ZTE
Axon Pro
The
Axon's design looks like a mixture between HTC One M8 and OnePlus One
aesthetics – a full metal body with a dual camera setup on its back and stereo
front-firing speakers on its front. The handset measures at 154 x 75 x 9.3 mm and bears a 5.5-inch screen. The speaker grilles are
situated at the very top and very bottom of the device, squeezed between the
edge of the phone's body and the glass panel for the display. The screen area
itself is protruding out a bit, creating this “island” look that we've seen on
the OnePlus handsets before. The new Axon Pro variant is identical in looks,
but both phones differ in their internals, which we will get into next.
The
ZTE Axon Pro was the first phone to make use of Corning's brand-new
antimicrobial glass. Fusing the tough Gorilla Glass with an Ionic Silver Layer,
Corning promises that the phone will automatically get rid of nasty bacteria
for the whole lifetime of the device.
Axon
Pro variants feature phablet-class sized displays, with their diagonals
measuring at 5.5 inches. Their resolutions are pinned at 1080 x 1920 pixels for
the Axon and 1440 x 2560 pixels for the Axon Pro, which brings their pixel
densities to 400 ppi and 534 ppi respectively. The screens are of the TFT LCD
variety and made by Sharp.
ZTE
placed their bets on the slightly controversial Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 – a
64-bit, octa-core SoC, clocked at 2 GHz – and paired it with the generous 4 GB
of RAM. The phone used to come in a non-expandable 32 GB storage variant. Now,
ZTE expands the line with a 64 GB storage option, but still no microSD card
slot.
Axon
Pro rock the dual camera setup – the main 13 MP sensor is paired with a 2 MP
“assistant” snapper, which helps the camera take bokeh shots by providing extra
information about depth of field. On the front, the phones are equipped with 8
MP wide-angle snappers for those extra-detailed group selfies.
