Engadget is reporting that the an China-specific iPhone model (model number A1324) has finally recieved a five-year approval from China’s State Radio Regulatory Commission. This approval came all the way back from May 7th, but has just recently been posted on the commission’s website.
Also, a set of three images were originally leaked by a Chinese news site earlier in the day, but have since been pulled. No worries PC World has you covered:
The pictures were posted on Chinese portal Sina.com.cn on Friday morning and showed an iPhone with simplified Chinese characters in its display and inscribed on the back of the handset. Simplified characters are used in mainland China and Singapore, but Singaporean iPhones don’t have Chinese inscription on the case. (Hong Kong and Taiwan use more complex traditional characters)
MacRumors has now posted the pulled images. They show the device running on the China Unicom network, along with simplified Chinese text on the back. Rumors of a nearly complete Apple-Unicom deal have been surfacing as of late. We’ll have to wait and see.
Images courtesy of Sina.com.cn(originally) and MacRumors (re-post)
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