As radical as the iPhone X may look when compared to Apple’s other recent smartphone releases, it’s still a fairly standard-looking handset. Save for its edge-to-edge display and the camera housing notch, the iPhone X isn’t really breaking any new ground. In fact, neither is Samsung, or really any other smartphone vendor for that matter. …
Chinese cellphone maker ZTE, the fourth-largest seller of cellphones in the US, has reached a blockbuster settlement with US authorities over its selling of technology to Iran. Sales of US-made technology to Iran were prohibited under sanctions. Since ZTE violated those sanctions, it has been hit with an $892 million fine. Another $300 million fine …
LG and Huawei both have exciting new flagship smartphones in store for us at this year’s Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain. In fact, the fresh new LG G6 might be the star of MWC 2017 this year, as you saw in our hands-on LG G6 preview. Nokia has a handful of buzzy …
In a move that everyone saw coming a mile away, ZTE has had to admit that its “Hawkeye” sticky-backed, eye-tracking, crowdsourced smartphone is already a colossal failure. Having raised just $35,000 of its $500,000 Kickstarter goal with time waning, Jeff Yee, ZTE’s VP of planning and partnerships posted a lengthy blog post on the company’s …
What do smartphone buyers actually want out of their devices? Chinese electronics manufacturer ZTE wanted to find out, so they created Project CSX, which apparently stands for “Crowd Source X” — I guess the “X” will forever remain a mystery — and set out to design a device based entirely on votes from the general public. The …
Pricey flagship smartphones always seem to command all the media’s attention, but something huge happened in 2016 that most tech sites aren’t talking about. While prices for premium phones reached an all-time high, a major shift was happening at entry-level and mid-tier price points. Here’s the secret the big-name smartphone makers don’t want you to …
Unless you’re a hardcore tech lover and you follow all the Android fan blogs, odds are good that you’ve never heard of the Axon 7 and had no idea it was in the works. Actually, odds are good that you had never heard of the original ZTE Axon either, even though it has been available …
ZTE’s first Axon smartphone was everything we’ve come to expect from China’s no-brand smartphone manufacturers: cheap, powerful, and basically boring. If these leaked specs are true (and the price stays close to $250), this could cause more problems for the status quo. The specs come courtesy of Chinese telecom regulator TENAA, as spotted by VentureBeat. They’re exactly …
It’s nearly the end of the day here on the East Coast, but CES 2016 is still going strong in Las Vegas. We’ve covered some interesting new hardware from several companies already, but now it’s ZTE’s turn to take center stage.
We’re giving away a brand new AXON smartphone, and you’re going to want to check this out! 4K video, Hi-Fi audio, 4GB of RAM, a dual-lens camera, twin microphones, a gorgeous display, crazy battery life, and a sleek and sexy design make this an Android-lover’s dream phone. Here are some of my favorite features of the …
