The big Chinese manufacturer ZTE is phones and tablets under its own name to release; up until now was the name of providers on the hardware. ZTE is going to this competitor HTC after that four years ago the same was going to do.
The first device that ZTE under its own brand will be releasing the Skate, cheap smartphone with 4.3″screen and Android 2.3. That tells you What Mobile. ZTE is a Chinese manufacturer of phones, smartphones and tablets. The manufacturer is not small; the company sold in the first quarter of 2011 about as many smartphones as Apple and half times as much as HTC.
The release of mobile phones under its own name is a result of a deal with distributor Brightpoint, and applies for the United Kingdom. It is unclear whether ZTE in the Netherlands in the aircraft under its own name, will release. That ambition is still there, as was ZTE already know Tweakers.net.
ZTE is known for budget Android smartphones. The best known is the Blade, that operator Orange as ‘San Francisco’ in several countries was sold. The unit was never in the Netherlands, but he was about 120 euro-dollar smartphone popular. There was a lively topic on GoT. The Blade was at the end of 2010 nominated for a Golden Wrench, but only got 0.3 percent of the votes.
The Skate should be sometime in the next few months under his own name released. The device is already in February announced. When published Tweakers.net also a hands-on with the cheap smartphone. The step of odm, a manufacturer of devices for providers, to ‘ordinary’ manufacturer is often made. Huawei did that earlier, like HTC. HTC brings since 2007 phones under its own name. The first was the Touch. Had HTC already several years the brand name Qtek.
ZTE is mostly known for Android smartphones, but also tablets and Windows Phone devices. Microsoft showed this week, a ZTE device with Windows Phone Mango.
