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ZTE has announced that its Tania Windows Phone handset is headed on a journey to Europe. The handset packs in a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 display, 5 MP camera, and a fairly slim 10.5 mm form factor. Behind the scenes is 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, and a single-core 1GHz processor. It runs…
Last month we were sad to report that Nokia had decided to cut 3,500 jobs and close their factory in Romania because the company felt it was simply more economical to invest in Asian plants. According to a report from the Romanian publication Business Review, ZTE is extremely interested in taking possession of Nokia’s factory…
Cricket Wireless is adding a new QWERTY phone to its line-up of affordable messaging phones. The new ZTE Memo is a candybar shaped feature phone with a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, 3G data, 2-megapixel camera that can take both photos and videos, Bluetooth 2.1, media player, GPS, web browser and a memory card slot. Of course,…
Boost Mobile, better known as Sprint’s brand for prepaid customers, has introduced a new Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone from ZTE called the Warp. For $250, and you have to remember this is off contract, you’ll get a handset with a 4.3 inch screen, likely with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, a 1 GHz…
British retailer Clove has started selling two low-end, QWERTY keyboard-equipped Android smartphones, Motorola Fire and ZTE Tureis. We’re everything but surprised, but have still decided to let you know there are new options for folks looking to switch from BlackBerry to Android. Actually, neither of the two is a great option (after all we’re talking…
Here’s a good deal for our readers from the UK who want an affordable Android device and don’t want to sign 12-24 month contracts; Orange is offering the ZTE Skate (aka Orange Monte Carlo) for 119 GBP (about $183) on PAYG. Along with the phone, you’ll also have to get a 10 GBP top up…
The company ZTE who’s better known for its feature phones, has just gotten FCC approval for its latest tablet, called the V55. According to the picture the FCC posted, the new slate is headed for Sprint. Features for the V55 includes: 10.1-inch display with a WVGA 1280×800 resolution 1 GHz QUAD-Core processor (chip is unknown) Android Honeycomb (it’s unclear which…
While you’re reading this, P&T/EXPO COMM trade show is still taking place in Beijing, China. ZTE used the event to announce two new Android-powered tablets, while the third-one has been caught at the show floor, though still waits to get the official press release. The two officially announced devices, marked as V66 and V68, come…
At the 2011 China International Communications Exhibition ZTE showed off their first Windows Phone, dubbed “Tania”. We don’t know whether or not that’s a codename or the actual name of the product, but that’s not important. What you should be paying attention to is that ZTE has now become a Windows Phone maker. The Chinese…
Cricket, a wireless service provider, has just announced the launch of the ZTE Score. The smartphone is the first ZTE smartphone to hit Cricket’s network and its the seventh smartphone to be included in Cricket’s prepaid line of phone offerings. This phone is set to hit Cricket retail locations starting September 25. The ZTE Score is another…