China's
ZTE is still sticking to the low end in North America, but in its home country, the manufacturer is a huge player. Evidence of that lies strewn about ZTE's booth at Wireless Japan this week, where it's showing a pair of WinMo devices plus a Linux-based model that look ripe to compete with some of the best in the world. First up, the RAISE and XIANG do WinMo and HSPA for China Unicom's
Wo network, rocking 5 and 3.2 megapixel cameras, respectively. The D820 reps the open-source world (though we're not sure what kind of Linux distro is running on it -- it's not Android, if we had to guess) and runs CDMA with WiFi, GPS, and a 2 megapixel camera. We're not sure if ZTE is using phones like these as warmups for more global launches, but given what we're seeing here -- and the low price points they're likely looking to hit -- we're all for it.
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posted Jul 23rd 2009 11:14AM
Hi Guys.
This device is already in Europe (Portugal) under TMN network (i guess is the same device) , it's called BLUEBELT and runs WM 6.1 with no customization at all.
Link (http://www.tmn.pt/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=53f96cc5943f0210VgnVCM1000005401650aRCRD)
It's 179€, a very cheap device for a PDA/"Smart"phone, but the querty keyboard is horrible compared with a blackberry or a Nokia E71.
It's WM6.1 so it's the same as all WinMob devices with no several tweaks.
For my standards it's a pretty bad phone :(