Hello everyone, today I plan to use my best ability to talk to you about the differences between the domestic iPhone and the overseas version. I have not deliberately searched this topic online , but I believe that many youtubers will do the same. I want to talk about this topic , but I am talking about it. I don’t think I need to refer to others. I just want to use my own way to briefly introduce China to everyone without referring to what others have said. Of course, the key points are the differences between the online version and the overseas version. You can also use these differences to see which version is more suitable for you. I can only say this. It is impossible to say that I have said everything in advance , but I should also say that the preparation time is the most The reason why this is a long program is that I have to spend more time to think about what I may have missed , and since there are actually quite a lot of bad things , I have to simply classify them , so next I will I will talk about what the Bank of China’s iPhone lacks from the following three aspects. Before everything starts, we must first say that the Bank of China’s iPhone has an irreplaceable advantage for users in mainland China. Let’s talk about the good ones first, which is mine. The subtitle is that the official warranty is the most convenient for iPhones licensed in mainland China. This is absolutely irreplaceable. But I also thought about it carefully and spent some brain cells on iPhones licensed in mainland China . Apart from this, do iPhones licensed in mainland China have any advantages over iPhones in mainland China? For users, in addition to the convenience of warranty , is there anything better than the overseas version when buying a national bank model ? Maybe the only one available is dual-SIM dual-standby. If our domestic users think dual-SIM dual-standby is a necessity , of course you can also choose to buy it. Bank of Hong Kong and Bank of Hong Kong also offer dual cards and dual standby, but this is not unique to Bank of China , so this cannot be counted. So I will explain these two things to you first. Next, I will just talk to you from three aspects. What exactly is missing from the Bank of China iPhone? The first aspect is hardware limitations, because the hardware lacks things , which means that if you buy the Bank of China hardware , you can’t make up for the lack of these things through other methods . You just have to Only by changing to an overseas machine can you have these missing functions. The second one is the limitation of Apple ID , which is what we commonly call friends who play games. They should know better. It is called a zone. It means different accounts. Different accounts are divided into regions. You are The content you see after logging in will be different depending on which country or region you have an account. This is a service category with some restrictions. This is within or across regions. This is the second largest category and the third category. I nicknamed it " From the Stars". I don’t know why he said this about the restrictions on others. If you have experts, you can type them below so that we can all learn . But at least I think the third type of restrictions is beyond my comprehension. Anyway, it has restrictions , but why is it? I don’t know what the restrictions are . For example, our Apple News Plus still doesn’t know what inherent channels it is restricted through. Let’s just say it is restricted from the stars. Let’s look at it one by one for everyone’s convenience to watch or listen to the key points. It is for my convenience, so I also made some small version of the book. Below I will show it module by module. Let’s first look at the first part of the limitations from the hardware. What are the limitations from the hardware? This is what I have listed here. Let’s talk about some of them one by one. That is to say, you have to solve these problems, you have to have these functions , or which of the functions listed in these functions you just need. Then you can only change your phone. There is no way to apply for another region. The account, Apple ID, comes and goes . The only way to solve this problem is to change the phone . Let’s look at it one by one. The first one is the most familiar FaceTime audio. In fact, if you don’t know about FaceTime, you can go to the front and take a look. I talk about FaceTime. In that issue, I directly talked about FaceTime, which is somewhat similar to that on the iPhone. If the target is users in mainland China, I can only say that WeChat voice on the iPhone has this function. FaceTime is similar to WeChat video, but this function makes me very sad when I say this. It's uncomfortable . Actually, it's different. I don't want to say it , but if you don't know, I think this is the only way to make it clear to you instantly. FaceTime audio means that we can use the Internet like a phone call instead of using a mobile phone. The signal is used to make a voice call like making a phone call to the other party . The convenience of it is that since FaceTime audio is native to the iPhone and a service provided by the iPhone , it has all the advantages of the services provided by the iPhone, such