By: Nathan Eddy, eWeek
Ye of great faith can preorder the latest edition of the Apple iPhone through China’s biggest e-commerce Website. While the latest iteration of Apple’s iPhone smartphone, generally referred to as the iPhone 5, hasn’t even been officially announced yet, Taobao, China’s largest e-commerce site, is already offering the device for sale as a preorder, complete with renderings of what the phone will look like, alongside technical specifications, according to a report from Reuters. “Demand is high. Yesterday, someone just bought two phones. Altogether, we have about two dozen orders,” a Taobao seller who goes by the nickname Xiaoyu told the news agency. Anticipation for the latest edition of the iPhone, which is expected to officially debut sometime between August and October, has been building to fever pitch over the past few months, as rumors regarding screen size, technical specifications and design features run rampant.
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