ZTE has officially announced the ZTE V3, an all metal-body smartphone available in three editions – we have the ZTE V3 Energy Edition, ZTE V3 Extreme Edition and the ZTE V3 Youth Edition.
All three devices will debut in China and are priced at CNY 1299 ($210), CNY 1499 ($240) and CNY 999 ($160) respectively; they would be available starting today (July 29th) from Jingdong and the company’s official online store.
All three ZTE V3 (ZTE Mighty 3) sports a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) FHD display, powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor paired with 2GB of RAM and 16GB space of internal storage. There is a microSD. Card slot for expanding storage up to 128GB.
The main camera is a 13MP f/2.2 snapper with BSI sensor and 5P lens; the front camera is a 5MP snapper with f/2.2 aperture and 88-degree wide angle lens for selfies and video chats. The fingerprint scanner can be found just below the rear camera.
Dimension stands at 155.3 x 77.2 x 8.55mm, weight around 160 grams, the device is backed by a non-removable 300mAh battery which can provide 350 hours of standby time and runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop OS Nubia OS 3.1 which is based on Android 5.1 Lollipop OS.
You might be wondering what the differences are between the ZTE V3 Energy, Extreme and Youth Editions. Starting with the colour option(s) – the Youth Edition and Energy Edition would be available in Silver option only while the Extreme Edition is available in Gold colour options only.
The other being the fact that the ZTE V3 Youth Edition supports 4G connectivity in line with China Unicom bands while the ZTE V3 Energy Edition and ZTE V3 Extreme Edition supports all network bands in China.
It is obviously no coincidence that ZTE has decided to announce the ZTE V3 Editions the same day the Meizu M2 went official. ZTE and Meizu have not been in the best of terms of recent, with the former taking the latter to court over the round capacitive home buttons copied used on its devices.
