if so i have not been able to find out. hardware wise the phones are the exact same (snapdragon 600MHz CPU, GSM radio, 3G data capable, 5MP camera, Capacitive TFT LCD screen, etc) but every attempt at flashing a Blade ROM of any generation (1, 2 and 3) result in a 'stuck at ZTE logo' condition. either what i am flashing lacks the boot.img or kernel or something went wrong somewhere else..i at least expected to get stuck at the boot logo not the ZTE screen
Racer ROMs (the ZTE Racer is almost a dead ringer lookalike to the Avail/Merit phone) also freeze at the ZTE logo.