The ZTE Blade V880 (also known as ''ZTE Lutea'') is a smartphone manufactured by

ZTE Corporation ZTE Corporation is a Chinese partially state-owned technology company that specializes in telecommunication. Founded in 1985, ZTE is listed on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. ZTE's core business is wireless, exchange, opt ...

for the Android platform. Unveiled by

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as ''San Francisco'', it went on sale on 21 September 2010, with a white variant released later. By 2011, more than 8 million Blade handsets have been sold in more than 50 countries worldwide. The ZTE Blade II V880+ was released in March 2012 with Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7227A 1 GHz processor and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The Blade III was released in September 2012 with a 4 in screen, 4 GB storage, a 1600 mAh Li-Ion battery and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Blade brand has since been applied to successor models such as Blade C and Blade L.

Variants

In some countries, the ZTE Blade is available in customized versions with different cameras and touchscreen displays and often bears a different brand name: * Belarus: velcom offered ZTE Blade unlocked with TFT display, 3.2 MPX camera and 512 MB (256 MB before October 2011) RAM. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. * Belgium:

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offers the ZTE Blade unlocked with a 3.2-megapixel camera, 512 MB RAM, and TFT capacitive touchscreen display under the name ''San Francisco'' with no brand or manufacturer. * Bulgaria:

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offers a branded Globul Z3 phone with Android 2.2 and a 3.2 MP camera. * China (mainland):

China Unicom China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. () or China Unicom () (CUniq in short) is a Chinese state-owned telecommunications operator. Started as a wireless paging and GSM mobile operator, it currently provides a range of services in ...

offers the ZTE Blade with 512 MB ROM and 256 MB RAM and a 3.2-megapixel camera called ''ZTE V880'' (GSM and WCDMA).

China Mobile China Mobile is the trade name of both China Mobile Limited () and its ultimate controlling shareholder, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. (, formerly known as China Mobile Communications Corporation, "CMCC"), a Chinese state-ownedSt ...

offers the ZTE Blade with 512 MB ROM and 512 MB RAM and 5.0 MP camera called ''ZTE U880'' compatible with TD-SCDMA.

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offers the ZTE Blade called ''ZTE N880'' (512 MB CDMA) compatible with CDMA2000. * Greece:

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offers the ZTE Blade, with a 3.2-megapixel camera and TFT capacitive touchscreen display, running Android 2.1 Eclair. Update to Android 2.2 FroYo is available. Officially, it comes with 256 MB RAM. However, there is a patch that reveals 256 MB extra RAM that seems to be locked. So despite customers buying it from Wind with 256 MB RAM, they have the ability to patch it and unlock the RAM in order to have 512 MB. * Finland:

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(

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) offers ZTE Blade with a 5.0-megapixel camera and TFT capacitive touchscreen display. * France:

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and

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offer the ZTE Blade with a

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touchscreen A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is often ...

display (

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for Orange and AMOLED for Bouygues), 512 MB

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and a 3.2 MP camera. It runs on Android 2.1 Eclair.

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also distributes the ZTE Blade but under the rebranded "Android Edition by SFR STARADDICT". * Germany: Base, an

E-Plus E-Plus was a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany. With more than 25 million subscribers, E-Plus was the third largest mobile operator in Germany, until the takeover from Telefónica Germany in October, 2014. Ownership E-Plus was ...

brand, offers the ZTE Blade under a different name. The device is called ''Base Lutea'' and has a 5.0-megapixel camera and TFT capacitive touchscreen display. * Hungary:

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offers the ZTE Blade with a

display, 512 MB

and a 3.2- MP camera. It runs on Android 2.1. Due to a faulty OS image, devices with only 256 MB of available RAM were distributed until middle December 2010, but an updated OS was later released to fix such devices.

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will also offer the ZTE Blade. * India:

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offers the ZTE Blade under the name ''Dell XCD35'', with a 3.2-megapixel camera and a TFT capacitive touchscreen display.

Idea Cellular Idea Cellular (commonly referred to as Idea, and stylised as ''!dea'') was an Indian mobile network operator based at Mumbai, Maharashtra. Idea was a pan-India integrated GSM operator and had 220.00 million subscribers as of June 2018. ...

also offers the Chinese model of ZTE Blade as ''Idea Blade'', with 256 MB RAM (not unlockable to 512 MB unlike other models), 3.2-megapixel camera and a TFT capacitive touchscreen display. Latest offering from ZTE in India is the Blade A2 Plus which comes with 5000mAh battery and is priced at Rs. 11,999. * Indonesia:

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offers the

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version of ZTE Blade N880s (256 MB CDMA) under the name ''SmartFren Wide'', followed by ''Telkom Flexi'', with a 3.2-megapixel auto focus camera, a capacitive touchscreen display, and 256 MB RAM. It runs Android 2.2 Froyo, and 2 Gb memory card. Later, a

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version of ZTE Blade with similar specs and running Android 2.2.2 was offered. * Japan:

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offers the Blade under the name ''SoftBank 003Z'', with a 5.0-megapixel camera, running Android 2.2 Froyo. * Lithuania:

Omnitel Telia Lietuva, a member of Telia Company group, is one of the largest telecommunication companies in the Baltic States. History Founded in 1991 by Juozas Kazickas as Litcom, Omnitel was Lithuania's first private telecommunications company. In ...

