ZTE admits error in expecting people to fund its mid-tier crowdsourced phone
Remember last week when I said ZTE’s crowdsourced Hawkeye phone had already had “quite the journey?” Well turns out its journey wasn’t anywhere near an end. After officially launching its eye-tracking, sticky phone on Kickstarter earlier this month and then later unveiling the device’s midrange specs, Jeff Yee, VP of planning and partnerships at ZTE, pulled a “my bad.” In a post this weekend, Yee explains that given that the phone has raised less than $35,000 of its $500,000 goal, the company didn’t make the best decision in turning its crowdsourced phone idea into a midrange Android device.
“We realize that our decision to introduce the CSX hands-free features on a mid-range device may not have met the expectations of those that backed…
