ZTE Grand Memo

ZTE Grand Memo


Aside from a Firefox-powered phone for emerging markets, but big announcement for ZTE -- both literally and figuratively -- was the Grand Memo, a 5.7-inch Android phone aimed squarely at the large form factor phone market. The Grand Memo is the first phone to be announced with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 CPU, but the phones on the show floor weren't running this CPU. Instead ZTE reps told us there'd be several versions of the device, each with different specs. Most of the devices on the show floor were fitted with Snapdragon S4 Pro SoCs. It's clearly early days for the Grand Memo -- the software on the demo units wasn't fully stable, and the UI looks like it needs a bit of polishing up.

But ZTE, like local rival Huawei, is set on pushing into the high-end smartphone space. And if it can deliver real hardware running a Snapdragon 800 within the promised launch window, that might be a good start.