ZTE's attempt to launch a smartphone in the United States started with the Axon lineup and its first ZTE Axon smartphone, which was described as "a flagship phone designed in the US for the US." Unfortunately, the phone wasn't as available as we would like to.

Luckily, the Chinese company isn't giving up on the US and plans to launch its next-gen Axon in the States. The next-gen ZTE Axon was believed to be called Axon 2, but recent press invites revealed that the phone will be called the Axon 7.

The ZTE US published a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal thanking its millions of users with an interesting device right at the bottom of the ad. The handset in question closely reassembles the device that appeared on TENAA.