Check Out ZTE's Upcoming Crowd Sourced Smartphone

Published on October 21, 2016 , in Phone Tweaks, Tech

Wow..

The proposed Design for ZTE's next smartphone is really really amazing.

The Chinese OEM announced its plans to crowdsource , collect user ideas, and let people vote on the designs , ZTE also announced that the user-submitted "Eye Tracking, Self-Adhesive Phone" concept has won the Project CSX contest with over 36 percent of the votes. So expect an Adhesive ZTE smartphone.

The winning design (which is described in full on ZTE’s forum) features a pair of cameras on the top and bottom bezels of the front of the phone for eye-tracking support, a split-screen function that displays different images at different angles for enhanced security. It also includes a self-adhesive backing for the rear of the phone to stick it to things and provide extra stability for the eye-tracking system. The designers hope for the eye-tracking system to allow automatic scrolling of web pages or books while you read them or to skip through a video while you watch.

ZTE is beginning product development of the winning design, and hopes to launch the final device sometime next year (2017). The crowdsourced nature of the device won’t end here, however, with ZTE planning on continuing to turn to the community for deciding things like the name, color, and materials of the Project CSX device.

I think this is a good innovation from ZTE, turning to users for ideas and turning those ideas to reality