ZTE Axon 30 Ultra Review A Viable Contender For The U S Market By Business News

Chinese smartphone brands pump out a lot of phones and increasingly the standard has raised across the board, meaning even the lesser ones are still quite solid devices and the good ones can be perfect. In fact, the recent springtime flagship releases from Xiaomi, OnePlus, VIVO and Oppo are so good they're, all in a virtual tie with the Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra as the best androids of 2021. So far, it's purely a subjective exercise to pick one from the bunch to crown as the best. This makes for tough competition for ZTE's new axon 30 ultra, and while I don't think it's quite as polished as the aforementioned flagships, it has one major advantage. Over most Chinese brands save for OnePlus the ZTE accent, 30 ultra is officially on sale in the US, and its 750 price tag is quite attractive, considering it's nearly 500 less than what Samsung's asking for the s21 ultra and 250 dollars less than the OnePlus 9 pro and in some ways the axon 30 ultra tops those devices too. For example, ZTE's phone display packs a 144 hertz refresh rate compared to the 120 hertz in Samsung and OnePlus.

It also has a 64 megapixel ultra-wide camera in what is the most pixel dense ultra-wide lens I've seen yet, but, as I said, the phone is a bit rough around the edges figuratively and literally, and need some polish. Perhaps software updates will bring these in time design and internals. The axon 30 ultra is yet another typical glass aluminum sandwich, android slab that 144 hertz screen is older and curved. So it looks great. However, ZTE's curvature is relatively dramatic compared to other androids, which paired with the slightly sharp corners and flat top and bottom make for an angular phone whose sides are slightly pointy.

It feels more rough in the hand than the typical super rounded curvy devices from Xiaomi or Samsung. That said, I think the phone's strong angular vibes look masculine in my opinion and can be considered attractive. I don't, however, like the plain dull, gray color of my unit inside the phone is the usual snapdragon 888, with 12 gigabytes of ram, this plus the 144hz refresh rate, meaning the screen refreshes itself 144 times per second gives the phone an ultra smooth feeling. I find myself sometimes scrolling through apps just to admire the animation, use this phone for a day and go back to a 60 hertz panel like an older android and the UI looks noticeably jerkier. The axon 30 ultra has a quad camera setup, but, interestingly, the marketing mostly focuses on three lenses and ignores the fourth, the periscope zoom lens, the three cameras getting attention: ZTE markets them as trinity camera system, consists of the usual wide ultra-wide and telephoto focal lengths, and they're all 64 megapixel sensors.

This is highly unusual. To have all three cameras share, the same pixel count and implies equal attention has been given to all three lenses. For the most part, the camera delivers.

Source : Business News