ZTE Blade Z Max

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Anonymous
6p{
15 Apr 2018

Can we use two sims at a time in this phone

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Anonymous
6p{
15 Apr 2018

Anonymous, 01 Apr 2018I have this phone, and you should research the SPECS of t... moreHow can we use two sims

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AnonD-645478
YfR
14 Apr 2018

I have had several devices at top price range .galaxy note 5 w/su which I paid top dollar and it was the first and last time I spent over 250.00 for a phone.rooted phones are the worst .you spend all your time trying to tweak then next thing you know its time for another one. Even unrooted with stock ROM this zte max ,blade is one tough customer .I bought it used for 20.00 and it performs ,and out performs others rated far beyond what the z981 is.its gets bad ratings from people that use $ 1.380 accessories

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AnonD-430429
cUp
13 Apr 2018

[deleted post]Dude are you for real, I got this phone for a friend at a pawn shop for $80 what the hell do you think you're going to get for a $160 retail device. Don't come off as if this device is supposed to perform like a device with a QC 635 chip. Get your expectations inline with reality. It's a throwaway phone at throwaway prices.

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Anonymous
IbE
04 Apr 2018

The zmax blade phone sucks. Bought one and in less than two months the charging port fried. Had to buy a new phone. Bought the same phone and again it's having problems with the charging. Now it just Flickrs the black screen with the dead battery and vibrates once and turns black again. Over and over won't change. There is a manafactures defect in the phone and metro PC's won't replace the phone without buying a new one. Manafactures defect should be replaced with no out of pocket cost.

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Anonymous
IbE
01 Apr 2018

AnonD-697403, 04 Sep 2017One more benefit the Blade has over the Pro is that the Bla... moreI have this phone, and you should research the SPECS of the phone, it will teach you about what is can actually do and not do. it has a dual SIM card, there's one slot for the SIM, but you can have two separate SIM numbers.

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AnonD-748715
Ygm
31 Mar 2018

The specs TRICK buyers into thinking this is one heck of a phone for the budget category. It is not, sadly.
Multitasking is 2/10.
Graphic Processing I give 3/10.
Simple Cell Shading: 3/10
Screen Clarity and Sharpness: 4/10 WAYY TO SHARP for 6" 1080p

Screen Brightness: 1/10, There is no possible setting that wont over bright the whites, washing out the darks and leaking color while destroying any hope of color Contrast. When the whites aren't on overkill all other colors are far too darkened to call "accurate." And putting the brightness on Auto "automatically" greys out the whites. No win.

No USB-OTG, has a "cast" button in display settings but sends a Toast Notification saying this device isnt built for this,

CANNOT ROOT CANNOT ROOT NO HOPE NO BOOTLOADER NO ROOT CANNOT EVER BE DONE,

transfer rate between internal and SD is atrocious, no type-C to HDMI support, even with adapters,

ONLY FAST CHARGES WHEN OFF!!!!

Games I Have Tested and [HIGHEST STABLE SETTING]:
1) Into The Dead 2 [LOW ONLY!!!] (Seriously...)
2) All Telltale Developed Games [DOES NOT SHADE WELL, CANNOT GET BATMAN ON PLAY STORE, GUARDIANS IS ON PLAY STORE BUT LOOKS HORRIBLE]
3) Dead Effect 2 [MEDIUM, NO ALIASING, NO BLOOM EFFECTS]
Google Play Store app and game availabilIty: 6/10
4) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [IN PLAY STORE BUT UNDER ABSOLUTE LOWEST SETTINGS GAME WILL CRASH FIRST SECOND OF GAME TIME]

Truthfullness that an app or game is compatible to run on this phone: "Is my refund button still active?"

Good Stuff:
1) Dolby Audio is neat. It's not Atmos like most spec sites claim, though.
2) Big screen at 1080p sucks. (But hey, big screen)
3) The fingerprint scanner will read your print correctly in any direction, meaning if I registered it vertically, the device will unlock if I use the same print horizontally.
4) Bokeh camera effect, a simulated effect, but be wowed by 2 cameras.

Don't buy unless your sole purpose is checking email. Not working on a Google Speadsheet and checking email, cuz, ya know, 2/10 multitasking.

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KikiPGH
IbI
30 Mar 2018

I've had this phone since December (over 3 months) and it has worked wonderfully. No major faults like I see everyone else complaining about. It's a good phone if you ask me. The fingerprint scanner and split screen mode are probably two of my favorite features, and the camera is really good as well.

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Noneedname
Ibx
21 Mar 2018

I have owned this phone for not even a month. In this small time of ownership of it I can say this. Do not by I was tricked into it cause it was free. Now let's get to the pros and cons of this large piece of shit.

Pors: long battery life. Large screen. Dual camera. Great sound quality. Finger print scanner.

Cons: Small memory. Ram 1.8gb. CAN ONLY RUN ONE APP AT A TIME, feels very cheap, uses all of your ram for battery life, hardware is garbage, software is garbage, no stock browser, no stock keyboard, Google is mandatory browser, MMS and text work sometime. And it uses 1.8 of 1.8gb to run your phone. Oh let me not forget the crashes.

As I see it this phone should've never been released. Maybe the worse phone ever released in the new tech era. Epic faceplam is needed here.

Overall: Do not buy it even for your cat. It's a very poorly made phone.
2.3 out of 10.0
Yes it's that bad. I am going to contact zte and see what the tech department is going todo to fix this. If nothing I will be filing a class action lawsuit against them for misleading performance spec and knowingly disturbing a faulty product to the American people. ZTE has been fined by the government once already for selling technology to North Korea.