as end-to-end encryption. For example, a zero-carbon emission, 100% environmentally friendly and clean energy server provides transfer , and another example is seamless integration with the iPhone , which means that with FaceTime audio, when you receive a call, what you see is a phone interface , and I like it best. The thing is, if you are using FaceTime audio to make a voice call, you are chatting and suddenly you feel that I can’t understand this thing. This piece of art or furniture or manuscript is right in front of me. If you want to take a look, I just click to open the camera . It directly switches to FaceTime video for you , so the experience is very smooth. But if you want to get such an experience, you must choose an overseas iPhone . Of course, this does not mean that all overseas iPhones have this function , because currently Except for the countries that I can name, we basically have all the countries that I can name, but the only one I know is the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates does not have the FaceTime video function. Maybe it is due to some religious reasons. You can't see your face or anything. I also heard what the customer said when I was working. I believe this is right because I looked at his phone and there was indeed no icon. I'm not sure if there is audio , but if there is no FaceTime icon, You said that the possibility of removing only one video function and retaining the FaceTime audio function is not very high, so it does not mean that the overseas version must be full-featured , but the American version must be full-featured, and other places must be single-function. Generally speaking , there won’t be much of a problem. Since Air China iPhones in mainland China do not allow FaceTime audio function, I don’t know if I need to say this next sentence , but let me talk about these Air China phones and Air China iPhones. The lack of these functions and the lack of every function in the next two parts that I will talk about later have nothing to do with Apple. They have nothing to do with Apple. They are all related to Apple as a multinational company. I have said that none of these functions that had to be removed in order to comply with local laws and regulations in China is Apple, a company that wants to look at users in mainland China in a different light. On the contrary, Apple, I think, is all multinational companies that produce consumer technology products. Among the multinational companies , it is the company that works hardest and does its best to continuously promote these services in mainland China in a compliant manner. What is commendable is that it does its best to follow the compliant route. It does not use those other methods. This is something I admire very much, so I would like to state this in advance. One of the direct impacts of the absence of FaceTime audio is that the iPhone in mainland China does not have multi -person FaceTime video . Human FaceTime videos are not licensed in mainland China. You can only do one-on-one with one person, not three, four or five people. Group chat videos like WeChat are not available , but the overseas version allows up to 32 people at the same time. Regarding FaceTime video chat , what do you think? If Chinese operators ban iPhone from providing such a feature for FaceTime audio out of profit considerations or fear of occupying their calling market , then why do video multi-party calls also have multi-party calls like WeChat ? Why is it still banned? Actually, I don’t know the answer , but I believe that most listeners or viewers will have such questions. I just give my personal thinking. The reason is because FaceTime’s multi-person video calls still require it at the bottom level. FaceTime audio technology is used to ensure multi-person video calls. If you want to make a video call with up to 32 people , it is difficult to see 32 faces at the same time on a small iPhone screen. So the technology it uses is actually like online conferencing . You can't just bring up whoever is talking and mute whoever doesn't speak among the 32 people . So he didn't speak , but I didn't see him in the video , but the audio needs him to be connected at any time because I have to monitor him at any time in case the next one comes soon. He started talking in seconds. What is this used for? Isn't it implemented using FaceTime audio? Your video does not appear , but my audio should always appear in the group. As soon as you speak, I will immediately bring up your video. If your audio doesn't support it, what should I do if I have multiple people? Can I just look at the face? Is it okay to lip-sync? Is it mute? This is unrealistic , so this is my personal consideration. I have not verified it , but I am just giving it to you from a technical point of view. I don't know. I know what explanation you think is reasonable or unreasonable. I am just sharing some of my own thoughts. Also, because there is no FaceTime audio function, our Apple Watch from Mainland China. Although we are talking about the iPhone , this is by the way talking about the Apple Watch from Mainland China. It does not have a walkie-talkie function because the walkie-talkie function of Apple Watch is my personal guess