[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Choose an username...:
Whatever... We should actually make a comparation of the devices, as objective as possible...

All of these "1440p isn't noticeable" "1080p is horrible" "the camera is horrible" are far from any logical answer.

I'd start with:

Axon 7

-20MP camera, very good at lighted conditions. 240FPS recording. OIS and EIS. Read on ZTE that the glass lens is made of sapphire, not sure if that's true though

-8MP front. Just okay

-Dual SIM or one SIM+MicroSD support. Useful for movies and pictures, or whatever you want to do...

-4GB RAM, perfect performance, less futureproof

-Sound is really nice, whether by using the AKM DAC or just on youtube with Dolby Atmos. The DAC is undoubtedly better than Snapdragon's one, but seems to be limited some. Still really good though

-Stereo speakers are good, much more so with Atmos

-Charging is fast and the phone heats little. but it does

-Battery okay, 3140 mAh as reported on tge hardware, and AIDA64. ZTE reports 3250 mAh. I don't know which is right. nothing to brag about though

-SD820 SOC with thermal heatpipe and thermal paste. Good decision from ZTE, how rare.

-Back fingerprint sensor, comfortable after some time

-Design: This one is a hard one. The distance between the borders and the screen make cracking it really hard. I've seen an Axon 7 with a broken mobo and perfect screen from a huge fall. Definitely different from the usual symmetric Asian phone design

-Notification light is only R-G, still no idea why...

-1440P screen, Bad performance on games compared to 1080, native VR support, overall better detail but don't expect a lot more

-Stock system... Ugly, but functional. Badly themed: should be dark because of AMOLED. Can be remedied a little with a launcher. No substratum support

-Warranty, mileage may vary... I got an extra year and a free screen replacement. But I bought ir in the other side of the world so no warranty for me. Chinese versions seem not to have warranty

-ZTE and their updates, they fix 1 thing and break 3

-Superuser stuff, okay. Hard to unlock, easy to brick, even harder to keep up with ZTE and their daily barriers on their updates like getting rid of fastboot

-Included earbuds, good build, good sound quality. At least they give them for free :p

-Capacitive buttons, not well-spaced, takes time getting used to. Can be reversed easily (back on the left or right). A backlight would have been really nice though... Chinese version has on-screen if you despise them

-Bloatware. Little of that. Mostly some shady apps that seem to steal your location, but they're reported already and should be out of the system in the next update

-Signal reception, Would be nice if someone made a side-by-side comparison with another SD820 (NOT 821) to see if it is really worse. i haven't had any trouble

Again. your mileage may vary, a lot. For example I don't use the front camera and the speakers. Never got to more than 2/3 of used RAM.

And for the OP3T

-Slightly more expensive, depends on deals and stuff. You can get an axon 7 for less than 350, no idea how much on the OP3T side

-Much better front camera, double the pixel count (16MP)

-Better rear camera, much nicer low light shots. 120FPS recording. less pixel count, 16MP. OIS and EIS. Sapphire lens

-Media speaker, kinda bad. Fires from the base. I don't know how loud it is, but from a friend's 3T I can say it's pretty low and you need to hold a hand to direct the sound to you which is kinda bad

-1080P screen, much higher framerate in games. Don't know about battery life. Again a controlled comparison would be good

-SD821 SOC. Higher clocked version of the 820. No heatpipe, so it might do thermal throttling. Has a new modem, faster than Axon 7's.

-Dual SIM, no micro SD slot. Still huge internal capacity though

-OxygenOS. Really good system. Has substratum support, that means you can use Pitch Black and get a crapton of SOT. Good updates

-Design: Dunno. Looks kinda generic to me. The glass gets to the borders, that's bad cause the shock of a fall gets transferred to the glass itself on most cases.

-Fingerprint sensor: Slightly faster. Front placement is really comfortable, more so than the Axon's. Covered with ceramic, can't tell if that's really necessary but it's there so why not.

-HUGE dev support. Stupidly easy to unlock

-No idea on the warranty part

-OnePlus Bullets not included

-Dash Charging is as fast as QC3.0. Supposedly the charger is the only thing that gets the heat. If you use it while charging it will get hot still. It is a proprietary design, so you won't be able to charge any faster than usual USB 500ma rate on another phone...

If I forgot something just add it. Let's be realistic here

---------- Post added at 04:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:30 AM ----------

I forgot - The OP3 has 6GB ram which is solely futureproofing and F2FS which gives more responsiveness and faster R/W, also UFS2.0.