ZTE Smooth: Palm Pre Android Round 2

• Rob Jackson
• 15 years ago

At the beginning of the month we saw the Alcatel OT-980 “slide in with Android” and when it was spotted at MWC the similarities to the Palm Pre were uncanny. It wasn’t the most exciting phone on the planet, but this entire range of form factor has been avoided by Android-making manufacturers thus far; now ZTE joins Alcatel in the efforts to fill the gap.

The ZTE Smooth is an Android 1.6 device that, as we explained, looks an awful lot like a certain device running WebOS:

According to 163.com, the ZTE Smooth will be available starting in August. Some of the specs include:

• 2.8-inch touchscreen
• 240×320 pixel resolution (QVGA)
• Wi-Fi
• FM Radio
• GPS Navigation
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Android 1.6

Given the specs I would ex(spec)t <—-see what i did there?—– the ZTE Smooth to be an affordable Android phone, but at this point we’re not sure where or with whom it will launch.

[Via 163.com (translated to English)]