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if it's all about the money and then you might want to think about looking at the ZTE open sea this is a Firefox smartphone that we first saw at Mobile World Congress and it is inexpensive in fact unlocked you can get it for eighty dollars about 80 pounds and 84 euros now overall you are looking at a bare-bones phone which is why the price is able to be so low the specs are just enough to survive you've got a 4-inch display right over here you've got a 3 megapixel camera on the back no flash no front facing camera and annoyingly no auto focus now that isn't ZTE s fault that is just not turned on in the operating system yet but we'll get to that in a minute the phone itself is small like i said and pocketable it's got a soft touch matte coating on the back I've got it here in black but in Barcelona and we also saw it in bright blue and a bright orange and those were very pretty we've got some silvery accents along the Seine volume rocker here you charge up your phone here and when you pop off the back cover you've got a microSD card slot that will take up to 32 gigabytes in external storage 1400 milliamp hour battery and a full size SIM card slot now the phone only supports gsm + 3g speeds for now but the next version of firefox is going to turn on cdma support for those networks and also 4g LTE support the Firefox OS is pretty easy to navigate you've got your static icons here on the bottom including an FM radio you have a lot of collections of apps and folders and you can even add your own when you press and hold down there called smart collections there are other games and apps you can access through the marketplace you also have your social networks like Twitter and Facebook a note-taking app calendar and alarm clocks plus maps this is definitely not a high-performing phone the resolution is a little bit weak image quality was pretty poor and even though there is a dual-core processor on here I found the phone pretty laggy so again this is mostly for first timers who are just looking for a very inexpensive starter smartphone I'm Jessica doll court for cnet you can read even more about ZTE open sea at cnet com