ZTE announced a new mid range phone called Mimosa X running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The smartphone uses NVIDIA’a Tegra 2 application processor and it’s Icera modem technology. NVIDIA till now used other manufacturers connectivity solutions to power it’s processors, this is the first time NVIDIA is powering a Tegra processor along with the Icera Modem. Icera modem came to NVIDIA through its acquisition of Icera in 2011.
“The ZTE Mimosa X is exciting for a few reasons,” said Michael Rayfield, General Manager of the Mobile business at NVIDIA. “The Mimosa X marks the first time NVIDIA technology powers all the major processors in a single smartphone, and also the first time a premium mobile computing experience is coming to the mainstream smartphone market.”
Mimosa X features a 4.3 inch qHD (960×540) screen, 5MP rear camera, 1.3MP front facing camera, Icera 450 HSPA+ modem. It comes with internal storage of $GB extendable to upto 32GB. It supports A2DA Bluetooh, DLNA technology, HD video record and play, and comes with dual microphones, and built-in gyroscope.
With the Tegra 2 processor it will have an access to the TegraZone, which is available only in high end phones till now according to NVIDIA. TegraZone is NVIDIA’s free Android app that showcases games optimized for the Tegra processor. Mimosa x will be launched sometime in Q2 2012, no information on price and regions where it will launch first.
