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"BARCELONA \u2014 Chinese mobile powerhouse ZTE is one of the top mobile phone makers in the world, but its name is unknown to most customers outside China. This might change soon, as ZTE is one of the companies that jumped on the Firefox OS bandwagon, launching ZTE Open, one of the first Firefox OS-based smartphones. It also revealed the enormous Grand Memo. \nThe ZTE Open is an entry-level device aimed mainly at emerging markets. It sports a 3.5-inch HVGA screen, a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a 3.2-megapixel camera and supports Bluetooth, A-GPS and Wi-Fi. \nIts distinctive quality, though, is its operating system: Firefox OS, which doesn't have native apps besides HTML5 ones. Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich claims the goal behind Firefox OS was to make the mobile OS \"open and available to everyone.\" Telefonica, we've heard, is also supporting Firefox OS; the reasons being the company's belief in open web standards and the desire to increase smartphone penetration in emerging markets. \nOf course, if the developers and consumers don't pick up on all this, it'll all be in vain. With the increasing number of platforms this year (another contender, Tizen, will have a presentation here in Barcelona Tuesday), Firefox OS faces a bumpy road. \nThe device will be available in Europe and Latin America during summer 2013. \nThe ZTE Open is not the only thing ZTE brought to the Mobile World Congress this year, though. The company also launched the Grand Memo (whose video presentation was accompanied by completely botched sound \u2014 not a great start, especially when one of your partners is Dolby), which features a 5.7-inch screen, a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU, a 13-megapixel camera that captures 1080p video, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage memory. \nDid you notice the screen size? It's 5.7 inches, two diagonal inches more than the already huge LG Optimus G Pro. We're not sure how far this trend of ever-increasing smartphone screen size can go, but we think we're very near (or even past) the point of when it becomes a nuisance instead of being useful. \nWe don't know much about price or availability of the device, except that it will be launched this year.\nWhat do you think of ZTE's new devices? Share your thoughts in the comments. \nPhoto by Mashable"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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