The WSJ is reporting this weekend that China Unicom’s supply of iPhone 4s has already been exhausted.
Furthermore, the Journal reports that Unicom did not have enough supply for the launch weekend to begin with.
The carrier is said to received 200,000 pre-orders before Saturday morning when the phone launched in the nation.
Only 50,000 buyers got their phones on Saturday.
In 2009, Unicom began selling the iPhone 3G, but saw only 100,000 units sold in its first two months of availability.
Result for: china
YouTube launched in May 2005 with a specific goal; to make it possible for users to easily upload and share videos with each other. The type of content wasn’t particularly important, as long as the process was easy for the uploader and the viewer. Not long after it launched, YouTube built a multi-million community of users and became a well known brand.
The site now exceeds over two billion views daily, which it points out is double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. television networks combined. It has hosted all kinds of video content from homemade videos to coverage of social unrest, such as the Iranian election protests in 2009 that showed the power of social media to spread information. The website is currently blocked in China.
More than 24 hours of video footage is currently uploaded to YouTube every single minute.
YouTube has launched the YouTube FiveYear Channel, which includes the “My YouTube Story” project where users from all over the world describe how YouTube affected their lives. Users can submit videos here, and they may be selected for the My YouTube Story project.
Result for: china
China Unicom sold only 5000 iPhones in China on launch day in October but it appears that sales are gaining momentum, now topping 100,000.
Although the number is improving, comparatively the original iPhone sold over 1 million in its first 3 months in the US, and exclusive carrier AT&T has under half the mobile subscribers that Unicom has. The iPhone 3GS sold over one million units in its first weekend this year.
Unicom also announced it hopes to add over 1 million 3G users every month, and the iPhone is part of that goal. Additionally, Unicom has been gaining users from China’ gray market. Those that purchased iPhones from Hong Kong and abroad are activating the phones through Unicom, as a way to use to the 3G wireless data.
