VinSmart Sells 2M Phones to AT&T, Promptly Goes Under
A Vietnamese firm announced a deal to sell 2 million phones to AT&T and then promptly said it was exiting from the phone business entirely, according to analyst firm Wave7 Research. VinSmart provided four models to AT&T through white-labelling firm Emblem Solutions: the Cricket Influence, the AT&T Fusion Z, the AT&T Motivate, and the AT&T Maestro Plus, Wave7 principal Jeff Moore said. Only the Influence and Fusion Z currently appear on Cricket's and AT&T's websites. VinSmart had also nearly reached a deal to buy LG's smartphone business, as both companies had factories in the same city in Vie...