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ZTE and HTC may be planning Galaxy Note competitors
ZTE and HTC are both reportedly planning large smartphones that double as small tablets, with at least one of the two expected to include a stylus with the device. The idea is to compete against...
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A global mobile handset forecast: 2011-2015
Eighty-five percent of the global population owns mobile phones currently. This report forecasts the global handset market, examining the following regions: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East and...
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Will security issues hamper ZTE’s phone efforts in the U.S.?
A security hole was found in the ZTE Score, a handset model sold on both by Metro PCS and Cricket in the U.S. On Friday, ZTE confirmed the issue exists, says Reuters, and is working to close what some...
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Takeaways from mobile’s second quarter
Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.Who and what to watch in the new era of the living room2012: Data, spectrum and the race to LTECES 2012: a...
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Why nobody really wants to get to the bottom of China, ZTE and Huawei
Update: The report has been published, and is located here. Chinese telecom gear makers Huwaei and ZTE are about to get blacklisted by the U.S. Congress in a report to be published Monday. Reuters...
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The Samsung juggernaut widens its lead over Apple
If there were any doubts about Samsung maintaining its world’s-top-phone-manufacturer status for the short to medium-term future, they should be dispelled as of now. The Korean company’s results for...
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You’ll never guess who was the big smartphone winner last quarter
Research firm IDC published its quarterly smartphone sales and market share data on Friday but without clicking the link to read the results, can you guess which company grew its worldwide sales the...
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ZTE to use Nvidia’s latest Tegra 4 chip in next-gen phones
Fresh off the launch of its Tegra 4i chips that integrate a modem and the tegra applciaiton processor, Nvidia is announcing a customer win for its standalone Tegra 4 applciaiton processor. ZTE, the...
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With a new Atom chip, Intel’s smartphone BFF is ZTE
After years of trying to crack the mobile market there are still relatively few smartphones with the “Intel Inside” branding. Last year was a bit of a breakthrough, however, as Intel silicon powered...
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ZTE, Intel’s BFF, puts a new Atom chip in the Geek smartphone
Last month Chinese handset maker ZTE announced a “strategic collaboration” with Intel, and this month the early fruits of that labor are here. At an Intel developer event in Beijing on Wednesday the...
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Where new opportunity lies in the mobile operating system space
Roughly half a dozen new mobile operating systems will come to market over the next 6 to 12 months. Many of these look to be more sophisticated than the older ones controlled by Apple and Google. This...
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Firefox OS hits retail – now let’s see how far openness can take it
The first Firefox OS smartphone – unless you count Geeksphone’s developer-oriented efforts — will go on sale on Tuesday in Spain. The device is ZTE’s Open, and the carrier will be Telefónica’s...
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Samsung overtakes Apple in phone profits but others grow sales even more
Samsung topped Apple last quarter in terms of smartphone profits, but both companies didn’t see sales growth realized by most other handset makers: LG, Lenovo, ZTE and others picked up more market...
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Firefox OS for the world! ZTE to sell $80 Open smartphone through eBay
Have you been jonesing for a chance to play with Mozilla’s Firefox OS smartphone operating system, but you don’t live in one of the countries where it’s been launched over the last month or so? Well...
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Firefox OS gets major feature boost as second rollout wave looms
Mozilla has updated its Firefox OS smartphone operating system to enable features such as push notifications and MMS, while also sprucing up the new platform in other ways. In a blog post on Wednesday,...
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Tellabs to be acquired by Marlin Equity Partners for $891 million in cash
Tellabs was once a high-flying telecom and optical networking equipment maker, cashing in on the networking boom of the late 1990s. As the boom turned to bust, so did the company’s fortunes. Monday,...
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ZTE plans a smart watch that only works with its own phones. That’s not smart.
As it chases rival Chinese handset makers Huawei and Lenovo for a spot in the top five, ZTE is planning its own smart watch. The watch is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2014 in China with...
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ZTE thinks you’ll want to build a smartphone from modular blocks
Among the many new products at CES, there are also concept ideas and designs. One, from ZTE, would allow consumers to build their own smartphone of sorts: Modules with different functions that fit...
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A $100 smartphone running Firefox OS pops up on Ebay
The first Firefox OS smartphone to be sold in the United States was the ZTE Open. On Thursday, its successor, the ZTE Open C, started selling on Ebay. It costs $20 more than the ZTE Open, but gets a...
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Mobile hotspot + pico projector = Sprint’s new LivePro
What happens when you take a pico projector — which have previously been packed into all sorts of devices, including phones — and put it into a wireless hotspot instead? You’d get Sprint’s LivePro,...
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