scheme has been launched in partnership with the Forum for the Future. Various factors will be considered while accessing the handsets and these will include environmental aspect of the raw material, packaging, manufacturing processes, ease to recycles and energy efficiency.
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by cellphone on August 24, 2010
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There is a good news for the people in China who wish to get an iPhone4 as China Unicom has made an announcement that the phone will be launched in the country on 16th of September this year.
All those customers who wish to get an iPhone 4 in China will have to make an online order of the phone in advance with China Unicom.
China Unicom , the second largest Chinese carrier is also the exclusive provider of the Apple iPhone’s in the country of China and the company has also launched the iPhone 3GS, 8GB version on 9th of August, this year.
The issue of reception which is faced by the owners of the iPhone 4 will remain the same with the Chinese version of the handset but in order to meet up with this situation, China Unicom will provide complimentary cases to all the buyers of iPhone 4 so that there is no inconvenience to them.
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by cellphone on August 10, 2010
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It has been recently reported that China Unicom will be launching iPhone with Wi-Fi capabilities. Earlier, the company has only rolled out the iPhone without Wi-Fi because they wanted to promote Wapi, which is their homegrown technology.
Earlier the government had made a decision which stated that all the mobile phones which will be used in China will have Wapi technology instead of Wi-Fi. But this decision of government received an outcry from the IT world and their aim to get Wapi recognized as international standard failed.
Later on the rules were relaxed and it was stated by the government that devices with Wi-Fi are allowed to be used but they imposed a condition that they must also offer the Wapi technology.
The iPhones in China are being offered by Unicom since October, 2009 but the sales were very low because the customers preferred the import of the device which proved to be cheaper for them and also came with Wi-Fi facility. But now, Unicom is all set to offer iPhone with Wi-Fi in China from 9th of August, this year.
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by cellphone on July 26, 2010
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Few days ago the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs had made a promise that the company will provide free case to all the iPhone 4 users and now keeping up with his words, Apple has begun the free case program for the handset.
In order to make a claim for the free case of iPhone 4, the customer will have to download an application that will enable them to place the order for the same. The choice will also be given to the customers to select the cases from Belkin, Incase, Speck and Bumper. Once the 0.8 MB of application is downloaded and installed the customer will have to enter their iTunes or Apple ID password to make a choice for the case that they want. The shipment of the case will take a time period of around 3 to 5 weeks.
In order to qualify for the program the customers must purchase their handset before 30th of September this year.
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For all those people who are eagerly waiting for the much hyped Apple iPhone 4, there seems to be a good news from Bharti Airtel as Sanjay Kapoor, the CEO of Bharti at the recent CII industry conference stated that “ We are working with Apple…hopefully in the September-October time frame we would launch the phone”
Though much details regarding the talks is not disclosed by Airtel but the company is stating that they will make the iPhone 4 available in the Indian markets by September and October this year.
Earlier, Vodafone has also made an announcement that they will bring in the iPhone 4 in the country but they did not mentioned any time frame for the launch.
While talking about the 3G, Kapoor stated that huge network of the 3G is ready and the company is working on aggressive timeline. On BWA services he stated that “BWA has certain choices and we are looking at options and hopefully in few weeks we will be able to finalise that.”
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