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The Amazing Dual Screen ZTE AXON M Phone -- REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
Oh sure, your Android phone is the best on the market, fast, bright and light. But does it have a second screen you can flip out from the back to turn it into a light and portable tablet? That's the amazing trick of the ZTE AXON M and it works great. Not only that, it turns out that the AXON M is quite a capable Android phone on its own rights too, with a vivid screen, impressive battery life and a 20MP camera that does quite a good job with photos. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the ZTE AXON M and finds that there's lots to like about it beyond just the gimmick of dual HD screens... Learn more at AT&T: https://www.att.com/cellphones/zte/axon-m.html#sku=sku8570458
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a smartphone with two screens you
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definitely have to check this one out
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[Music]
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Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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looking at a smartphone specifically I'm
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looking at this this is a pretty cool
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device this is the ZTE axon M and it is
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a foldable Android phone
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it's foldable check it out now would the
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screen fold it back just a regular
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Android phone and I can go and do all
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the things you would normally do on
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Android but obviously it's really cool
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trick is that it folds open and now you
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have lots of different modes so this
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they have M mode is what they call it so
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this is mirroring why would you want the
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exact same thing on both screens the
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answer is because then you can do
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something like this and you could for
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example watch a movie and the people on
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the other side could also watch the
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movie I'm not sure when I'd use this but
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it's a really interesting idea the other
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modes are more interesting so you go to
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the bottom you tap on the M and there's
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a dual screen where you get sort of one
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image spread across both screens and
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that looks like this and again now if I
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do something on one screen then both
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screens are still tied together so you
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can see that pretty interesting when you
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get into individual apps let's see I
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will go into let's go into whoops okay
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we can do this so if we go into Google
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then you can see again the app spreads
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across both there's obviously a seam in
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the middle it would have been really
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cool if they didn't have a seam not sure
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how you do that technologically so
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that's mode number two and then mode
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number three is to actually have them be
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independent screens so now you can see
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here I have the app running on one side
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and then I have the Android homepage on
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the other and we can go ahead and launch
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a different app on this side actually I
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think we're already running that app so
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let's go and try try this so now we have
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two different apps run
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on two different sides and of course I
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can turn it sideways and everything
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reorients now where this gets super
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interesting where they're really into it
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is that you can actually do something
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like put TV on the top while you're
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working on the bottom so let's go down
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here and we're back to the bottom and on
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the top sling TV should be running let's
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see what's going on here let's see we
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will go to on now and we will pick some
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soccer whoo that looks good you know
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from previous videos I'm a big soccer
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fan so I'll have a look and hear how is
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this not fantastic I can watch my soccer
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match streaming television on the top
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screen while on the bottom screen I am
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productive for some definition of
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productive super cool and then the boss
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comes along and you're like what no I
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was just working what are you talking
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about boss everything just magically
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closes up and as you can see the back is
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off now the back is automatically off as
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soon as you touch the hinge you can see
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here so let's get this to come back
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let's see so you know as soon as I start
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the hinge it will turn this screen off
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unless I'm in that mirroring AAA mode
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now the fourth way you can do it is and
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I don't know why you would choose this
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you can actually have the second screen
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extended but have it turned off I'm not
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sure what the use case for that one is
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but that's okay really I'm a big fan of
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just having it spread across both
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screens it's just fascinating it's
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really like a sort of fold up tablet so
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modern now before we go too much further
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let me give you some specs on this this
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is running the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 1
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which is a 2.1 5 gigahertz quad-core CPU
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not the very latest and greatest but
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still pretty zippy has internal memory
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up to 64 gig and it supports micro sd
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good job ZTE I'm not sure why so many
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companies are moving away from that but
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with this phone you can put in a micro
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SD card up to 256
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that is a lot of data that's a lot of
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movies even like good resolution movies
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now speaking of resolution this is each
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side of this is a 5.2 inch Gorilla Glass
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from Corning and it's running 1920 by
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1080 which is a Full HD resolution yes
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there are higher resolution screens on
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the market but I gotta say this is
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crystal clear and bright and vivid and
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text it's nice and snappy and both sides
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have that same format so very nice
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you're running Android seven new got and
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ZTE says Android eight is on its way
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we'll see when that happens but as of
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now you're still running Android seven
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and who one more spec that's super cool
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is it has a really great battery now
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it's fairly heavy and it's thick now of
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course some of the thickness comes from
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that second screen but even without that
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second screen it's still a little
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thicker and heavier than a regular
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Android phone yeah two screens all the
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circuitry everything you need for it I
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understand I'm just saying the hand feel
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is that it's a little heavier but that
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does include a 3000 180 milliamp hour
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battery which is pretty hefty that gives
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you 28 hours of talk 11 days of standby
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33 hours of playback through the speaker
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system which is surprisingly good or 46
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hours of listening with headphones long
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and short of it at the end of the day
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you'll check your battery life and it'll
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be like oh yeah you got another 20 30
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hours you're cool so I'm really
