Philips V808 smartphone to run Android-based OPhone OS on China Mobile

Well, at least some of the mystery is solved. If a machine translated source is to be believed -- not to mention a healthy gathering of screengrabs -- Philips' elusive V808 smartphone will be a China Mobile exclusive. As with other Android-based phones on the operator, it'll be the reworked OPhone OS handling the dirty work, which basically means a carrier-customized app market and a few other tweaks that seem to be frowned upon in the Chinese community. We're also told that the phone will lack support for 3G, WiFi and multitouch, leaving us grieved, lugubrious and lachrymose. C'mon guys -- why hamstring a good thing?

[Via Cloned In China]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 6:19AM]

Probably another "huge battery life" phone, explaining the lack of 3G and Wi-Fi.

[Adamgs Posted Jul 29th 2009 6:46AM]

Not enough icons in the status bar for my liking.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 6:57AM]

One thing that I don't like about android is the lack of skins. The default is so Ugly. Now we've got HTC doing their own and the creative zii with android on a pmp Hopefully It'll look better when I come to upgrade in 17 Months.

Creative Zii with android and Hd camera. More or less what we want from a PMP.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14841/1/

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 9:25AM]

In which apple world have you been living? There are tons of themes and skins for android...

[bdav Posted Jul 29th 2009 7:12AM]

Guys, Hadn't you heard? Thats OPhone 1.0 OS, not Android!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 1:36PM]

My netbook runs Ubuntu OS, not Linux!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 10:20AM]

OPhone OS? Does that mean that we can play a three-person game of pong and label our own buttons?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazA77xcf0A

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 9:05AM]

that status bar at top isn't ridiculously busy at all

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 29th 2009 10:17AM]

"Why hamstring a good thing?"

Indeed. Did you not notice that the phone is made by Philips? Has anyone here ever been satisfied or impressed with a product from Philips? Anyone? How about Magnavox? Anyone? Bueller?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 31st 2009 10:57AM]

Yes, me. Thanks! Why?