Facetones app goes Android with the largest handset maker in China.
The deal will see Facetones enabled on own-brand devices – and also white label handsets all over the world. ZTE, for example, currently provides the San Francisco for Orange.
Facetones creates an automated video slideshow using friends’ photos from social media sites and then plays this video when a user makes or receives a call.
It connects with Facebook for now, but more partnerships are planned.
“Vringo’s Facetones application is gaining broad market acceptance,” said Jon Medved, Vringo’s CEO.
“Our recent launch of Facetones in Verizon’s V CAST Apps in the United States, combined with this deal with ZTE to preload Facetones on Android devices represents significant new opportunities for us that set the stage for continuing our growth.
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"Making Facetones available through an embedded application at the time of sale is the easiest way to reach prospective customers. We believe it will help drive the viral nature of our product as it gets introduced to an entirely new audience around the world.”
According to Strategy Analytics, ZTE shipped 53.3 million handsets in the past three quarters of 2011.
Facetones have been released through various mobile operators such as NTT DOCOMO in Japan and Telefonica in Spain & South America. They are also available from the Nokia Ovi store.
The firm reached 100,000 downloads in September.
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