We were SO excited to learn more about the first ever LG Android Phone… and then we learned it would be a Wi-Fi-less OPhone heading to China Mobile. Excuse our lack of excitement, but we’ve currently got our eye on the LG Eve (GW620) which DOES have Wi-Fi and is much more likely to land [...]

Dell’s first foray into the Android Market (confusing, eh?) is with the Dell Mini 3i for China Mobile, dubbed an OPhone by way of the Open Mobile System that the carrier has custom applied to Android. With the fortune of being located in China, the folks at Sina.com got access to the first DellDroid and [...]

Yesterday the Dell Mini 3i disappointed and today the company back peddled on the phone’s existence. Thankfully for Chinese Phandroids Philips has quickly swooped in to restore your robot faith. At the same event, the company introduced the Philips V900 which is an Android Phone based on China Mobile’s Open Mobile System (OMS), and its [...]

No wonder every carrier in the developed world scoffed at the Dell Android Phone they lugged continent to continent for which they sought a distribution partner – it was the opposite of impressive. It is the Dell Mini 3i and it is underwhelming to say the least. With no Wi-Fi or WAPI (Chinese equivalent) and [...]

The Lenovo OPhone has been an Android in-the-works for it seems like forever. Well… what seems like forever will end next month (according to PCWorld) as the phone is rumored to be launching in China under the name Lenovo O1 OPhone. A promotional website for the phone surely gives the impression of an imminent launch, [...]

We got our hopes up and now we’re let down – the Philips V808 Android phone that we just heard about has some disappointing news. First of all, the phone will be exclusively available on China Mobile. Secondly, it will have China Mobile’s proprietary Android build called the OPhone which is more iPhone-like and alledgedly [...]

Verizon Wireless is rumored to be launching an Android Phone later this year, presumably the Motorola Morrison during the holiday season. A year ago I said Verizon would have an Android phone… and they will. All these years, Verizon has been holding back their customers from access to readily available features and capabilities in the [...]

China Mobile isn’t projected to offer an App Store to its nearly 500  million subscribers until September, but the Mobile App Store website (mmarket.com) was found up and running today. Mostly with broken links, sure – but the implications are humongous. China Mobile is launching their “OPhone” later this year which is slated to be [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting (via CNET) that China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier, is repackaging the HTC Magic and launching it as the “Ophone” next month. This tops off an exciting holiday weekend for Android where the HTC Lancaster and Motorola Heron were both leaked for launch on AT&T in August and [...]

Google Android and the Apple iPhone are two simultaneously emerging and dominant mobile platforms fighting to snatch up market share as their global roll-out continues. Apple had a huge head start and the iPhone is available in dozens of countries worldwide. However, Android could beat Apple to the largest country in the world and launch [...]

It is no secret that Dell wants to get into the Smartphone game. And furthermore, Dell wants to get into Android (and Android into it). Unfortunately for them, every single American carrier essentially said their product sucked and told them they didn’t want to be friends. As a result, it seems teary-eyed Dell is brushing [...]

The Lenovo oPhone looks O so much like the unrelated and similarly named I device and that probably isn’t an accident – the looks OR the name. But it runs Android and pays testament to the truly open nature of Android that allows manufacturers and carriers to customize the platform to meet their needs. This [...]

The Lenovo oPhone was/is slated for a Chinese release – we know that. But for Chinese Android fans who had that on their wish list, the HTC Magic might replace it in the very near future. Replace it on your wish list, that is. While it will unfortunately lose 3G and WiFi in its intercontinental [...]

China has the largest population in the world at over 1.3 Billion. The country’s largest mobile carrier – China Mobile – has more than 400 Million subscribers. To put that in perspective, that’s more subscribers than the United States has citizens at about 300 Million. Considering those statistics I think it’s fair that when Lenovo [...]