ZTE brings thin Smartphone Grand Memo 2 LTE

ZTE launches its Grand Memo 2 LTE, a new Android Smartphone with a large display in the market. The focus of the manufacturer is to use the Smartphone easily; in addition the device has the latest version of Android and LTE support. The Chinese manufacturer ZTE has unveiled a successor to its Smartphones Grand memo. The Grand Memo 2 LTE has an even slightly larger screen than its predecessor, an improved front camera and the new user interface Mifavor 2.3.

With only 7.2 mm, it is one of the thinnest Android Smartphones available in the market. The 6 -inch screen has a resolution of 1,280 x 720 pixels, giving a pixel density of 244 ppi. Inside the Smartphones Snapdragon Qualcomm processor 400 is there, but it is not clear which model how many cores are working. The clock rate also has not announced by ZTE.

The Grand Memo 2 LTE has 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of built-in flash memory. Whether the Smartphone has a slot for micro SD cards, two slots are available in total. One could for the SIM card, and the other may be for a memory card. The device supports UMTS on frequencies 900 and 2100 MHz, and LTE on unknown bands.

Wireless dominates the Smartphone of 802.11a/b/g/n at both frequencies 2.4 and 5.0 GHz; also the new fast standard ac is supported. Bluetooth runs in version 4.0, a GPS receiver and an infrared transmitter are installed. The camera on the back has 13 megapixels and a BSI sensor from Sony. The front camera has been upgraded by ZTE, it is now has 5 megapixels instead of 1 as the first Grand memo and hence it is suitable for self-portraits.

ZTE has installed on the Grand Memo 2 LTE a good camera app with numerous setting options. Good like us have also aids such as the scale at which the user can align the viewfinder image correctly. The quality of the photos we could not be conclusively assessed without an external monitor. The Grand Memo 2 is also known as LTE comes with Android in the current version 4.4.2 Kitkat and runs smoothly through the menus.

The user interface of ZTE is more colorful than that of a pure AOSP - Androids and provides the user with some advanced configuration options also. Apart from a special child mode and a glove mode, there is the possibility to record telephone numbers in a blacklist and block the incoming unwanted calls. Thus, the user is protected against unwanted and annoying calls. About an authorization manager the user also has more control over his data, even an Adblocker is preinstalled.

The housing of the Smartphone measures 161.5 x 83 mm and is 7.2 mm thin. The distance between the display and the edge is very less, according to ZTE; it utilize for the LCD screen of almost 80 percent of the front of the device. The built-in battery has a nominal charge of 3,200 mAh; according to ZTE, the battery consumption has fallen by 30 percent.

An HD video to be played up to 16 hours, which is not clear how this value was measured. The Grand Memo 2 LTE offers some interesting features and a large screen. Especially the camera software and the advanced security features we liked. A price for the device has not yet mentioned by ZTE, the launch will take place in April 2014 first in China.