ZTE is crowdsourcing a mobile device and wants your ideas (cash prizes are involved)
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The new ZTE device could be a smartphone, but not necessarily. According to ZTE, the only rules that apply here are the following: the device "must be a mobile product, the technology must be realistically possible by 2017, and the final product must be affordable for the general population."
You can find out more about ZTE's Project CSX (and start submitting ideas) at the source links below. Needless to say, ZTE is the first major smartphone maker to do such a thing, so we're really curious to see if this pans out. Could this crowdsourced smartphone / mobile device be better than what companies are usually releasing? We'll just have to wait and find out.
sources: ZTE (login required - Google and Facebook logins available), Press release
Things that are NOT allowed: