Hasta La Gadget!

Oh ZTE you cheeky monkey. Towards the end of day one at IDF in Beijing, we stumbled upon this awkwardly titled Android Jelly Bean phone that is the Geek at ZTE’s booth. Needless to say, this is yet another phone powered by an Intel processor — a 2GHz Clover Trail+ Atom to be exact, which is what Lenovo’s K900 also has. The rest of the device isn’t too shabby, either: you get a nice 5-inch 720p display with Gorilla Glass, along with an 8-megapixel main camera, a 1-megapixel front-facing camera, 8GB of storage space, 1GB of RAM, 2,300mAh battery and wireless charging. Radio-wise we see UMTS 900/2100 courtesy of Intel’s XMM 6260 chip, and there’s also the usual lot of 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 LE and GPS.

Design-wise the Geek takes a huge step away from the Grand X IN and shares a similarly clean look with the Grand S, but without the black eye around the main camera. This particular unit had a glossy white finish as well, but we’d prefer a matte finish for a more premium feel. Since ZTE admitted that it had to rush this prototype for exhibition at IDF, we’ll come back to the build quality once we see a final retail unit. Until then, check out our hands-on video and the press release after the break.

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Welcome to Growing Up Geek, a feature where we take a look back at our youth, and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. This week, we have our very own Nicole Lee!

My fondest memories of growing up in Malaysia don’t consist of balmy weekends by the beach or the bounty of fresh mangosteens in my grandmother’s kitchen. Instead, my childhood is a blur of video games, Saturday morning cartoons, Apple Macintosh Classics, IBM PC clones, and frequent trips to the local library where my parents would leave me alone for hours. Out of sheer boredom, I read every book I could get my hands on, and a lifelong love of reading was born. Parental neglect or ingenious education tactic? You decide.

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are pretty fearsome, even if they are pizza-eating slobs who live in the sewers.  (Read: unwanted outcasts of society.)  Combine this level of fierce physical ability with the disciplined battle techniques of Jedi Knights, and what do you get?  Nothing, since you lack artistic skill and can’t pick up a pencil because of those acrylic nails.  If you happen to be as talented as Q-Dog2099, you get these awesome Teenage Mutant Jedi Turtles!

Raphael’s my favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Jedi mashup, probably because of the dual-wielding aspect that transferred over.  Step aside, Darth Maul – two blades with two hilts are always better than one hilt with two really long blades.  Both of which should always be worse than a rocket launcher, but apparently that’s not the case.  Battlefronts one and two?  Most assuredly not the case.

The blue glow that’s been applied to Leonardo is one of my favorite colors of blue, in case you weren’t wondering.  I love imposing my unwanted opinions upon others.  Did you know that maltese-poodle dogs are the best kind?  Well now you do.

I always identified with Donatello, since we’re pretty similar, me and him.  Both of us are of above average intelligence, endowed with good looks, and glowing in a purple aura.  The last one may or may not be because I fell into a pool of radioactive material last week when I was fishing at the local pond.  My quest: to pull out the four-armed fish of legend.  “Wouldn’t it be just as impressive to find a fish with one arm?”   Beggars can’t be choosers.

I hope you agree with me when I say that this really is an awesome collection of Star Wars/TMNT mashups.  Now… I know what you’re all thinking.  ”Why am I reading this instead of that post about the D-Cup TMNT Bra?”  The answer?  I have no idea.  If you’re not as risqué as I had taken you to be at a prior time, then you’ll want to check out the more moderate Arcade Mashup Prints, which are pretty cool too, but less sexy.

This super awesome post was written by Jack, lead blogger at Cool Gizmo Toys.  Jack puts together lists to help geeks quickly find the stuff that they love, and probably has several endangered species of lemur living illegally in his war shelter, but that’s irrelevant.