Crashing ZTE's Axon 7 Launch
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,181 words · ~5 min read
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so I'm in China courtesy of ZTE ZTE can
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never keep track of what the Canadian way is check out this hotel
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room not much privacy in the bathroom but fortunately Brandon and I are not
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sharing a room it's huge and it gets
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better check this out views
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incredible uh hold on
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but why would ZTE sponsor us all the way to China to make a video I mean how many
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kilometers is that I guess we'll never
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know and what exactly is it that goes on at an event like this well I'm going to
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take this opportunity to show you guys
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firsthand what it's like to attend a press launch event as lonus from lus
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Tech tips so we're on our way in to get briefed on the phone let's see how long
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it takes Brandon to hate on myself stick
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oh it starts with the Totally Above board early access to the event venue
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you can tell in this shot that they weren't quite ready for me because the
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red carpet still has the protective plastic covering on it which Brandon of
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course trampled on next it's time for the VIP room this is where most of the
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learning actually takes place and it was where I saw the axon 7 for the first
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time these briefings are great because
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they give me a chance not only to run through the specs of the device but to
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probe about the rationale behind the various design choices so the philosophy
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then behind the axon 7 is influenced heavily by trying to answer the question
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what makes a phone quote unquote Flagship well first and foremost is spec
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so the axon 7 supports a quadcore Snapdragon 820 with adrino 530 Graphics
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4 gigs of lpddr4 RAM a 3140 Mah non-
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removable battery with Quick Charge 3.0 Support over its USB type-c connector
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and a 5 1/2 in AMOLED 1440p display with
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Corning Gorilla Glass 4 but the other big thing at work here was apparently
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figuring out common use cases and then
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addressing them one by one so a lot of work was put into audio with a dual
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Standalone chip amp and DAC solution from akm with Dolby Atmos software
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running on the back end and dual front-facing speakers something that I
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wish was much more common this was done for a variety of reasons to improve call
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Quality on conference calls for business-minded folks and to help music
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lovers avoid carrying around a Bluetooth speaker with solid headphone sound
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quality as another great bonus another use case specific feature is that the
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axon 7 has Hardware support for pretty much every Wireless band known to man
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along with a second slot next to the primary slim slot that can be used
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either as micr SD expansion for the 64
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gigs of storage that comes standard which shouldn't be overlooked by the way
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as something that to me defines Flagship as I've said before it is laughable to
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me that some other companies are trying to sell 600 plus doll phones with 16
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gigs of storage or it can be used for a second Sim slot for frequent Travelers
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or people who find a better deal on data from one carrier and voice from another
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next it's pretty common for me to cause some kind of a disturbance at the event
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until I get a of my own to Tool around with all right so we just got out of our
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briefing and uh people are trying to have a conversation and I went and
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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
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camera over there so I've got the phone in my bag
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already manag to secure that at this point but we're trying to find me a VR
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headset apparently they don't have them out yet but uh I'm never afraid to ask
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for special
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treat at which time we'll sometimes wander around and try to get early
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access to people or areas of the event that again normally wouldn't be
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available until later hopefully the Bly security guard lets me through yep it's
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all about just walking around like you own the place so at my second briefing I
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got a lot more information about the camera it's a 20 megapix still 4K video
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affair with an f1.8 lens and both electronic and Optical image
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stabilization to help with low light performance and stability while shooting
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video with a redesigned simpler app with automatical mode selection and voice
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controlled capture as well as the fingerprint scanner that's positioned
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between two grooves on the back for easy access without looking and that ZTE is
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claiming and it looks like there may well be some validity to this is one of
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the fastest available on the market and then finally perhaps most importantly if
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you're into that sort of thing their upcoming VR headset that combined with
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the axon 7 will be one of the first Google Daydream compliant Solutions with
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significantly low latency and hopefully pretty solid image quality thanks to the
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1440p screen from there out of politeness I sometimes attend to the
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keynote usually if there's still an
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important piece of information that I'm waiting for
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fashion I thought I was going to the
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fion just like I was to stay
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here sometimes these Keynotes are weirder and more Awkward than other
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times but in this case it turned out to be totally worth it since I managed to
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ask someone what the characters next to the numbers meant on one of the slides
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and I found out the axon 7 will be launching at 449 in the US not too
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freaking shabby considering everything we've seen then finally when all of
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that's done I lie in my room with my boxers on writing up a video much like
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this one but I won't subject you to that part of the experience so thanks for
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Canada I'm very far away right now and
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sick