iPhone 5 Arrival Triggers New Sales Frenzy

It took little more than five hours for the first Apple iPhone 5 to go on sale in the Chinese mainland after being smuggled across the border from Hong Kong, but supplies were short and prices high.
In a crowded building in the southern city of Shenzhen, which lies across Hong Kong's northern border, a salesman stood by as shoppers speaking various dialects scrambled to take photos of three shiny new iPhones on display in his glass cabinet.

"The stock is so limited that people are treating them like gems," said another salesman, surnamed Lin.
New Apple products are typically rolled out in the Chinese mainland after they are in Hong Kong, creating a thriving "gray market" for enterprising traders. According to local media reports, iPhone 5 is expected go on sale in the Chinese mainland by year end.

Vendors like Lin make a year-round living exploiting the lower prices of Apple products and other popular brands consumer electronics in Hong Kong, a free port whose downtown is just an hour from Shenzhen with no duty on many electronics imports.

At the iPhone 5's debut in Hong Kong earlier in the day, small groups of people carrying rucksacks filled with cash waited outside the city's flagship store hoping to snap up phones for resale.
For those able to secure one, the new phone cost HK$5,588 ($720), or about 4,546 yuan, at the Hong Kong Apple store, while they were selling for between 7,500 yuan and 9,000 yuan in Shenzhen where fake and smuggled phones are often hawked.

But in Shenzhen, business was slow.
On Friday afternoon, most vendors in the Shenzhen building still had their stalls filled with the iPhone 4S, promising that the latest model would arrive in the evening, when potential buyers were hoping to get a better deal.

In Hong Kong, the iPhone 5's Friday debut stoked up the Apple craze again, with thousands of fans jamming stores, scalpers scouting for buyers, and telecommunications operators jumping on the bandwagon by soft-launching new services.

The new smartphone is also launched in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Australia and Singapore.

In Sydney, Singapore and Tokyo, iPhone 5 fans waited hours outside Apple stores or authorized dealers to get the latest model.

In Hong Kong, buyers had to sign up online with Apple to pick up the new model in the local flagship store at a prearranged time. The first customers in Hong Kong were greeted by staff cheering, clapping, and chanting "IPhone 5! IPhone 5!" and high-fiving them as they were escorted, one by one, through the front door.

Source from: sina.com

A Brillant iPhone 5 Concept...

Until Apple actually announces (and then releases) the iPhone 5, we’re left with rumors and predictions on what the new handset will include. There have also been many iPhone 5 concepts introduced, like the one mentioned today by 9 To 5 Mac.

This concept, which comes from San Francisco-based Aatma Studio is of an iPhone 5 that includes a virtual laser keyboard “that can be “swapped out” of the device and perched on the desk.”

According to CEO Pramod Modi Shatharam:

We at Aatma are massive fans of the iPhone and are eagerly awaiting the release of iPhone 5. Meanwhile, going by the buzz the iPhone 5 is generating, we felt it’s a good time to launch a concept such as this, and showcase our vision of key features of an iPhone 5 or subsequent models could have in the future.

Take a look:

Personally, I think this concept is fabulous. In fact, I wonder if it’s too late for Apple to include it as an iPhone 5 feature as early as next month? It probably is!

Expect the Release Date of iPhone 5 and iPad 3

According to newest report, the concerned electronic gadgets iPad 3 and iPhone 5 will release in. Most media have reached common ground that Apple is preparing the release of the new iPad and iPhone at fall.

At the beginning, there is only some info about the iPhone5, and recently the iPad 3 is also mentioned. According in unnamed sources from Taiwan, the new iPhone will begin to produced in the middle of August and increase the production amount greatly in September. Now medias are all reporting that iPhone5 and iPad 3 will meet the same production schedule. Both will be produces in small amount in fall and prompt to be produced in large amount in September.

Now, a fall release of the new iPhone has been a hot talk on the net as well as the release of the iPad 3 at almost the same time. And the release of iPad 3 is more or less a good new to iUsers as it means a speeding-up of Apple’s new product circle which always one year a new product.

On June 21, Bloomberg reported that the new iPhone will release in September and will set up with Apple’s fast processor of A5, also with camera of 8-megapixel and the iOS 5 which a recently introduced mobile operating system. The Bloomberg also reported Apple is developing a smaller, cheaper new iPhone, this new iPhone use “chips and displays of similar quality to today’s iPhone 4.

According to the blog Boy Genius on June 21, August would possibly be the launch date for the iPhone 5. “According to our source, Apple may hold an event in the beginning or middle of August to announce the new iPhone, with availability to follow in the last week of August,”

brillianstore always pays great attention to any news of Apple products or Apple accessories and expects the release date of iPhone5 and iPad 3.