Thanks to the good ol’ FCC, we know a new phone is heading to MetroPCS. It’s the ZTE E520 which won’t impress many with its feature set. We’re talking about a low-end candybar that’s good enough for texting in calling. It comes with a tri-band CDMA radio, and we guess Bluetooth connectivity, some media playback…
ZTE looks forward to the future growth
At a recently held media briefing in London, ZTE set ambitious goals for the future. The Chinese company aims to become a top three handset vendor by global shipments by 2015, which is up from number six today. Moreover, they said the plan is to be ranked “among the top three in wireless competitiveness, among…
Public Mobile Announced – Yet Another Carrier in Canada
Public Mobile is opening up ten stores in Toronto and 15 in Montreal today, marking the entry of yet another wireless service provider in Canada. Public Mobile’s main selling point is a $40 plan (prepaid, no contract) that offers unlimited talk and texting within the city and “free unlimited Canadian long distance for life” if you…
ZTE to ship its phones with Nuance VSuite and Nuance Vocalizer
Nuance is teaming up with ZTE in a deal that would see the Chinese company shipping handsets with Nuance VSuite and Nuance Vocalizer, enabling “robust speech capabilities” as a result. The mentioned technologies can be used for both command and control, and text-to-speech; and ZTE plans to integrate them across markets and platforms, including Android…
Four ZTE Android smartphones incoming
ZTE wants to go beyond its low-cost handset maker image and enter the higher-margin smartphone market. The Chinese company is working round the clock on brand new Android-powered smartphones (not one, but multiple devices) as we speak. In that sense, today we present you 4 ZTE phones that could find its way to the market…
Leaked: Verizon End of Life List Features BlackBerry Pearl Flip, Storm 9530 and Many More
I’d been hearing rumblings over the past week or so that Verizon could indeed end the storm 9530’s run of touchscreen goodness in the near future. While some were surprised to hear that… I wasn’t. Don’t even get me started on the Storm (or the Storm2 for that matter!), I could go on for days!…
ZTE Bingo is an all-touchscreen Brew phone
After HTC, China’s ZTE is jumping on Qualcomm’s Brew bandwagon with its own all-touchscreen phone. It’s called Bingo and it looks kinda nice-ish, with features including a 3.2-inch touchscreen, 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity, 5-megapixel camera along with a front-facing VGA camera and GPS. In addition, ZTE says the Bingo runs “a new dynamic UI that supports…
ZTE to make Movistar-branded handsets for Telefonica’s Latin American markets
ZTE will deliver a range of Movistar-branded phones to Telefonica for 12 Latin American markets during this year, starting in the second quarter. More precisely, the Movistar-branded handsets will be available in Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama and Nicaragua. Both companies have been involved in the design of…
ZTE and OKWAP unveil two solar-power phones and a charger
This one’s for emerging markets and super eco-minded folks, who are willing to exchange features for the green label. China’s ZTE and OKWAP unveiled a trio of solar-powered devices at the Mobile World Congress and they intend to sell them all around developing countries of the world. ZTE showed the S316, a super-simple candybar with…
ZTE F350 heading to Verizon Wireless
ZTE will finally get a spot in the major U.S. carrier’s portfolio, as Verizon is preparing to launch the Chinese company’s first handset – ZTE F350. We don’t have all the details about the device, but it seems like a basic phone with features that include Bluetooth, voice commands and a camera. No word on…