China Unicom has reportedly started the public test of its online application store Wostore and the platform will be formally put into operation later this month.

Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC has brought new smartphone products under a new brand of HTC to the Chinese mainland market, aiming to become a top five smartphone vendor in this marketplace.

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the island's smartphone maker HTC has decided to inject additional capital of USD45 million in the Shanghai-based HTC Electronics for capacity expansion.

The China Telecom Shandong branch announced that it has cooperated with six well-known mobile phone makers, including Hisense, Coolpad, ZTE, Huawei, Lenovo, and Dopod, in the setting up a mobile terminal joint lab.

Initiated by China Telecom, the operator of the CDMA2000 network in China, China's "CDMA2000 Mobile Phone Design and Development Industry Alliance" has been founded in Beijing with over 100 members, including mobile phone chip platform providers, mobile phone design companies, and brand manufacturers with independent development abilities.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom has announced that its first flagship store under its 3G brand "Wo" has been opened in Beijing.

Taiwanese mobile phone brand Altek has announced its entry into the Chinese electronics retail chain Gome, making it the second major Taiwanese mobile phone brand available in mainland China market following Dopod.

China Telecom Beijing branch has announced plans to increase its subsidies for users who buy its 3G mobile phones from the previous 30% to 70%.

Microsoft and over 90 mobile communication partners have jointly announced at a conference held in Beijing that the first batch of 17 types of Windows phones will be launched in China at the end of 2009.

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has officially started the sales of its Ophone handsets in Shanghai and launched a promotional activity at the same time.

Days after news of rival China Unicom's non-exclusive iPhone deal with Apple, Chinese telecom operator China Mobile formally launched its Ophone platform and Ophone handsets today.

According to Andrew Bowins, spokesperson of the world's second largest PC maker Dell, the company is jointly developing a mobile phone product with China Mobile.

China Mobile has inked deals with ten Chinese and overseas mobile phone manufacturers to develop Ophone, a mobile phone product based on China Mobile's Open Mobile System.

Having launched its first batch of 3G network interface cards, China Telecom will soon start the commercial operation of its 3G mobile phone services and the company has already launched a user experience activity in Beijing, in which 2,000 users will be the first to experience China Telecom's 3G services.

TCL Group has published a notice stating the group has invited Dr. Charles Yang to be its vice president to be in charge of the brand business for TCL's mobile communications sector.