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ZTE is getting serious about the tablet market. After the Light and Light Pro models, they’re about to launch another device – Light Plus. Again, we’re talking about a 7-inch screen (WVGA) tablet with specs that include 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, 1GHz Qualcomm QSD8255 processor, 3.2-megapixel camera, 512MB of RAM coupled with 1GB of ROM,…
Telefónica thinks there’s money to be made in the Spanish tablet market. Hence they’ve teamed-up with ZTE to launch the low-cost ZTE Light Pro, offering it for free to anyone who agrees to commit on a two-year contract. The device runs Android 2.2 Froyo, while boasting specs that include 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS, 3-megapixel…
A smattering of smartphones bound for AT&T have leaked by way of a roadmap schedule recently. Among them are the BlackBerry Torch 2 9810, the HTC ChaCha (code-named lele), both launching in the second quarter, and a few new ones called the ZTE Alicanto Z990 and Samsung Habrok i857, which is due in the third…
Chinese infrastructure vendor and mobile handset maker ZTE has told Reuters that by the end of this year they plan on bringing several LTE devices to the American market. ZTE’s U.S. CEO Cheng Lixin specifically said devices and not smartphones, so we’re thinking that could mean something either really boring, like a couple of USB…
T-Mobile has just announced that their ultra fast 42 Mbps HSPA+ network now covers 55 markets. The new ones that have just been turned on are: Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; Detroit, Michigan; Dallas and Houston, Texas; Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; Miami, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Phoenix, Arizona; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon;…
Gartner has posted their report for the first quarter of 2011, which shows predictably solid growth in smartphones, and re-establishes many trends we’ve been seeing all along. Nokia’s hardware market share has dipped to 25%, Samsung is down to 16%, and LG to 5.6%. That leaves Apple with 3.9% market share (up from 2.3% last…
Few days ago we talked about the legal spat between ZTE and Huawei. The first of the two thinks it has more to say on the subject and is now filing motions in multiple countries to invalidate various Huawei patents and the Huawei trademark. According to a Wall Street Journal report, which cites ZTE’s press…
We don’t get to read about Chinese companies embroiling in patent battles every day, and that’s why the story involving Huawei and ZTE caught our attention. First up, Huawei took legal action against ZTE in Germany, France and Hungary for patent and trademark infringement. According to Huawei, ZTE infringed a series of Huawei’s patents relating…
The bean counting analysts at IDC have just released their tally up of first quarter mobile phone sales, and they’re impressive, but not if you’re in the list of top 5 handset makers. Just how many phones were sold during the first 3 months of this year? About 371.8 million or roughly 2,870 phones per…
ZTE has ambitious plans, to say the least. After reporting their mobile phone sales increased 51%, the Chinese company said it aims to emerge as one of the top 5 Android smartphone makers by the end of this year. At the same time, tablets are also of concern for ZTE with the goal to hit…