China Mobile will launch a special version of the Samsung Omnia II phone, known as i8180, specially customized by the handset maker for the Chinese consumers. This special version comes with WAPI, the local type of Wi-Fi and TD-SCDMA radio, instead of HSPA/EV-DO.

There’s also support for CMMB (China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting) on the specs list, plus the rest of the features from the classic Omnia II we’ve come to know and love. The most important of them is the 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen display and you should know that Windows Mobile is the OS of choice for the phone.

The device will also be known as Samsung i810 Chai or Samsung i8180c.

[via IntoMobile]

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China Mobile’s Philips V900 handset emerged first back in August and now we have almost all of its specifications. This Android powered device features a 3 megapixel camera, a 3.2 inch HVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi and an internal memory of 256MB, extendable via MicroSD plus GPS. Unfortunately this handset will only be GSM/GPRS/EDGE capable, lacking 3G.

China Telecom instead prepares a CDMA 1x device from the same range, called Philips C702. We assume this since this cellphone has the China Telecom logo on it. The handset above sports  a 3.4 inch QVGA display, a poor 1.3 megapixel camera, GPS and an internal memory of 70MB plus microSD support.

[via UnwiredView]

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China Mobile seems to be getting more Android love than the US and European carriers lately, specially since the Chinese mobile operator is using its own customized version of the OS, OPhone. The latest handset to feature this operating system is LG GW880, pictured below.

Of course, since this IS a China Mobile device, it doesn’t support Wi-Fi, but it comes with pretty decent specs, like a 3.5 inch WVGA touchscreen display, 256MB RAM, a 5 megapixel camera and GPS. Let’s just hope that this isn’t LG’s only Android phone in its 2009 portofolio.

[via Engadget Mobile]

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China Mobile is gearing up to launch HTC Qilin, the Asian version of HTC Whitestone, also known as Dopod T8388. This Windows Mobile 6.5 smartpone supports both GSM and TD-SCDMA connectivity and it resembles the design of Touch Pro2.

This is touchscreen-only device that features a 3.6 inch display with a 480 x 800 pixels resolution, GPS, WiFi, CMMB mobile TV and a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus. There’s also a VGA front camera on board, a 600 MHz TI OMAP 3430 processor, 512MB ROM and 256MB RAM.

Expect the handset to hit China Mobile in Q4 2009, as a flagship phone.

[via Unwired View]

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China Mobile just unveiled a new Android-based device known as Philips V900. To be more accurate, the exact OS choice is China Mobile’s Open Mobile System (OMS).

Although the world’s largest carrier should launch the handset soon, no exact information about the exact release date or the price are available, but thanks to 163.com, some live photos of the handset emerged.

The specs are decent, the phone being equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera, a 1450 mAh battery and WAPI (the Chinese Wi-Fi) plus a 3.5mm headset jack.

[via Unwired View]

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China Mobile’s phone of the year could be a first for Dell and we’ve covered this rumoured Dell Phone quite a bunch of times already, so we’re getting acquainted with the device. Turns out that the first Dell phone will be called Benzine and it’ll reach China, probably via China Mobile.

It’ll be a huge surprise if we see it in China Unicom or Telecom’s portofolio.

Now, passing to the specs, we just found out that Dell Benzine supports quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE class 12 and it packs a 3.5 inch nHD LCD display with a 640 x 360 pixel resolution. OTA is also supported and the handset’s specs list also includes Microsoft Exchange, Google, AIM, Yahoo, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and A-GPS.

A virtual QWERTY keyboard will handle text input, being accompanied by handwriting recognition, a multi-touch UI and a microSD slot, in case you want more storage space. Dell Benzine’s camera is a 3 megapixel unit, with autofocus, 8x digital zoom and 30 fps video recording.

[via BGR]

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China Mobile is readying not only the very cool Dell Benzine phone, but also Huawei T550+, while the carrier’s rival, China Telecom gets ready to release Huawei C7300. The first phone supports TD-SCDMA connectivity and the second will support CDMA2000 and GSM.

Huawei T550+ comes with a 2 megapixel camera and a touchscreen display, while Huawei C7300 uses a 2.5 inch QVGA touchscreen. There’s also a 2 megapixel camera on board of the last device, plus an MP3 player, a microSD slot and handwritting recognition.

C7300 measures 109.4 x 57.6 x 14.2mm and weighs 110 grams, but too bad that we don’t know any price tag or release date just yet.

[via GSM Dome]

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We’ve mentioned in an article yesterday the possibility of this happening and it seems that China Mobile has finally won the battle against China Unicom for Dell’s phone. It was first rumored that Android was the OS for this handset, dispelled later and then we supposed that Windows Mobile would be the true OS of choice.

It seems that the first assumption was the real one after all, in spite of the display dimensions.

So the new Android-powered device will be called Ophone mini3i and is planned for launch on August 17th as China Mobile themselves announced, together with their MobileMarket platform, a service resembling AppStore.

They hope that the newly created Ohpone brand will also be used by other vendors, like Lenovo and Dopod (HTC). Because all Ophones will support only TD-SCDMA, which stands for Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access and is the Chinese version of 3G, it will be very difficult to make these phones available outside China.

[via Mobile Crunch]

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China Mobile or China Unicom might be getting ready to launch Dell’s long awaited handset and it seems each carrier has its chance. Although it seemed at first that Dell’s Phone was using Android, it was proven later that Windows Mobile will be the true OS choice.

The picture above strengthens the Windows Mobile theory as we can observe the screen ratio, 1:1:66 (WVGA) specific to Windows Mobile devices. If Android was indeed the correct OS, the display resolution would have been 320×480, with a  screen ratio of 1:1:5.

It’s rumored that the initial prototypes were not approved by major carriers as they thought that Dell’s Phone is not at the height of their expectations. It seems that the initial plan was creating two versions of the device, one using Windows Mobile and one using Android,  so we might be seeing both of them on the market.

We expect Dell Phone’s design to be similar with the one of iPhone, being a genuine touchscreen device with no physical keyboard, very rich in memory and connectivity options.

[via Gsm Dome]

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China Mobile’s not readying the future smartphone that will rock the world, but what they’ve got in stall for their users is a quite neat tablet, that got rendered in the images below. This is a 7 inch Android-based device with support for TD-SCDMA 3G connectivity.

Video calling is also on board, together with a full web browser and the OPhone operating system (customized Android for the Chinese market). Too bad that we’ve got no specs to continue this promising list of leaks, but we’re really curious to find out what the deal with those “call” and “end call” buttons is.

Should we consider this some sort of huge phone? VoIP anyone?

[via Engadget Mobile]

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