Phone with the new Firefox OS 1.3 for $ 100: ZTE Open C
The other day , news was published on Habré that Mozilla released an update for its mobile operating system Firefox OS 1.3. And almost immediately, ZTE released a hundred-dollar smartphone with this OS, the smartphone was called ZTE Open C.
As for the OS itself, there were a lot of improvements / added. And what does the smartphone itself represent? What developers could offer the buyer, evaluating their device at only $ 100? It turns out that the smartphone is quite interesting for itself, it’s not just a “dialer”.
For comparison, let's recall what was the first phone based on Firefox OS, ZTE Open :
- Capacitive TFT display with a resolution of 320 * 480 pixels and a diagonal of 3.5 inches;
- Single-core Qualcomm MSM7225A ARM Cortex-A5 processor with a core frequency of 1 GHz;
- 256 MB RAM;
- 512 MB of internal memory;
- 3 MP camera;
- microSD card slot with supported capacities up to 32 GB;
- 1200 mAh battery
- Wireless communication modules.
Price: $ 80 ( now $ 70 ).
Now the features of ZTE Open C :
- Touch screen with a resolution of 800 * 480 pixels and a diagonal of 4 inches;
- 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 ARM Cortex-A7 processor;
- 512 MB RAM;
- 4 GB of internal memory;
- 3 MP camera;
- 1400 mAh battery;
- Support for HSPA + networks, wireless modules WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS module and more.
Price: $ 100 .
As you can see, no super-bells and whistles, however, for $ 100 it is a fairly functional smartphone that allows you to surf on the Web, play games, and, of course, make calls / chat.