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hey I'm Nate Ruffin they were checking out the ZTE nubia 5s mini it's an unlocked phone that will run on AT&T mobile networks here in the US and you can get it on Amazon for 279 99 starting august 27 but you can start pre ordering it on August twentieth if you use the Android phone the Nubian 5s mini might be a little confusing as using a custom Android skin from ZTE that changes quite a bit about the experience there's no app tray for example so any app you install is going to sit right on your home screens if you're coming from an iphone that'll be familiar but I always thought that not being able to hide the apt you don't use really often feels kind of cluttered you can of course just stick thing as the folders the phone is also running on Android 4.3 jelly bean which is disappointing now that many new phones are running on Android 4.4 KitKat there's a single speaker on the back and like many phones it's pretty terrible audio is really scratchy and tinny you can always pair it with a Bluetooth speaker if you need to hear games movies or music out loud but I always just plug headphones in speaking of games performance is pretty good the phone runs on a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and you can really zip through menus and fire up apps out any real lag I tried some higher-end android games like dead trigger 2 real racing 3 asphalt 8 and everything performed fairly well even on the highest settings for games that let you tweak that sort of thing I ran into occasional slowdown in stuttering but all that tends to disappear if you turn quality settings down attack the 4.7 inch touch screen has a 720p resolution which isn't that great when you compared to modern phones that are running it super high retina resolutions but for less than 300 bucks unlock it's not bad there's also 16 gigs of storage but you can expand that with up to 32 gig micro SD cards the phone's biggest drawbacks are what's supposed to be it's selling point the cameras they're both high resolution 13 megapixels on the rear camera 5 megapixels on the front but lots of megapixels don't necessarily mean a great camera the photos i took with this phone tended to be really noisy and missing a lot of finer details the autofocus was also kind of sluggish so if a cat is doing something really cute you can have to snap the photo and hope you get something usable the camera shoots 1080p video and quality is better and generally much sharper but autofocus is problematic here too you can lock the focus when you're taking pictures and shooting video but sometimes I just want to pull the phone out and start recording and not necessarily fumble about with advanced settings now I keep coming back to the price for a reason to 7999 for a phone with decent specs is a pretty good deal especially because it's unlocked now I test it on 18 TS that work but you could just pop in a tmobile sim card or if you like to travel abroad pop in a local sim card and you can save yourself a lot of cash I'm Nate Ralph now be sure to read my full review on cnet thanks for watching