ZTE and Microsoft could not agree on minimum cost smartphone

In an interview with journalists Wall Street Journal, the head of the British Branch of ZTE's Woo Sa (Wu Sa), that the development of a smartphone running Windows Phone 7 had to be abandoned because of disagreements with Microsoft. As the representative of ZTE problem was that the smartphone is too cheap. He confirmed that a Chinese manufacturer already has tested WP7, but Microsoft officials expressed doubts that the speed of the work was too slow. In addition, he noted that despite a certain level of a given hardware smartphones in the ZTE seek opportunities to reduce costs. Wu also Ca hinted that there will be more flexible approach Microsoft to market requirements, which may manifest itself not only in allowing low cost devices with WP7, but also making changes to the producers of the user interface.

Earlier statements that the user interface of the operating system Windows Phone 7 should be changeable at the request of the manufacturer, said representatives of the HTC, but so far only known that some of the possibilities for processing interface will receive the company Nokia. The results of which will be available but all the other producers. ZTE company outside the Chinese market is known as a manufacturer of carrier vehicles. Last year she put on the market is sufficiently large number of smartphones, which relate solely to the average or budget level. This fact, including allowed the company to become the number four handset manufacturers in the world. The first model, which could be called a leader, ZTE Skate, was demonstrated at the exhibition in Barcelona, ​​but still lags significantly behind the parameters of high-performance solutions to other companies.