What you need to know about Chinese phone brand ZTE, including the handsets it makes and any other devices of interest.
This series of guides about Chinese phones covers a range of brands, from large established names, to new up-and-comers. ZTE sits somewhere in between – it’s been around for years, yet remains fairly unknown in the West. That’s a shame, because ZTE is arguably the company bringing the most interesting smartphones to market – and by ‘interesting’ we don’t necessarily mean ‘top-spec’; we mean novel or quirky. Many of ZTE’s devices come with unique features, design quirks or tools that make it a brand that’s well worth keeping an eye on. For example, the company’s Axon 20 was the first phone to feature an under-display selfie camera. Its Nubia Z20 had a screen on the rear of the device as well as on the front, and the Nubia Alpha smartwatch was in effect a phone for your wrist that came complete with a front-facing selfie camera. Whether you’re interested in buying one of these novel smartphones, or simply curious about ZTE’s future devices, below we cover everything you need to know about the company including the smartphones and other tech it releases. ZTE was founded in China in 1985, and its main business is telecommunications, not consumer hardware.
