![]() The raised “volume up” and “volume down” buttons on the volume rocker are bifurcated by a flush segment of plastic, which makes them easy to find. The buttons are thoughtfully styled: the power button is textured with a tactile diamond pattern, which makes fumbling around for it in a pocket a lot less of a chore. On the handset’s right edge is a raised volume rocker and power switch, both of which feature neat bronze accents. They’re curved, like the glass, and although they’re made of plastic, the brushed texture and anodized silver is a dead ringer for aluminum. The Pro’s sides are up to snuff, thankfully. They function as software navigational buttons, but annoyingly don’t conform to Android’s design guidelines - the button on the right is a dedicated back button and the one on the left is an app-switching shortcut, but the two are identical in appearance, so they’re easy to confuse. ![]() So too, do the three white capacitive buttons beneath the Pro’s screen: two nondescript dots on either side of a hollow circle. Its earpiece, three horizontally aligned circular cutouts next to the handset’s front-facing camera, look slapdash in comparison with the glass. That same attention to detail doesn’t extend to the rest of the Pro’s front side. Thanks to the sloping curves around the Pro’s edges, it’s fluid beneath my tapping thumbs and index fingers. It not only looks fantastic, but it feels fantastic, too. The ZMax Pro’s protective front-facing Gorilla Glass 3 is “2.5D,” which is to say it’s ever-so-slightly raised above the bezel of the Pro’s 6-inch display and contoured around the phone’s four edges. It’s feather-light compared to the Nexus 6, and the generous screen real estate justifies any minor discomfort. But luckily, it’s not as hefty as other gigantic phones. It’s a behemoth of a smartphone, which is to say it feels every bit of its 6-inch diagonal screen size. My thumbs struggle to reach the very top of the screen, so I have to shimmy my hands upward to even get close. If the ZMax Pro looks a tad familiar, that’s because it takes a few design cues from flagships like the Motorola Nexus 6. A prettier budget phone that looks like the Nexus 6 It goes without saying that the Pro is a highly competitive budget smartphone. It features a titanic HD screen, an enormous battery, and accoutrements typically reserved for smartphones hundreds of dollars above its price point, like a fingerprint sensor and USB Type-C port. It’s not only the company’s cheapest phone yet - it starts at $100 with an instant rebate - it’s also the best-endowed budget phone ZTE has ever made. In response to newfound competitors, ZTE stepped up its game aggressively this year with the budget ZMax Pro. Rough durability test shows a dark side of the ROG Phone 6 Proĭoes the Pixel 7 Pro have a curved screen? Your Pixel 7 is about to get a whole lot less buggy - here’s why
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