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Today we have a very exciting smartphone, and it's exciting for one very specific reason: this is the axon 20 5g from ZTE. This phone is not here. It is not in North America. I mean it's here in front of me, but it's not in North America, it's not in western markets. It's in China, I believe exclusively at the moment.

It's a little vision into the future. This is the world's first smartphone, with an under display front-facing camera. Now we've covered this. A lot on the loo later show downstairs. I've been following along as different companies have rushed to be the first to actually exhibit to actually uh demonstrate this technology in a commercially available product.

This is the first one. It's in a box you can. You can buy this in China right now and the other cool part about it is that this one is not that expensive, they're selling this product between four and five hundred dollars for the higher spec version of it when you do the conversion from Chinese currency to USD. So it's fascinating to see developments like this in their infancy in the first commercial product and then also to recognize that innovation doesn't necessarily have to take place at the premium price tags. Every time and increasingly it seems to be happening in devices that are more sort of mid-range from a pricing perspective, so anyways axon, 25g Albert Einstein on the box, which, if that doesn't get you going, I mean logic, will get you from a to b.

Imagination will take you everywhere. Can we get a fact check on that? Can we see? We have the variant with six gigs of ram 128 gigs of storage.5G is right in the name: axon 25g, no notch no hole punch now the way they do. This is by doing some fancy stuff with the pixels in the region. Over top the front facing camera. Super glossy mirror, look and finish.

This. Is your camera module a bunch of different camera units, 64 megapixels, uh optical stabilization? The device actually feels fairly premium. I think this is a metal construction on the bottom. We have an USB type-c connector speaker unit and that's also where you're going to install your sim card. I believe there's expandable storage here as well.

They do include a case by the looks of it fairly standard, clear case. This has a kind of texture to it for some reason on the inside and then a VIP card. What am I a VIP of? I don't know all right. We have a power brick, which looks to be a somewhat quick charge power. Brick.

Do we list the wattage? It is a 30 watt charger, that's coming straight from willy dew, so I don't know about you uh. I believe it. I believe it you can decide for yourself if it's worthwhile to believe that. Furthermore, I believe it is, I believe, in believing in willy. Do thatbe a thumbs up, ladies and gentlemen, also in the package USB type c to type a connector for the 30 watt power, brick and then last up.

What is this? Oh, a little adapter type c to mini jack for your headphone connection, which is kind of important for a device in this price range. All right. Let's go ahead and see if this has any power it do we catch a buzz. I understand the makings of a budget smartphone in 2020. I understand the spec sheet you're used to seeing with a smartphone around this price point in 2020.

Furthermore, I've seen it all, I'm going to say it straight away. Furthermore, I am interested in this one specific innovation. Furthermore, I am interested to finally catch a real-life glimpse of this sort of there, but almost not front-facing camera. So a couple different options for security. You have faced unlock, which is going to use that in display uh front facing camera, you have fingerprint, which is also in display it's an OLED display actually and then, of course, password.

Maybe I'll do the face. One! Hmm, let me view the fingerprint as well. It's in the expected location, I've experienced the motorized front-facing camera face, unlock, that's a bit slow because the thing has to pop up and then unlock. I wonder if there's anything that has to happen here actually uh it's fast, and I can't in this lighting can oh, I can kind of see it all right. Okay, so that works.

We are in, so this is one of those tricks where you see you have the darker wallpaper in order to diminish the appearance of any imperfection that you might be able to pick up on the portion of screen. That goes over top the front-facing camera, and we're definitely looking at generation one here in the form of this device now by default. The theme of the phone is all very dark, dark mode and it sort of does a good job of hiding the region in which the camera is housed. Underneath the display, when you switch over to light mode, or I guess you could call standard mode, then you can start to pick up the region in which that camera lives, because the screen has a slightly different appearance to it. So I'll show you what I'm talking about right here, so you can see the pixels.

They look a little different and this is highlighted when you have a light background now. If I go ahead and switch that back over to dark mode- and it should be a little more difficult to pick it up, you start to almost see the camera itself right. It's. This is a difficult one right, we're super early tech here, and you know me I'm always trying to encourage the progress, the development of these new features, which eventually will uh progress to a point where this could be invisible ZTE they want it to be. First, that's what this device is about.