and does not represent Apple’s official statement. It should be used in combination with iMessage voice messages and FaceTime audio. If you do not frequently talk through the walkie-talkie, But I just want to talk to you through the walkie-talkie. Then I try to call you first. This may be a voice message through iMessage. What I am talking about is that it is in the background and cannot be seen by the user. The user thinks it is just a walkie-talkie. Press the button to speak and then listen. Just accept the feeling of a walkie-talkie , but its underlying technical logic should be to send a voice iMessage first, and then the other party hears it. If there is a response, he finds that the two of you have entered the conversation back and forth. mode , then the FaceTime audio technology should be used at this time. This is also my guess. I repeatedly emphasized that this is my guess. We are just chatting blindly, right? Just don’t take it as an official reply. So we explained the first three and the fourth eSame , I think everyone can better understand why FaceTime audio cannot be activated. I think it is the same reason. I don’t care. All the reasons below are my personal guesses. If you are irresponsible, everyone will have fun listening to it. If you think what I said is wrong, I am definitely wrong. But I hope that friends who are interested in discussing can comment below. We can continue the discussion below in a textual way. eSame should also be a consideration of the interests of the operators, that is, it has never been for China. Mainland China is currently opening up at a high speed. China Unicom’s latest development is that China Unicom has opened eSame on iPad. It was the first to open eSame on Apple Watch. It is called No. 1 Dual Mid -range. In fact, it is It's not a standard eSame because you think about one number, two devices, a mobile phone and a watch, right? It's called one number, dual midrange, one number, two devices. There's no way to call it a lame eSame because it should be called the standard eSame. Independent eSame means that I can abandon the physical Same card. I only have one eSame, and I can completely replace the physical Same card and use it. Isn't this the same in the United States or North America? All major operators provide two options . Use a physical Same card or use eSame. In fact, eSame is relatively simpler and more convenient. Some American iPhones have canceled the physical Same card slot. However, for Chinese users , it may cost the operator a card to send you or when you arrive. If you go to the business hall to open a card, there is a 10 yuan fee. I guess I haven’t opened the card for a long time. If I lose it and need to replace it, I have to pay 10 yuan for the replacement fee . I don’t know , but I guess based on experience . It has something to do with the interests of the operator , so he is reluctant to open it. But some friends say that eSame is to prevent telecommunications fraud in China, because it seems that eSame cannot perform real-name registration. Anyway, I believe that if you ask In my opinion, I think these two statements are quite credible. One is for the interests of the company and business, and the other is for government control. So I think these two considerations are quite down-to-earth in China. It has quite Chinese characteristics, so if you really expect eSame to be licensed in mainland China , it will be truly open in mainland China. I think you’ve waited a long time, so what are the conveniences of eSame? I think this program will be divided into two periods, or a middle period and a lower period. It’s okay. Let’s look at the time as we talk. I try not to exceed half an hour. eSame is first of all for mobile phones. The biggest benefit is that it makes the phone more integrated and its waterproof performance will be better because the SIM card slot is now the only channel on the phone that can directly access the inside of the phone , so its waterproofing can only rely on rubber rings . Simply block it , but once the rubber ring is aged , water may still flow in from the SIM card slot. This is one reason . The second reason is functional. It doesn’t look good to have such a slot , although most people use protective covers. It's covered , but it doesn't look good after all. The third reason is the integrated molding. If you want to get this SIM card, it actually costs more and takes longer in the production process. So from any situation, it takes a lot longer to get the SIM card out of the phone. Creating such a SIM card slot is harmful but useless. In the early days, it was a last resort. But now that eSIM is available, I believe that eSIMs everywhere in the world will soon be eliminated in the foreseeable future. There should be business considerations in other countries that have not eliminated physical SIM cards . However, since there is no strong government consideration, although it is slow , it should still be implemented in this way . Once users accept eSIM, it will be difficult to return to physical SIM cards. Because after all, it’s convenient . You’ll know it after trying it once. You don’t have to go to the store to open a card . They give you a QR code, scan it , and it’s written