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ZTE is super bullish on its prospects in the smartphone market this year. According to DigiTimes‘ sources at the Taiwan-based makers of handset components, the Chinese company will ship between 35 and 40 million smartphones this year, which is a significant increase from 11 million units shipped last year. Judging by their extensive line-up unveiled…
Last month at Mobile World Congress we saw ZTE announce a bevy of smartphones, one of them being the Mimosa X. It’s an important handset because it’s the first to use NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 combined with an Icrea cellular modem. What does that mean? Qualcomm powers 4 out of every 10 mobile devices that aren’t…
ZTE is launching its first ZTE Android smartphone – ZTE Score M. The entry-level device won’t impress the geeks in us, but it’s a neat choice for folks buying their first smartphone. Specs wise, it comes with a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen, 600MHz processor, 3.2-megapixel camera on the back, EV-DO Rev. A and Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth…
Virgin Mobile announced its latest Android device called the ZTE Venture at $100. The Venture is a QWERTY handset with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and it’ll take advantage of the carriers budget-friendly plans that start at $35 — no contract. The Venture will be available starting on March 15. Customers who buy the ZTE Venture will…
Sprint today announced a new entry-level smartphone called the ZTE Fury. The Fury will be available March 11 for just $20 on contract, and it is billed as The Now Network’s family-friendly Android device. New subscribers can expect the addition of some optional features such as Sprint’s Family Locator, mobile usage controls (which locks down text messages)…
Not sure why every handset maker thinks it needs a custom Android UI, but hey – that’s the just the world works these days. Sure there were times when pure Android experience wasn’t good enough, but Ice cream Sandwich pretty much rocks even in its basic form. ZTE is joining this (crazy?) trend with its…
Microsoft’s confirmed that they’re taking Windows Phone downmarket with Tango, and this week we saw the first handset to be announced running said OS: Nokia’s Lumia 610. But there’s another device running Tango that didn’t get a lot of attention, the ZTE Orbit. Now before you get confused about Tango, we should say that there…
ZTE took a bold step at Mobile World Congress by introducing a handful of Android and Windows Phone handsets. We got some hands-on time with the Era, ZTE’s flagship Android phone. The Era has specs that rival the HTC One X and breaks ZTE away from its reputation as a low-end manufacturer. The Era is a…
Microsoft has taken to its blog to detail the upcoming Tango update, which is largely believed to be a minor update to the Windows 7.5 Mango platform currently available on Windows Phone devices. Tango is the platform that will be preloaded on Nokia’s recently announced entry-level Lumia 610 and ZTE Orbit devices, which are due…
Mobile World Congress has officially kicked off and ZTE didn’t waste any time announcing an obscene amount of devices today. From Android phones, high-end to low-end, along with a new custom user interface, a few tablets, as well as a new Windows Phone, ZTE isn’t playing around in 2012. ZTE Era By far one of…