Smartphone Blade by ZTE is made in the classic shape. A case of the smartphone is made of plastic. The phone uses Android 2.1. Phone dimensions: width — 56.5 millimeters, height — 116 millimeters, thickness — 11.8 millimeters. Weight — 110 grams.
Diagonal of the color screen is 3.5 inches with a maximum screen resolution of 800x480 and 267 pixels per inch (PPI). The screen of the device has the automatic rotation function.
ZTE Blade is equipped with a 3.2–megapixel camera. The camera allows you to record video clips.
ZTE Blade runs on 1-core Qualcomm MSM7227, 600 MHz processor and Adreno 200 videoprocessor, has 0.5 gigabytes of built-in memory and 0.5 gigabytes of RAM. The phone has a slot for a memory card.
Capacity of Li-Ion battery is 1250 mA⋅h, this is approximately 192 hours of standby time and 4 hours of talk time.
The phone is also equipped with sensors of illumination and approaching. This gives additional functionality to the phone in various applications.
ZTE Blade was presented to the public on November 8, 2010.