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CTIA 2012 round-up: Devices

Chris Burns, May 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

The first of two round-up posts we’ve got here for the US-based mobile show of the year CTIA is one of devices exclusively, everything you need to know about what was well worth seeing down in New Orleans here in 2012. This year we had a look not only at the devices and accessories that the show had to offer, but hit the attack on social networks as well, with several galleries for your perusal and snapshots throughout our journey so you could take on the trip with us. As for devices, there really wasn’t a whole lot of new action coming on from this week specifically, but what was new was fabulous, and what was once only overseas was brought on with a fury.

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CTIA Live

ZTE V96 Android 4.0 ICS tablet hands-on

Cory Gunther, May 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

ZTE's latest tablet that was announced during MWC 2012 in Barcelona Spain earlier this year is making the rounds here at CTIA. It wasn't available back at MWC but roaming the showroom floor here in New Orleans we managed to get a few minutes with the new dual-core Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet. Read The Full Story

ZTE twin phablet plans confirmed

Chris Davies, Apr 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

ZTE is set to leap upon the phablet bandwagon, joining Samsung's Galaxy Note and LG's Optimus Vu with two phone/tablet crossover models sometime in 2012. The Chinese firm aims to sell 50m smartphones this year alone and double its tablet sales, Reuters reports, pushing up average selling price (ASP) in the process. Read The Full Story

Novatel patent infringement lawsuit against ZTE and FWC still stands [UPDATED]

Chris Burns, Apr 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at Novatel Wireless have been allowed to continue a lawsuit against competitors ZTE Corp, ZTE USA, and Franklin Wireless Corp for patent infringement on key architecture and functionality of mobile hotspots. This case has been going on for several months and started more than a year ago, and today's ruling has both of the defendants' requests to dismiss the case shot down by the Judge presiding over the case. This ends up being a sort of preliminary plus for Novatel who could very well have lost quite a bit of money in legal fees if the case had been found void at this point. Read The Full Story

ZTE achieve speeds of 1.7Tbit/s over fiber-optics

Ben Kersey, Mar 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

While most people are lucky enough to receive high-speed internet via cable, fiber, or LTE, the carriers need serious backhaul in order to provide that to customers on a consistent basis. As we all demand faster speeds and suck down more bandwidth, they need to look ahead and see how they can add greater capacity. ZTE may just have what they’re looking for. Read The Full Story

China to squash US for smartphone demand says IDC

Chris Davies, Mar 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

China is expected to take the smartphone top spot in market share this year, edging ahead of the US before extending its lead significantly over the next four years, according to researchers. Developing markets will significantly shake up the smart device status-quo this decade, IDC's figures indicate, with device-obsessed nations the US and UK sliding in the rankings as China, India and Brazil grow in importance. However, their rise will also demand a new breed of handsets, it's suggested. Read The Full Story

ZTE Fury available March 11th for $19.99

Ben Kersey, Mar 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

ZTE have announced a new budget Android smartphone offering for the United States, the ZTE Fury. The device will cost just $19.99 and be available March 11th. The device is targeting at families and children due to its mobile usage controls, as well as a family locator. The specs aren't bad either. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone Tango experience diluted Microsoft admits

Chris Davies, Mar 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Microsoft's push for low-cost Windows Phones will require some compromises by developers and users, it's been confirmed, with features like automatic image upload and Bing Local Scout getting the chop. Devices running Windows Phone Tango with just 256MB of RAM will lack support for podcast subscriptions and video podcasts, according to the Windows Team, while fast app switching will also be left off the budget-minded handsets. Read The Full Story

MWC Live

Mobile World Congress 2012 Wrap-up

Chris Burns, Mar 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

At what must be one of the most beautiful venues on earth to have a conference such as this, we’ve got Mobile World Congress 2012, a yearly event which takes the whole world’s mobile device market and gathers it up into one big week-long masterpiece. Of course it’s not as perfectly simple as that, and if you’ve never been to the event or have never tried to follow along with the news that spills forth from it before, you may very well have a hard time fitting all the pieces together. That’s why we’ve got this easy to read, easy to decipher guide for you to work your way through all of the devices and services announced, displayed, and teased during the events – have a look!

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Firms focus on smartphone-naive at Mobile World Congress

Chris Davies, Feb 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Mobile World Congress – like many trade shows – is usually punctuated by high-end devices competing for deep Western pockets, but it’s devices and services for developing markets that have distinguished the big announcements in 2012. We’ve seen our fair share of uberphones, certainly. HTC had a trio of relatively high-end handsets, topping out with the quadcore HTC One X, and Panasonic’s ELUGA range is definitely targeting more affluent, style-influenced consumers. Yet for every one HTC One Series device sold, several more handsets phones to perhaps first-time smartphone buyers are likely to pass through the cash register, and it’s this market that manufacturers have targeted at MWC 2012.

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MWC Live

ZTE Orbit Hands-on

Chris Burns, Feb 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

One of the first devices to be revealed with Windows Phone Tango on it right out of the box is the ZTE Orbit, a device revealed this week in ZTE's torrent of smartphone releases. This device is set for a second quarter release and is just about as basic and low-end specification having device you can find, it being part of Microsoft's initiative to bring more Windows Phone to the whole world, including areas where an inexpensive smartphone is the only sort of smartphone that's a reality for the general population. With ZTE at the helm of one of the first devices in this Tango line, will Microsoft have a winning combination on their hands? Read The Full Story

MWC Live

ZTE Era Hands-on

Chris Burns, Feb 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Along with the rest of their 2012 rebirth announced earlier today via a torrent of Android smartphones, the ZTE Era stood out as a powerhouse to be reckoned with. We've gotten the chance to take a hands-on look at an early build of this device now, it and its giant AP30+1450 quad-core processor, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0, and 4.3-inch TFT display at qHD 960 x 540 pixel resolution. This device is certainly ZTE's greatest effort yet. Read The Full Story