Now I can say some more things:

The screen is a nice TFT LCD but not IPS as you have said.
It comes with USB cable, chinese plug and some instructions in a very stylish little box.
The video recording is very nice for the price tag, it records 720p video but the bitrate is not that high. Maybe with some other third party program it can reach nicer quality, dunno.
Photos are very nice, my Samsung Spica with 3,2 camera is worse than the same resolution pic in this phone.
The HDMI out works flawlesly and it outputs to 720p, or at least my TV says so. Anyways, I played a 720p movie and I considered it sharper than a standard 480p movie played from PC.

In my to-do list remains the way to install Google Play Store since it comes with Changhong Store, and here in Spain browsing chinese websites is waaay slow so the store ends not working at all.
The second task is to clean every chinese application which remains in the phone, even changing it to english language.

I managed to root it with the program Unlock Root 2.42 very easily(I assume it is the last verson now).

I hope more people with the same needs as me gives a chance to this phone because its specs are really enough for daily use, even playing ;D.

Thanks for this nice blog Ian!

P.S: Sorry for my english, I’m Spaniard LOL.

Last week I bought 2 Changhong Z-Me for US$100 each, one for me and the other for my girlfriend. I hope they arrive in two weeks in order to be able to tell people how is it.

I really know it is not as powerful as most of the chinese phones which are being released nowadays but I really bought it because it has HDMI mini port and that’s something very interesting for me. I only have a little doubt and it is that I don’t know whether the mobile will be capable of outputting HD resolution like 720p, at least. I wouldn’t want it to output just 480p, would be a pity…

see ya!