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everybody it's michael fisher with pocket now still at the ZTE booth at CES 2014 I bet you didn't expect to see as much as you are from ZTE but they have a lot to show up this year and this is the sequel to last year's grand s the grand s too let's check it out so as you might have noticed on the intro when I said grand s the device woke up of course not going to do it now because demo gods but the halo feature of the grand s2 when you say hello grandes where you say other type things there we go of course the internet connection doesn't really work in here but voice control is what we're talking about and we're used to seeing things like hi galaxy hello moto X ok Google now blah blah blah blah blah but there is a distinctive feature of the voice control on this device if you have in the settings menu and go on down to security you're able to use as a screen lock option sound unlock and the phone will learn a particular phrase in your voice only and will allow you to use your voice to unlock the phone guys we're not even going to try it in here it is loud at CES you know how it is it's not going to work and bless my geeky phrase wouldn't be nearly entertaining enough so we'll just tell you about the rest of the device split-screen multitasking is available on this 5.5 inch 1090 20 x 1080 display 16 million color fhd around back on the red back here there can be different colors on this units may be specific to different markets 13 megapixel camera 2 megapixels around front backed up by a 3000 milliamp hour battery and 16 gigs of storage it's 150 grams in the hand and that that metal on the hand feels feels quite good trim on the chrome there is a little glitzy for my taste but I like on the screen rounds down into the bezel there it's a little on the thick side point 36 inches underneath there Snapdragon 800 processor two point three gigahertz and I just said Snapdragon 800 and and the grandes woke up again and just to close things out on the hardware side this is of course the that's enough that's enough now this is the driving mode that CTE has built in which allows you to control certain phone features there's a lot here that we've seen on other devices before but importantly a lot that was not on last year's grand s good to see improvement on this line will be interesting to see these devices come to different markets in the different colors they will check out our other ZT coverage from CES 2014 books we're seeing a lot of stuff from this company wishing a lot of stuff from every company in fact Michael Fisher Tony behind the camera CES 2014 stay tuned for a lot more you