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ZTE to Offer New Smart Phone

China’s ZTE said it plans to launch a new smart phone based on Google’s mobile-operating system next year and is in talks with carriers to supply the smart phones. ...full story at WSJ

from WSJ on Wed, Nov 18 2009

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