While the iPhone XS 64 GB version is priced at $1099 in the US, the official online Apple store for China lists the same phone for RMB8,699 (±$1,270). Although the phone already is very expensive in the US, its prices in China are even higher. The price of the latest iPhone is one of the biggest topics surrounding its launch. “This iPhone was actually designed for the female consumers in the Chinese and South Korean market, but accidentally ended up in the US,” one netizen jokingly says.Īn older meme posted by commenter Lao Xu 老徐时评) pokes fun at different smartphone cameras and how they make people look.”Perhaps foreigners like the reality more than we do,” other commenters suggested. Some netizens comment that the beautifying camera is much less controversial in China than abroad because Chinese people are already used to editing and photoshopping their photos by whitening the skin or making the eyes look bigger. TV presenter Liu Ye 懂小姐刘烨) writes on Weibo: “About that pretty face result of the iPhone front-facing camera now I even dare to post my photos without editing them in Pitu!” Pitu is a popular Chinese picture editing app. Although American media have reported that people complain about the “over-smoothing” of the skin because it makes them look “fake,” the great majority of Weibo commenters, on the contrary, like the function, and say it is welcomed in China. The camera is different from the cameras in earlier iPhone models in how it seems to add a filter to people’s skin. ![]() Its front-facing selfie camera has a ‘Pitu’ effectĪt time of writing, the phone’s front-facing “selfie” camera (# iPhone XS前置摄像头#), with more than 21 million views, is one of the most-searched topics on Weibo. Here are six noteworthy facts to know about the iPhone XS in China:ġ. Over the past days, topics relating to the latest iPhone are popping up on China’s online hot search lists, with the hashtag “New iPhone Release” (# 新iPhone发布#) receiving 1,45 billion views, the hashtag # iPhone XS# receiving 320 million views on Weibo. But it is also the company’s most expensive iPhone yet. The iPhone XS Max is the company’s biggest phone yet and boasts features like Face ID 2 for extra security, and up to 512Gb storage. ![]() The phones released are the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. On September 21st, Apple began selling its latest iPhone series to fans and customers across the globe.
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