ZTE Corp. plans to launch a new smartphone based on Google Inc.\u2019s mobile operating system sometime early in 2010. But as this segment of the mobile phone industry keeps growing and growing, who will fix these contraptions when they break?<\/p>\n
Hong Kong\u2019s ZTE is getting into the act. Everybody\u2019s making smartphones these days. The new ZTE phone, as of yet remaining nameless, might as well be called the Bingo. ZTE is hoping that whatever the thing is called, it might add an incredible 50 million handsets to its overall shipping inventory of 60 million handsets and mobile broadband data cards if its newest Google-based unit saturates the mobile phone segment with worldwide distribution. Distributors are already lining up, with the Bingo\u2019s potential suitors including such industry heavyweights as Vodaphone Group PLC, Verizon Wireless, France Telecom SA\u2019s Orange, and T-Mobile vowing to supply ZTE\u2019s smartphones to every corner of the known Earth, including (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ZTE Corp. plans to launch a new smartphone based on Google Inc.\u2019s mobile operating system sometime early in 2010. But as this segment of the mobile phone industry keeps growing and growing, who will fix these contraptions when they break?…<\/span><\/p>\n