The Best $400 Smartphone? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin is this the best

$400 smartphone so ZTE reached out and

wanted to sponsor a no-holds-barred

comparison with the axon 7 compared to

some of the hottest new phones of this

year on one hand I have the 1 plus 3 now

there's been a lot of hype around this

phone and for $400 you could do a lot

worse I also have a little bit of an

unusual choice with the iPhone SE and

while this might look like a much older

iPhone inside it has a very modern

internals the thing that jumps out to me

most about the axon 7 is the seamless

curved back so this was actually

partially designed by BMW design works

and it shows it's a really interesting

look for a phone there are no hard edges

pretty much anywhere it wasn't that long

ago that even high-end flagships could

be sometimes made out of plastic looking

to use Samsung while these might be

mid-range phones the specs are

absolutely flagship class so the oneplus

3 as well as the ZTE axon 7 have the

latest Snapdragon 820 which will find

and furnish all the high-end phones this

year the iPhone is no slouch either it's

rocking the same Apple a9 processor

straight out of the iPhone 6s screens

are actually one of the biggest

differences between the three phones so

the iPhone has a much smaller and much

lower resolution 4 inch 11 36 by 640

display it's okay but really this is

straight off of the three-year-old

iPhone 5s ZTE opted for a 5.5 inch 1440p

AMOLED display and it looks great well

it might not get quite as bright as I

would like colors are great viewing

angles are great and that 1440p

resolution means it is incredibly sharp

the oneplus three has the same size five

and a half inch AMOLED display however

it's a low resolution at 1080p that by

itself isn't a huge deal well it's not

quite as sharp as the X on display it's

totally fine but the bigger issue is the

color accuracy the oneplus three panel

tends to be a little bit cool and the

colors just don't seem to pop the same

way as they do on the axon software-wise

one plus three it has a fairly close to

stock Android experience there are a

couple minor additions however nothing

really too crazy it's very much vanilla

Android the ZTE definitely does have

more of a scan which I'm usually not a

fan of however the Exxon 7 does it

fairly tastefully the iPhone runs iOS so

take it or leave it it's pretty much the

exact same across all iPhones another

big difference is audio so will the

iPhone and oneplus have a single bottom

firing speaker the axon has dual

front-facing speakers

it also supports high res audio as well

as it supposedly has a pretty decent

headphone yeah that's no joke as far as

cameras go this is another case where

these are absolutely flagships one thing

I've always appreciated about iPhones is

they're consistent if you take a picture

you're usually pretty much guaranteed to

get something decent it might not be the

best picture in the world but you're

pretty confident that you at least got

some kind of shots well plus three is

actually really sold this is a nice

sharp photo so one thing I've noticed

with the axon 7 is a while I can take

some really nice photos it can be a

little bit hit or miss sometimes this is

especially noticeable in video where

sometimes you can get really

cool-looking shots in 4k or even slow

motion however sometimes it doesn't

quite grab focus or it's just a little

bit off I really do like the axon 7 and

a big part of that are the speakers now

while they might not matter as much to

you as they do to me but having good

audio on a smart phone makes a big

difference it also helps that has a nice

screen good build solid battery life

there's not a lot to complain about

speaking of ZTE hooked me up with an

extra axon 7 to give away to you guys to

enter drop a like on the video and leave

a comment below and I will randomly pick

a winner two weeks from today anyway

guys thank you so much for watching and

I will catch you in the next one