The ZTE Optik, Sprint’s affordable Android tablet, has received an upgrade to firmware B09. It’s nothing too significant, but they’ve updated Google+, Google Music, the latest DRM solution for content from the Play Store, Sim City fixes, and more. Read the full changelog following the source link, and be sure to visit that source link [...]

The readers have spoken. The results of a poll we posted yesterday say that the majority of folks out there are perfectly content with Android and won’t be purchasing the Nokia Lumia 900 or another Windows Phone any time soon. For those looking for a bit of both worlds we present the WP7 ROM. The [...]

While most Android diehards would scoff at a device like the ZTE Fury, the Sprint handset offers proof that a quality Android experience can be delivered alongside affordable pricing. Launching for only $20 on contract, the Fury could be mistaken for something (slightly) pricier. A surprisingly good 5MP camera, snappy Qualcomm CPU, and Sprint ID [...]

ZTE has had another new handset approved at the FCC, meaning we should see its arrival to North America sometime soon. It’s the ZTE N910 and has LTE radios in tow. Specifically, it appears to be enabled to run on MetroPCS’s LTE network. Alongside 4G and CDMA/EV-DO radios, it will have a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, [...]

ZTE is not necessarily your Android manufacturer of choice, but they offer affordable devices. Those not willing to pocket out many Benjamins for a smartphone now have another option – the ZTE Score M from MetroPCS. It is the same low-end ZTE Score that Cricket released last year. The device comes with 600 MHz processor, [...]

Virgin Mobile customers in the United States will soon have another Android-based QWERTY device to choose from. This one is a portrait exposed QWERTY, not unlike Blackberry devices. It’s a 2.8 inch device with a 600MHz processor, a 2 megapixel camera and a microSD card slot which comes with a 2GB card pre-installed. March 15th [...]

The ZTE Fury was rumored to be headed for Sprint on March 11th last night, and Sprint didn’t wait too long to confirm that news. They’ve issued a press release letting us all know that it’d be sitting on store shelves March 11th. It’ll cost you $20 for the privilege of owning one. It’s an [...]

ZTE was out in full force here at Mobile World Congress to show off a couple of new devices they’ve just announced. The ZTE Era and the ZTE PF112 are the phones which we were blessed with. The former is the real star of the show despite us not being able to use its software [...]

Something you may not know about me; I love mimosas. They’re refreshing, you can get a little buzz off ‘em, heck- they’re even borderline good for you. Well, mimosas are about to sound a whole lot more fun now that Nvidia and ZTE are teaming up to introduce the world’s first phone powered by nothing [...]

ZTE just beat most manufacturers to the punch by announcing a duo of Ice Cream Sandwich-touting smartphones a full week before Mobile World Congress kicks off. The ZTE PF200 and ZTE N910 will feature 1.2GHz and 1.5GHz processors respectively and both feature LTE support. The PF200 gets a qHD display measuring 4.3-inches as well as [...]

  With the advent of Android 3.2 and 4.0, we’d expect tablet manufacturers to want to use them for tablets. It’s 2012 – there’s absolutely no reason to be using Gingerbread anymore. No one seems to have gotten the memo at ZTE, though, as they’re set to launch the ZTE Light Tab 2 with a [...]

ZTE continues to blaze its own path when it comes to affordable Android tablets, announcing the £235 Light Tab II. The new slate sports a 7-inch display, 1.4GHz single-core CPU, and 4GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD). Also on board are rear and front-facing cameras, WiFi connectivity, and a dash of 3G support. The ZTE [...]

Sprint has made their $99 ZTE Optik tablet official, announcing that the device will go on sale on February 5th. The details match those that were leaked last week with the 7-inch slate featuring Android 3.2 Honeycomb, a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of onboard storage. The Optik is immediately appealing [...]

It was a few months ago we told you guys about the mysterious ZTE V66 tablet that passed through the FCC, on its way to Verizon. Now, that same tablet has popped again, this time, on a trip to the Bluetooth SIG. We now have a little more info on the device but don’t get [...]

If you’re living here in the states and have never heard of Android OEM, ZTE — I wouldn’t hold it against you. Despite being the #4 handset maker in the world, ZTE has largely been absent in the US market but it looks like could soon change. In an interview with Reuters, ZTE’s head of [...]

At NVIDIA’s Press Conference yesterday, they announced two tablets running Android 4.0 with Quad-Core Tegra 3 Processors. We hit up the NVIDIA booth at CES hoping to get the full run down of specs and details, but quickly realized that we knew as much as anyone: for the most part, both devices were pre-production units [...]

Digitimes is reporting that Chinese OEM’s could be quietly banding together to fight off the ever looming threat of patent lawsuits from Android arch nemeses like Apple, Microsoft and Nokia. The Chinese coalition would be formed by ZTE, Lenovo, TCL, Coolpad and Konka who, it’s assumed, would pool their patent resources and share information on how [...]

Sprint will have the V55 and now it looks like ZTE will be bringing another version of their tablet to Big Red. The V66 has just made it past an FCC filing not revealing too much except for that all too familiar Verizon 4G LTE tramp stamp on its lower back. The ZTE V66 could [...]

Though ZTE has only recently entered the US smartphone market, the company has a much longer history producing budget-level devices for other areas of the world. But now that a claim has been staked in American soil, ZTE America President Lixin Cheng has sights set on bigger and better things. With sales of ZTE devices [...]

Cricket is continuing their lineup of Muve Music-enable Android smartphones with the ZTE Chorus. Most notable for it;s low cost of $40 after rebates and inexpensive month-to-month service options, the Chorus won’t turn any heads with what it packs within its plastic shell. A meager 600MHz CPU, 3.2-inch resistive touch display, and 2MP camera all [...]