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Joshua1985
IbG
19 Mar 2018

Metro User, 13 Feb 2018Ok, I've now had the blade Zmax for a little over 2 months.... moreI upgraded from the ZTE zmax pro too the new blade which has one processor. The zmax pro has 2 and a wider screen. Yeah it's an older version phone then the new blade zmax but will run circles around it. I do a lot of things on my phone and between the two. I must say the zmax pro is better as far as multitasking. The new blade zmax is a overall quality piece of shit. Sold it first day I got it freezing up and stuff. I have to give them a bad review if they made the new blade like the zmax pro. I'd gave them a thumbs up.

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AnonD-745540
IHQ
18 Mar 2018

The phone is OK, not the best. I used to have an LG G Stylo 1st gen which I bought Feb 2016 and it's been working great, just figured to get a newer phone and got this about a month ago. Anyway, back to the ZTE Blade. First of all, it doesn't have as many customizable user changes I had on the LG. Secondly, and this is my biggest complaint, is when I first got the phone, I wasn't receiving any calls. I'm on family mobile network (T-Mobile). I can make calls, but every once in a while, I couldn't receive calls. I looked up other forums and some people have said to turn off the "voice over LTE preferred" which I did, and it worked for a while and then it started happening again. I've noticed that I couldn't receive calls when I was on a WiFi network. Family mobile doesn't have wifi calling feature, and looked into the WiFi calling feature. It was set on WiFi preferred. I changed it to cellular network preferred and so far, it seems to work better than before. Every once in a while, I can't receive calls so what I do early in the morning I do a couple of test calls and use my wife's phone to call my phone to see if it's working. I know it's annoying, but I try to remember to do this every morning. It does seem to help though. I try to do test calls a couple of times a day to make sure I can receive calls. I think maybe around Sept or so, I might trade up to another LG phone, I've had several since and they seem to work really well for me and are more user customizable. So, if I were to give this phone a star rating, I would give it 2 1/2 stars out of 4. ZTE needs to step up their game on their phone line if they want to stay in the US market and increase their sales here.

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ZTE Blade is Garbage
IbE
17 Mar 2018

Send picture then reset the phone anytime you want to send another one have to wipe cache every time reliad the.phone thenwirst piece of shit

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AnonD-745060
T1j
16 Mar 2018

I hate this phone and everything about it! this phone should not be sold! they should scrap it and throw it away!

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Adams
T1j
16 Mar 2018

I hate this phone! the graphics are bad, the text messaging app is bad... Everything about this phone screams HORRIBLE!!! Do not buy it!

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Anonymous
Rbq
14 Mar 2018

Abe, 05 Feb 2018You think Android sucks because of your experience with che... moreAh you probably dont understand anything

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AnonD-742665
Ibx
12 Mar 2018

AnonD-742665, 06 Mar 2018Bought it today 3-6-18 Lost my LG Tribute HD. So far, WOW... moreMetro PC admitted they have no towers outside of major cities. They offered me a refund of the phone if it has less then 1 hour talk time. Well, I talked to a rep for over an hour, so no return.
AND, the phone is locked for 90 days.
So I can't use the phone on another carrier.
I am talking to a lawyer about a lawsuit for deceptive practices.
We shall see how far metro PC is willing to go just to let a paying customer change carriers, after one week..

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AnonD-742665
IbF
10 Mar 2018

AnonD-742665, 06 Mar 2018Bought it today 3-6-18 Lost my LG Tribute HD. So far, WOW... moreThe phone works great.
Data does NOT work except in major cities.
I drove from Elgin Illinois to Omaha Nebraska today. 450 miles, west on i-80.
I lost data in Clinton Illinois, about 30 miles from Elgin.
Never got data until Des Moines Iowa ( four hours later )

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AnonD-742665
IbG
06 Mar 2018

Bought it today 3-6-18
Lost my LG Tribute HD.
So far, WOW!!
Videos like movies/YouTube, outstanding.
Camera seems OK. ( I use a DSLR for my camera).
Text wouldn't send pics , something about to large of a file.
Went to play store and got the Android messenger, works perfect.
Fingerprint stuff works good.
Online data, is Great, way faster than my old phone.
Been surfing heavily for around 6 hours and still 60% battery life left. And I never charged it when I got home.
Annoying metro p, logo on upper left screen.
So far so good.
I'll update this post every couple months.
Got the phone from metro PCs, never tried this company before.
this phone was $120.00.
They took off $100.00
Because I switched from boost.
So, for $20 for the phone, plus monthly plan, $60.00
What's to complain about?
All in all I am happy, we shall give it awhile and see how the phone and Carrier work out.

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jamie2018
Lvv
06 Mar 2018

I had 3 ZTE BLADE Z MAX and they have been wonderful very fast no issues at all with me so far never had any problems with nothing I even have the ZTE MAX from Boostmobile and theay great phones batterie last almost day and half everything work fantastic. Don't why this people are having problems with them I love the ZTE

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Anonymous
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03 Mar 2018

I've had this phone for about 4 months now and I can not count how many times this phone has freezed on me. I try to open just one app at a time, app freezes, device freezes, wallpaper changes to default and I have to try the process over again. I previously had the Zmax Pro for over a year and I ran into none of these issues. (I only upgraded due to a charger port complication.) This phone was seemingly advertised and brought to me as a well designed phone but the weak components of the phone make it almost unviable for use. I'm usually not one to complain but seriously you would be better off buying a phone such as the Stylo 3 or the J7 instead if this device. The camera takes 3-5 seconds just to register one picture and might crash. App like Snapchat and Instagram have a higher chance of crashing on you. The memory on the phone is so terrible. 3/10. Don't Buy.

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