Steven Millward, Tech in Asia:

There are already huge queues outside of China’s five official Apple stores in readiness for tomorrow’s launch of the iPhone 4S. At the two stores in Beijing, and the three in Shanghai, there are clearly lines stretching hundreds of meters, with reports of hundreds of queuers at each, snaking around city blocks.

The iPhone 4S will be available online, but that hasn’t deterred many Chinese from braving the sub-zero temperatures to line up at Apple Retail Stores.

If you think iPhone sales in the US are huge, wait until Apple fully breaks into a market of one billion people.

From “thousandfold echo” comes the reason why you turn your phone off at concerts: Until today I’ve never been to a concert where a cellphone stopped the orchestra in the middle of a piece, but now I can check that … Continued

If you’ve ever been irritated at dinner because someone in your group is yapping away on his cell phone, or felt insulted because a person across the table from you keeps checking her texts while you’re trying to engage them in conversation, a new game is probably just what you need.The rules are as follows: The game starts after everyone has ordered. Everybody places their phone in the table face down. The first person to flip over their phone loses the game. Loser of the game pays for the bill.

I would lose this game every time.