Apple this morning announced that its massively popular smartphone, the iPhone 4S, will be available in China and 21 additional countries on Friday, January 13.

According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, that means the iPhone 4S will shortly be available in a total of 90 countries.

It also means the phone will indeed launch in China before the Chinese New Year (January 23), which is sort of the equivalent of Black Friday in the United States.

Put differently: ka-ching.

From the official press release:

Beginning Friday, January 13, iPhone 4S will be available in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, China, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guam, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos and Uganda.

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• IPHONE 4S

Product: iPhone 4S

Company Apple

The iPhone 4S will be offered in the US by AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. Product specs: Dual-core A5 CPU, said to be “2x as fast at CPU tasks” Dual-core graphics, up to “7x faster than the previous iPhone” Battery life estimates: 8 hours talk time on 3G, 14 hours on 2G. 6 hours of browsing on 3G, 9 on Wi-Fi. 10 hours of video playback, 40 hours of music. Theoretical download speeds of 14.4Mbps (as opposed to 7.2 on the iPhone 4.) World Phone...

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