The Chinese manufacturer, ZTE has official announced its new smartphone in France, namely the ZTE Skate. According to ZTE’s French, the handset will be debut in France sometime in July 2011, and probably with a less than €200 SIM-free.
For specifications, ZTE Skate smartphone has a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixel, GPS, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and VGA (640 x 480) video recording, a microSD card slot, a 3.5 mm headset jack, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, and Bluetooth 2.1.
ZTE Skate is works in quad-band GSM and support for tri-band 3G connectivity. New Skate is powered by an 800MHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 512MB of ROM (with about 200MB free space for user), and runs untouched version of Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread OS.
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ZTE Skate priced at “less than” €200, or around £180, unsubsidised
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Le smartphone ZTE Skate proposé à partir du juillet à moins de 200€ hors abonnement
ZTE Skate phone in France with untouched Gingerbread
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