ZTE Blade V7, Blade V7 Lite with metal body announced

At the ongoing MWC 2016 in Barcelona, ZTE has announced two new Blade series smartphone, the Blade V7 and Blade V7 Lite. Both sports a full metal unibody design.

ZTE Blade V7
The ZTE Blade V7 comes with 5.2-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS 2.5D curved glass display and is powered by 1.3GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6752 64-bit processor with Mali-T720 GPU and 2GB RAM. On-baord storage is 16GB, which can be increased via microSD card. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

It sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, PDAF, and 5-megapixel front facing camera. For connectivity there is dual-SIM 4G LTE with VoLTE, WiFI 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and USB OTG support, and is fueled by 2500mAh battery.

ZTE Blade V7 Lite
The ZTE Blade V7 Lite has a 5-inch HD (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS 2.5D curved glass display and is equipped with 1GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6735P 64-bit processor w/ Mali T720 GPU, 2GB RAM, 16GB internal internal expandable storage, 8-megapixel rear and front facing camera, both accompanied by LED flash. The dual-SIM phone runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow and supports 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS connectivity. It is backed by 2500mAh battery and also packs a fingerprint scanner.

The ZTE Blade V7 will be available in Germany, Spain, Ethiopia, South Africa and Mexico in Summer 2016, while the Blade V7 Lite will be initially available in Russia, followed by Mexico, Spain, Germany and Thailand by spring 2016. They come in Gold and Silver colors, and there is no word on pricing.