An Engadget report has apparently cleared the confusion surrounding the hardware of Chinese device market ZTE's Grand Memo smartphone, which was officially released by the company at the recently-concluded 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

The confusion was essentially rooted in the fact that though ZTE - while launching the Grand Memo handset at its press conference at the MWC event - had said that the phone will feature Qualcomm's latest and greatest Snapdragon 800 CPU clocking at 1.7GHz.

However, Qualcomm had claimed that the Grand Memo smartphone will be powered by its Snapdragon 600 processor; thereby leading to confusion about the processor that would power the handset.

Clearing the confusion about the Grand memo hardware, Engadget said that while it had confirmed that the Grand Memo handset showcased at the MWC event was running the Snapdragon 600 chip and not the 800 CPU, a further discussion with ZTE had revealed that the handset will be available in two versions - a Chinese variant powered by a Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064; and a Europe version with a Snapdragon 800 processor with LTE support.

In other words, as per Engadget, the root of the Grand memo's hardware confusion was the fact that ZTE will be offering the smartphone in variety of hardware configuration, depending on the country in which it will be sold.