itel Zeno 200 is the low-cost lookalike of the iPhone 17 Pro and Honor 600 Pro

The Chinese company itel (part of the Transsion group, which also runs Tecno and Infinix) has often drawn inspiration from Cupertino and Samsung devices for its budget phones. And now the brand’s latest novelty returns to this strategy, eyeing champions such as the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, which themselves served as inspiring muses for the Honor 600 series.

However itel Zeno 200 has an edge over ultra-premium rivals: a rock-bottom price, since we’re talking about a low-cost phone under €100 (at the exchange rate).

itel Zeno 200: affordable and orange, eyeing Cupertino but costing less than €100 at the exchange rate

The phone’s aesthetics are clearly inspired: the photography module is characterized by a large rectangular island, which includes a dual camera and the LED flash. The Comet Orange colorway echoes Cupertino’s new orange shade, which in turn teased Honor for its 600 series.

Anyway the analogies with the big names end here since the front part breaks the magic with a waterdrop notch, an element now anachronistic and used only by low-cost models. The panel is a 6.75″ LCD unit with HD resolution, a 120 Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of up to 590 nits.

Under the hood the itel Zeno 200 houses the Unisoc T7250 chipset, backed by 4 GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128 GB of storage eMMC. The battery is a 5,000 mAh unit with 10W charging while the camera setup offers a 13 MP sensor, a secondary lens not specified and a 5 MP selfie camera.

Android 15 Go, IP65 rating and MIL-STD-810H military certification complete the picture. Zeno 200 was launched in India at around €89 at the exchange rate (₹9,999), a highly affordable figure.

What do you think of this gem? Is it or isn’t it a style icon with its flashy orange shade?