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2 best Android apps for screen recording and other ways too!

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One of our more frequent requests from readers is to tell them how to record your screen on Android. The functionality has been around for quite some time but usually requires some tinkering and adjustment to get it. In Android Lollipop, they have a screen recording method building into the OS and that’s how most people do it these days. Let’s take a look at a few Android apps and some other methods to get you screen recording.</div>
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hecorat.screenrecorder.free" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #53cc39; font-family: "Open Sans Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">A2Z Screen Recorder</a></h3>
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A2Z Screen Recorder is one of the better all around screen recording apps on Android. It’s one of those “it just works” kind of apps. You open it up, start the recording, and then it will save when you’re finished. It also doesn’t include watermarks, advertising, or time limits. You can also pause the recording if needed. The app has all kinds of tweaks and additions that you can make to get your videos looking crisp and complete. It’s free to use if you want to check it out.</div>
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Google Play Games is thought of as just a place to view your mobile gaming profile. However, it actually has screen recording functionality built right in. It’s meant to be used with games, although you could use it to record just about anything. All you have to do is exit out of the game once the recording interface opens up and you’ll be able to record any app that you want. It’s a completely free option that works rather well. It’s also very simple to use. Unfortunately, you can only record in 720p or 480p with this one.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;">These voice memos can help doctors better determine what was happening at the time the EKG was recorded, like whether the patient was feeling heart palpitations, if they had just ingested caffeine, or if some other external factor could have contributed to the situation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In addition, the voice memos feature could also be used to track other things that need monitoring, like what you’ve eaten that day or how much time you spent exercising.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Meanwhile, the Kardia Apple Watch app also integrates with Apple’s Health platform to allow for analysis of EKG data along with other health factors that may have been recorded elsewhere, including exercise, caloric intake, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The new product is the latest to emerge from AliveCor, a medical technology company working to product FDA-cleared EKG technology for mobile devices. Its debut product, now called Kardia Mobile (previously AliveCor Mobile ECG), is a $99 standalone device that adheres to the back of your smartphone or tablet. You can press your fingers on it to take a reading, which would also be analyzed by the accompanying mobile application.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Kardia Band, as the newer product is called, instead puts its sensors directly onto a fairly stylist and sporty looking Apple Watch band. You then press on the band with your thumb to take a reading.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The company says that it’s expecting to receive FDA approval for the band later this spring (its 510k clearance), at which point the product will become available for sale. Pricing and further availability information has not yet been released, given its pending status.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“Kardia Band for Apple Watch represents both the future of proactive heart health and the introduction of the Wearable MedTech category,” said AliveCor CEO Vic Gundotra, the ex-Googler best known for building Google+ from the ground up. Gundotra joined AliveCor in November, following his departure from Google, but was not one of the original founders.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“These combined technologies give us the ability to deliver personal reports that provide analysis, insights and actionable advice for the patient and their doctor,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The San Francisco-based startup is backed by over $13 million in outside investment from Khosla Ventures and others.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">While the new product is largely aimed at those who have a need to detect AF, the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia and a leading cause of stroke, it could also be used by anyone interested in learning more about their health. Of course, whether or not the product will make sense for this wider audience will ultimately depend on the price point AliveCor settles on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">*Stayed tuned for TechCrunch’s video demo of Kardia Band in action.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto condensed" , "roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">It's time to buy a new phone and you need to know where to place your cash. What are your criteria? Do you want the latest and greatest phone on the market? Are you looking for something small and sleek? Or do you just want the device which offers the best value? Below are our picks for the best Android phones in the world today, recently updated with a new king (and, perhaps, queen).</span><br />
The absolute best: Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge</div>
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Best price/performance ratio: Honor 7<br />
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Best under US$400: OnePlus 2</div>
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Best under US$250: Moto G (2015)</div>
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Best small handset: Sony Xperia Z5 Compact<br />
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The Galaxy S7 delivers in so many categories. It combines looks and performance like no other smartphone currently does. And the big three, the triangle of vital criteria – camera, display and battery – are all of the highest standard.  </div>
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For the first time in a number of years, we have struggled to find serious faults in a Galaxy S phone and, of all the devices that we have seen come through the office doors, it’s the phone which most of<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> AndroidPIT</em> have the least trouble recommending. No matter what your needs, the S7 will please.</div>
