{"id":4437,"date":"2011-08-05T23:40:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T22:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2011-08-06T00:34:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T23:34:57","slug":"the-curse-of-the-zombie-zte-android-phones-from-the-bargain-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-curse-of-the-zombie-zte-android-phones-from-the-bargain-basement\/","title":{"rendered":"The curse of the zombie ZTE Android phones from the bargain basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/utestme.com\/android-mystery-numbers\/\">Android fanboys<\/a> spend all their time saying Symbian \u00a0numbers shouldn&#8217;t count because they were cheap handsets that nobody uses as smartphones?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are huge and statistically significant quantities of Android devices made by Huawei, ZTE or Alcatel that are pushed into carriers sales channels for 70-100 bucks cost, each. Is anybody writing a review on them or make a fuss about these companies\u2019 financials? Never.\u00a0Will you ever be able to count those low-end-smartphones\u2019 online visits, connections, internet usage, social network presence? Never.<\/p>\n<p>Because they\u2019re never used as smartphones!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t Android fanboys spend all their time saying Symbian \u00a0numbers shouldn&#8217;t count because they were cheap handsets that nobody uses as smartphones? There are huge and statistically significant quantities of Android devices made by Huawei, ZTE or Alcatel that are pushed into carriers sales channels for 70-100 bucks cost, each. Is anybody writing a review on them or make a fuss about these companies\u2019 financials? Never.\u00a0Will you ever be able to count those low-end-smartphones\u2019 online visits, connections, internet usage, social network presence? Never. Because they\u2019re never used as smartphones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25],"tags":[2217,150,2858],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","tag-android","tag-symbian","tag-zte","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-19z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}