Hey China Mobile, Where Did You Get the iPhone4?

China Mobile is running a promotion campaign in Jinan city of Shandong province, if you sign a 3-years contract and pre-pay minimum rmb 6800, (depend on the amount you pre-pay) you would be given a 8GB iPhone 3GS or 16GB iPhone 4 or 32 GB iPhone 4 for FREE. And China Mobile guarantee the iPhone is from ‘official’ channel.

This is funny. As everyone knows that China Unicom is ONLY operator has the contract with Apple, so where on earth do China Mobile’s iPhone come from?

1. Directly bought from Apple Store. It is almost impossible for Apple to sell iPhone directly to China Mobile, unless China Mobile send his staff to Apple Store and queued for hours to buy plenty of them;

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