“China Unicom announced a new smartphone and software platform Monday, Wophone, that will rival Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and China Mobile’s Ophone offerings,” Dan Nystedt reports for PC World.
MacDailyNews Take: Woephone.
“China’s second largest mobile operator, with 170 million subscribers, created the Wophone as a way to avoid being marginalized by other mobile industry players that have opened their own app stores, executives from the company have said,” Nystedt reports. “The new handset platform will immediately become a rival to the maker of one of China Unicom’s hottest selling smartphones, Apple. The iPhone 4 debuted in China last year to huge crowds and remained sold out for months.”
Nystedt reports, “China Unicom said its Wophone software is Linux-based and entirely developed by itself and partners, including some Chinese government offices, but does not rely on Android.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Because, you know, if there’s anything China needs, it’s yet another half-assed iPhone knockoff.