Android Jelly Bean OS manages speedy launch on ZTE's N880E smartphone

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Unless you've been buying your Android gadgets [exclusively][3] from Google's Play store, chances to get your hands on the latest iteration of its mobile OS are still [pretty rare][4]. Color us surprised, then, when [ZTE][5] announce that one of its humbler handsets from last year is making the leap from Android 2.3 all the way to version 4.1. The China-only N880E appears to be only the third smartphone to launch with the buttery smooth Android trimmings, spread across a 4-inch WVGA (480 x 800) display. The smartphone holds onto the four off-screen capacitive Android keys and is powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm processor and 512MB of RAM. ZTE is still keeping quiet on whether the phone will appear outside of China -- and is similarly schtum on its upgrade plans for the other smartphones.

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