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Media reports: Apple in talks with China Mobile
Nov 14, 2007, 13:24 GMT
New York - Apple Inc is in talks with a Chinese mobile phone operator about selling the new iPhone in the huge China market, the company, China Mobile Ltd, confirmed to Bloomberg news agency on Wednesday.
The talks could open up a market of 523 million subscribers, more than the population of the European Union, the report said.
China Mobile has already tied up with Blackberry producer Research in Motion to sell the handheld e-mail device in the China market.
'Our customers like this kind of fashionable product,' Chairman Wang Jianzhou said at a conference in Macau on Tuesday.
Bloomberg reported that China Mobile had 349.7 million subscribers at present.
The iPhone, launched only last week in Germany and Britain, is a combination of mobile telephone, digital music player and internet surfing device that is navigated with a touch-screen display.
Its launch has been greeted by hysteria in parts of the world as thousands of people queue up overnight, sometimes in harsh weather, to be among the first to purchase it.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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