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Guest Mellerle

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ZTE Blade aka Base Lutea will be available from 1 December at Base.

http://blog.base.de/base-lutea/

Sounds like the Japanese Version with 5MP camera and LED flash. Hopefully we will get Froyo on this Blade.

Price is 14€/month as 2year pay monthly contract.

14€ *24 =336€ for phone and 3G flatrate.

Guest rjm2k

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ZTE Blade aka Base Lutea will be available from 1 December at Base.

http://blog.base.de/base-lutea/

Sounds like the Japanese Version with 5MP camera and LED flash. Hopefully we will get Froyo on this Blade.

Price is 14€/month as 2year pay monthly contract.

14€ *24 =336€ for phone and 3G flatrate.

ZTE said no froyo for Europe for some reason, but fingers crossed!

Guest Freekers

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No.

Too bad, I live very close to the German border. However, I heard that also with pay as you go mobiles, you have to register them to your house address wich has to be a German address and also you need to be a citizen of Germany to buy one (have a german passport).

Guest hero protagonist

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I heard that also with pay as you go mobiles, you have to register them to your house address wich has to be a German address and also you need to be a citizen of Germany to buy one (have a german passport).

Nope that's not true. However German law requires that the authorities have a valid contact associated with every phone number. So you need to provide some form of offical id (e.g. a European passport) when you buy a sim card (or a payg contract which includes a sim)

Guest blauwal26

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14 Euros a month for 200 MB in a terrible network, is that really going to sell a lot?

Guest oh!dougal

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ZTE Blade aka Base Lutea will be available from 1 December at Base.

http://blog.base.de/base-lutea/

Sounds like the Japanese Version with 5MP camera and LED flash. Hopefully we will get Froyo on this Blade.

...

That blog does mention an LED Flash.

But the linked Press Release doesn't.

And the pic on the Japanese website didn't seem to show a flash ...

Hmmmm.

And the Press Release also seems to mention 32gb SD card support ... hmmmm.

Wait and see what's in the box, folks!

However, with ever wider distribution of the thing, it must be that spare batteries, cases, and stuff will become available.

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Guest IPB_Refugee

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If I understand it correctly, you will have to take a 2-year contract. (In German: "Mobilfunkvertrag im Tarif „Mein BASE“, 24 Monate Mindestlaufzeit." Source: firmenpresse.de/pressinfo303290.html )

That means: 24x14€ = 336€

Surely not interesting for people outside Germany (like me).

Besides: It is not clear, if the Lutea has an OLED or a TFT screen. And there is more:

"Die Zusatzdienstleistung erlaubt nur das Surfen mit einem UMTS- bzw. GPRS-fähigem Mobiltelefon ohne angeschlossenen Computer. Nicht für WLAN nutzbar. Die Nutzung von Voice over IP ist ausgeschlossen."

That means: Tethering and Voice over IP are not allowed.

Kind regards

Wolfgang

EDIT: According to a BASE employee, the Lutea has 300MB RAM and indeed a LCD screen. (Found this information in a different forum.)

Edited by IPB_Refugee
Guest createdinChina

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Too bad, I live very close to the German border. However, I heard that also with pay as you go mobiles, you have to register them to your house address wich has to be a German address and also you need to be a citizen of Germany to buy one (have a german passport).

hope so！！！！ i will hire a purchasing agent and have it mailed to china.......regret to say blade is made by an chinese co.。。。。zte

Guest Sebastian404

Guest Sebastian404

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This is awesome news, now I can produce a de-based ROM..

debased.... get it? no never mind.

Guest hero protagonist

Guest hero protagonist

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debased.... get it? no never mind.

oh come on...that hurts... :P

Guest IPB_Refugee

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Sounds like the Japanese Version with 5MP camera and LED flash. Hopefully we will get Froyo on this Blade.

The camera doesn't have a flash. That has already been corrected in Base's blog.

Guest a628

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ZTE Blade aka Base Lutea will be available from 1 December at Base.

http://blog.base.de/base-lutea/

Sounds like the Japanese Version with 5MP camera and LED flash. Hopefully we will get Froyo on this Blade.

Price is 14€/month as 2year pay monthly contract.

14€ *24 =336€ for phone and 3G flatrate.

i can't read the German...and i from China...

BASE_Kathrin

25 Nov, 2010

@Johannes, Deine Fragen beantworten wir gern:

1, zum Verkaufsstart im Dezember wird das angepasst sein

2, es basiert tatsächlich auf dem ZTE Blade, ist jedoch mit einer hochauflösenderen 5 Megapixel Kamera bestückt.

3, Android Version 2.1

4, dazu informieren wir zum Verkaufsstart

Guest hero protagonist

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i can't read the German...and i from China...

BASE_Kathrin

25 Nov, 2010

@Johannes, Deine Fragen beantworten wir gern:

--here are the answers to your questions

1, zum Verkaufsstart im Dezember wird das angepasst sein

-- that will be corrected corrected by the time we start selling the thing (prbly talking about an error in the description)

2, es basiert tatsächlich auf dem ZTE Blade, ist jedoch mit einer hochauflösenderen 5 Megapixel Kamera bestückt.

-- actually you're right, it's based on the ZTE Blade but features a higher resultion cam (5MP)

3, Android Version 2.1

4, dazu informieren wir zum Verkaufsstart

-- we'll share that information by the ttime we start selling it

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Guest emvau

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I wonder, if the cam of lutea will work with custom Roms. Are there different drivers?

Guest Sebastian404

Guest Sebastian404

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I wonder, if the cam of lutea will work with custom Roms. Are there different drivers?

Has anyone got a device we can dump? then we can find out...

But the answer should be that the most recent ROMS SHOULD support newer cameras...

Guest Lew247

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What I'd like to know is where you can buy parts for it from

I reckon the camera modules should be simple enough to swap out, if so we could take out the 3 and put in a 5MP cam providing the drivers work

Guest stevve33

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Has anyone got a device we can dump? then we can find out...

But the answer should be that the most recent ROMS SHOULD support newer cameras...

I got my Lutea Today need some help to dump the ROM.

Build Number is : P729KV1.0.0B03

Guest stevve33

Guest stevve33

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Try this.

I did , but i get a Error ( Device not Found ) its shown in Hardware Manager ( Windows 7 )

The Terminal Method shows also an Error ( No Permission )

Guest Sebastian404

Guest Sebastian404

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I did , but i get a Error ( Device not Found ) its shown in Hardware Manager ( Windows 7 )

The Terminal Method shows also an Error ( No Permission )

Try http://android.podtwo.com/romdump/

You might be better off using method 2 if you can't get adb working.

Drop me a pm if you need help.

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