ZTE Axon 20 5G Unboxing and Review

ZTE just sent over their Axon 5G for us to check out and this phone has an under display front-facing camera so i'm really excited to see it in person we'll take a closer look at that but this is also their new sunrise yellow color that they offer. 

Anyways we're going to unbox the Axon 20 take a quick look what comes inside and then of course get a close look at the phone itself let's get started opening up the ZTE Axon 5G which does have the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 g processor inside, in case you're wondering we're gonna set the phone to the side for just a second here's a quick peek at that yellow color and see what else comes in the box.

You get a sim ejection tool quick start guide warranty information but also always love when they include extras a case that we will put on the phone a pretty soft touch feel case has some axon branding etched into it but i do love that it actually has the yellow color that the phone has so that you're not sacrificing the color but you still get that protection it does come with a power brick this is a 30 watt usb type a brick and your charging cable usb type a to usb type c and one more welcome extra is a usb type c the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack adapter now let's move on to what you came to see the Axon 20. 

Let's go ahead and peel off this paper revealing that yellow color this is actually it has a really soft touch kind of leather feel to it and you'll notice it does have that axon branding so when you do compare it to the case. I would say the case maybe is just actually no looking at it it is just about the same color it looks very similar in person. 

Anyways let's go ahead and power the phone on and take a close look at the hardware while it boots up down at the bottom we have our sim card slot which also couples as a micro sd card slot for expandable storage usb c for charging microphone and a speaker along the right side of the phone, you have your buttons a couple volume rockers and a power button which has just a little bit of texture to it so you can differentiate between the buttons. 

Up at the top just a microphone and notice how minimal that camera bump is overall worth noting and on the left side you have absolutely nothing and a close look at that yellow color it does have some texture to the back giving it a little bit of grip as well and again nice soft touch feel, i do like this color it's very unique now on to our camera system this is a quad camera system with a 64 megapixel main lens you have an 8 megapixel ultra wide angle lens and then two more lenses at 2 megapixels, one is a macro lens and one is for depth sensing anyways i'm going to run through the startup process talk about anything noteworthy we'll take a close look in just a second but you can already tell that you don't see a front-facing camera up towards the top you can set a face unlock with it. 

However let's set up the fingerprint scanner as usual just go ahead and set our thumb down on the in-display fingerprint scanner that is included moving it every time there we go now go ahead and use the edges of our fingerprint all right there we go all set took a little bit of time but that's fine as long as it works we'll test it out in just a second and you know what just for the sake of this video let's actually set up the face unlock so creating face we're going to put it in the center and that says enrolled that was actually probably the quickest face unlock scan i've ever seen we'll go ahead and test that out in just a second and we are all set up and ready to go and this is a 6.92 inch oled display again with no camera cut out no notch up at the top the display is 1080p and it looks like just from swiping through screens it is not enabled but you can enable 90 hertz so i believe it's 60 hertz out of the box yes so screen refresh rate 60 years but you can bump it all the way up to 90 hertz which gives it a much smoother look and feel to the operating system. 

A few more display settings you have display optimization, to optimize the screen you could turn that on or off you also have a dark mode you can enable which will turn the os darker you'll see up towards the top just better for your eyes i like to schedule mine so night time is actually dark mode you also have screen effect to warm and cool the display to your liking interesting top area settings where you can hide the status bar if for whatever reason you'd like to do that and of course a close look at the display specifically up towards the top because i really want to show off this really cool technology they have to hide the camera under the display obviously makes it look better than if you had a punch hole right in the middle it's really cool to see i hope this catches on more much better than having a notch as well now when it comes to the technology you can kind of see a bit of a square if you have a certain screen up where the display actually covers the camera, now with that being said with the screen like this when it's darker when i'm holding the phone at a regular distance, i can't tell at all that there is a square but when you go complete contrast and go to a white screen which is when it shows up the most you'll see you can start to see it a lot more, especially on camera the camera makes it look worse than it does in person but when it is white you can definitely see it specifically if for example you're in an app that has a white backdrop like the whoops let me go to the settings app here so it will show up at all times so you can kind of see it, but again it is much better than if you just had a black hole right in the middle, there for a punch out it's noticeable and again the camera's making it look worse than it does in person and obviously you're not just going to be on a white screen all the time when the screen's a lot more dull, i can't even see it from where i'm standing right now. 

You might be able to see it on camera just because you're really close out of the box the axon 20 has android 10 it has their own skin on top of it as well uh i was hoping to see android 11 hopefully they push out an update soon if you were wondering this has a 4 20 milliamp hour battery now let's go ahead and use the fingerprint scanner real quick test that out i'm not looking at it so it's not using my face currently uh but it does seem to be pretty accurate pretty quick now i'm going to point this at my face and we'll see if it actually unlocks oh you saw that padlock go. 

Let's try it one more time just quickly watch the padlock boom that is actually really quick i can't get over how quick that it actually recognized and scanned my face can't forget let's throw on this included protective case again very similar texture just about the exact same color and it's a very minimal case it will protect all of the corners it leaves the buttons on the right untouched and there's a look at the top and the left side so overall again very minimal and i am really happy that they kept the same color because obviously if you get a phone with this color you don't want to actually cover it up with the case. 

Finally let's quickly hop into the camera app maybe snap just a couple quick pictures seems to be actually pretty responsive with the shutter speed and obviously you can go ahead and zoom in 2x this is digital zoom press it again and it goes to your ultra wide angle lens and if you do want to turn on macro go into more and macro is right there now let's quickly flip to the front-facing camera and actually that was pretty instant it there was no delay whatsoever when switching you also notice a cool uh animation up towards the top where that front-facing camera is and here's just a quick selfie that i took it looks fairly soft overall i think some ai just kind of softened my face but there is some controls to make it uh less soft, so i have to mess with those going forward, but it still look pretty solid. 

Anyways that is everything i want to talk about for now with the ZTE Axon 5G drop comment let me know what you think really cool that they have added this under display camera technology uh you love to see it i mean i really hope this catches on and you start seeing less and less punch holes and notches overall drop a comment let me know what you think, be sure to subscribe as well a lot more content coming soon,  thanks for watching.