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We know it's a little naughty to have two devices occupying the first spot, but they are too similar to divide: how could we recommend one and leave the other off the list? If you want a bigger display and battery, the S7 Edge has the goods. If you want something smaller and wish to save fifty bucks, our recommendation goes to the S7 standard.</div>
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This is the current standing, however: the Xiaomi Mi 5 and LG G5 have not been released yet. Once we’ve produced full reviews for those, we may need to revisit this list.</div>
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When it comes to the price/performance ratio, things get interesting. If you can afford to pay close to a grand for a phone, it's easy to get an incredible device, but what if you have a lower price point in mind? How do you make sure you're getting the best bang for your buck?</div>
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You weigh up the benefits and features of a phone against its price and make a judgment call on what gets you the best performance and features for the lowest figure, with the fewest compromises.</div>
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We've been blessed with several low-cost devices this year that have been really impressive performers, but none more so than the Honor 7. Despite being in the sub-US400 price range, this thing looks like a US$700 flagship. Huawei, the parent company behind Honor, knows how to put together a nice-looking phone at any price point.</div>
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But the Honor 7 is more than just a pretty face. It also delivers solid performance and a bunch of premium features, including a fingerprint scanner, an all-metal build, excellent battery life and a front-facing camera with an LED flash – a rarity on smartphones in any price bracket. Add to this a great 20 MP main camera, and you can see why this phone is such good value.</div>
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There have been several new models in the Xperia Z series since the Z3 came out, but it is still our top pick for best battery life. Battery life is the most important consideration for many smartphone buyers and the Xperia Z3 has proven itself against not only other Xperias, but against the whole crop of 2015 flagships.</div>
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Where the Xperia Z3+ had too many issues to warrant the upgrade and the Xperia Z5 doesn't do so well in terms of battery life, the Full HD Z3 keeps chugging along with the same great battery optimizations we came to love in the Xperia Z2.</div>
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Quick Charge 2.0 also means you get speedy charge cycles and the Z3 has the largest battery capacity out of all recent Xperia phones: Z3 (3,100 mAh), Z3+ (2,930 mAh), Z4v (3,000 mAh) and Z5 (2,900 mAh).</div>
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If you want to get best battery life from your phone, you could certainly have a worse starting point than the Xperia Z3. But if you apply all those battery saving tips you've learned over the years to a Z3, you'll be sitting pretty while everyone else is scrambling for a charger.</div>
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According to you, the readers, as well as us here at AndroidPIT, the Xperia Z5 provides the best camera available on any Android device. Lightning fast autofocus, 23 megapixels, rock steady image stabilization and superb definition combine to make it an incomparable phone for photography.</div>
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The only downside is that the device is extremely difficult to get a hold of in the US. If you can find one, get it, but otherwise, consider the LG G4, Samsung Galaxy S6 or Moto X Pure Edition, which all pack fantastic cameras. They're just not quite up there with Sony's offering.</div>
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The sub-$400 price bracket is hotly contested, and in 2015 it's included more awesome phones than in any other year. As flagships have gotten more expensive, mid-range phones have stepped up in terms of quality and features, but haven't adopted the higher prices that go with them.</div>
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The OnePlus 2 represents a flagship experience at half the price of most current flagships. Sure, you will miss out on NFC, fast-charging and wireless charging, but that's about all the OnePlus 2 lacks.</div>
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It's one of the most hyped phones of all time, and that naturally comes with a little backlash when the phone is actually released. But the reality is that the OnePlus 2 is a very accomplished phone that hits almost all the targets it set out to hit. The invite system will stop taking new reservations on October 22, so if you're interested in a OnePlus 2 you need to act fast.</div>
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If we drop down to the next price bracket – the sub-US$250 range – we still have a very impressive group of phones to choose from. Even at a third of the price of many flagship devices, you can still get a lot of great features and hardware. But it's the Moto G (2015)'s impressive combination of price, features and update speed that gets it to the top of our list.</div>
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The Asus ZenFone 2 and Huawei P8 Lite are close runners-up in this category, but the near stock Android interface and super fast update speeds of the Moto line gives the third generation Moto G the edge it needs to creep ahead (the P8 Lite is only just getting Lollipop whereas the Moto G is about to get Marshmallow).</div>
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Not everyone likes a 5.5-inch phone in their pocket. For some, a sub 5-inch display diagonal is the ideal size. The only problem is that pickings are pretty slim. Most Android phones with a display diagonal of less than five inches are pretty hopeless. Even Samsung and HTC seem to have given up on that particular niche.</div>
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Fortunately, Sony offers the Xperia Z5 Compact. The company took a different approach to the small phone concept – where other manufacturers watered down their flagship specs for their mini devices, Sony simply put flagship components into a smaller body. It's proven to be a winning formula and the Z5 Compact is worthy of our 'best small handset' title.</div>
