At this year's CES in Las Vegas Huawei brought the huge, 6.1-inch, Ascend Mate. After taking a closer look at this device, and comparing it to the already established Samsung Galaxy Note II, we've concluded that the Huawei phone was not a Note-killer. At least not this phablet, but the ZTE Grand Memo, leaked previously, could be! It will officially be unveiled next month at MWC in Barcelona despite being showed off at a ZTE event in Hong Kong the other day. It has a 5.7-inch screen with 720p resolution and packs a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC clocking at 1.7GHz, 13-megapixel ...

This year's Consumer Electronics Show from Las Vegas has come and gone. As usual, we've been both on-site bringing you coverage from events as well as the show floor, and here on Pocketnow, keeping you up to date with what's going on in the mobile world. For some the show has been excellent; for others it has been a letdown. We can't compare CES to a specialized mobile event like MWC (maybe with IFA); still, our experience from past years has taught us to expect certain things to happen at CES. They might or might not have happened in a straightforward way but there was a lot of innovation ...

While I've only been writing about mobile technology for a year, I've followed the space closely for over a decade. During all that time, the absolute high point of my geek-year has been CES. The international Consumer Electronics Show has a history that stretches all the way back to 1967, but the first one I remember being conscious of was the 2002 show in Las Vegas. It was this CES that, for me, first cemented the concept of "trade show" as "awesome event where cool new gadgets get trotted out." Of course there are other mobile-tech trade shows, some of them much larger and more ...

A couple months back, they didn't even exist, but now with the 2013 CES in full-swing, we're finding ourselves positively inundated with 1080p smartphones. The most recent to get announced is ZTE's second-such handset (following the Nubia Z5), its Grand S. We got a chance to try it out ourselves, and see just how well it performs. While the Grand S is going to make its debut abroad, plans are for it to eventually make its way to the West later in 2013. The phone runs a 1.7GHz quad-core SoC, arrives running Jelly Bean, and ZTE has customized it with some of its own UI tweaks. There's a lot ...

Smartphone manufacturers have seriously fallen in love with jumbo-sized screens on their phones as of late. Samsung may have gotten the ball rolling with the first Galaxy Note, but after it pushed the limited with the 5.5-inch Note II, all bets were off. Huawei has really taken the idea and run with it, giving us the almost preposterously-large Ascend Mate. If Huawei's 6.1 inches is just a bit much for your tastes, ZTE might have just the thing for you, now that a render of its 5.7-inch Android has leaked. So far known just as model P945, this 5.7-inch ZTE model could be one of the first ...

Paying even a cursory amount of attention to the smartphone gossip that's been accumulating over the past several months should have clued you in that the latest feature everyone's got to have for their top-shelf Android is a full HD, 1080p display. After HTC started the party with its Butterfly/Droid DNA, pretty much every other major smartphone manufacturer has been rumored to be working on a similar handset. What remains to be seen now is who will be able to one-up HTC's effort (something we've even heard that HTC itself is working towards). We've already talked before about ZTE's 1080p ...

We've been hearing a lot about upcoming ZTE smartphones lately, and while the manufacturer's name isn't enough to get many smartphone fans too excited, some of what we've seen has been quite interesting. Take, for instance, the rumored 5.9-inch Windows Phone handset, a positively unheard-of size, especially for WP8. Well, we're still not sure just how real that one might end up being, but the ZTE model we're looking at today is well on its way to an official unveiling, the five-inch, 1080p ZTE Nubia Z5 Android. The rest of the specs attached to the Z5 are pretty much exactly what you'd ...

The image above is claimed to represent the ZTE Grand X Pro, a phone we know nothing about for the moment. There was a ZTE Grand X LTE phone announced on June 19 for Asia and Europe and that was featuring a dual-core Qualcomm MSM8960 chip clocking at 1.5GHz, an eight-megapixel main camera and a 720p-capable front-facer. Given the Pro added to the name this device should be an upgrade of some sort but there are no specs to go with the leaked press render. However, we see a close-to-vanilla Android experience on a screen which looks large-ish (if we really had to guess, we'd say around ...