The official launch of the Apple iPhone 4 in China and reports show the real popularity of the device. It enjoys bigger popularity than the predecessors: the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.

Customers stood in a crowd waiting for the device just the same way the Americans did. The sales were launched last Saturday.

As for the sales, Apple did not demonstrate any figures on iPhone 4 sales. China Unicom, the mobile carrier of the iPhone 4 declared about over 50,000 customers who preordered the gadget when the opportunity appeared.

It differs greatly from to the 5,000 devices sold within the first 3 days of China's iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. They were launched a year ago in October. In accordance with the figures in the reports China Unicom had distributed about 100,000 gadgets until the new year.

You can follow some disparity in sales, expensive price of the phones is combined with bad WiFi connectivity. Because of the government control of WiFi at the time when the device was launched, Apple made a decision about the removal of this feature from the models of 3G and 3 GS. The phones had to support other standard — WAPI. The range of prices for smartphones differed then from $732 for 8GB iPhone 3G to $1,025 for a 32GB 3GS.

Now Apple returned WiFi to the iPhone 4 for China region, the cost of the device was reduced in comparison with the predecessors (3G and 3GS) - $893 is the price of 32-GB model without contract. The price of 16-GB iPhone 4 is $744 sans contract.

The first customer who was lucky enough to acquire the smartphone is Yu Zhong Hui, at BeijingApple store, who had been waiting near the store since 5 a.m. Thursday. It was physically hard for him but the purchase in his opinion is worth the efforts spent.dd