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iPhone heading for China?

The talks between Apple and various Chinese telecoms companies have been going on for ever, it seems.

But now there has been a hint that a deal may actually be on the table.

Apple has listed in its career pages a position for an iPhone Quality Assurance Engineer in Beijing.

The iPhone manufacturer says that it is looking “to focus on international releases of our iPhone and iPod touch products for Beijing.”

The iPhone is already available in Hong Kong (despite its ties to China) as well as nearby states Singapore and most recently, Thailand, but there have been problems in China, notably with telecoms providers resenting Apple’s revenue sharing model for the phone.

Apple switched to a less controversial carrier subsidy model with the iPhone 3G launch.

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Oh Mr. Jobs can you fix my Apple iPhone?

Love it or hate it, and most love it; the Apple iPhone 3G isn’t quite as perfect as Steve Jobs or everyone else wants it to be. Customer feedback has now gone public on Please Fix the iPhone. Please Fix the iPhone is a website which allows Apple iPhone owners, and anyone else who likes too, list what they feel needs fixing on the Apple iPhone.

Visitors to Please Fix the iPhone are also allowed to vote on what they feel about which features require fixing on the Apple iPhone by Apple, and the feature which receives the most votes gets bumped further up the list.

At present the most requested moans and fixes are: in order of urgency, Copy and Paste – Landscape view in emails – the ability to hide unwanted icons – to use the Apple iPhone as a 3G modem for the Apple MacBook – and for Apple to make Flash work on the iPhone.

So there you go Mr. Jobs, a new Christmas Wish List for you to ponder on.

Source – techcrunch