Soon after launching the Small Fresh 5 smartphone in China, Shenzhen-based handset manufacturer ZTE on Wednesday launched a new smartphone, dubbed as the “ZTE Blade V7 Plus” in the Russian and Australian market. Unfortunately, the pricing details of the new ZTE Blade V7 Plus smartphone have not been revealed by the company yet. The ZTE Blade V7 Plus is now already made available for purchase in Russia and Australia in Platinum Grey and Ion Gold colour options. In the Australian market, the Platinum Grey colour variant is available from The Good Guys and Ion Gold colour variant is exclusive to JB Hi-Fi. The ZTE Blade V7 Plus is an upgraded version of the company’s previous Blade V7, which was launched back in February 2016. But it seems like that the company did not include any special features to this phone, only one significant feature on the smartphone include the addition of a fingerprint scanner.
Design wise, the ZTE Blade V7 Plus sports a full metal body with metal edges all around giving it a premium look. The new smartphone features a trio of capacitive navigation buttons and a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, located just middle of the device. The volume rockers are placed on the left-hand edge of the device, while the power/lock button is situated at the right-hand edge of the smartphone. A 3.5mm audio socket is placed on the very top edge of the smartphone. Two speaker grilles are seen at the bottom edge of the handset along with a microUSB charging port sitting in the middle. The rear panel of the handset houses a 13MP camera, LED flash module and fingerprint recognition button, while the top front panel features a 5MP selfie camera, sensors, and an earpiece.
Technically speaking, the ZTE Blade V7 Plus comes equipped with a 5.2-inch full-HD display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels and a scratch resistance 2.5D curved Corning Gorilla Glass coating on top of the display. The smartphone is powered by a 1.3 GHz MediaTek MT6753 octa-core processor paired with Mali-T720 image processing unit. In terms of memory, the Blade V7 Plus is backed up by a 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, which can be further expanded up to 128GB via microSD card. Talking about its software front, the smartphone runs on Google’s Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system and company’s custom UI skin running on top.
For photography, the ZTE Blade V7 Plus features a 13-megapixel rear camera with PDAF and an LED flash. On the front, it sports a 5-megapixel front-facing shooter for capturing selfies and making video calls.
In terms of connectivity, the ZTE Blade V7 Plus supports Hybrid dual-SIM configuration (Micro SIM + Nano SIM / microSD card), that means you can either use this as a dual-SIM phone without memory card option or single-SIM phone with memory card option. Apart from this, the smartphone also offers various connectivity options including 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS/A-GPS/GLONASS, FM Radio, USB OTG, a 3.5 mm audio jack and a 5 pin microUSB port for charging and data transfer. Sensors on the device include an Accelerometer, Fingerprint sensor (rear-mounted), Ambient light sensor and Proximity sensor. On the battery front, the new ZTE Blade V7 Plus comes packed with a decent 2540mAh battery that is rated to deliver up to 9 hours of talk time and 220 hours of standby time. Dimensionally, the handset measures at 146 x 72.5 x 7.95 mm and weighs 136 grams.
