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ZTE may soon unveil a mini version of the Nubia Z5, which is one of the company’s flagship devices offered in China. The Nubia Z5 is already selling in China and Nubia Z5 Mini will follow shortly, or so we think. Such a device has been recently leaked and brought to you/us by GSMinsider. We’re…
The first two smartphones to tout Mozilla’s Firefox OS have been released today, and are available in Spain through mobile carrier Telefonica. The two devices, the ZTE Open and the Alacatel One Touch Fire are lower-end devices which sport touchscreens and are focused on providing functional specs at a low price point for emerging markets.…
U.S. Cellular has added the ZTE Imperial to it’s LTE capable device offerings today, offering the low-end Android device for $0.01 with a new 2-year contract. The ZTE Imperial runs on Android Jelly Bean and sports a 4-inch WVGA display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, a 2500mAh battery, 4GB of internal storage and…
Shortly after adding LTE and HSPA+ support to its GoPhone prepaid brand, AT&T has rolled out LTE support for its newest prepaid brand, Aio Wireless. Aio will be sending a OTA update to the SIMs of its customers that will enable customers with devices that support LTE to access the service. “We’re delighted to share the…
Firefox OS-based ZTE Open has been caught at the FCC with all the right frequencies to sing along AT&T’s 3G network. In addition, this unit also packs a 1GHz single-core processor, 3.5-inch HVGA screen, 3.2-megapixel camera on the back, 256MB of RAM, microSD card slot, Wi-Fi and a 1,200mAh battery. Now we doubt AT&T will…
Sprint will be launching the ZTE Vital on June 14th, a mid-range smartphone that will cost an affordable $100 with a new two-year contract. The ZTE Vital touts a 5-inch 720p IPS screen and runs on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. The ZTE Vital is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and comes with 8GB…
Sprint will soon launch another own-brand smartphone – Sprint Vital. The ZTE-made device promises to offer quite a bang for the buck, sporting a 5-inch HD screen (most likely 720p), 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 13-megapixel camera on the back. In addition, this fella’ will also come with an 8GB of built-in storage, microSD card slot,…
ZTE’s flagship smartphone Grand S may still not be available across the globe, but that doesn’t mean the Chinese company is standing still. In fact, it is working to fix one of the phone’s biggest flaws – battery life. You see, that 6.9mm thin body comes with a caveat, housing a rather small 1,780mAh battery.…
The fledgling Firefox OS may soon be powering a tablet, according to a report from Focus Taiwan. According to the report, Firefox and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will be unveiling a new mobile device on June 3rd at a press event. Both Hon Hai and Mozilla have not commented on the report, but Focus…
ZTE unveiled the second generation of the Intel CPU-powered Grand X In smartphone. The new device, simply called ZTE Grand X2, comes with Intel’s 2GHz dual-core Atom Processor Z2580 with hyper-threading capability. In addition, there’s also an 8-megapixel camera on board with “one of the shortest shot-to-shot times on the market,” real-time 2x axis stabilization,…