Access and China Telecom in talks to launch CPhone custom Android platform

Man, the Android action in China just keeps heating up: hot on the heels of China Mobile's OPhone platform debut, we're hearing China Telecom and Access are in talks to launch a rival called "CPhone." Just like OPhone, CPhone looks to be a specialized build of Android 1.5 with a custom UI, but instead of OPhone's KIRF iPhone look, Access seems to have filtered any number of haphazard Samsung UIs through a case or two of Tsingtao and called it a day. The big question right now is whether this one 3.5-inch device is the CPhone or whether Access and China Telecom are looking to launch a range of CPhone devices, but we're sure to find out more soon.

[Via Cloned in China]

[Teslanaut Posted Sep 21st 2009 11:53AM]

So is that where the missing iPhone 4th Gen went?

[kjb434 Posted Sep 21st 2009 11:55AM]

Custom build = China controlling communication!

[ArhcAngel Posted Sep 21st 2009 12:46PM]

Yeah when you talk into the phone and use phrases like "Help Help I'm being repressed!" it translates it to the person you are speaking to as "I love that my Government takes care of me."

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 3:16PM]

Whoop de freakin doo

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 11:59AM]

"...but instead of OPhone's KIRF iPhone look, Access seems to have filtered any number of haphazard Samsung UIs..."

Translation: be on the lookout for KIRF'd up Sense UI knock-offs.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 12:01PM]

in before Can we all come up with funny things the "C" stands for?!

In before cphone? you mean crap-phone

in before iPhone knock off by using every other letter of the alphabet

in before will it play crysis

in before will it blend

am i missing anything

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 12:11PM]

Just my luck, I've been waiting for something with a decent screen size & where does it get released, Freaking China. I love the Android OS but the stupidly small screens that everyone uses makes it just to hard to read text or email. I just hope that we get something with a 3.5" screen or larger in the USA soon.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 3:29PM]

Hopefully more and more of those Android devices will pop up, that'll sure bring down cost of components and help create a developer community, foreign and domestic. Wide availability and standardized hardware brought down PC prices, ultimately the same will happen in the mobile market.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 12:31PM]

KIRF should be added to the english dictionary. What would be the correct definition?

KIRF: cloned gadgets and software of popular name brands

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 12:53PM]

sooo...its a KIRF'ed KIRF ??

:-\

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 1:57PM]

Man, all the good stuff gets released & built overseas. Can't we make anything here anymore - all we got was a compass this year & can't even make em here :(

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 7:38PM]

No. We just look at what they have and tell ourselves it's crap over and over again until we believe it.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 2:00PM]

It's battery is about to die