Project PDA

The Chinese network equipment manufacturer ZTE is planning to join the league of smartphone manufacturers. At the Mobile World Congress 2009 will be an entire portfolio, it imagined. It will feature ten different designs, including special versions for Vodafone and China Mobile. The highlight of the ZTE-presentation in Barcelona, the specific model developed for Vodafone VF 1231's. The smartphone for beginners based on the Windows Mobile platform and has only one chip for GSM and EDGE.

From the device, there are no good pictures, but the mobile GSM arena could blog some time ago a photo from the website of the American Copy FCC approval authority. It blesses new phones for use in the USA. The image has been removed from the FCC Web site away. ZTE will be in Barcelona new devices perform all price ranges. The series Xiang stands for super-thin smartphone with HSDPA and HSUPA, and the e760 is a GSM model for China Mobile. The models D820 and D810 were designed for the CDMA network of China Telecom develops. ZTE displays at the Mobile World Congress once again U981 smartphone, which China Mobile at the Olympic Games in Beijing had.

The smartphone portfolio ZTE "is based on the latest operating system for next-generation smartphone, and established systems, like Linux and Windows Mobile." This is what the press release says. This separation of the latest operating systems from Linux and Windows Mobile aroused suspicions. Perhaps ZTE also brings a mobile phone with Android? Unlike the other major Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer, Huawei, ZTE is not yet a member of the Open Handset Alliance, the Google operating system. The firm Huawei has already announced that they are in Barcelona its first Android smartphone imagine.