China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier, will develop smartphones with Taiwan's HTC to compete with Apple Inc's iPhone, Taiwan media reported on Friday.
China Mobile will launch its Ophone running on the OMS (Open Mobile System) platform with HTC, the Economic Daily reported, citing China Mobile chairman Wang Jianzhou. China Mobile could also set up a procurement center to raise its purchases from Taiwan suppliers, the Commercial Times reported. The reports come a day after China Mobile posted its slowest interim profit growth since it listed in 1997 and said it expects average revenue per user to slide in the months to come. Wang will kick off a nine-day trip to Taiwan starting Friday, visiting the chairs of HTC and Mediatek, the island's top chip design house, it said. China Mobile said in April it was buying a 12 percent stake of Taiwan's Far EasTone for $592 million, in one of the biggest investments by a Chinese firm in Taiwan as ties warm between the former rivals
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