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our 2013 CES coverage is powered by ford go further GT is making waves today at CES 2013 in Las Vegas Nevada how's it going guys I'm Aaron Baker at TechnoBuffalo you can see the show is going on it's day one and here's the ZTE grand ass this thing was announced just a few hours ago and specs wise it's going toe-to-toe or head-to-head depending on how you say it against the HTC droid DNA and the samsung galaxy note 2 just to give you a quick rundown aspects it's got a 5-inch 1920 x 1080p full HD display so as you can tell by this one and a couple of the devices we've seen in CES 1080p is the name of the game right now so mimics the droid DNA in a lot of ways and we're seeing that become the buzz word if you go to buzz feature maybe 2013 you also get two gigabytes of RAM it's got a Snapdragon s4 pro 1.7 gigahertz quad-core processor a 13 megapixel camera on the back with 1080p HD video recording sheet gets you right there and a really thin light sleek form factor with a volume rocker on the right side microSD card slot over here a sim card slot 3.5 millimeter headphone jack up top along with your power button and then physical buttons down here just below the 4.7 inch display let's take a look at a pan icon to use it let's just go through the menu looks like some customizations thanks to ZTE pinch in the back mio SI there we go that works and we can run it just like that so you can see some customizations based on ZTE s look and feel here you can see a little bit of a difference with the bottom part here the menu area you can see the notifications bar very different all around with a green color scheme control switches up top favorite applications and the notifications up here at the top as well settings clear of course I can clear it out cuz it is running a later version and Android let's actually check and see it should be running 4.1 if i recall below double check yeah 4.1 point2 and you can really see that they customize the look and feel in a lot of ways of android composing here so you get to the keyboard looks like but overall relatively fluid thanks to that quad core 1.7 gigahertz processor but definitely some customizations has a love-hate thing unfortunately we're likely not going to see this on any of the major carriers Never Say Never right hey justin bieber reference but never say never but you know we probably won't see a verizon spread on ATT where we will see it perhaps is on if you need carrier nationwide t-mobile perhaps a prepaid carrier if they can get the price point down low enough to make it worthwhile for prepaid customers it's a nice device all around it's great to see ZTE get up to speed but again it's all about carrier distribution agreement that's the name of the game in 2013 the more carriers you can get on the better we've seen great success from Apple Samsung in the past because of their ability to market and get it available on a bunch of different carriers that's what we're seeing right here keep it locked in the cyber continuing coverage i'm on twitter aaron c baker the company's on twitter as well technobuffalo and on facebook at facebook.com slash technobuffalo more coverage to come from CES 2013 and lots of vegas nevada it's a wild show stay tuned for more at TechnoBuffalo com we'll see you next time thanks to Ford for powering our CES coverage you you