ZTE to make smartphones mass market


Piggybacking on the announcement that it already has a commercially available Windows 6.5 handset available, China's ZTE emphasized how it ends to make smartphones genuinely affordable.Figures like 22 per cent of all handsets in 2010 being smartphones and raising that to 40 per cent in 2012. ZTE is achieving its goal of producing smartphones that can be sold by operators for "well under 200 Euros" through two means. Firstly it is utilising chipsets from Qualcomm. Secondly, it has created a single smartphone hardware platform which, according to ZTE's top honcho - He Shiyou - can run any OS.

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