Talk about specialty, ZTE Blade A2 Plus has the highest expectations from battery life, because the phone has a 5000 mAh battery life. Talking about paper, it comes with VoLTE support. It has an octa-core processor, 4 GB RAM and a 13-megapixel PDAF camera. But does it really talk when it comes to performance, then these specifications work? Is this phone good in performance just like the price? Let’s know
ZTE Blade A2 Plus Design & Texture
The phone’s texture is very good due to the use of metal. However, the design seems slightly normal and boring. This phone does not attract the user’s attention, so ZTE Blade A2 Plus is not for those who prefer to show off their smartphones in public places. We felt a little heavy to hold the phone, hand in hand and felt a little heavy even when kept in the pocket. Due to the large battery, the thickness of the phone also increases slightly and its thickness is 9.8 mm and weighs 189 grams.
The ZTE Blade A2 Plus is fully occupied by the display and has a backlit, capacitive navigation button below it. White backlight in the home button also acts like a notification light but its light is very low, which makes it impossible to see it in daylight. On the right side there are the remaining buttons and on the left side there is a sim tray. The phone comes with a hybrid SIM slot and can use two SIM cards or a SIM card and a microSD card (128 GB). The phone has a headphone shock at the top and a USB port at the bottom.
The ZTE Blade A2 Plus has a fingerprint sensor, dual-LED flash and a primary camera on the rear. The fingerprint sensor in the phone is placed like a honor 8 (review). The fingerprint sensor on the rear is given above a physical button, which can be used in different ways when pressed differently. By going to the Settings app, it can be customized in the super menu.
The ZDTE Blade A2 Plus has a 5.5-inch IPS display that comes with full-HD resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass 3. Display panels have good color produce and viewing angles are also good. The phone has Miravizon optimization, so that features such as dynamic contrast and blue-light filter can be enabled. The glass above the display also comes with curved edges, which makes the phone grip good.
In the box, we found 13.5 Wat Charger, SIM Ejector Tool and an Instruction Manual. The packing of the phone is very simple, which shows that ZTE has made every effort to keep the price low. In addition to good textures, Blade A2 Plus is a very standard look smartphone that has nothing excited about beauty. The phone is quite heavy and it is not even thin, so it may not be liked by some people.
ZTE Blade A2 Plus Specification & Feature
The MedTE Blade A2 Plus has a MediaTek MT6750 T octa-core processor. We have also reviewed the Vivo V5 with this processor. We got average figures in the benchmark test. At the time of normal use, the user interface runs quite well but the phone makes trouble in Chrome at the time of using many tabs and cameras. This is a bit strange for a 4 GB RAM phone because we did not have such a problem in the second smartphone with this processor.
The ZDTE Blade A2 Plus has 32 GB inbuilt storage. It has Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS, FM radio and USB OTG for connectivity. Talking about the sensor, only accelerometer and proximity sensors will be available. The phone supports VoLTE with 4G.
The mephaver 3.5 OS in the phone is based on Android Marshmallow. This skin is not one of the best interfaces we yet used. The phone’s drop-down notification shed is to edit to edit to switch from bottom to the theme color, wallpapel, icon size and transition effects. The Setting App has a stock Android design gung and is an access to gesture and motion triggers for the task. The ability to switch to the function of both capacitive buttons and the phone can also be set in the leather case. The second function has a family mode that replace the existing icon with a large font for easy use. Like Samsung, there is also an activity tracker named Sliff and a self-service app called ZTE Care. Many third-part utility apps are already installed in the phone, but it is good that all of them can be deleted according to their needs.
ZTE Blade A2 Plus Performance
Blade A2 Plus is a good phone for everyday work. The touch response of the display could have been improved. The fingerprint sensor works well and can also be used for shortcuts of several functions. The phone does not have the best processor for multitasking and the phone causes a problem that can be noticed. The rear of the phone is also rapidly heated, such as while playing games like Rayman Adventures.
Stock video and music player easily run the file, including flakes. The audio quality from loud speaker is quite average but the sound from earphones is fine.
The 13 -megapixel rear camera in the phone is the weakest link as its performance is very disappointed. Despite being a PDAF, focus speed is very slow in daylight and it is not worth using in low light. It is also very difficult to take a macro shot from the camera because locking the subject is a very difficult task. Landscape shots come with a lot of detailing in daylight, but colors look ugly which makes HDR become worse when enabled. Detailing and colors are very rare in the pictures taken in low light.
The 8 -megapixel camera of the ZDTE Blade A2 Plus brings well, but do not keep too much expectations from it. A maximum of 1080 pixels can record videos but framered is not very permanent and because of this the video looks extremely bad with very low detailing and bad color. The camera app is extremely basic because it has only picture-in-picture and panorama mode. And there is no special mode like slow-motion for the video. You will get an option to apply the filter in the phone and also have a gesture mode to take selfies
Battery life is the most special point of this phone. The ZTE Blade A2 Plus battery will not disappoint you. In our loop test, the phone battery lasted for 14 hours and 48 minutes. At the same time, after making full charge at the time of normal use, we were able to run the phone for two days. Blade A2 Plus supports MediaTek’s pump charge feature and with the adapter that comes with it we are able to charge the phone up to 25 percent in 40 minutes. However, it is not as fast as OnePlus dash charge or Qualcomm’s latest Quick Charge Technology, but it is better to have anything.
Our decision
If you look at the specification on paper, it looks a very good phone at a price of Rs 11,999. However, reality is extremely different. By making this phone online exclusive, ZTE has definitely kept the price of the phone very correct. But the Blade A2 Plus has an important selling point of its good battery life. Overall, it is a good smartphone.
Certainly it is not a good all-rounder like a phone being offered by Xiaomi. And we would recommend only to choose Xiaomi compared to ZTE. Also, you Asus Zenfone 3S Max We can also choose, which we reviewed recently and its performance is very good in terms of price.