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Security concerns won’t put off ZTE’s plans for the U.S. market. In fact, as part of the plan to smooth over issues raised by the U.S. government, the Chinese company promised to grow its investment in the country by 10% annually. During a conference in Atlanta, ZTE’s head of North America Lixin Cheng said: “Put…
ZTE, the Chinese handset vendor that isn’t quite as popular as their closest competitor, Huawei, has just announced the Grand X LTE. As the name implies, this thing has 4G LTE connectivity. That’s provided courtesy of the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 inside. Strangely enough, He Shiyou, the Head of ZTE’s Handset Division, says: “We are the…
So you think the Oppo Finder and Huawei Ascend P1 S are thin? Think again. At just 6.2mm, the soon to be launched ZTE Athena is boldly going for the world’s thinnest smartphone spot. The device is getting some serious traction at Sina Weibo, with few leaked photos sparking everyone’s imagination. It is said that…
When Microsoft announced that it’s Windows Phone Tango software would support devices with as little as 256MB of RAM, app incompatibility immediately came to everyone’s mind. How can a phone with such a minuscule amount of memory run the more intensive applications available on today’s smartphones? With the Lumia 610 and ZTE Orbit making their way to store shelves,…
Orange is preparing to add another city-named device to its portfolio. Dubbed Orange Dublin, it’s actually a rebranded version of the ZTE Kis, which is one of the bunch of phones the Chinese company unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Specs wise, we’re talking about an entry-level Android Gingerbread smartphone that comes with a…
ZTE, best known for being one of the biggest mobile phone manufacturers in China, recently launched the Score in the United States. Well, it looks like the company isn’t getting off to a very good start. It just confirmed a security hole in the device that could potentially allow others to remotely control it. The…
ZTE wants to grow its Windows Phone business beyond Europe and Asia, and eventually bring its smartphones to the U.S. We guess they’re talking about the Tania handset, though as far as we know they may have some other products in the pipeline, as well. At the moment, the Chinese company has a number of…
Cricket Wireless, one of America’s smaller wireless operators, will be releasing an Android 4.0 powered ZTE smartphone this summer called the Nova 4.0 V8000. We seriously hope that name gets changed. Anyway, what’s under the hood of this thing? There’s a 1.4 GHz single core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1 GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel…
Late last year, in October to be precise, Samsung started selling a 5.3 inch smartphone called the Galaxy Note. I’ll be the first to admit, I laughed at that thing until my sides hurt, but recently I’ve had a change of heart. Someone I know got one and he was kind enough to lend me…
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Sprint’s ZTE Optik is getting a small update as we speak, with “small” doesn’t including Ice Cream Sandwich but few bug fixes and a couple of new features. Here’s what you get once the update process is completed: Google DRM solution Google Music Google+ Persistent notification after BT transfer Software version corrected in x-wap profile…