ZTE announces $250 dual-SIM Blade S6 smartphone

Chinese smartphone maker ZTE today announced its new ZTE Blade S6, a budget class dual-SIM LTE phone with Android Lollipop.

Under the hood is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset, 2GB of RAM, and an Adreno 405 GPU. The phone ships with 16GB of storage, but more can be added with the microSD card.

The phone, which appears to be designed with younger users in mind, sports a 5-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with 720p resolution. The user interface is dominated by ZTE’s MiFavor 3.0 Android overlay.

You can control certain functions using gestures. For instance the phone can sense gestures to play music, snap photos, or turn on the flashlight.

On the back of the phone is a 13-megapixel camera, and the selfie camera on the front is 5-megapixel with a wide-angle lens.

The LTE radio in the phone maxes out at 150 mbps in the lab, and there are two nano-SIM slots. Also inside is a Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac radio, Bluetooth 4.0, FM radio, and GPS. A 2,400mAh battery provides the power.

The phone measures 7.7 mm thick and will be available in matte silver and pink.

AliExpress will sell the ZTE Blade S6 has globally at $250. The phone will be coming to the U.S., but no carrier agreements have been announced yet.