Chinese cellphone company ZTE just announced today that it has joined the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) and will launch its first Android based handset on the first quarter of 2010.
ZTE becomes the third chinese company to join the OHA after Lenovo and Huawei. The open source nature of Android has opened the door to many Asian vendors and should drive the cost of smartphones down. In fact, it should really start bringing smartphones into the mass market.
“ZTE has invested heavily in the research and development of Android smartphones during the last year,” said Lin Qiang, general manager of ZTE Smartphones, in a statement.
“With the growing trend and popularity of Android smartphones, ZTE is committed to invest in this innovative platform to meet the market demand,” he said.
A lot of hopes are expected from the Android devices, hopefully it wont disappoint as Google’s recently launched Nexus One is already facing heavy criticism by users.
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