GameSpot has posted an article about Baldur's Gate for mobile phones. Here's an excerpt:

The fictional city-state of Baldur's Gate, a very popular component of the larger Forgotten Realms/Dungeons and Dragons universe, has already been subjected to a number of epic video game adventures. You may remember tromping through endless waves of killer monkeys in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, or carefully rationing your party's hit points to make it through the earlier adventures on the PC and Mac. It may not seem that such in-depth role-playing games could make it onto the cell phone in any recognizable form, but Sorrent has decided to marshal its forces for this extremely challenging project anyway. Though we only saw a quick demonstration of the nascent Baldur's Gate for mobile, we were impressed by the game's D&D authenticity and range of gameplay.

Charname never dies.

Read the whole thing (http://www.gamespot.com/mobile/action/baldursgate/preview_6103389.html) at GameSpot.

Does anyone here have any experience of playing a CRPG on their mobile phones? I can't see how it would work.

it can't. Only if they make it like a gameboy classic (zelda, mana) it may work, but I can't see how the effor of such venture would be profitable for a company nowadays.

For once, they may be doing something for fun, not for too much profit.

Well, it would very possible if they made it turnbased. Realtime would be a little too taxing for the mobile probably, unless it's an N-gage maybe, but otherwise, if it's turnbased, it might be really great.