Jan 27, 2015 The ZTE Speed is a serviceable entry-level smartphone. Join.Me Review. Measuring 5.3 by 2.6 by 0.4 inches (HWD). ZTE Australia >Products >Mobile Phones >T1. 63, MPEG4, H. Recording format, MP4, 1. Download the latest version of ZTE HSUSB Device drivers according to your.
• Pros Inexpensive. 4G LTE connectivity. • Cons Low-quality display. Sentinel Superpro Driver Installer Problem System there. Some performance issues. Middling camera.
Dated, generic design. • Bottom Line The ZTE Speed is a serviceable entry-level smartphone, but it fails to outperform less expensive options on Boost. The ZTE Speed feels like a half-hearted effort, a vestige from the recent past, when cheap felt cheap without exception. You could certainly do worse for $99.99 (without subsidies), but the Speed simply looks better on paper than it does in person. Display quality and camera output both disappoint, while performance hiccups and an overly generic design sour the experience. The less expensive is a better deal, even if it has very limited internal storage.
The 4.5-inch, 960-by-540 display boasts a respectable pixel density of 245ppi, but it doesn't look particularly sharp or pleasing to the eye. There's an ever-present, refraction-like grain that robs the display of clarity. Colors appear muted and contrast fails to impress; things get worse as you veer past about 45 degrees off angle. The 's bezel-free 720p display is worlds better. A Fantastic Fear Dual. On Boost, the ZTE Speed supports Sprint's 3G CDMA (800/1900MHz) and 4G LTE (850/1900/2500MHz) networks.
Call quality was about average in my tests. Volume in the earpiece is sufficient for modestly loud environments, though it has a somewhat harsh treble edge that can become grating at maximum volume. Transmissions through the mic are easy to understand, but I noticed a good deal of hisses and pops. Noise cancellation is effective for low, consistent sounds, but can't quite deal with the rigors of a loud city street.
Rounding out the connectivity options are 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and GPS. Wi-Fi is limited to the 2.4GHz band, which excludes less-crowded, faster 5GHz networks. Performance and Android The ZTE Speed is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 SoC, which is less common than the Snapdragon 400 you see in the vast majority of entry-level and midrange phones these days. It's technically among the first 64-bit chips for Android, but don't expect any sort of performance advantage here—it performs nearly identically with the more common, 32-bit Snapdragon 400. Not only is there no real performance advantage to the 410, but ZTE's skinned Android 4.4 software appears to slow things down. I noticed stuttering home screen animations, which is increasingly uncommon, even at this price point.
There were pauses between app launches, and having to hold the dated Menu navigation button in lieu of a standard Recent Apps button slows multitasking down further. Most of the customizations are aesthetic, rather than substantive, which makes the slowdowns all the more frustrating.
Of the 8GB of internal storage, only 3.68GB is available to users out of the box. That's a good deal more than you get with the LG Tribute, but not particularly impressive.
Like the Tribute, you can expand storage here with a microSD card, but you can't easily move apps onto SD cards, so the added storage will be most useful for media libraries. In a battery rundown test, where we streamed a YouTube video over LTE with screen brightness set to max, the Speed lasted for 5 hours, 45 minutes.