A new post on via China’s IT168.com. complete with photos, lends credence to the theory that the first iPhone built for China Unicom will have the WiFi chip disabled at a hardware level. Hence no quick and easy software hack will be able to activate WiFi on this model – presumably model A1324. How about model A1325? Uniknown.
Read full post > here (use Google translate)
China Unicom has made it clear that they have designs on bringing a WAPI/WiFi enabled iPhone model in the near future, possibly in the first half of 2010.
Here are new photos of a hardware disassembly of iPhone model A1324 published today on IT168.com.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Dedric Lam and Edward Un, Bruno Raymond. Bruno Raymond said: RT @idannyb: First China Unicom iPhone has WiFi disabled at hardware level https://iphonasia.com/?p=7332 WAPI/WiFi model in the works? [...]