on the phone’s chip. It can also write to 5 cards at the same time, but it can’t be on standby at the same time. But you can Convenient switching is especially convenient for users with cross-border travel or business needs. Now we have many virtual operators operating cross-border mobile phone numbers and cross-border cellular data connection services. Most of these actually rely on Although there are some eSIMs that can do their best to send you a sim card , or some even send you a sim card. What is it called Internet Banking ? I can’t remember the name at the moment. It’s just that kind of thing , but you don’t think. Is this annoying? There is obviously a convenient way . Now you can obviously use your mobile phone to do it . You have to go to the business office. This is very annoying. So eSIM actually has a lot of benefits. But because of other reasons, we can’t use it. But for these reasons, it must We can be sure that this has nothing to do with user convenience. If you have the need to go abroad frequently and you want to use a convenient and cheap way to enable your mobile phone to have data access to the Internet in most countries around the world , then I I think eSIM should be a necessity for you. If you are a business person who often flies around the world or likes to travel, I think it is a feature worth having. Air China does not have it. Next is satellite communication and satellite communication. Everyone can I saw that because Air China first introduced the satellite communication method for SOS emergency calls in iPhone 14, it will not be available in the foreseeable future after the release of iOS 18. You can also use satellite to make calls when there is no mobile phone signal. The transmission of ordinary text iMessage messages is a bit similar to what I don’t know about you, but when I was on an international flight, international flights generally provide WiFi on the plane, but with that WiFi, you need to experience the complete Internet . It costs money. I personally think that the money is quite expensive. The key is because first of all, I don’t have much use for WiFi on the plane. Secondly, if you think about its speed, it won’t be too fast. That’s why. I didn’t buy it , but I don’t know about other flights , but some of the ones I’ve done, not all, some international flights, it allows you to access the WiFi on the plane for free. You can’t go online . You can only send iMessages . Of course , you can only send messages. I don’t use WeChat , so I don’t know if WeChat can send messages, but if I use iMessage, it’s definitely no problem. Mobile text messages are also not allowed. iMessage is fine. It’s just for international flights. It considers that your trip is relatively long , so you can report to your family that you are safe and so on. Let’s chat. It’s free and allowed , but if you want to do anything else, you’ll have to pay for it. The same goes for satellite communications, which will be the iOS 18 version in the future. But if you go hiking and camping in the wild and like this, right? That place often doesn’t have it. I think the mobile phone signal is better in China . This may be more common in North America or Australia. I don’t know. I haven’t been to many places , but it is like this. The more places there are without mobile phone signals, the more desolate and empty the people are. The more desolate and empty the place is, the better the conditions for satellite connection will be. The more you are in a reinforced concrete city like high-rise buildings , the weaker the satellite connection signal will be because it will be blocked. This is the same as GPS navigation. So there is a complement. When you are in a high-rise building without mobile phone signal , it is impossible not to have mobile phone signal in the city. There must be some , but if you are far away from the city in a place without signal towers , at least it can only be used for first aid. This Message is It's okay , but now it's okay for you to send a message to your family to let them know they're safe. Of course, if you want to use satellite communications to watch videos, that's definitely not possible . You should just go ahead and buy Musk's Starlink , but Starlink can't be used in China anyway. Satellite communication is not available in China. It is said that a certain domestic mobile phone brand can use domestic satellites. But this is up to you to see for yourself. Because we mainly talk about iPhone, I am not vouching for anyone. It is just because of my work that I only know about iPhone. Mostly because of my own personal hobbies, I also prefer Apple products . I have been a deep-loving user of Apple products since before I started working, so my personal channel shares those things that I personally like. There is no guarantee or disparagement. So what follows ? It’s WiFi Calling . In fact, I’m not sure if the hardware of the iPhone in China has cut it off . But this thing is actually in mainland China. This technology is very simple, but it has never worked in mainland China. This is not a new technology. This is old. It is an early technology and its principle is very simple. We often use it in our own homes. The mobile phone signal was not