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The in-display optical fingerprint sensor works well enough and saves you from blindly searching for a scanner on the back of the device.

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On paper, there's no reason to think the triple-lens camera on the back of the Axon 10 Pro would be worse than any other phone's shooter. There's an optional AI Camera mode available, similar to Samsung's Scene Optimizer, which tunes exposure parameters based on what the lenses are pointed at. Interestingly, this software isn't activated out of the box; you have to go into the camera settings and enable it yourself.

We turned the feature on for the following photos, though the object recognition was hit or miss and came into play only for the first image in this series. The Axon 10 Pro impressed initially with a satisfying shot of a yellow flower. It's a complex scene; you have a mix of natural light falling into the room from an adjacent window and colored, indoor light shining from above.

To make things even more challenging, the camera is positioned against the main light source. However, ZTE's hardware and software navigate the visual landscape well, exposing the petals sharply, without oversaturating the yellow like the OnePlus 7T did. Even the flower's red spots are more individually discernible on the Axon 10 Pro.

That said, I much prefer the slight grain to the 7T's bokeh, and OnePlus' phone is demonstrably more skilled at reining in the highlights outside. Here, we used optical zoom with both phones, 3x in the case of the Axon 10 Pro and 2x for the OnePlus 7T. You could certainly make the argument that 3x power is more useful than 2x when you really need optical zoom, but it's hard to ignore that the 7T's showing is plainly superior here. It's harder to keep still the more you zoom in, but ZTE hasn't done enough to stabilize images captured with the telephoto, as you can see by the slight blurriness of the succulent.

Additionally, the mix of colored lights overhead creates a beautiful gradient against the leaf of the plant in the background of the OnePlus 7T's shot, something that's totally absent in the Axon 10 Pro's more muted result.

On that note, ZTE's cameras have an odd habit of desaturating colors, and not in a way that looks pleasing or more realistic. You'll have to take my word for it that the light striking the mask and white wall in this photo should be more red than pink, as it is in the 7T's photo. Additionally, the Axon 10 Pro over-smoothed textures, especially if you pay close attention to the streaks of paint around the mask's nose. But by far the Axon 10 Pro's worst showing came when I attempted to take some portraits of my colleague Shaun.

I'll concede that OnePlus' software took some liberties with Shaun's skin tone, making it a tinge warmer and redder than it truly is. But even with those minor inaccuracies, it's still light years closer to the ideal than the Axon 10 Pro's bleached-out, shaky attempt. The ZTE portrait fails on every level. There's less detail, especially in his tattoos; the highlights are completely blown out; the contrast is all wrong and even the bokeh is inconsistent and looks like it was shoddily approximated in Photoshop, after the fact.

Still, I wouldn't say that the Axon 10 Pro's cameras are awful; for the price, they're as decent as you'd expect. The problem for ZTE is the competition. Before , cheap phones with very good cameras were impossible to find. That's changing, but sadly, ZTE's latest is not part of that trend.

ZTE Axon 10 Pro review: Great performance for $549

ZTE is pushing the Axon 10 Pro's sound-production capabilities, as the phone comes with DTS:X Ultra panoramic surround sound built in though, once again, strangely not enabled by default. Phone makers rarely tout audio improvements the same way they push photographic or display prowess, so I had high expectations for the Axon 10 Pro's stereo speakers and software. Unfortunately, I was left wondering why ZTE felt compelled to speak up in the first place. Turning that DTS:X feature on from the preinstalled app definitely lends a bit of airiness to audio playback that better envelops the user.

But the sound itself is tinny and compressed, with a lack of warmth and a low peak loudness. The Axon 10 Pro stashes its drivers in the earpiece and along the bottom edge, and while the latter driver appears up to the task, that top speaker is woefully underequipped.

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If you hold the device with the bottom grille resting on your pinky, which is the way I sometimes hold phones, that anemic earpiece will fail to rise to the occasion every time. That's what happened when I listened to Chastity Belt's "Rav The cymbals, typically a foil against the song's cavernous soundscape, were lost somewhere high in the mix, struggling to stand out. The Axon 10 Pro features Android 9 Pie out of the box, which is more than a little frustrating given the proximity of the phone's U.

While the device hit shelves in some regions in late spring, it didn't go on sale in the U. That means Axon 10 Pro owners have to wait for Android 10, which is expected before the end of the year.

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In the meantime, you're left with ZTE's flavor of Android 9, which has once again reminded me why I dislike most manufacturers' custom skins. While ZTE has somewhat scaled back its customizations and the number of stock apps it installs mercifully, Google Photos is the only gallery installed on the device , the interface is still rather ugly and dated.

Case in point, the tray of persistent apps along the bottom of the Axon 10 Pro's home screen is misaligned with the grid of apps above it. This sort of thing doesn't meaningfully affect your experience in using a phone, but it lends an air of carelessness and a lack quality control. Also, I can't unsee it.

But the visuals might be somewhat forgivable if the Axon 10 Pro offered other features to make up for that aesthetic drawback. It doesn't. In fact, there's no system-wide dark theme here and no Digital Wellbeing suite, so the Axon 10 Pro offers less, in terms of features, than what you get from most Android phones nowadays. For what it's worth, there is an optional gesture-navigation system onboard that pretty much copies what will come standard on Android 10, and it's fine.

There's also a strangely named on-screen button you can elect to use, called Z-Pop, which lives on the edge of the screen. You can use this button to go back, return home or surface your recent apps; it seemed pretty useless when I played around with it. I can forgive an Android front end that isn't pretty to look at if it's at least functional. ZTE's is neither and thus fails to justify its existence.

ZTE Axon 10 Pro review: Great performance for $549

Although the Axon 10 Pro is very reasonably priced, that affordability has unfortunately come at the expense of availability, and not just because no carrier offers the device. It's unfortunately a deal breaker for a great many users interested in ZTE's lower-priced flagship phone. I find myself conflicted about the Axon 10 Pro. One one hand, it's an astonishing value. This phone is a great alternative to the OnePlus 7T, or a good upgrade from the Pixel 3a XL for those who care more about performance than photography.

But unfortunately, the phone's flaws — the humdrum design, the so-so cameras and the careless approach to software — ensure that an alternative to the OnePlus 7T is all the Axon 10 Pro will ever be.

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It's a bit of a shame, because ZTE has gotten a lot of things right with this phone, especially when you consider where the company was one year ago. The Axon 10 Pro might not top our list of the best unlocked phones , but it comes close. Forgot password?

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