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The reality of a 5G phone is closer than you think. Mobile chip giant Qualcomm on Thursday announced a partnership with several of the largest Chinese phone manufacturers, including Lenovo (Motorola’s parent), Xiaomi, ZTE, Oppo (OnePlus’ owner) and Vivo, to build 5G phones as early as 2019.  Under the “5G Pioneer” initiative, Qualcomm will help …

Smartphones with foldable displays are either a waste of time or the next breakthrough in handsets. It just depends on whom you ask. You can count Lixin Cheng, head of ZTE’s mobile business, as someone solidly in the pro-foldable camp. Last year, ZTE released the Axon M, a clamshell-like phone that has two screens and can be opened up to …

Chinese telecom giant Huawei took more than an hour before addressing the elephant in the room.  The CEO of Huawei’s consumer business, Richard Yu, spent a bulk of his CES keynote on Tuesday talking up the features and the US availability of its Mate10 Pro smartphone.  The company was widely expected to announce that AT&T would partner to sell the …

Remember those old “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” commercials featuring emergency medical alert devices? They may be getting a modern makeover.  ZTE, a Chinese smartphone maker best known for its budget handsets, said at CES 2018 on Tuesday it was partnering with chip giant Qualcomm and personal security software provider Wearsafe on a new category of wearables.  These …

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Chinese phone maker riding a bit of buzz wants to make a splash in the US market. There are the ceaseless rumors that Xiaomi, once the most valuable startup in the world, will eventually come here. Alcatel, Huawei and ZTE have spent years trying to break into the market in a …

Samsung’s foldable phone for 2018 is pretty much a done deal — the head of Samsung mobile said so — but will you really want one? That will depend, for one thing, on what we mean by “foldable.” We’ve seen one Samsung patent application for a handset that bends at the middle so the top of the phone can touch …

Unlimited data returned to the mobile world in a big way this year. T-Mobile’s move in 2016 to offer only an unlimited data plan initially drew a lot of scorn. But instead of withdrawing, the company raised the ante, announcing at CES in January of this year that it would shave off taxes and fees. Its momentum dragged Verizon and AT&T …

Now playing: Watch this: ZTE Axon M has 2 screens and opens into a 6.8-inch tablet 2:12 If the recent release of the unusual ZTE Axon M has you curious, now may be the best time to get the phone. Enlarge Image Why settle for one screen when you can get two with the ZTE Axon M? Josh Miller/CNET Best …

Will foldable phones be the hot trend of 2018? China’s ZTE kicked things off this week by introducing the Axon M, a phone with two screens that fold out to form a single larger display. Samsung said it’s aiming to bring out a phone with a foldable display by next year. And now another major player is getting into the …

At first you think, “OMG, no. What’s with the brick?” And then you unfold the thick, heavy ZTE Axon M like a book to reveal two 5.2-inch screens that flatten out to give you 6.8 inches of screen real estate (measured at the diagonal). And then you get excited by the possibilities. The phone has transformed into a tiny tablet …