I’m not certain why Dell is planning to release its first smartphone, the Mini3, to only Cina Mobile and Brazil’s Claro, but the Chinese version will use OPhone, China Mobile’s version of Google Android. It won’t have Wi-Fi in China, just like the iPhone, but it is planned to have it “soon”.

I’m not certain of the Wi-Fi in Brazil. My source was also silent on if this Dell phone was coming to America. Considering all the Android phones we’ve seen in the past few weeks, is there a point to be made by bringing the Mini 3 here?

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Motorola has a hot phone for Chinese customers too. The MT710 is a handset meant to deal with China Mobile’s Android-based Open Mobile Systen. This OPhone will offer a 3.7-inch 854 x 480 touchscreen display and TD-SDCDMA support and that’s about all we know about this Motorola OPhone. It looks like the MT710 is the Chinese version of the Droid and people say it’s going to lack keyboard support. They also say that Motorola will launch seven Android phones next year which means that the Droid-like MT710 is just the first one of them.

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Tags: Android, China, China Mobile, Droid, Motorola, Motorola, MT710, OPhone

After we’ve seen the Dell Mini 3i which is a handset made for the Chinese market, now we have another leaked handset, the LG GW880 which is also headed to China via China Mobile.

The LG GW 880 is an Android phone which basically means that LG has just created its first Android device. The phone will run China Mobile’s OPhone platform and when it comes to specs you should expect a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, 256MB of RAM, GPS and a 5-megapixel camera. Do you like what you see so far? Because we’re definitely waiting to see what Android phones LG is going to launch in other parts of the world too!

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Tags: Android, Cell Phones, China, China Mobile, GW880, LG, LG, OPhone

Despite us clearly seeing the phone in the flesh (and assuming it was made official) Dell represenatives have stepped forward to say that the phone you saw, wasn’t actually a real phone. In fact, they are saying the Dell Mini 3i we saw was nothing more than a “proof of concept” to let everyone know that they are in fact making a Android/oPhone based handset for China Mobile.

Regardless of what PR stunt Dell is trying to pull here, I think it’s safe to assume that we will in fact be seeing the Mini 3i hit China Mobile at some point in the future. We’ll just have to wait for Dell to come forth and tell us they were kidding, and that the phone we previously saw is actually real.

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Tags: Android, Cell Phones, China Mobile, Dell, Dell, Google, mini 3i, Mobile News, Mobile Software, OPhone, proof of concept

We have been waiting for the OPhone from Lenovo for a while now and it seems the handset is now ready to hit the stores. The O1 Android phone will be available in China and China Mobile is the designated carrier. We’ll be waiting for more details about this hot 3G phone and we’re looking forward to see it arrive in other markets. From the screenshot here the O1 looks like a worthy iPhone adversary but the jury is still out on this one.

via pcworld

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We’ve seen several phones coming out of China Mobile that have been running the OPhone mobile operating system. However, China Mobile hasn’t released an SDK that would allow users to develop their own content.

Luckily, China Mobile has today announced that their OPhone OS SDK iss now available for download.

This will come as great news to two groups of people. First, to those using OPhone powered devices as their will be an increasing number of apps for download. And second, to those who develop mobile apps for a living as there is now one more platform to cash in on.

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Tags: Cell Phones, China Mobile, Mobile News, Mobile Software, operating system, OPhone, OS, SDK, sdn

Early 2009 didn’t work for the Ophone release and seems like May 17th didn’t cut it either.  The news now points to a release next month, which we will settle on for now until they decide on an another day or just launch it already.  What’s more, HTC has now combined forces with Lenovo to release the Chinese version of the Android-powered HTC Magic on China Mobile’s network, and this will be called the Ophone instead of the Lenovo handset we saw earlier.  When and if launched in June, the Ophone will go for a hefty 5000 yuan (about $730), which sounds a lot more expensive than the actual HTC Magic.  Anyways, with the iPhone also in line to enter the Chinese market during the same timeframe, June is turning out to be a fine month for the Chinese.

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Tags: Android, Cell Phones, China Mobile, HTC, Lenovo, OPhone

Remember the Lenovo Ophone that was supposed to land in China last quarter and didn’t?  Looks it wasn’t really buried deep and the Android-powered smartphone is getting ready for a release on the 17th of this month, a good day to do it since it is the World Communications Day.  Seen as a direct competitor to the millions of iPhones that have already found their way unofficially to China, the Lenovo Ophone will support 3G, GSM, and LTE-based 4G networks along with China’s own TD-SCDMA system.  China Mobile will also provide a host of services to its customers including search and on-demand TV services.  All this sounds fine, but with the Chinese people being so in love with the iPhone, it remains to be seen if the Ophone will really make a difference or not. (more…)

Tags: Android, Cell Phones, China Mobile, Google, Lenovo, OPhone

Lenovo’s OPhone should be a pretty interesting device to play with. The most interesting thing about it should be that Android OS it will carry. One more important thing is the smartphone will arrive this quarter in China and China Mobile is going to launch it. But what about the rest of the world? Current rumors say that Lenovo engineers are still working on the actual Chinese language version of the OS which means we might have this baby arrive a little later than expected. So what about announcing some pricing details and arrival dates for other markets?

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Tags: Android, China Mobile, Google, Lenovo, Mobile News, Mobile Software, OPhone, Other Brands

The first generation iPhone and the iPhone 3G might have some serious competition coming from Lenovo’s OPhone. The OPhone seems to be quite similar to the iPhone and people say it has more features than Apple’s beauty.

The OPhone measures 115.84 x 61.57 x 12.03mm which is a whole millimeter longer in all directions. It has a microSD slot on the left and it will support cards up to 16GB. A dedicated camera button on the other side will make it a lot easier for you to take pictures. The back will reveal a removable battery and a 5 megapixel camera with flash. Unlike the iPhone of course. The phone will be revealed in Q1 of next year so we should be waiting for it already.

via Gizmodo

Tags: Apple, iPhone, Lenovo, Mobile News, OPhone, Other Brands