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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