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hey it's Josh from GAR from Android authority what's going on everybody and here we're taking a look at the ZTE grand s3 what we have here is a 5.5 inch screen on the front powered with Full HD resolution and we're taking a look at the back real quick I wanted to show you this soft touch vacuum that's here that is actually removable I'm going to go ahead and remove that here there you go and we have the removable vacuum right here that has a removable and replaceable battery along with the dual SIM setup that's down here on the bottom but the backing itself is of a soft touch material which is really nice in the hand and I get a little bit smudgy from time to time but that's what we expect from a soft touch backing but nonetheless it's a very attractive looking device at 5.5 inches with a metal frame all around with the power button and the volume rocker right here on the side the power button falling in a very nice place in order for you to get at it really easily and here's the full HD screen I'm gonna go and unlock the phone and we're just gonna go through some of the elements the Snapdragon 801 powers this KitKat version of ZTE sui and as you can see there's no app drawer but you will be able to get some organisation done using folders and whatnot gained through the settings you call it you I'm going to go ahead and show you just inside of the settings the security area that already shows you the sky lock and sky eye areas now sky is what we're going to be focusing on it's an eye print that you'll be able to use in order to unlock the phone using your own eyes in order to do so but just going through a few of the elements before I get into the actual eye printing the colorful UI over here and these capacitive buttons here on the bottom three gigabytes of RAM will allow you to have multitasking on here and a pretty easy fashion if you can see we already have some apps in the background going already I'm just going to just clear all of those you can see that happen but yeah the design itself is actually quite nice but the features are obviously what is underneath sound is as you can see down here enhanced by Dolby and really the main crux of this particular device is its security features which I'm going to show you right now alright so here we are taking a look at the eye printing technology I'll go ahead and jump into the notification drop-down to get easily to the settings it's a nice little transition that they have that I actually like the way that ZTE shows the quick settings panel but coming down to security is where we're going to find here the sky I as it is called in the settings area I'm going to go ahead and go there I'm going to change the eye ID from the one that our presenter already had confirm our pattern and I'm going to go ahead and erase the existing eye print in order to create mine so you'll see it happening in real time over here alright position my eyes in the window there now what's actually happening here is that a 20 second video is actually scanning not only the how my eyes look but actually zooming in using the 8 megapixel optics on the front-facing camera and you know in order to see the blood vessels inside of my eyeballs now I actually have glasses on but the edge I'm going to show you in a little bit I am NOT going to have a problem with that if I take off my glasses so there we are we have the sky eye idea already set up I'm going to lock the phone right now and when you unlock the phone you swipe down from the top now considering you're already going to be looking at your phone the moment you unlock it's kind of nice that you're just going to use your eyes to unlock it and then you'll be able to get into what you need to do right away oops it timed out there here you go position wise and there you go now take a second there because I blinked but as you continue to use the eye printing on this it will get better and better because each time it scans your eyes in order to unlock the phone it updates the scan I already mentioned that the front facing optics are of an 8 megapixel resolution and that is really great for a front facing camera we're gonna go ahead and jump into that camera real quick after I had just shown you the eye printing or the sky eye that is there so this is the camera interface here I'll just bring that around everybody and you can see the settings here you have 8 megapixels there at 4 by 3 6 for 16 by 9 video capabilities are 1080p on the front facing camera so it's a pretty powerful camera optic package that is on the front that is able to do the eye printing that you just saw me demonstrates if I bring it back around will have a pro mode in the rear-facing camera which is always great and if I wanted to have a leveler on here some manual focusing there's a lot of different little elements that kind of get out of the way and transitions aren't keeping it from doing what it needs to do in a faster matte fashion I should say and going into the 16 megapixels is the resolution on the back at sixteen by nine twelve four four by three and you also have u HD resolution for video capture so we have a pretty powerful camera package on here obviously we're going to reserve our camera picture quality opinions until we get our own review unit and be able to take pictures with it but nonetheless that is the camera experience on the ZTE grand s3 and it's just that easy the grand s3 by ZTE has that new security feature in there and I'm sure it's going to be a pretty fun one to use but it's also very good for security if you want to make sure that other people are gonna keep their prying eyes away from your device this is Josh super guard from Android authority here at MWC 2015 we're hanging out was ute taking a look at the grand s3 with brand new eye print technology in the front-facing 8 megapixel camera so keep it tuned to Android Authority for even more and stay tuned for our future review of this particular device and remember that 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