very good for a period of time when I was in China. The mobile signal at our house was particularly bad , while the telecom signal was better. So for a period of time at that time, I often saw our neighbors on the opposite floor often running to the balcony. When I make a call , I can hear it here . So actually sometimes at home, the coverage of the mobile phone signal is not that wide. In this case, in fact, every household has WiFi operators, and we can use a very simple technology to pass WiFi. It allows you to make and receive calls. As long as you have WiFi, it doesn’t matter if the mobile phone signal is not good. You will have all the functions of making calls. But you can imagine this function . I don’t know why such a simple technology cannot be used in China. But I still share my guess that it should be related to something like real-name registration and authentication, because I used it myself when I wanted to register for WiFi Calling where I live now. It had a clause and asked me to Filling in my current home address means that if you are really at home and there is no mobile phone signal and you make a call through WiFi, if there is an emergency, 911 will use the mobile phone signal tower to locate your home location for you . There is no way to locate it because your signal is not good and you may have no mobile phone signal at all . When you apply for WiFi calling, you have to fill in your home address in advance. In this way, if you encounter an emergency and call 911, it will You can know your home address through the address you fill in . In case it is inconvenient for you to say that everyone has seen some foreign movies, just call them without talking , and the other party will also send the police to this place. So this is WiFi Calling and this is from mainland China. There is no one in aviation. Then the next one is called RCS , which is more popular in the Android camp . Of course, it should be native Android. Do those Androids in China have it? I don’t know what this means. It is actually an upgraded version of MMS. Do you know what it is? MMS is a 10-cent text message sent by the operator. It can only send text , but MMS can send very blurry photos. It is very small , but this RCS can be like iMessage or you can say like WeChat, just send comparison. For clear photos, you can send some emoticons, some stickers, etc. This is supported by operators and some mobile phone companies. The iPhone was also supported in iOS18 , so in theory, this function is available in most places overseas. That is to say, after iPhone users upgrade to iOS18, it can be used for free through the built-in messaging app of the phone. It cannot be said that it is completely free. It means that it can send and receive text messages with Android users through the Internet without using mobile phone signals , and you can have rich text message content. I have used it , but this function is not supported by Chinese operators. I won’t go into details. The correct answer is that I don’t know the reason , but I guess the reason. I don’t want to say it again. It saves time. It’s just that. Everyone thinks for themselves. The last two are relatively simple, which is great. I was able to finish the first part in half an hour. The altitude is what I mentioned before when I talked about the compass app, so I will mention it again here. Because China I don’t know if it’s a law or a rule or a regulation in mainland China . Anyway, there is something that does not allow foreign companies to display this thing. So for all mainland Chinese people, you can’t see the altitude in the compass on your mobile phone . There are old versions that have been removed , but it seems that a certain upgrade a year or two ago was compliant and not compliant , so it complies with your local laws. If you don't let me display it, I won't display it , so I removed this. I have said it before. The last one is the map service. I have just mentioned this in one word , because it is the same as the altitude. Some map information and some surveying and mapping information, traffic flow , may be considered state secrets and cannot be given to foreign-funded companies , so Apple Maps still uses Amap. Therefore , basically all overseas map service providers in China cannot be used , or even if they can be used, it is very difficult to use. The information is very incomplete. If you want to have a good map experience in mainland China , you can only use the local ones in mainland China. Map service provider , so in comparison , the Apple map built into the iPhone is still very good, very good. If you are interested, you can check out the issue of My Maps. I will give it a try. I am lazy, so I will give it a try because these few In the entry, I talked about a lot of things that I mentioned in previous programs . If you see a link above, you can jump directly. It means that I am more diligent. But if you don’t see it, forget it. You can find it by yourself , but I believe it. I've made it clear. Well , I think this video will be divided into two parts. Even if this is the first half of our Air China iPhone , we'll see you in the second half. Thank you very much for your attention and watching. Thank you for watching!