ZTE announce the Grand X, priced at £189.99 prepay

An ICS device with them specs for under £200. Not bad. ZTE never cease to impress me.

u can get a G300 for under £100 and you can get ICS on that

seems a very good price point...

512mb ram? Bit disappointing since the similar LG Optimus 2X with a better camera is selling for £195 new at Expansys.

How this is any different to any other smartphone in regards to gaming is a mystery to me.

Sir_Didymus, on 18 July 2012 - 05:33 PM, said:

But you have to put up with LG and their uselessness at updating their handsets, 1gb of ram would have made a big difference I think even for a little extra cash

look at the htc one v. its selling for over £200

Sir_Didymus, on 18 July 2012 - 05:33 PM, said:

the screen resolution is better. I calculated it to have :
               256 (pixel density) compared to 233

Been waiting all year for this and expected 1gig RAM. All the hype by Zte so what's their hype gonna be like for the Zte Era.

Davidoff59, on 18 July 2012 - 06:54 PM, said:

yeah im still hoping the zte era comes out. it is similar size, but far superior

=(

Yeah the Era looks super nice, not sure what the price will be like though if it eventually emerges, hopefully ZTE will spread the vanilla ICS love to the Era too. Not sure about this to be honest, suppose it isn't a bad price but it's not super low either, baring in mind how old tegra2 is. I rekon they could have squeezed 1GB ram in there and made it a more enticing prospect. Still decent though

I must admit that I, too, am slightly disappointed by the ZTE Grand X specs vs price.  GSMArena had this handset listed with an 8MP rear camera (back when it was still know as the ZTE Mimosa), however, we now see the camera is only 5MP, also the small RAM size isn't brilliant.

If this phone had either just slightly better specs for the current £190 price, or these same specs. but with a price-tag of £150 or lower, I'd jump at it and get one straight away.  As it stands, though, I feel a little underwhelmed.

After such a phenomenal start with their ZTE Blade/Orange San Fran device, let's see how much disappointment ZTE can muster when they (finallly) release the ZTE Era.

Big story... then big disappointment. I'll wait for something else... oh hang on I have a G300, that will do for now.

WTF is that cheemeChata??

I'm also waiting for the ZTE Era, and hopefully it'll be released in the UK with the same specs that have already been advertised.

Maybe I'm easily pleased

I'll give one a go...

had a go on this phone at a shopping centre yesterday, and have to say its really smooth.  doesnt feel like a 512mb ram device

it will be sold on virgin only but i didnt see any bloatware on the device.  (i asked the pretty girls in the stand if the device comes, without any of virgin's bloatware, but they had no idea and only pointed to the info on the box and said "it does what it says on these boxes" :-D)

i only had time to check out the camera on the device, and noticed some functions missing, (which were in the galaxy nexus) - fast shutter time and funny faces.

Cool just spotted the device online on the virginmobile site under payG and it's going for £199.99. Guessing that includes the top-up