China Mobile Beijing hints at imminent iPhone preorders on 4G reservation page
A page advertising reservations for China Mobile Beijing's 4G LTE service now features Apple's iPhone 5s, as well as a bejeweled golden apple, hinting that preorders for the popular device may be in the offing.

While not conclusive evidence, the reservation page seen above, spotted by intrepid reader Jeffrey, strongly suggests China Mobile is about to kick off iPhone preorders.
If the world's largest wireless provider does in fact initiate an iPhone reservation system in the next few hours, it would jibe with a Wall Street Journal report that claimed China Mobile would start accepting preorders on Thursday, Dec. 12. At the time of this writing, it is nearly 1 p.m. in Beijing, China.
The Journal further claimed the iPhone would officially roll out on Dec. 18, though China Mobile denied that a deal with Apple had been reached.
The carrier has already posted multiple reservation webpages for its upcoming 4G LTE network, but so far only one has alluded to Apple's smartphone. In early December, a Suzhou-based subsidiary posted a reservation page prominently featuring both the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, though it was quickly pulled after coverage from media outlets.

While not conclusive evidence, the reservation page seen above, spotted by intrepid reader Jeffrey, strongly suggests China Mobile is about to kick off iPhone preorders.
If the world's largest wireless provider does in fact initiate an iPhone reservation system in the next few hours, it would jibe with a Wall Street Journal report that claimed China Mobile would start accepting preorders on Thursday, Dec. 12. At the time of this writing, it is nearly 1 p.m. in Beijing, China.
The Journal further claimed the iPhone would officially roll out on Dec. 18, though China Mobile denied that a deal with Apple had been reached.
The carrier has already posted multiple reservation webpages for its upcoming 4G LTE network, but so far only one has alluded to Apple's smartphone. In early December, a Suzhou-based subsidiary posted a reservation page prominently featuring both the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, though it was quickly pulled after coverage from media outlets.
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there is only less than 10K people reserved.
It means the demand is weaker than expected.
Based on this, will anal ists say Apple is doomed, lower their expectation.
Is the link to get the number of preorders in Beijing only. It is up >20 per second...
How is it speculation when the page is on the China Mobile website?
I honestly don't understand why no one is willing to wait for an official announcement from either China Mobile or Apple. Why is everyone trying to jump the gun to scoop a story? It's not as though anyone is going to get a prize for it. Are people really doing this speculation nonsense just to manipulate Apple's share price? It's likely that even when an official announcement is made, it's not going to boost Apple's share price considerably. I think Apple is well beyond the ability to rise much for such weak news. There are far too many negative factors preventing Apple's share price from rising.
yes, i dont think there is such a deal inked.
Apple is gonna dive very soon once they wake up.
Diclaimer: SOLD my 500 shares.
How is it speculation when the page is on the China Mobile website?
From freetranslation.com - what I could copy and paste.
From freetranslation.com - what I could copy and paste.
This may not imply the deal is inked. It can simply mean China Mobile offers discount to people who buy from its unofficial website.
--William Shakespeare
I honestly don't understand why no one is willing to wait for an official announcement from either China Mobile or Apple. Why is everyone trying to jump the gun to scoop a story? It's not as though anyone is going to get a prize for it. Are people really doing this speculation nonsense just to manipulate Apple's share price? It's likely that even when an official announcement is made, it's not going to boost Apple's share price considerably. I think Apple is well beyond the ability to rise much for such weak news. There are far too many negative factors preventing Apple's share price from rising.
And the biggest one is very ignorant and irrational shareholders, like you have proved yourself to be over the years. Then we have those bloggers that wanted to be real journalists (but can't write anything properly) or engineers (But understand 0 about the subject).
You can spy on any iPhone with the help of spy apps.
http://www.bj.10086.cn/service/mobile/mingxingji/
You can read iPhone 5c/5s
From freetranslation.com - what I could copy and paste.
I hate bad translations:
The image above says:
4G Smartphone Star
Reserve Now
Anticipation... It's worth the wait...
On the actual reservation page, the only difference:
You are only one more step away.
The image above says:
4G Smartphone Star
Reserve Now
Anticipation... It's worth the wait...
On the actual reservation page, the only difference:
You are only one more step away.
http://www.bj.10086.cn/service/mobile/mingxingji/order.html
It more or less translates into "Getting closer to to iPhone 5S/5C". Maybe they'll announce the deal in 30 minutes, 12am Beijing time?
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Thx . Coz of your comment , I bought back 480 shares aapl
Wow. That's a lot of money. Hoping they'll officially announce it on the 18th. No idea as to why the share has been dropping the past few days. Any negative news or speculation?