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phones are becoming cheaper to buy just look around and you'll see several new ones under $200 as for is sub $100 phones you might have a tougher time but ZT believes that its new zmax pro is going to be the benchmark to be the first order of business with design is its size something that's arguably going to be the biggest deal breaker for people this is a big phone one that pushes it well into the phablet category unless you have larger than average hands you're going to be finding yourself stretching your fingers a whole lot besides that it has a pleasant design that makes it look and feel that it's priced higher you have a soft touch matte finish with the rear combined with a full metal vessel and this combo pushes it beyond the context of being cheaply made and that's a good thing because normally you tend to find phones in this price range to be poorly constructed in just inferior with their designs the phone slapped with a giant six inch 1080p TFT LCD display with Gorilla Glass 3 yeah it's nice that they offered to go with 1080p resolution just because we'd normally see 720p in other phones it's official any detailed plus there's a ton of real estate to work with however it has an extremely cold color temperature of eight thousand Kelvin which makes whites appear bluish in tone it's also not color accurate you can see in the srgb color chart how it misses the reference values for each color like how magenta and teal are heavily influenced by blue and despite reaching a peak brightness output of 416 it's the display just seems to have a washed-out tone now in my testing it's obvious that the display here the ZTE zmax pro isn't quite up to snuff to the type of results we tend to see with some of the higher priced smartphones out there but then again are we surprised by this it's no surprise that there's a snapdragon 617 chip and to your bites a ram in this this combo makes perfect sense and it suffice with the basic stuff but it's really not suited to do things that are more intensive gaming in particular where it exhibits too much choppiness to enjoy for hardcore gamer's for $99 you get 32 gigabytes of internal storage with expansion via its microSD slot you also have the fingerprint sensor in the back of the phone it's an unexpected treat quite honestly since its uncommon in entry-level phones it works well and adding that extra layer of security but could also be programmed to open up an app take a photo or even answer a phone call there are three capacitive buttons beneath the display unfortunately the two dots flanking the home button can't be programmed for anything else besides acting as the back and recent apps functions and finally we have the speaker grille in the back it emits a decent volume output but there isn't much substance when listening to music so for me the single most underrated part about the handset has to be the battery life there's a 3,500 milliamp hour battery cell in there and I gotta say I'm impressed it managed to get me at least two days of normal juice from a full charge and got to the beginning of a third day but by then it was pretty much gone and the recharge time is actually pretty good for given its size now it's at 125 minutes with the new USB type-c connection it's not the fastest but then again it's not the slowest either for its cameras the combo here with the ZTE zmax Pro is a 13 megapixel rear camera and a 5 megapixel front-facing one there's nothing fanciful about them seeing they're just as ordinary as any other low-priced phone the camera app has a decent mixture of modes and options like its manual mode which people will probably appreciate having in a phone like this sadly there's nothing spectacular about the performances you tend to see a noticeable level of over sharpening which seems to try and compensate for the rear camera software details capture under low-light details become even more speckle and the same can be said about its video capture / sharpening is again evident but this time videos tend to appear underexposed and there's just too much noise and muddy details to recommend using Pyrrhus law that the easy max Pro is mostly running a stock experienced android 6.0.1 marshmallow to be exact yes there's some bloggers from MetroPCS but it's pretty straightforward for the most part users will probably feel that it won't be up to snuff with their demands just because you won't find any other enhanced features here the biggest question with the phone much like most budget stuff is whether or not it will get upgraded to next version of Android in a timely manner phone calls are a breeze with this one you have a loud volume output with its earpiece and speaker phone while voice is sound clear and distinctive on the other end line to our callers didn't have any problems discerning our voices owning a cheap phone no longer means you're getting a cheap phone the $99 price tag of the ZTE zmax pro is without a doubt an aggressive move on its part especially more given its phablet s stature and its fingerprint sensor you tend to not expect them in the phone in its price range but that's the beauty about it you do get them while pricing is quite favorable here there are some other factors that influence your decision to buy first of all this is strictly a metro pcs exclusive this is arguably a factor that will be limiting its reach to consumers and secondly there are still some subpar qualities about it like the inaccuracy is with display and the offer of sharpening effects with its cameras these are compromises that can be overlooked due to its price point at the end day it's a worthy recommendation if you're on a tight budget so yeah it's pretty crazy that we have phones now with fingerprint sensors at under $100 so if you guys want to learn more about the ZTE zmax pro you could check out our website and droid authority com this is John VIII signing off