China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) Chairman Wang Jianzhou said Friday the company is still in talks with Apple Inc. (AAPL) over selling iPhones in China.

The deal between China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. (CHU) and Apple to sell iPhones in China is "absolutely not exclusive," Wang said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in the northeastern coastal city of Dalian.

He also said China Mobile hopes to sell Ophones, which operate on an open-source operating system, in China at prices as low as CNY1,000 each.

China Mobile, a Hong Kong-listed company, hopes to list shares on mainland China very soon, Wang said.

But he added the planned share offering would be through a new method, instead of in the form of either an ordinary A-share listing or through depositary receipts. He didn't elaborate.

-By Aaron Back, Dow Jones Newswires; 8610 6588-5848; aaron.back@dowjones.com