ZTE Axon Mini Premium

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Reviews for the ZTE Axon Mini Premium

70% ZTE Axon Mini Review: In Depth
Source: Recombu Archive.org version
At just under £230, the ZTE Axon Mini is for the most part a handset worth considering. The UI needs a lot of work and the phone as a whole could have been refined a little more before hitting the market, but it boasts respectable performance, a nice screen, a surprisingly good camera and a solid feature set for the price.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/10/2016
Rating: Total score: 70%

50% ZTE Axon Mini (Premium Edition) review
Source: Trusted Reviews Archive.org version
I wouldn’t recommend the Axon Mini over other mid-range options. It’s got a good screen, is a quick device when it works, and has some nice extra features, such as the pressure-sensitive touch screen. But having experienced performance issues and finding myself still confused by the phone's downright strange design, I can’t really say it’s worth going with ZTE over better-known brands. I can’t think of why you would choose the Axon Mini over say the OnePlus X. ZTE’s device is slightly more expensive than the OnePlus, and if my experience is anything to go by, sometimes it won’t even work.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 02/08/2016
Rating: Total score: 50% price: 80% performance: 50% features: 80% display: 80% mobility: 80% workmanship: 40%

40% ZTE Axon Mini review
Source: Phone Arena Archive.org version
If you’ve felt that we’ve been too critical of the smartphone thus far – it is this price point that caused us to be. Well, that and the fact that we really liked the vanilla Android-toting Axon Pro. The Mini packs a lot of tech, impressive on paper but not so much in real life. Force Touch – great, but unresponsive and unnatural-feeling; fingerprint scanner – awesome, but not quick or reliable; iris scanner and voice unlock – clunky and impractical; 13 MP camera sounds great, but performs worse than some cheaper handsets we’ve reviewed. It feels more like a tech fan’s toy than an actual, fleshed out upper-midrange smartphone.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/15/2016
Rating: Total score: 40%

88% The Axon Mini gets some Premium treatment with its pressure-sensitive display
Source: Android Authority Archive.org version
Overall the Axon Mini is an interesting device, ZTE has added quite a bit of extra value with the pressure-sensitive display, the fingerprint reader and the high-end audio. The 3GB of RAM is also good to see, as is 32GB of storage. The main thing I feel that lets down the phone is the processor, it isn’t a deal breaker, but having a better processor would seem more appropriate alongside all those extra features.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/21/2015
Rating: Total score: 88% performance: 80% display: 95% mobility: 85% workmanship: 90%

Foreign Reviews

80% ZTE Axon Mini
Source: Chinahandys.net DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/07/2016
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 70% display: 90% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80%

80% ZTE Axon Mini
Source: Computerbild DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 06/01/2016
Rating: Total score: 80%

83% ZTE Axon Mini (Premium Edition)
Source: Connect - Heft 7/2016
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 06/01/2016
Rating: Total score: 83%

Zte Axon Mini
Source: Android Mag DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/12/2016

85% 3D Touch für die Mittelklasse
Source: Curved DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/15/2016
Rating: Total score: 85% performance: 82% display: 90% mobility: 90%

ZTE AXON mini
Source: Android Mag DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/14/2016

80% ZTE Axon Mini – Der Druck macht den Unterschied
Source: Android TV DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/20/2016
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 80% display: 100% workmanship: 80%

92% ZTE Axon Mini
Source: MobiFlip DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/01/2016
Rating: Total score: 92%

Comment

Model: The ZTE Axon Mini Premium is a mid-range smartphone with premium experience. It is an affordable model and the pared-down version of the ZTE's flagship phone Axon. Although its back is made of plastic, it is made from the "Boeing 787 aircraft-grade aluminium-titanium alloy". This heavy duty material gives the smartphone a premium look with an excellent feel. The Android 5.1 Lollipop device does not go overboard with pre-installed applications. It features a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 octa core processor, 3 GB of RAM, and 32 GB of internal storage. It is suitable for multitasking and the storage capacity can be expanded by up to 128 GB with a microSD card. The capacitive touchscreen uses AMOLED technolgy and features Full HD resolution and a pixel density of 442 PPI. It is a great display, which is crisp and gorgeous to look at.

Although its 13 MP camera does not take the most detailed pictures, it delivers superb colors and good clarity even in low-light conditions. This smartphone brings extra value with high-end audio, a fingerprint reader, eye recognition, and a pressure-sensitive display, which, however, is not as comprehensive and sensitive as the Apple's 3D touch. The ZTE Axon Mini Premium is available in Gold, Chromium Silver or Rose Gold, but not in pure black. It has a weight of 140 g and a 2800 mAh battery, which is above average and able to handle a full day's usage with around 4 hours of screen-on time.

Qualcomm Adreno 405: Integrated graphics card for ARM based SoCs. Depending on the used SoC the clock rate is around 500 MHz and features 48 unified shaders.

Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

616 MSM8939v2: Mid-range ARM-SoC with 8 CPU cores, X5 LTE modem (LTE Cat.4) and a Adreno 405 GPU manufactured in 28nm. The processor cores are based on the 64-bit Cortex-A53 architecture.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

5.20":

It is a very small display format for smartphones. You should by no means be mis-sighted and you will generally see very little on the screen and only have a small resolution available. In return, the device should be very small and handy.

ZTE:

ZTE is short for Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company Limited, which was founded in China in 1985 and is partly state-owned. ZTE's core business is wireless, optical transmission, data transmission equipment, telecommunications software and cell phones, USB sticks, routers and tablets.

75.33%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.

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