ZTE Open contract Pricing | Available colors with specifications

We had written about Firefox OS- Mozilla’s open-source, browser-based mobile operating system and ZTE is all set to launch ZTE Open - first ever smartphone to have firefox mobile os. Mozilla corporation has clearly stated that they will not be competing high end devices and the introductory price of the ZTE Open is just  $90 which is equivalent to 69 euros. Today, ZTE Open is getting launched  in Spain.

ZTE has teamed up with Telecom operator Telefonica to offer ZTE handset with contract and it's going to cost 2.4 euros or $3/month.  Telefonica is offering balance of 30 euros with every device and you even get a 4GB micro-sim card free.

With contract	Without contract
2-year contract 2.4 euros or $3/month	69 euros or $90

If you are tempted by the pricing, let us remind you that it's an entry level phone and that ZTE Open uses cheapest and less powerful hardware compared to any lower budget android phone.

ZTE Open  key specs

• Dimenstion: 114 x 62 x 12.5mm
• Display: 3.5inch, HVGA.TFT screen
• 480 by 320 pixel touchscreen
• Memory: 512MB ROM, 256MB of RAM
• Bluetooth 2.1, accelerometer, ambient light sensor
• GPS, with AGPS, WIFI 802.11b/g/n
• Camera-Primary: 3.2 Megapixel
• Battery: 1200 mAH

ZTE Open available colors

The device is available in 3 vibrant colors - blue,orange and gray. After spain, ZTE  is planning to launch the phones in Venezuela and Colombia.

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Mozilla Firefox OS to launch First Smartphone - ZTE Open

One of the most awaited things coming up this year is the new Mozilla Firefox mobile Operating System with the Taiwanese company ZTE and their phone named Open. Mozilla Firefox is one of the leading open source companies which has a huge network of developers who contribute to its open source projects. Firefox is fairly known for its browser and its email client Thunderbird and now they are making an entry into the Smartphone OS market with the Firefox OS.

Firefox claims to access hardware of  phone with simple JavaScript which is a very unorthodox but brilliant concept of execution as a developer. The preview of the Firefox OS was shown in July 2012 and at first look itself the OS showed tremendous capability of being a tough competitor to the Android and the iOS operating systems.

Mozilla Firefox Mobile OS with the ZTE Open Phone

After the launch of the Ubuntu OS for mobiles, it will be really very interesting to see how Firefox gels into this field. It is quite surprising to see that Firefox Mobile OS is choosing a low budget smart phone as its entry device as most new OS are released with high end devices. The specs of the Open smartphone seem very ordinary and even low-budget Android have better specs but maybe that is the point Mozilla is trying to make with the Firefox Mobile OS that it doesnt need very high end specs to run their software.

ZTE Open Specs - Hardware

The chip powering the ZTE Open is Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7225A SOC with an A5 cortex CPU. ZTE Open is likely to get come out with 3.5 capacitive touchscreen and the processor clock speed is not revealed but has to be somewhere around 800 MHz.

The phone has a rear camera of 3.2 megapixel which is decent compared to todays standard of 5-8 megapixel phones. The smartphone comes with 256 Mb RAM and just 512 MBs of internal memory which is a major let down in today's date where 32GB is starting to become the norm. The phone will have the standard connectivity options like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G.

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