2.5 million blades sold, ZTE wants to sell 5 million

[Guest cgk]

In 2011, ZTE’s Blade also became one of the world’s top-selling smartphones. Through partnerships with approximately 80 operators globally, ZTE’s Blade is now available in nearly 50 countries and regions. The Blade’s daily sales in China are the nation’s highest for Android smartphones, averaging 16,000 units per day. ZTE has now sold 2.5 million Blade handsets globally and expects to break the five million mark this year.

http://www.eurodroid.com/2011/08/zte-2-5m-zte-blades-now-sold-5m-the-target/

That's a lot of Blades!

[Guest Pondlife]

Not that surprised by that.

Finally, ZTE says it has “over 30″ new smartphone models lined up for release during the rest of 2011

That on the other hand is more surprising. Be shocked if they do launch that many

[Guest deksman2]

Good for them.

I would mention 4 points in regards to their future products:

1. Improve build quality (while mine and numerous other Blades are fine and quite durable, numerous shipped with poor quality which translated into failures, etc.),

2. Keep the prices low (especially if you will be selling older generation hardware),

3. Don't fall behind the curve with the hardware too much and expect to sell it as something 'new' (there's a limit to how much you can price outdated hardware),

4. Release proper coding so we can enable true HW acceleration on the phones (speaking in terms of the 2D, UI, browsing, scrolling, etc.), or do it yourselves.

Edited August 9, 2011 by deksman2

[Guest domerator]

Good for them.

I would mention 4 points in regards to their future products:

1. Improve build quality (while mine and numerous other Blades are fine and quite durable, numerous shipped with poor quality which translated into failures, etc.),

2. Keep the prices low (especially if you will be selling older generation hardware),

3. Don't fall behind the curve with the hardware too much and expect to sell it as something 'new' (there's a limit to how much you can price outdated hardware),

4. Release proper coding so we can enable true HW acceleration on the phones (speaking in terms of the 2D, UI, browsing, scrolling, etc.), or do it yourselves.

Absolutely +1

[Guest cgk]

Good for them.

I would mention 4 points in regards to their future products:

1. Improve build quality (while mine and numerous other Blades are fine and quite durable, numerous shipped with poor quality which translated into failures, etc.),

2. Keep the prices low (especially if you will be selling older generation hardware),

3. Don't fall behind the curve with the hardware too much and expect to sell it as something 'new' (there's a limit to how much you can price outdated hardware),

4. Release proper coding so we can enable true HW acceleration on the phones (speaking in terms of the 2D, UI, browsing, scrolling, etc.), or do it yourselves.

how realistic are some of those for a company that is clearly high volume, low margins? Sure ZTE could increase QC in their factories but that increases costs and in turn increases prices?

[Guest t0mm13b]

Good for them.

I would mention 4 points in regards to their future products:

1. Improve build quality (while mine and numerous other Blades are fine and quite durable, numerous shipped with poor quality which translated into failures, etc.),

2. Keep the prices low (especially if you will be selling older generation hardware),

3. Don't fall behind the curve with the hardware too much and expect to sell it as something 'new' (there's a limit to how much you can price outdated hardware),

4. Release proper coding so we can enable true HW acceleration on the phones (speaking in terms of the 2D, UI, browsing, scrolling, etc.), or do it yourselves.

The last one number 4... that's a "impossible mission" - just look at what they did to the code - ripped out CAF's code base, severely made a hotch-potch of it and made it difficult to get the bare-bones working in place due to dependencies on other board references.

Seriously though, am in agreement, they need to sit down and polish up their coding efforts as far as kernel source is concerned.

(_{I seriously dread the upcoming .35 sources...})

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

Zte source code is really the worst i have seen.

I hope the 35 kernel will be better.