It's always the case in technology. If you want to be first, you make certain compromises in the early stages. What's weird about this, for me is what is the alternative, even if I see a little slightly pixelated section. Is that better or worse than seeing the cutout or seeing the hole punch? I am an early adopter I like to have that new technology, and even if it's not perfect, the alternative wasn't really perfect either. Is it more or less distracting than having the actual hole punch or having a teardrop style? It's certainly not as evident you kind of have to look a little more closely to pick it up, but then some people may be annoyed thinking to themselves.

Well, it's not perfect yet, so I don't want it, yet I'll search for a recent episode of Lou later uh will just say something interesting, because I should have wondered where the earpiece was, but it's one of these display earpieces, so you can hold it up to your head. But as far as the video audio is concerned, it's coming out of a single downward facing speaker module that you can cover up accidentally. You know what I'm saying a tiny bit of audio from the upper portion here, even when you cover, even when you cover the speaker, module, but it ain't much yeah the display by the way is FHD plus and that's not a tremendous number of pixels for a display at this scale. This is a big screen.6.92 is almost a 7-inch display at 1080p. So can you pick it up? Jack depends on the angle right yeah.

I can't see it can't see it even on white at this range I'm going to go ahead and say it's less distracting than having the hole punch. Certainly when it comes to the video portion, the video frame without having a hole punch, it's a little more immersive, even though your eyes can pick up. I can definitely, with my eyes, see that section that pixel weave just looks different jack. You must see it there. Well we're going to try to get some shots of it, and we'll overlay them in here, so that you guys get a real impression for it.

But the key factor here the lighter the picture that you're looking at the more you're going to be able to see the region- that's uh, covering up that front-facing camera. But it's I think it's something you would get used to really fast, and I think, as far as the futuristic technology, this is really promising. I mean the implications of this. Technology are pretty massive to have high resolution cameras hidden underneath screens, so you can imagine all the places and all the potential applications for that even beyond smartphones, because I want to see what happens when I flip it around to front-facing. You see that little animation that took place up there.

Let me just do that. One more time see that up there. What is the quality going to be like? Let me just turn off the beauty. It does have a kind of sottish. Look to it almost like a dream, like fog sort of I don't know if that's the AI features yeah, so it looks like.

I can't completely turn beauty off, and it is doing something to me like that was the concern for me is since it's peering through a set of pixels. Is that going to impact the image? I would say it is kind of a little at this moment just looking at this selfie. But if it is the processing, that's making it look a little cloudy, then maybe I should actually try some front-facing video all right. So this is the front face facing video. This is the front-facing video quality right here and the audio as well does it still have a kind of dream like glow to it.

I think it actually looks alright, maybe I'll just kind of move around a bit here and walk into a darker environment. There's less light over here from over there, and then I'll go back. I mean it. It works it's kind of its kind of wild that this is being recorded through an actual screen right now the camera is looking through a screen and then at me, it's not the best I've ever seen, but it's I mean it's passable, it's its kind of surprising. Actually, it's hard for me.

You know I'm often evaluating expensive phones here. So it's hard for me to compare it to like the top-tier front-facing video, that's out there, but certainly for something. That's utilizing some brand-new technology. I would say for a lot of people that would be a passable, front-facing video or a passable selfie, not the greatest I've seen but at least in the range sort of all right. So, what's the verdict here, you guys know the main reason for me.

Looking at this device was to evaluate this particular technological advancement in the front-facing camera department. Everybody has been looking towards imagining this future in which we're just holding on to screens with no obstructions with no notches, and things like this, and originally you had the motorized camera was the first version of that, but it was a little slow and then people wondered about the long-term durability of a motorized front-facing camera, and then this is the next phase. In my estimation, this is the next place that we go. We attempt they find a way to sit it underneath your screen in such a fashion that you won't notice at all. We are not completely there yet.

I can notice this. I can see the different pixel weave, particularly against these light backgrounds, whether it's more or less distracting to you than a front-facing hole, punch or notch. Well, that's going to be a personal preference, but strictly from a technological perspective, I think it is kind of a marvel to be able to utilize a camera without seeing the camera itself. Even if that means seeing a slight discrepancy in the way the display looks, this to me does feel like the future once they are capable of absolutely nailing it, and so it's kind of cool to hold on to what is the very first commercially available version of this brand-new technology.

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