Dell is in talks with China Mobile to offer a smartphone based on the carrier's mobile operating system, a move that would take Dell into a huge but competitive market in China, an analyst said Monday.

China Mobile missed forecasts with its slowest quarterly profit growth since 2005 and warned a deepening financial crisis will pressure subscriber growth as local competition gets tougher.

Nokia Siemens Networks said on July 11 that it had won network expansion orders worth 550 million euros (US$865 million) from the world's top mobile operator China Mobile in the first half of the year.