so I'm in China courtesy of ZTE ZTE can
never keep track of what the Canadian way is check out this hotel
room not much privacy in the bathroom but fortunately Brandon and I are not
sharing a room it's huge and it gets
better check this out views
incredible uh hold on
but why would ZTE sponsor us all the way to China to make a video I mean how many
kilometers is that I guess we'll never
know and what exactly is it that goes on at an event like this well I'm going to
take this opportunity to show you guys
firsthand what it's like to attend a press launch event as lonus from lus
Tech tips so we're on our way in to get briefed on the phone let's see how long
it takes Brandon to hate on myself stick
oh it starts with the Totally Above board early access to the event venue
you can tell in this shot that they weren't quite ready for me because the
red carpet still has the protective plastic covering on it which Brandon of
course trampled on next it's time for the VIP room this is where most of the
learning actually takes place and it was where I saw the axon 7 for the first
time these briefings are great because
they give me a chance not only to run through the specs of the device but to
probe about the rationale behind the various design choices so the philosophy
then behind the axon 7 is influenced heavily by trying to answer the question
what makes a phone quote unquote Flagship well first and foremost is spec
so the axon 7 supports a quadcore Snapdragon 820 with adrino 530 Graphics
4 gigs of lpddr4 RAM a 3140 Mah non-
removable battery with Quick Charge 3.0 Support over its USB type-c connector
and a 5 1/2 in AMOLED 1440p display with
Corning Gorilla Glass 4 but the other big thing at work here was apparently
figuring out common use cases and then
addressing them one by one so a lot of work was put into audio with a dual
Standalone chip amp and DAC solution from akm with Dolby Atmos software
running on the back end and dual front-facing speakers something that I
wish was much more common this was done for a variety of reasons to improve call
Quality on conference calls for business-minded folks and to help music
lovers avoid carrying around a Bluetooth speaker with solid headphone sound
quality as another great bonus another use case specific feature is that the
axon 7 has Hardware support for pretty much every Wireless band known to man
along with a second slot next to the primary slim slot that can be used
either as micr SD expansion for the 64
gigs of storage that comes standard which shouldn't be overlooked by the way
as something that to me defines Flagship as I've said before it is laughable to
me that some other companies are trying to sell 600 plus doll phones with 16
gigs of storage or it can be used for a second Sim slot for frequent Travelers
or people who find a better deal on data from one carrier and voice from another
next it's pretty common for me to cause some kind of a disturbance at the event
until I get a of my own to Tool around with all right so we just got out of our
briefing and uh people are trying to have a conversation and I went and
turned this thing on and now they're like what are we going to do with this guy he's just talking on his little
camera over there so I've got the phone in my bag
already manag to secure that at this point but we're trying to find me a VR
headset apparently they don't have them out yet but uh I'm never afraid to ask
for special
treat at which time we'll sometimes wander around and try to get early
access to people or areas of the event that again normally wouldn't be
available until later hopefully the Bly security guard lets me through yep it's
all about just walking around like you own the place so at my second briefing I
got a lot more information about the camera it's a 20 megapix still 4K video
affair with an f1.8 lens and both electronic and Optical image
stabilization to help with low light performance and stability while shooting
video with a redesigned simpler app with automatical mode selection and voice
controlled capture as well as the fingerprint scanner that's positioned
between two grooves on the back for easy access without looking and that ZTE is
claiming and it looks like there may well be some validity to this is one of
the fastest available on the market and then finally perhaps most importantly if
you're into that sort of thing their upcoming VR headset that combined with
the axon 7 will be one of the first Google Daydream compliant Solutions with
significantly low latency and hopefully pretty solid image quality thanks to the
1440p screen from there out of politeness I sometimes attend to the
keynote usually if there's still an
important piece of information that I'm waiting for
fashion I thought I was going to the
fion just like I was to stay
here sometimes these Keynotes are weirder and more Awkward than other
times but in this case it turned out to be totally worth it since I managed to
ask someone what the characters next to the numbers meant on one of the slides
and I found out the axon 7 will be launching at 449 in the US not too
freaking shabby considering everything we've seen then finally when all of
that's done I lie in my room with my boxers on writing up a video much like
this one but I won't subject you to that part of the experience so thanks for
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sick