In keeping with that vision, the ZTE Open ships with rather meager specs. It has a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, a 3.5-inch HVGA screen, 512MB of internal storage, and just 256MB of RAM – less RAM, in fact, than the desktop version of Firefox recommends. None of its other features are particularly noteworthy, either.
What makes up for its lackluster hardware, however, is its price. ZTE was selling the devices through its eBay stores for $79.99 in the US and £59.99 in the UK. That's roughly equivalent to the €69 that Telefónica's Movistar subsidiary sells it for in Spain, although Movistar bundles €30 of prepaid minutes.
The mobile space has just gotten a whole lot more interesting in recent years, where previous 800 lbs gorillas that seemed “untouchable” are now struggling,
with BlackBerry coming to mind as the main example, while Nokia, to a lesser extent, has seen their dominance in the phone market obliterated by the likes of Apple and Samsung. Not only that, the mobile operating system front has also changed a fair bit, where iOS and Android now dominate the market, with a small percentage of the share held by Windows Phone 8 and to an even smaller extent,
BlackBerry 10. Firefox, a name that is more often than not associated with browsers, have decided to take the plunge into the smartphone market by introducing the Firefox OS mobile operating system, and the ZTE Open is the handset to go along with it.
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