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impressed with the battery I mean really
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this is a really nice Android phone
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there's a lot they did right however
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actually well hold on so so let's go
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back to the speakers so it's dual
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speakers with Dolby Atmos how they get a
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Dolby sound system into here not
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entirely sure pretty neatly done but one
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of the issues that this phone has is the
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camera right there's no camera on the
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back because you can't have it because
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of this right either it would be here
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and it would be covered up some of the
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time or it would be here and then you'd
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have two forward-facing cameras which is
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great for super narcissistic selfie
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people but not so good for everyone else
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so what they've done is they have the
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camera just forward facing
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and it's a really nice camera it's a 20
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megapixel camera that can shoot 4k video
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to here's an example of a photo I took
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with it it's very nice but the usage is
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a little confusing because I have the
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phone facing me for me to be able to
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take a shot I have to do it this way so
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you get into this sort of weird mode and
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they know that so there's the camera
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software includes some additional
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support for dual screen so you do have
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to choose which one you want to do and
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honestly I don't think that's a big deal
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but if you are super fanatical about
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taking photos this might not be the
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greatest phone for you on the other hand
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when you're looking at photos and
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they're spread across two screens like
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this let's have a quick look and I have
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to get into one big screen mode and
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let's see
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I actually don't seem to have any
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pictures on the phone at this second so
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bad demo sorry but you can imagine if I
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have my picture spread across two
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screens that's much more pleasant to
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look at then looking at the sort of mini
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version like that so you know it's
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trade-offs what else can I tell you
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let's do a quick tour of the ports
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because that's interesting too it does
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have 3.5 millimeter audio out whoot so
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not only micro sd but ZTE also includes
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an audio headphone jack it's a nice
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thing on the side and it's interesting
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because all the side buttons are on the
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left not on the right because if they
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were on the right they'd be in the way
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of the hinge so takes a little getting
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used to using the left side but one cool
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thing is there's an integrated
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fingerprint scanner so if you've scanned
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in your fingerprint you can literally
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just touch the button and it unlocks the
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phone and you're good to go and that's
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actually really nice and then it has
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power and volume up and down and on the
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bottom you can see that it is a USBC
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charger so that's nice too I am so not a
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fan of microUSB I just really just hated
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on pretty much every device I've ever
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used USB sea and lightning are both much
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better because they don't have an
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orientation huge improvement so there's
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that and then I think the other two
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things on the bottom here are the
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speaker vents so there's that and then
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on the very back when you have it
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unhinged there's really nothing there
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because why would they put something
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there given that this thing is designed
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to be closed and open so I mean you
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wouldn't be able to get to it so there's
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that now like I said 8.1 ounces so it's
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it's a little hefty but there's a lot to
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like about this ZTE axon em smartphone
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and I'm becoming quite a fan the more I
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use it the more I'm enjoying it you know
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and every single time I use it out in
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public people come over and are like
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whoa what is that where is that second
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screen come from it feels very
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futuristic it sort of reminds me of the
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tablets they used in the HBO series
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Westworld really it's just cool I mean
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check this out that's just really cool
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and the fact that you can do this mode
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now even if you don't care about what's
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going on there it's really nice you know
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like if it's blank like now now I have a
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built-in stand and I'll tell you there
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are a lot of phones where I wish I had
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this feature but the price of it is no
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camera facing backwards or forwards
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whatever direction that should be and
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obviously you can't use a smart case you
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can't use a dumb case you can't use any
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case this phone is not phone case
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supported so that means there is a tiny
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lil amount of risk because nothing's
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absorbing shock nothing is protecting
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this back screen at a minimum if I had
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this I would definitely go and buy a
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couple of screen protectors to put on
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the front and back screens you might
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lose a little bit of brightness and a
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little bit of clarity but the fact that
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when I'm using my phone I'm doing this
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and I'm just hoping it's not gonna
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scratch gives me the heebie-jeebies on
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an expensive phone now speaking of
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expensive that's really the only thing
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we have left to talk about so before we
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get there though can I ask that you
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subscribe to my channel cool now the
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only thing left to talk about is the
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price and the price comes with a little
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bit of a hook and the hook is you can
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only buy this phone through AT&T
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Wireless currently they're the only
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company that's offering that in the
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United States so ZTE axon em foldable
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Android dual screen
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dual-screen smartphone it's gonna set
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you back 720 $4.99 through AT&T dot-com
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sorry att.com and will it be available
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with other carriers will it be available
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unlocked remains to be seen for now
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you're gonna have to go to your friendly
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AT&T store hopefully they're friendly
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and pick up one if you want to check it
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out so I am become quite a fan of this
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it's a really cool phone this is Dave
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Taylor and I'll catch you in my next
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video
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you
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