ZTE, a Chinese smartphone brand, today unveiled its new flagship handset that it has designed in conjunction with BMW’s Designworks team — the Axon 7. Packing a premium design and top notch internals, the Axon 7 will compete with the likes of the Galaxy S7 and HTC 10 at a price point far lower than them. The unibody metal design of the handset houses stereo speakers on the front and a fingerprint scanner on the rear. The front also houses a 5.5-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display. Inside the Axon 7 sits a Snapdragon 820 chipset clocked at 2.15GHz and an Adreno 530 GPU. ZTE will be offering the Axon 7 in two different storage and RAM configurations: 64GB/4GB RAM and 128GB/6GB RAM. This makes the handset among the very few in the market — and the first in the United States — to feature a staggering 6GB of RAM.
Other notable features of the Axon 7 include Force Touch, a fingerprint scanner on the rear, a dedicated Hi-Fi audio DAC and stereo amplifier, USB Type-C port, and a 3250mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 support. The rear of the phone houses a 20MP shooter with an F/1.8 aperture and OIS, while the front houses an 8MP selfie shooter. The Axon 7 is also the first Daydream compatible handset to be launched by any Android OEM. To go along with the handset, ZTE also launched a VR headset for it. Will you be buying the Axon 7? Or the relatively little brand presence of the company is a deal breaker for you?