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[APK Download] Google Docs Adds Outline Tool To Quickly Navigate Through Your Documents

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If you have long documents inside Google Docs, you've probably been annoyed many times by the lack of an easy way to skip through different sections or chapters. You could spend over a minute swiping through a long story for example to reach a chapter toward the end.</div>
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Google Docs' new outline feature solves this problem on both the web and Android. On the web, clicking <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tools > Document outline</em> triggers a pane to the left of the document that lists clickable headers for all the different sections. Even if headers aren't manually applied, Google will still recognize changes in formatting and detect the logical separations between sections.</div>
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On Android, the option is available in version 1.6.092.04 of Google Docs and introduces two new interface changes. The scrolling handle has changed from a blocky rectangle to a FAB-like circle with up and down arrows. When you hold it, it'll overlay the outline in bold on top of the screen so you can quickly skip through sections or tap a specific one to jump to it. There's also a new<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Document outline</em> option in the overflow menu of the document that triggers a bottom sheet with the full outline in a more visible layout than the scrolling overlay.</div>
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[APK Download] Google Docs Adds Outline Tool To Quickly Navigate Through Your Documents

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ZTE's Android phone with '3D touch' is cool but far from perfect

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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The pressure-sensitive screen (3D Touch in Apple-speak) is fast becoming standard in Android smartphones. We've recently reviewed the high-end and quite expensive Huawei Mate S that has such a screen, and rumors have it that the next Samsung Galaxy flagship will feature it as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So what does ZTE's Axon mini (Premium Edition) — the only sub-$400 phone out there to feature a pressure-sensitive screen — bring to the table?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, besides showering you with tech you're not used to seeing in midrange phones, it's a solid Android device, but a number of little quirks and imperfections mar the experience somewhat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">A lot of bang for the buck</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After years of trailing behind the smartphone giants from Korea, Chinese manufacturers these days bring it not only in terms of specs, but also new technologies, their phones being almost too crammed with features.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">ZTE Axon mini is no exception. It has a pressure-sensitive screen, a fingerprint scanner, an eye scanner and a voice scanner, all of which you can use to secure the device. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pure specifications-wise, the phone is solid: It has a 5.2-inch, full HD screen, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage (expandable with microSD cards up to 128GB in size), a 13-megapixel back camera and an 8-megapixel selfie cam, and a 2,800mAh battery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Also of note is the "audiophile-level" 192kHz/32bit AK4961 audio chip from Asahi Kasei Microdevices, coupled with dual microphones, which — in theory — offers superior sound reproduction and recording quality compared to most smartphones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A couple of things drag the Axon mini into midrange territory, mainly the octa-core, 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor — a decent but not top-notch chip — and the use of Android 5.1 Lollipop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">ZTE tries hard to achieve a premium look for the Axon mini, even adding some stitched leather-like material to the phone's top and bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On the design front, even though the phone's body is made out of a "Boeing 787 aviation standard high-strength aluminum titanium alloy" with a faux-leather on the back's top and bottom, it just doesn't feel as premium as some of the top smartphones I've held. ZTE boasts a "2.5D" curved screen, but the curvature at the edges is barely noticeable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It's hard to be objective about a smartphone's design these days — after all, they're all mostly slabs of metal with a big screen on the front — so it's quite possible someone else would have a different impression. To me, the ZTE Axon mini looks good, but not amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">It's all about the experience</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As I've noted in my Huawei Mate S review — which, being the only other Android with a pressure-sensitive screen right now, will inevitably be compared with the ZTE Axon mini — merely listing the specs of an Android phone nowadays tells you very little. It's the little things that make the difference: Does everything work out of the box, or does it require some fiddling? Is it stable, long-term? How much bloatware is pre-installed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thankfully, the Axon mini does not go overboard with pre-installed apps. Its MiFavor UI 3.2 user interface, slapped on top of Android 5.1 Lollipop, is mostly unobtrusive, though users will have to get used to the lack of an app drawer — all apps are scattered across the screen and in folders, just like on iOS. I uninstalled a few apps I definitely did not need, installed the 20-or-so apps that I regularly use, and I was on my way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Where ZTE Axon mini stumbles somewhat is the execution of its multitude of features. Don't get me wrong: Everything works, but it might take you a little time to get there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For example, the fingerprint scanner only read my finger correctly one out of three or so times, even though I went through the setup process twice. I eventually figured out the angle at which I needed to press my finger against it, but in the end, typing in my PIN code to unlock the smartphone was an easier option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As far as the pressure-sensitive screen goes, it can be