Budget 5" ZTE phablet poses for the camera, has a quad-core chip

16 January, 2013
The device has the tongue-twisting U956 MT6589 name and has been approved for launch on China Mobile.

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  • 17 Dec 2013

Anonymous, 17 Jan 2013I think ZTE is missing the point: their phones have great h... moreThat does not matter, because if they are Android OS You can put whatever launcher you want and customize it anyway, So you argument is invalid :)

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    • 17 Jan 2013

    I think ZTE is missing the point: their phones have great hardware specs, but their UI looks ufinished with those terrible looking apps they added instead of stock ones.

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      • 17 Jan 2013

      I have lost count of how many 5" smartphones coming in 2013. But that's a good thing because large screen lovers will have more choices.

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        • 17 Jan 2013

        Anonymous, 16 Jan 2013Lets just cut the phablet crap, i have a Note 2 now and its... moreNote 10.1 have pen and the incoming note 8.0

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          • 17 Jan 2013

          I.D.G.A.F.O.S., 17 Jan 2013Nice touch, havin a PowerVR SGX533 found also on an iphone ... moreit is not sgx533 it is sgx544

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            • 17 Jan 2013

            it zucks again. as they always says they will compete but always fail. China Phone and company should make it more cheaper coz their enemies have that name reputation than their crappy device and systems

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              • 17 Jan 2013

              AnonD-4340, 16 Jan 2013This is great news, and i will.. Wait a minute, ZTE you sai... morewow xperia z is 800usd away it breaks my heart

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                • 17 Jan 2013

                Nice touch, havin a PowerVR SGX533 found also on an iphone 4 or HTC Nexus One, pretty outdated though. however a low power CPU, u know, quad-core and stuff. it shouldve gone well on SunSpider benchmarkin.. not too powerful on gaming due to the ArmV7 architecture. but still a nice catch just to handle the HD display.

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                  • 17 Jan 2013

                  There is always something for everyone.

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                    • 17 Jan 2013

                    AnonD-4340, 16 Jan 2013This is great news, and i will.. Wait a minute, ZTE you sai... morethen why are you reading the news about ZTE and writing comment here anyway?
                    oh, i know, deep inside your heart, you adore ZTE very much, you just to shy to admit it.

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                      • 17 Jan 2013

                      AnonD-88723, 16 Jan 2013finally, someone is telling the name of a 5" display d... morePhablet has been in use since the Galaxy Note, man get with the times

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                        • 17 Jan 2013

                        yo th3 i see you have no knowlage of the comsummer smart phone market and dont know how to read a text. THESE PHONES ARE MENT FOR CHINA MARKET!! thank you and theres more to life then sony xperia Z!

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                          • 17 Jan 2013

                          delice_doluca, 16 Jan 2013It is double ganger of Droid DNAdouble ganger??????? hahaahahhahahaha. you may want to look up how to spell doppelganger

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                            • 16 Jan 2013

                            this is cheap 5 inch phone for people who cant afford say a xperia z..yea of course xperia z will be better but how much a xperia z compare to this

                            and zte is not crap they are decent for the price..people are so ignorant nowdays thinking only the world circling around them

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                              • 16 Jan 2013

                              AnonD-101550, 16 Jan 2013bigger and better? or just bigger? =pcorrection: Much better. This is my first samsung and not the brand i wanted, but after some hands on testing i was convinced that Note 2 was and is the best phone you can buy now. Already 4 months since i bought it now, and i am even more convinced now that its the best.

                              I should add that HTC does not count for me, i had HTC before and the experience was only negative, HTC is truly the worst brand. Never again. HTC can launch 4k phone displays and i still know its garbage. Even Nokia is better. I rather change to iphone than buy HTC again, thats how bad my experience with HTC is. If samsung is Rolls Royce then there still is no car brand to respresent HTC, noone make that bad cars.

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                                • 16 Jan 2013

                                Anonymous, 16 Jan 2013Lets just cut the phablet crap, i have a Note 2 now and its... morebigger and better? or just bigger? =p

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                                  • 16 Jan 2013

                                  Anonymous, 16 Jan 2013But you also use the size of the display to separate them, ... moreLets just cut the phablet crap, i have a Note 2 now and its not in any way like a tablet. Tablets dont have S-pen, and they dont have slim side bezels (except the ipad mini, which is i Galaxy Note copy and not really a tablet). Note 2 is simply a bigger and better smartphone.

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                                    • 16 Jan 2013

                                    AnonD-72449, 16 Jan 2013Not every phone that has a 5 inch screen or bigger is a pha... moreBut you also use the size of the display to separate them, doesnt it matter to you tha Lumia 920 with its tiny display is much bigger than SGS3??

                                    And what would you have said a year ago, what would be a phablet for you in january 2012, AFTER NOTE 1 AND BEFORE SGS3? That time you didnt know about any 4.8 inch phones, right? A definition must follow a set of criterias, not day to day fashion. A car has 4 wheels every year, not only in 2013, right?

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                                      • 16 Jan 2013

                                      Not every phone that has a 5 inch screen or bigger is a phablet.. That's what Samsung calls the Note 2 because it can actually do stuff a Tablet can do, not to mention the S Pen. It's the best of both worlds every other device that has a screen bigger than 4.8 inches is just a huge phone..

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                                        • 16 Jan 2013

                                        Anonymous, 16 Jan 2013Or is everything above 4.5 inch phablets? Lets look at the ... moreI like to draw a line now. The Xperia ZL is not a phablet, but the Lumia 920 is a phablet. i do not yet know about Xperia Z, it is a tiny bit longer than Lumia 920 but its much slimmer and lighter and far less bulky, and is about the same width.