ZUK Mobile
 | |
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Consumer electronics |
| Founded | May 28, 2015 |
| Founder |
Alex Chen Yu (陈宇) Chang Cheng (常程) Chen Xudong (陈旭东) |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
Chang Cheng (Chief Executive Officer) Alex Chen Yu (Chief Operation Officer and Chief Product Officer) |
| Products |
ZUK Z1 (2015) ZUK Z2 (Coming Soon) |
| Parent | Lenovo |
| Website |
ZUK Mobile Global ZUK Mobile China |
ZUK Mobile is a Chinese internet smartphone company founded in May 2015. It is headquartered in Beijing.[1]
History
ZUK Mobile was founded on 28 May 2015, it is a spin off of Lenovo smartphone business. Yang Yuanqing, CEO of Lenovo said that investing ZUK Mobile "is one of the Chinese tech giant's major steps in its business transformation in the Internet era". Furthermore, he said that the company is an independent brand different from Lenovo's previous subsidiary brands.[2]
Less than two months later, ZUK Mobile entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Cyanogen Inc. to base its products' Android distribution upon a variant of the popular custom ROM CyanogenMod and use its trademarks outside of China.[3]
The company unveiled its first device, the ZUK Z1 in Beijing, China on 11 August 2015. Following its release, the company received over 1.5 million pre-orders within two days in mainland China.
Products
Z1
The Z1 is ZUK's "flagship" smartphone, unveiled in August 2015. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p display, 64 gigabytes of internal storage, a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 4,100 mAh battery, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 CPU, 3 gigabytes of RAM, a USB Type-C port for charging and audio, and a fingerprint reader. The international version of the Z1 runs Cyanogen OS 12.1, based on Android 5.1.1 "Lollipop".[4] The Z1 is sold in China with ZUK's own ZUI version of Android based on Android 5.1 "Lollipop".
In mainland China, the ZUK Z1 costs CNY 1,799 (US$284) while an international version is expected to cost around US$300 or €280.[2]
Z2
It was announced by the CEO of ZUK that a new device, the Z2, would be released in 2016.[5] The new Z2 details were unveiled on 21st April 2016. The Z2, named the Z2 'Pro' has a 5.2" screen, a Snapdragon 820 processor, Adreno 530 GPU, 13 Megapixel OIS camera and comes in two models, 64GB Memory/4GB Ram or 128GB Memory/6GB Ram. The battery capacity is 3100MAh. The phone has health sensor and a fingerprint scanner and the higher spec device is priced 2,699 Yuan($416).[6]
ZUI
ZUI is ZUK's own version of the Android 5.1.1 system. It is only released in China, presently on the ZUK Z1 mobile phone. It, alike many other Chinese variants of Android, contains no app drawer. It does utilise widgets, but does not have Google Play app store installed by default.
Transparent concept phone
ZUK displayed a transparent smartphone prototype at the Z1's launch. The device on display had nearly no bezel and was completely transparent when powered off. [7]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.zuk.hk/about
- 1 2 http://www.china.org.cn/business/2015-08/12/content_36282716.htm
- ↑ http://www.zuk.hk/news/18
- ↑ Buckley, Sean (21 August 2015). "The international version of the Lenovo-backed ZUK Z1 runs Cyanogen 12". Engadget (United States). Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ↑ Z2 to be released
- ↑ ZUK Z2 Pro unveiled
- ↑ Linder, Brad (17 August 2015). "ZUK’s transparent smartphone prototype paints picture of an unlikely future". liliputing (United States). Retrieved 4 August 2015.