Bargain-bin smartphones vault ZTE into the top 5 in U.S. market share

[Wireless News]

The iPhone 5. The Galaxy S4. The HTC One. The BlackBerry Z10. These are the smartphones that we’ve been reading about obsessively for the past several months and are some of the American smartphone market’s heavyweight fighters. But while these big-name vendors have been rolling out their premier devices, Chinese smartphone vendor ZTE has been quietly flooding the U.S. market with low-cost smartphones that have now made it one of the five biggest smartphone vendors in the United States, Strategy Analytics analyst Neil Shah says. According to Shah’s latest analysis, ZTE was the fastest growing smartphone vendor in the United States over the past year, with a year-over-year growth rate of 85.7% in the first quarter of 2013. For some

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