ZTE Announce The Monstrously Spec'd AXON 7

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#196327 27-May-2016 10:59

Seriously, the specs on this phone best just about everything out there.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/ZTE-announces-its-Designworks-masterminded-monstrously-specd-out-AXON-7-flagship-phone_id81499

I can't find anything about band support, if it supports all the NZ ones I would love to give this an import.

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#1561977 30-May-2016 07:37

Pricing is bloody good too

http://www.gsmarena.com/zte_axon_7_to_cost_449_in_the_us__euro409_in_europe-news-18461.php

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#1561998 30-May-2016 08:15

It looks like the child device, if iPhone 6 and HTC One had a one night stand.

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#1562003 30-May-2016 08:47

Dairyxox:

It looks like the child device, if iPhone 6 and HTC One had a one night stand.

Which given those are two of the nicest looking phones going around, isn't a bad thing.

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#1562005 30-May-2016 08:56

Dairyxox:

It looks like the child device, if iPhone 6 and HTC One had a one night stand.

I thought an iPhone couldn't be rooted?

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#1562022 30-May-2016 09:11

Kopkiwi:

Seriously, the specs on this phone best just about everything out there.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/ZTE-announces-its-Designworks-masterminded-monstrously-specd-out-AXON-7-flagship-phone_id81499

I can't find anything about band support, if it supports all the NZ ones I would love to give this an import.

Band info here?

http://www.gsmarena.com/zte_axon_7-8067.php

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#1562027 30-May-2016 09:21

Interesting looking phone. Telecom used to sell ZTE phones here some years ago. Wonder if Spark still has any relationship with them?

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#1562047 30-May-2016 09:41

I'm guessing it comes with a horrific ios-clone Android skin?

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#1562084 30-May-2016 10:04

wasabi2k:

I'm guessing it comes with a horrific ios-clone Android skin?

Actually looks pretty vanilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yafSTM8n-eI

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#1562086 30-May-2016 10:12

wasabi2k:

I'm guessing it comes with a horrific ios-clone Android skin?

The pictures on GSMA show it looking normal

http://www.gsmarena.com/zte_axon_7-pictures-8067.php

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#1562402 30-May-2016 15:44

old3eyes:

Interesting looking phone. Telecom used to sell ZTE phones here some years ago. Wonder if Spark still has any relationship with them?

ZTE have a great local team, they make a lot of whitelabel devices including pocket WiFi units and 3G/4G modems - and notably the F320 3G featurephone along with the Vodafone Smart ultra. They sponsor a few sports teams et cetera here too.

Doubt we'll see the likes of this here though, flagship phones require significant marketing investment, and it's becoming harder and harder for vendors to pull off against the might of Samsung and Apple. Doesn't look to support band 28 either.

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#1562458 30-May-2016 16:36

NikT:

old3eyes:

Interesting looking phone. Telecom used to sell ZTE phones here some years ago. Wonder if Spark still has any relationship with them?

ZTE have a great local team, they make a lot of whitelabel devices including pocket WiFi units and 3G/4G modems - and notably the F320 3G featurephone along with the Vodafone Smart ultra. They sponsor a few sports teams et cetera here too.

Doubt we'll see the likes of this here though, flagship phones require significant marketing investment, and it's becoming harder and harder for vendors to pull off against the might of Samsung and Apple. Doesn't look to support band 28 either.

I noticed no band 28 but saw band 29. Typo??

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#1562486 30-May-2016 17:14

old3eyes:

I noticed no band 28 but saw band 29. Typo??

Nope, that's yet another US LTE band in the 700MHz space. See also: US LTE bands 12, 13, & 17, all in the 700MHz basket. They've carved their spectrum up awkwardly. Believe Band 29 hasn't been deployed yet.

Which in turn means the bands listed are likely specific for the US market, and there could well be a variant of the Axon with band 28, but don't hold your breath for a local release when even the poor HTC 10 didn't get one.

For curiosity's sake, the current(ish) list of countries that have deployed band 28 include: Australia, NZ, Chile, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Bhutan, Japan, Taiwan, and the Maldives, with testing ongoing in Argentina, Curacao, Brazil, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Peru. So ultimately band 28 will be a good global standard for NZ to have gotten behind, just a bit of a teething period right now as it's not used in the US or EU. That said, much of the South American market is serviced by locally-manufactured devices via Brazil, thanks to restrictive import policies, so may not benefit NZ too much long-term.

Just wait until we get more 2G and 3G spectrum refarmed to 4G over the next few years, it'll be an even greater challenge to determine local compatibility. :)

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