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hands-free technology for smartphones is getting better all the time and on the ZTE star 2 it's one of the most complete packages I've seen using this sort of technology the main gist of it is that it's always listening for your voice command so after either saying your passphrase for the phone or pressing and holding the home button you can give your voice command you can do anything from open and close apps to turn on Wi-Fi turn off Wi-Fi take a picture and even turn off the flash or switch the camera from the rear to the front while there are other phones that do have voice controls that are also always listening this one includes a system-wide capability that's really nice another thing I really like is that when you hold the phone up to your ear it will ask you who you want to call so that's an automatic gesture another bonus is that when you're unlocking the phone with a voice command it's not just listening for the passphrase it's listening for your actual voice so that if somebody else comes along and they want to use your passcode to break into your phone they won't be able to as for the other specs you've got a 5-inch 1080p display on a phone that is really thin six point nine millimeters really nice looking extremely light I wasn't even sure the battery was in here but it is because it's embedded we've got aluminum on the sides this black part here is metal even though it doesn't look it and some silvery trim here on the accents and we also have glass on both the front and the back giving it a little bit more of a premium feel in terms of other specs it's got a 5 megapixel wide-angle camera that is complemented by a 13 megapixel camera on the back and dual LED flash 16 gigabytes of memory on here with room for expandable storage 2 gigabytes of RAM and for the all-important processor we're looking at a 2.3 gigahertz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset on here so it isn't the most advanced we're looking forward to 810 but it is really fast and performance should be very good the ZTE star 2 was announced for China in December but it will be coming out to other global markets we just don't know which ones yet I'm Jessica doll Court for CNN taking a first look at this phone here at CES 2015 in Las Vegas you can find out much more about the ZTE star - at CNET calm