China Mobile launches OPhone

China Daily reports that China Mobile yesterday launched its own mobile phone operating system that can support its homegrown 3G standard.

The release of the long-anticipated Ophone platform, the world's first mobile phone operating system developed by a telecom carrier, and the Ophone handsets is seen by analysts as a move that could help China Mobile stabilize its slowing profit growth.

The move comes less than one week after the country's second biggest wireless carrier China Unicom clinched a deal with Apple to sell iPhones in China. It is expected to intensify competition in the country's 3G market.

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