used to access additional menus for most of the phone's pre-installed apps, weighing things with a scale app, setting up a 3D password (which registers not only the numbers and letters, but also the force you apply to each symbol) or even catch fish in an animated screensaver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">However,</span><span class="microcontent" data-description="the pressure sensor did not always correctly catch my intention, even after some calibration" data-fragment="the-pressure-sensor-did" data-micro="1" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the pressure sensor did not always correctly catch my intention, even after some calibration</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. After a while, I adjusted the way I pressed on the screen and things got better, but never perfect. I had other issues with the screen — for example, I often couldn't get the multi-touch zoom on photos to work correctly; it stuttered, and instead of zooming in, the gallery app would sometimes switch to a different photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I've tested ZTE's eye-scanning technology at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and while it worked as advertised, I wasn't sure it was the greatest or the fastest way to unlock your device. On the Axon mini, the feature is called Sky eye, and it can only be used to access private spaces or locked apps, but not to unlock the phone. Suffice to say you won't be using this one too much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally, the occasional misspelling in a system menu or just plain odd behavior were reminders that the Axon mini simply lacks some polish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Sights and sounds</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Quick: How excited are you when you hear the words "13-megapixel camera?" I thought so. These days, practically every Android smartphone has one, and most produce decent photos, though in my view, none of them are as good as the iPhone's camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So instead of fiddling with a Axon mini's zillion camera features, I focused on two things: How fast it is, and how well does it take photos in low-light conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Axon mini fares good but not great on both counts. In sunlight, photos are great and snapping them takes a fraction of a second. In low light, the phone will often warn you not to move it for a second or two, as the photo is still being taken, and even if you oblige that, the photos will sometimes be blurry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When you do manage to snap a sharp photo in a poorly lit room, the colors will be pretty true to reality, but — as you can see in the comparison below — the level of detail will be far below what you get on an iPhone 6 (the iPhone is on the left, the Axon mini on the right).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A quick camera comparison between the iPhone 6 and the ZTE Axon mini, in less-than-perfect light conditions. Both cameras do a solid job with colors, but the iPhone's camera is far superior when it comes to sharpness and details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I used the Axon mini to snap some seaside photos in near-perfect conditions, as well as some dark, Christmassy ones, two of which you can see below. All in all, the camera did not disappoint, but it was nothing special.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Like most Androids in its price range, ZTE Axon mini takes great photos — when the light conditions are perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lastly, I had to test Axon mini's audio capabilities. I whipped out my trusty old Creative Labs Aurvana Live headphones — still the best pair I own, despite being the cheapest — and chilled out with John Coltrane's <em>A Love Supreme</em>, Wilco's <em>Yankee Hotel Foxtrot</em>, Fink's <em>Perfect Darkness</em> and Thome Yorke's <em>The Eraser</em>. While all four recordings sounded great (Coltrane and Fink were MP3s, Wilco and Yorke were FLAC), it's hard to tell how great without a direct comparison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So, I compared the same music with an iPhone 6 (whose audio capabilities we thoroughlytested) and even a MacBook and, as expected, with the same headphones I simply could not hear the difference. That does not mean it doesn't exist, but unless you're an audiophile with some serious equipment, you probably don't need to worry about the audio chip in your smartphone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The ZTE Axon mini Premium Edition is an odd beast. It has a lot of premium features, but its processor drags it down. With a 5.2-inch screen and a "mini" moniker, it definitely feels like a weaker, smaller version of the ZTE Axon Pro — but then again, it has a pressure-sensitive screen, and the Pro doesn't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Still, </span><span class="microcontent" data-description="most of ZTE Axon mini Premium Edition's advanced features left me cold" data-fragment="most-of-zte-axon" data-micro="1" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">most of ZTE Axon mini Premium Edition's advanced features left me cold</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. The "3D touch" screen is nice, but I nearly never used it. The fingerprint scanner was shoddy. I never had the need to use Sky eye. So what we're left it is a solid, but not a spectacular midrange phone, with some minor issues and a lot of cool tech you won't really use except to impress your friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That means the price will be by and far the deciding factor here, and the ZTE Axon mini does not disappoint. The phone can be had for about $389 from AliExpress — a well-known Chinese site that ships worldwide. Compare that to the Huawei Mate S, whose cheapest variant with pressure-sensing tech costs about $785, and you got yourself a bargain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A lot of fancy new tech <span class="bullet">•</span> Affordable <span class="bullet">•</span> Solid overall specs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lukewarm design <span class="bullet">•</span> Lacks polish <span class="bullet">•</span> Weak processor <span class="bullet">•</span> Flaky fingerprint sensor and eye scanner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The ZTE Axon mini Premium Edition is the only affordable choice if you desire an Android with a pressure-sensing screen, but you'll have to live with its imperfections.</span></div>
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