ZTE today unveiled the ZTE Blade D6 and its first ever smart home gateway, the ZTE SmartHome, at the Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015. The ZTE SmartHome enables users to communicate with home devices from light switches to baby monitors via wireless protocol, ZigBee, and as well as 4G LTE connections. A mobile application for smartphones and tablets allows control over a broad range of smart home devices, covering home management, home security, and health and safety.

Weighing just 120g and at 6.95mm thin, the 5-inch high-definition ZTE Blade D6 squeezes performance into a slim high-grade 6013 aluminum alloy body. The Blade D6 runs off a qual-core 1.3GHz chipset and 2GB of RAM, and comes out of the box with Android 5.0 Lollipop with the latest rendition of ZTE’s customizable user interface – MiFavor 3.2.

The Blade D6 sports an 88-degree wide-angle 5 megapixel front facing camera, and its ultra-high-definition 13 megapixel rear camera comes with True Tone flash. A number of pre-installed photography features, such as beautification options, a smile shutter function, high definition continuous shooting and auto panorama, add to the device’s camera experience.

A unique feature to the ZTE Blade D6 is its '3 in ' tray holder that can accommodate a micro SIM, as well as either an additional nano SIM or a micro SD card, all in the same tray holder.

Over the next few months, the Blade D6 will be made available in four color variants – pink, gold, gray and silver, across markets such as Australia, Russia and Japan.