Gadgetory

hey this is dan from the verge and we're taking a look at the new ZTE axon M which is a pretty standard smartphone it's a five point two inch full HD display it's running a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 one processor four gigs of RAM it's got a 20 megapixel camera all that stuff is pretty standard but what makes the X on em unique is that this doesn't have just one display it actually has two and you can see this big hinge here opens up and boom it's now a tool screen phone so this has got two 5.2 inch displays which you can do some pretty interesting things with you can hit the M button here and you can do a mirror load like I'm doing now so anything I do on the one screen is going to be reflected on the second screen which you can use for a couple of different things you can tint it like so and put it between two people that watch the same video or play a game or share presentation or something like that another mode is an obvious one is the extended mode which just basically stretches the screen over so if you are wanting to make full use of the screen you can run an app across both of them you can rotate it and use it in this mode for watching video if you're on YouTube you can then watch a video and scroll through the comments section below it's all pretty cool and then that can rotate as well and then the other mode is with an a/b mode that is labeled here in the software and essentially you can run two apps at the same time so if you've got your phone app open and you your Facebook app open at the same time these are both kind of using androids split-screen functions to be able to run more than one app at the same time you can then do certain things with special apps so like this is Google slides which if you are looking at a presentation here you can use a gesture to push it over to the other screen and then continue to open essentially running two instances at the same time the CTE says this works with a lot of apps mainly from Google that allow you to do this kind of thing and they plan to add more gestures and functionality to move texts and objects between two different apps here but it's kind of thing that lets you take a better advantage of androids built-in split-screen functions that we've seen on other phones where it kind of just divides the screen and half now that you've got two screens you got twice as much space to work with if you are in the stretch download here apps will use by default their tablet interface so you get a little bit more screen space you can scroll through various things and see them a little see more information about them better on a larger display then you might if it's just on one screen which is pretty standard and ZTE says this just uses allows apps to use their tablet interface there's really nothing that a developer has to do ZTE is offering some tools for developers once this launches to be able to optimize their apps and be able to use the gestures to swipe different things but right now most apps will run just fine on these two screens just like they would on one one of the more interesting things that you can do is run two videos at the same time so if you're watching a video on YouTube pull that back up and then over here will say open up something on DirecTV you can actually stream two things at the same time it'll keep streaming both videos in the background so even if you have audio playing out of one the other one will continue going so and then you can switch between them on the fly so if you're watching two sports games at the same time and you want to keep up with two different games you can do that right here on your phone which is pretty neat and you could do that anywhere you have a signal basically you don't necessarily have to be at home to be watching more than one game at once which is pretty cool one of the other unique things is using the camera on this viously since it has a screen on both sides it doesn't have room to mount a camera on the back of the phone so that the xnm has a single 20 megapixel camera and when you launch it by default it will show you the selfie mode in this mode and if you switch the camera around it basically tells you to flip the whole phone over to use it like you would a standard camera so as you flip the phone over you switch between selfie and rear camera modes and then it's a basically a 20 megapixel camera similar to what you might find on other acts on phones this is the first product in this line up from ZTE and the company says that it's going to be a platform going forward it's not designed to replace their other phones the axon lineup is still gonna exist with the single screen but this axon M is kind of the first of its dual-screen efforts and it's going to have more in the future and be able to do more things with it as time goes on and as more develop it becomes we expect this to launch on AT&T here in the US before the end of this year it's also going to be coming to DoCoMo in Japan before the end of this year and then it's also planning to launch in Europe and other parts of Asia in next year's timeframe we don't have an exact price yet but you can probably expect it to be about a premium price phone considering its specs and performance so there you go that's a real quick look at the ZTE axon M for more on this be sure to check out the verge comm and of course subscribe at youtube.com slash The Verge