A Beijing company is filming a romance in five-minute episodes that it says is China's first television program made exclusively for the viewscreens of mobile phones. The five-episode phone drama, Appointment, is about a love triangle between a woman and two men, according to its producer, Beijing Leshi Media Group.

The few programs sent to phones have been versions of regular television broadcasts, said an employee of Beijing Leshi, who would give only his surname, Wang.

Viewers who want to see Appointment will need a specially equipped South Korean-made phone, Wang said.

He didn't know how many Chinese had such phones.

Phones equipped for television sell in China for about 5,000 yuan (US$600), several times the price of a standard phone, according to a report on the Web site of the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily.

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