Due to some unknown reason, China had a law that disallowed the shipping of Wi-Fi devices; rather you had to use the version indigenous to China called WAPI. WAPI is a special wireless designation much like Wi-Fi that could potentially allow the Chinese government to eavesdrop on every transmission made. This was done according to the government to keep a check and as they say due to threat from other countries. This event is not something new. Because of their pride and unwillingness to pay royalty fees, the Chinese, invariably have copied a Western Standard and made it their own.

Nevertheless, the news: Soon, the official unlocked iPhone4 reseller of China, China Unicom, will be permitted to sell the models currently available in the West, which implies that they will finally be Wi-Fi enabled. As the black market for imported iPhones is rather large the operator was encouraging this quite enthusiastically.

As they have got cater to the needs of more than a billion people of the Chinese population.

It will be interesting to see whether the much hyped iPhone will be able to live up to the hype and cater to the smart phone audience in the booming economy of China. Speaking of the  iPhone 4, rumour has it that the Apple and China Unicom folks are working to bring not only the stainless steel phone but also the iPad, which recently got the government approval to China. But seeing the way things are in China it may take ‘ages’ for the iPad to arrive. China being one of the world’s largest economies, it is expected to embrace the iPhone like the “western world”. But in order to put up a fight against the grey market, the phones have to be priced strategically.

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