Itel A06, New Entry Level Phone Now Available in Zimbabwe

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itel A06

If you had asked us 5 years ago if a decent full featured smartphone would ever be price anything less than $100, we’d have called you joker. But technology improves in jumps, and today, in 2024 you can get a decent smartphone for $70

Ofcourse, the expensive stuff has got even better so most of us would not even consider trying these low cost devices, even for a second or emergency phone. But they might surprise.

This is what we though when itel announced these past few days that its new entry level smartphone, the itel A06 is now available in Zimbabwe. Yes, it’s retailing for $70.

It unapologetic about borrowing iPhone looks. The name also feels borrowed from the entry level Samsung Galaxy A series.

It’s a basic smartphone

Extreme affordability to this extent also means low capacity features on all fronts. It comes with just 32GB storage, just 2GB RAM, an 8MP camera on the back, 5MP for the selfie camera, and a Quadcore limited processor. But remember these features were on phones priced at more than $100 not very long ago!

Yes, you’re probably never going to consider this as your main phone. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t save you in an emergency when you other fancy toy has been nicked, or just broken. Or maybe you could buy it for that child who won’t leave your phone alone. Or for a parent who doesn’t really care about the power a smartphone should pack today.

We can’t wait to get our hands on this one so we can put it through the paces and share what think. In the meantime here are the…

itel A06 full specs

Storage32GB
RAM2GB (plus 2GB extended)
ProcessorUnisoc SC7731E
4-core Arm Cortex-A7@1.3GHz
Battery4000mAh charging at 5W with a type C connector
Cameras8 megapixels on the back
5 megapxiels on the front
Android version14 – Go Edition
Display6.6 inches, IPS LCDwith a water-drop notch
Fingerprint sensorOn the back

Again, a basic smartphone

Unlike many smartphones released today, even entry level ones, the itel A06 doesn’t have 4G. This is a 3G phone.

Also, unlike many modern smartphones that are coming with octa-core processors, this one is quad-core with (4 Cortex-A7 at 1.3GHz for the geeks among you).

So, yes, a basic phone that you should buy for basic functionality.

Techzim has a smartphone online shop, so like other phones, you can buy this one and have it delivered to you anywhere in Zimbabwe. You can buy it here online or contact our sales team on this WhatsApp number: +263715068543

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  1. 2gb not enough

    i understand why this phone exists….but with just 2gb ram it will make it unusable….the operating system will leave nothing for any app….it’s probably better to just to have a dumb phone run WhatsApp and browser with huge battery you can charge once a week

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  2. Dzidzai

    Among the most expensive things in the smartphone is Ram. Virtual RAM will never make up for it unless Hardrive technology is so adanved that the read and fetch bus times are comparable to RAM. That would be one expensive hardrive.

    For the price you get what you pay for, its really a decent phone, that has the looks to turn heads. It would make a decent backup phone for power users. I would totally rock this, or get it for my daughter, she goes into form 1 next year, can you imagine.

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  3. Megaton

    Funny how every phone below $300 is an entry level phone in the west lol

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  4. Dzidzai

    How to make a local smartphone.

    Raw Materials:

    Gold for the antenna we have.

    Aluminium for the casing we have, I cannot remember the name of the ore itself, is it bauxite?

    Silicon for the electrical waffers, Glass for the screen all comes from Sand. PG Glass we have, they have had to diversfy into hardware but these are the original glass people. Fun fact, we won a PG Glass competition. I used to be an non executive director in one of our several companies. Then someone who worked for him stole it. Then we recovered it and sold it in time to pay for roora. I got married in December, had graduated in October of the same year. It all happened so fast. In shouldn’t have paid my brother back because that was part of my director benefits, don’t mind to do it though, right thing to do, brothers. It was a Mazda BT50, kkkkk.

    CPU you can outsource to Snapdragon or a like company, octa-core standard.

    Ram same, but it would be better to see how it can be made, we have lots of engineering students handy with Mathlab, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Indesign, GIMP…..

    Software, to go with Android or to use a custom Linux Fork like the iPhone with VM running android, is this even possible nor practical?

    Voila, 80% made local phone. Good are seldom 100% produced in one place. That iPhone may have a Samsung part. With cars though Germans are really efficient with their domestic industry. If you open its all German, Siemens, Bosch.

    However, with all their engineering prowess they need Lithium from Zimbabwe for their i series, that’s why they bought a mine in Zimbabwe, ask them?

    Some times it just takes an imagination. Fairey tales are there to be written.

    We will call it the X1 because X3 has a copyright, its a space shooter and trading game, the only Issue I had was it was heavy on the CPU and Graphics for that time. Then better games came out, I forget their name but you know them.

    Infinity Ward

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    1. Cobra iComms

      Copper for the wiring we have.

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  5. Jack

    I bought my son in ECD a refurbished Vivo for $22. It has 4G and runs his kids games. This is why Itel shops that were all over town are dropping in numbers. For the same price you can get a superior Huawei or Oppo refurb.

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    1. Dzidzai

      If I bought my daughter a Refurb she would look at me funny, no thanks. She needs quality, for me at the least expensive like this Itel. So I will sacrifice something.

      Refurbs are for me, for Dad. My HP M9 Envy AMD FX Audio by Beats by Doctor Dre. its a Refurb, landed cost about $3000. I’m not afraid to say its too of the range, a touch screen until someone in Honde sat on it, that lady from the South, I heard saying to some boys, mubhegi mune laptop, can you imagine.

      I had to send it to my US Address because Amazon does not ship directly to Zimbabwe, then DHL it. Then it arrived, an investment because it was for work as it was for play, now I get to share it with J section

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  6. Go LTE or go home

    3G hakuzi kusaiza here?

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    1. L.S.M Kabweza

      🤣

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  7. Santiago

    This is nonsense itel yagumirwa

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  8. Fast

    We can’t be talking of 3G in this era worse still on a new release.

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  9. Ctrl Alt Del

    3g network is a No No

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  10. User001

    The ideal itel customer probably is;

    1. Someone who is unemployed or semi-employed(is that does exist)

    2. Doesn’t care much about specs on a phone (Quad-core in these times is a no)

    3. Cares more about battery life

    4. They aren’t tech savy( These guys don’t event know the basics)

    4. (b) They call WhatsApp the internet and they pay someone to load virus infected songs into their devices.
    Heck!! They don’t even know a google account.

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  11. Cde Ernesto che guveira

    3G marara makore ano nxaaaa

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  12. Itel critic

    The price is too much for piece of scrap like this, Itel P38 chaiyo inoita 70 apa iine bigger battery, aka ka a06 katodhura for the specs it offers.

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  13. Phone master

    Kutozoteedzera iPhone. First the ITEL s23+ back cover looks like a 3plate pro max iphone and the front looks like an s24 Samsung, now this itel a06 back cover also looks like iphone 14 with those 2 diagonal cameras, and the name a06 is a obviously copied to confuse users who know samsung A0 series (a02, a03,a04,a05)

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  14. Jonso

    Atleast yakanaka kumashure rather than those ugly round designs dze camera area

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