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In a move to further enhance the Empire of iPhone, Chinese Cell phone provider China Mobile has entered talks with Steve Jobs and company to sell the Apple iPhone in China. "Our customers like this kind of fashionable product," said Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile's CEO, on the sidelines of the GSM Association's Mobile Asia Congress in Macau.

Apple has said it will roll out iPhones in Asia next year, and China Mobile would be a good catch for the company. It is the world's largest mobile operator, boasting almost 350 million subscribers at the end of September.

Apple has been signing exclusive deals with several mobile operators to provide service to the iPhone exclusively in exchange for a share of the profits on the contracts signed. O2 in the UK and AT&T in the US both have agreed to similar deals where the operator pays for a portion of their iPhone subscriber revenue.

But in a speech at the same conference Wang admitted that he does not like the revenue sharing contracts that Apple has managed to get. “I’m not sure whether any of the mobile companies would like to be sharing profits,” said Wang.

Wang took a shot at today's music playing phones. When phone makers add music players to their handsets they tend to end up with a good phone and a bad music player, he said, and vice-versa for makers of music players. The idea of connecting a mobile phone to a computer to download music is also undesirable, he said. Mobile phones should download music directly from the mobile network, he said.

"We still think we can maintain the operator-centric model because we have the customers, the end users," Wang said.

However, China Mobile is also a member of Google's Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of technology and service companies that will develop products based on Google's Android mobile phone platform, which will be a competitor for the iPhone.

The other major player in the Chinese market, China Unicom has said that they are currently not planning to initiate talks with Apple for the launch of iPhone. Unicom Executive Director Li Zhengmao had this to say on a possible deal with Apple: “we’re always willing to discuss a good business opportunity if it presents itself. As for whether we’ll talk about iPhones with Apple, you’ll have to ask Apple.” Li also added that for Apple to make iPhone popular in China, they would have to customize the device to offer support for local languages.