ZTE Android Phone For America In 2010?
Everyone wants in on the Android Phone action and the latest player is now ZTE, at least according to rumors from Total Telecom. The Chinese manufacturer is thought to be pitching AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon in the United States as well as Vodafone and France Telecom’s Orange abroad, among other possible suitors. Next year we’ll likely see these rumors come to fruition.
Although the Android aspect of ZTE’s smartphone aspirations are a secret (not anymore), the company hasn’t been hiding their overall goal to push mobile devices as a new growth area for the company. At an event in China, the company’s Managing Director of Handset Business had this to say:
“We hope to sell our smartphone to these operators next year,” Dale Ying, ZTE’s managing director of handset business marketing, told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview on the sidelines of the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong.
“We see big potential in the smartphone market. We are targeting to ship more smartphones in the coming few years which will help to improve our gross margin.”
The Android rumors aren’t surprising – pretty much every company looking to bolster their smartphone share is looking into Android if not already developing and manufacturing for the platform. The more the merrier as far as I’m concerned!