The Blade V7 Lite will be available in Russian Federation first, and then roll out to Mexico, Spain, Germany, and Thailand by the spring of this year. It’s a popular range, with ZTE having by the end of previous year, sold more than 30 million Blade phones. On feature that’s unique to the Blade V7 Lite is its fingerprint reader, which is mounted on the rear of the device. On the Lite you’ll have an 8MP camera on both the front and back of the phone, while the Blade V7 gets a 13MP shooter on the rear and 5MP on the front.
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The smartphone comes with only 16GB of storage inside, but ZTE also added a microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 64GB). Similar to the bigger sibling, Blade V7, it runs on the Android Marshmallow 6.0 OS with custom skin installed by company. It has a 5.2inch display with a full HD resolution, covered with 2.5D glass, and MT6753 octa-core processor from MediaTek. The familar capacitive illuminated circular home button is on the front under the screen, and quite a few other features remind us more of an iPhone 6 design than anything else we can think of.
ZTE Blade V7 is powered by a 2,500 mAh battery and offers multiple connectivity options such as LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microUSB 2.0 and Global Positioning System with AGPS.
The new Blade V7 Lite has a screen of 5-inches that is operable using one hand and a fingerprint scanner that allows users to sign in.
Smaller than the Blade V7 with a 5-inch display, the Blade V7’s features are anything but “lite”. The V7 Lite has an 8-megapixel main camera and a Mediatek quad-core processor.
At present, the Blade V7 is scheduled for release in Germany, Spain, South Africa, Ethiopia, and Mexico, so we’ll have to see whether it makes it to Malaysia. Designed for young audience, both the smartphones come with Android Marshmallow installed on top of custom skin. The phone packs 16GB of internal storage can not be expanded.
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ZTE has not revealed precise pricing info yet, though it did mention that both handsets will retail for sub-$250 and will circulate in selective markets by summer.
