China Mobile planning to subvert Unicom's iPhone launch with the OPhone?

We've known for some time that China Mobile was planning to launch the KIRFy OPhone from Lenovo. Now, with word on the street that China Unicom has snagged the iPhone in that provider's home turf, a report from DigiTimes is suggesting that China Mobile might be trying to undermine the competition's supposed June iPhone launch by dropping the OPhone a month earlier. That sounds sensible enough, but are people there so eager for iPhone they'd jump on the imitation rather than wait another month for the real thing? We'll find out soon enough.

[Image courtesy of modmyGphone]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 20th 2009 1:10PM]

You' re joking right?
In What does this lenovo resemble an iPhone?
It looks much better and almost surely it will be a much better phone with much better specs too.
They copied the UI from Samsung touchWIZ but from Apple it's gonna take only the clients.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 20th 2009 2:26PM]

what a bias article...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 20th 2009 5:58PM]

That is in no way an imitation of the iPhone. Physically it even looks better.

[metric Posted Apr 20th 2009 7:03PM]

Me thinks Tim gets rosy red palms from his gaiPhone.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2009 2:42PM]

I think that this phone is quite attractive. From living in China for some years, I have found that Lenovo usually is going after the business segment. I feel that this phone is going to do very well in just that market. I also feel that open source, and Google have some great opportunities to grow in China (and India, etc). Personally, I am interested to see how they will do with this phone (and Android) running with the Chinese language. I always felt that the iPhone (based on Unix) handled Chinese input extremely well. I just hope that they get it right, and don't have to rely on 3rd parties to fix the language input (something like what happened to the G1).

[(Unverified) Posted May 9th 2009 8:04PM]

Chinese phones are such a bit hit in India .. But most are low end bad looking phones ..

this phone looks like a good one . nice looks and reminds me of LG viewty and Prada .. anyone rem ?