In the coming few months OPhone OS-powered smartphones will hit the Chinese market. The OPhone OS i.e. the Open Mobile Phone Operating System was originally developed by the China Mobile for smartphones. The first OPhone OS that will hit the Chinese market will be the HTC-made OPhone A6188 device. It is one of the manufacturers out of many, including Dell.

It is estimated that about twenty OPhone OS models will appear in the Chinese market this year. First time OPhone handsets were sold there was at the end of 2009 and it was on a limited basis only. China Mobile, one of the leading mobile operators in China, will be helping in boosting the awareness and demand of OPhone OS.

What is OPhone OS?

The OPhone OS files as a carrier-made Mobile operating system. This technology helps in integrating several carrier-specific features such as it will be supporting the mobile TV broadcasting services of China Mobile and the MMS service out-of-the-box. Apart from this, the OPhone OS mobile device is offered at an aggressive price point. Moreover, the OPhone OS will be breaking the old rules of handsets by bundling the device and the SIM card together.

Over 20 mobile manufacturers have been persuaded by China Mobile till now to create such handsets that run OPhone OS. Apart from Dell, the other manufacturers in the list are Lenovo Group, Huawei Technologies and TCL.

Dell has already started to engineer the OPhone OS devices. It in fact was aiming the US market. HTC and LG Electronics are also developing the OPhone OS-powered phones. However, one thing to remember here is that the Chinese market is already crowded when we talk about mobile. Let us wait and see whether the OPhone OS is able to make any impact in Chinese market with another mobile operating system.