TracFone Wireless has just announced the arrival of the LG Optimus Zip, an entry-level sliding QWERTY keyboard-equipped Android smartphone that's set to become available with Gingerbread pre-installed. Its hardware features include a 3.2-inch HVGA resolution touchscreen display, an 800MHz single-core processor, 3.2-megapixel main camera, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS with A-GPS, and a built-in microSD card slot. It is expected to become available in stores in the next few weeks.
What Else You Need To Know:
- The LG Optimus Zip is actually the LG Enlighten a.k.a. LG Optimus Slider being sold by TracFone Wireless under a codename of sorts.
- There is no indication that the LG Optimus Zip will ever get an Android 4.0 ICS update.
Other sources
Why carriers keep insisting on their own phone names is beyond me…- Dusan Belic, Intomobile
- Android Guys
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- Entry-level LG Optimus Zip announced for TracFone
- Phone Arena
- LG Optimus Zip brings entry-level Android to TracFone
- Hot Cellular Phone
- TracFone Scores the LG Optimus Zip
- Into Mobile
- TracFone adds LG Optimus Zip
- Softpedia
- Entry-Level LG Optimus Zip Coming Soon to TracFone