ZTE confirms Axon 9 will be the Axon 7’s successor

ZTE appear that the Axon 7's almsman will be alleged the ZTE Axon 9. The jump in numbers may accept to do with how the Axon 8 branding sounds in Chinese.

The ZTE Axon 7 launched in mid-2016, and back again abounding admirers of that affordable flagship smartphone accept been cat-and-mouse for its accurate successor. Today, ZTE accepted such a phone was in the works, but that it would be branded as the Axon 9, rather than the Axon 8.

The account comes from iFeng.com (via Pocketnow), which appear on the China barrage of ZTE’s contempo foldable phone, the Axon M. Company CEO Lixin Cheng accepted the name of the Axon 7 adversary during the columnist accident in China.

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Why skip over the name “Axon 8?” There’s belief that it all has to do with language. Specifically, the Axon name translates to “Sky machine” back announced in Chinese, but Pocketnow says that if addition application that accent says, “Sky apparatus 8”, it would accommodate a homophone that would construe into “mess-up” in that language.

If that is absolutely the acumen for application Axon 9 instead of Axon 8, it would not be the aboriginal time that an affair with the Chinese accent acquired a smartphone to get a new name. OnePlus absitively to bypass the OnePlus 4 name for its almsman to the OnePlus 3, beacause “four” is linked with afterlife in China’s culture.

• ZTE appear that the Axon 7’s almsman will be alleged the ZTE Axon 9.
• The jump in numbers may accept to do with how the Axon 8 branding sounds in Chinese.
• The Axon 9 is accepted to barrage ancient after in 2018.