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ZTE's Android Racer arrives on 3 network
THE ANDROID RACER smartphone from Chinese manufacturer ZTE is now available on the 3 network.
The budget handset runs Android 2.1 Éclair and packs a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen with 240 x 320 resolution and a 3.2-megapixel camera into its 100g frame.
It retails at £109.99 with 3 or the handset can be obtained through a 24-month contract at £28 per month. This will provide 2,000 anytime anywhere minutes, 5,000 texts, 1GB Internet, 5,000 3-to-3 minutes and six months of free Spotify Premium.
The Racer comes with 256MB of internal memory and a 2GB micro-SD card and it can support cards up to 8GB in size. Other features include an FM radio, accelerometer, GPS and Bluetooth. Spotify Premium is integrated and the device is optimised for social networking with Facebook, Skype and Windows Live Messenger all included.
"The Racer is ZTE's next step in making smartphones available to the UK market at prices affordable by the majority of consumers," said Wu Sa, director of mobile device operations at ZTE UK.
"Mobile handsets using Android operating systems are taking a large share of the market and ZTE is investing in the innovative platform with Three to meet customer demand."
Users can purchase the phone on a pay as you go basis or on 3's latest ‘One Plan' contract. µ
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ZTE is among top 5 wimax worshipers (sequans, motorola, intel, samsung, ZTE etc). Still has no wimax module or atleast possibility of wimax in this phone.
Glad to see ZTE on the Android bandwagon. Hope the phone has powerful processor to support Android but I will definately check it out in a three shop.Will love to see Android on all chinese white brand and dual sim chinese phones . The chinese have great power to bring prices down at the same time produce innovative solutions like watch phones, tv phones and dual sim phones which apart from LG & Samsung I have not seen from any other main stream producer
...is anyone looking into this blogtard rumble about certain phones busting-fuses-unless-they-don't if [something] [something] bootloader [something] digitally signed [something] [something]?
It appears to derive from [marketing materials describing] TI's "M-Shield" features in the OMAP chips, which is a catchall branding for a bunch of security-ish stuff which happens to include "secure on-chip keys (E-Fuse)," presumably meaning OEMs or providers can zap keys into the phone. Somehow the blogosphere has interpreted this to mean there's some magic chip that makes the phone catch fire if you do the wrong thing. Of course, given the track record of American technology companies, this sounds all too believable.
So... What the heck is really going on there, and did it take anything other than Google's own echo chamber to punt the story across so much of the bedroom and confused-old-media tech press?