A few weeks ago, I got a look at a curious kind of mobile marketing head-fake: A new company called “Axon” no one had ever heard of promised the moon and stars in the form of a shiny, seemingly impressive $450 smartphone. As it turned out, Axon wasn’t an upstart smartphone maker taking on stodgy giants — it was a sub-brand of Chinese OEM ZTE trying to make something cooler than it’s normally known for. The ruse worked in that it got a bunch of jaded nerd journalists to an event in the middle of Manhattan in the rain, but is the phone itself actually worth that trouble? Did ZTE finally figure out how to make a phone that wary US consumers might flock to? The answer might surprise you.
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