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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    China Mobile says keen on iPhone, but not in talks

    BEIJING
    Mon Mar 3, 2008 5:47am EST
    A model presents an Apple iPhone at the T-Mobile Store in Cologne November 9, 2007. China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone operator, said on Monday it had not officially entered into talks with Apple Inc to bring iPhones to the mainland, but was interested in doing so. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone operator, said on Monday it had not officially entered into talks with Apple Inc to bring iPhones to the mainland, but was interested in doing so.

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    In January, China Mobile said talks with Apple on launching the U.S. company's popular iPhones had been called off, although Apple has never commented officially on the issue.

    "We have not yet officially begun talks with Apple over the iPhone problem," China Mobile Chief Executive Wang Jianzhou told reporters on the sidelines of an annual parliament advisory body meeting.

    "As long as our customers want this kind of product, we will keep all options open," said Wang.

    Investors had cheered Apple possibly winning access to China Mobile's 350 million subscribers -- more than the population of the United States -- when news of talks helped Apple's stock climb more than 10 percent on November 13.

    The iPhone, a hot-selling cell phone that allows Internet access and plays music, sells for about $500 in the United States -- roughly double the average monthly salary in China.

    IPhone would first have to resolve technical, content and fee issues unique to China, including Apple's revenue-sharing agreement that China Mobile would find hard to accept, analysts said.

    Apart from China, Apple had also initiated talks with NTT DoCoMo Inc and Softbank Corp to bring its multimedia device to Japan, although sources at both Japanese firms said revenue sharing was again a hotly contested issue.

    (Reporting by Kirby Chien; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
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