offers the Blade, with a 5-megapixel camera and TFT capacitive touchscreen display, running Android 2.2 Froyo. * Moldova:

Orange Moldova Orange Moldova is a subsidiary of Orange S.A. operating in Moldova since April 1998. The company is also an internet service provider and fixed voice services ( point-to-point) provider for business. At this time, Orange has GSM coverage of 99. ...

offers the ZTE Blade with an

display and a 3.2- MP camera. It runs Android 2.1 Eclair. * Netherlands, the:

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offers the ZTE Blade with an

display and a 5.0- MP camera. It runs Android 2.2 Froyo. * Philippines:

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began to offer the Blade as the '' Smart Netphone 701'' on September 1, 2011 as a platform to launch its "Smartnet" social network. It has a TFT capacitive touchscreen, 512 MB of RAM, and runs on Android 2.2 Froyo. * Poland:

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offer a version with 3.2-megapixel camera. Also offered by

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as ''Orange San Francisco'' and by Red Bull Mobile as ''RBM One'' (version with a 5.0-megapixel camera, OLED capacitive touchscreen and Android 2.2 Froyo). * Portugal: Optimus offers the ZTE Blade under the name ''Optimus San Francisco'', with a 3.2-megapixel camera and an OLED capacitive touchscreen display. Recently, Optimus provided an update to Android 2.2. TMN offers a customized version with a 5.0-megapixel camera and a TFT screen, under the name SAPO a5. The exterior design of the device was also changed. * Russia:

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offers Beeline E400 with TFT display, 3.2 MPX camera. It runs Android 2.2. * Spain:

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(76.6% belonging to

TeliaSonera Telia Company AB is a Swedish multinational telecommunications company and mobile network operator present in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Telia also owns TV4 Media which includes TV4 in Sweden, MTV Oy in Fi ...

) offers the Blade with a 3.2-megapixel camera and TFT capacitive touchscreen display running Android 2.2 Froyo for €0 with any contract. * Sweden: Tele2

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offers the ZTE Blade with a

display, 512 MB

and a 3.2- MP camera. It runs on Android 2.2 Froyo and was previously offered with Eclair 2.1. An update to Android 2.2 FroYo is available for Telia and Comviq customers who purchased the device with 2.1. Telia is again offering the phone. A version running Android 2.1 is available in stores from ZTE Sweden without affiliation to any network. * Switzerland:

and Valora offer a version with a 3.2-megapixel camera and TFT capacitive touchscreen display. * UK: White and grey versions are sold with TFT or OLED screens. The only way to check which screen the phone has is to look in Settings > About Phone > BUILD. * USA: Sold as ''FTV phone'' for 'Fashion TV'. *In European countries: Named ''Orange San Francisco'' on Orange U.K., Optimus Portugal,

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, Orange Slovakia,

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and

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Reviews

Reviews of the ZTE Blade have been positive due to the number of features offered while maintaining a low price. The screen in particular received praise, while the camera/camcorder quality was identified as one of the few downsides to the device.

Community reception

In the annual handset opinion survey of The Best non-

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Device of 2010, organised by

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forum, the ZTE Blade won a total of 24.66% votes, placing it first among the 32 handsets including

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and

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's flagship phone

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, placing them on the second and third position right behind ZTE Blade, as judged by forum users. Various websites, mainly MoDaCo and

, have created a very large modifications scene around the Blade. Offering various custom ROMs (such as de-branded ROMs, for the re-branded devices) which remove all software that phone companies put on the device like applications and games, etc., or upgraded software versions (like Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, or Jelly Bean) which do not come on the device in its stock configuration. Users who flash custom ROMs void their warranty and take risks in doing so, however it is possible to restore the original stock ROM. *Android 2.2 (Froyo) is appearing on the Blade but with only certain carriers/re-branded devices. It is also available through custom ROMs such as Swedish Spring and an improved version, Portuguese Spring. *Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) has also been released on the Blade through

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7, and modified ROMs originally made for the ZTE Libra. *Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is being worked on through ColdfusionX, unofficial CyanogenMod 9, ICS4blade project, and later several builds and ports of modified ROMs like AOKP (Android Open Kang Project) or

MIUI MIUI (pronunciation: ''Me You I'') is an Android (operating system), AndroidFork (software development), -based mobile operating system developed and maintained by Xiaomi independently of Google exclusively for its smartphones. MIUI includes var ...

V4. * Android 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 (Jelly Bean) is available as an unofficial port of CyanogenMod 10, 10.1, 10.2 and several builds and ports of another popular aftermarket ROMs like AOKP ( Android Open Kang Project), Paranoid Android, or

V4.1. * Android 4.4 (KitKat) based on CyanogenMod 11 is also available for testing, but it's work in progress (both Blade port and CyanogenMod 11 itself) and not suitable for daily use, yet. At first, because of the lack of essential components such as

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libraries for ARMv6, Blade running Android 4.0+ lacks hardware video acceleration. However, the fix has been found and the current Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean ROMs can be considered as fairly stable ROM for daily use, as all the major features have worked and been fixed.

Variants

Reviews

Community reception

See also

References

External links