ZTE Axon M Pro Reviews

The ZTE Axon M has a heavy and awkward design that's genuinely useful for gaming and multitasking. But if you're not down to go double, spend your money on either a top-tier phone, or a cheaper phone with the same specs as the Axon M.

When it comes down to it, this isn’t the worst effort ZTE could have made, although it is a bit half-baked, and the Axon M falls short in key areas. Unfortunately, software is the one of the most deficient areas of the M. Simply stretching and splitting content in accordance with the in-built functionalities of the Android OS leaves the user with a rather slapdash user experience. Games can’t take advantage of the large double screen in any real way, videos are rather unpleasant with the black bar in the middle, and transitions between screen modes are often dreadfully unresponsive. The only actual advantage seems to be in web browsing and multitasking, as landscape mode enables a roomy experience for the former, and the multi-window feature provides the same for the latter. Otherwise you’ll find yourself using the Axon M as a regular phone more often than not. Given the M’s mediocre performance, $725 price tag, and laundry list of quirks, is it really worth dealing with all this to gain the exceedingly minor advantages? In a word, no. ZTE’s expressed intentions to make a second generation of the M; hopefully these issues are better dealt with come round 2.