The standard Camera app is rather basic in its Simple mode, with the usual Auto, HDR, Panorama, Beautify and Smile modes. You can also straighten images, remove moving items from view and take group photos in which you can pick the best image for each person in shot. Switch to expert mode and you lose these presets, but you’ll get more control over your image in terms of exposure, ISO metering and white balance. After you’ve taken a photo you can edit the image to add fi lters, borders, decorations, doodles and text, and also blur parts of the picture. At the front of the Blade S6 is a 5Mp selfi e camera with f2.2 aperture. The resolution is good, but while there are Beauty and Smile shot modes there is no real-time preview or ability to adjust the eff ect. This is possible through the preinstalled Camera360 app, however. Although it doesn’t launch by default when you open the Camera, with Camera360 you can apply fi lters before you take a photo, easily adjust white balance, ISO and the like, turn on image stabilisation, and choose from a selection of ‘cameras’ that help you take ID photos, scene shots or simply better selfi es. More ‘cameras’ are available to download, too.
Software and extras The ZTE Blade S6 is one of the fi rst non-Nexus devices to come with Android Lollipop out of the box. With cheap phones often left behind as new Android updates are released, that’s fantastic news. Over the top of Lollipop is the MiFavor 3.0 UI. The most noticeable diff erence over standard Android is that it completely removes the app tray, and with all app shortcuts displayed on the home screen its off ers a very iOS-like experience. We’re not keen on the approach, but you can use folders to minimise the clutter. MiFavor also provides a number of themes and customisation options. Several apps are preinstalled. In addition to those mentioned above, these are mostly utilities such as a backup app, Task Manager, 1-Tap Boost and a Clean Master app that lets you manage your apps and memory, and includes an antivirus scanner. There are also apps for video- and music playback, an FM radio and a sound recorder, Kingsoft’s WPS Offi ce for reading and creating text documents, spreadsheets and presentations, a TouchPal keyboard and a 30-day trial of the Route 66 navigation app.
Software and extras The ZTE Blade S6 is one of the fi rst non-Nexus devices to come with Android Lollipop out of the box. With cheap phones often left behind as new Android updates are released, that’s fantastic news. Over the top of Lollipop is the MiFavor 3.0 UI. The most noticeable diff erence over standard Android is that it completely removes the app tray, and with all app shortcuts displayed on the home screen its off ers a very iOS-like experience. We’re not keen on the approach, but you can use folders to minimise the clutter. MiFavor also provides a number of themes and customisation options. Several apps are preinstalled. In addition to those mentioned above, these are mostly utilities such as a backup app, Task Manager, 1-Tap Boost and a Clean Master app that lets you manage your apps and memory, and includes an antivirus scanner. There are also apps for video- and music playback, an FM radio and a sound recorder, Kingsoft’s WPS Offi ce for reading and creating text documents, spreadsheets and presentations, a TouchPal keyboard and a 30-day trial of the Route 66 navigation app.
All Google’s usual apps are also preinstalled. Mi-Pop enables easier one-handed operation, not that the ZTE Blade S6 is uncomfortable to use in a single hand. Activate Mi-Pop and you can place onscreen a cluster of buttons for returning to the home screen or going back a step, accessing more options or opening Android’s multitasking menu. One of our favourite features of the ZTE Blade S6 is its smart gestures, although we had trouble getting these to work with Mi-Pop enabled. If you shake it twice you’ll turn on the LED torch, or hold volume down and make a V gesture in the air to begin playing music. In portrait mode you can hold volume up and lift the phone to open the Mirror app (which is in essence just the front camera); when held horizontally this gesture will launch the camera. When placed in a dark pocket the Blade S6 will vibrate and ring at max volume; lift it to your ear and you’ll instantly answer the call, or you can wave a hand above the screen to mute the ringtone or turn over the phone to reject it. This latter action will also dismiss the alarm.
When viewing a text message, lifting the phone to your ear will automatically trigger a call to that contact. A ‘leather case mode’ allows the screen to wake or sleep when the case is opened or closed. Battery life ZTE fi ts a 2400mAh non-removable battery to the Blade S6, which in our experience you’ll need to charge every day. There is no power-saving mode. Verdict At a touch over £150 the ZTE Blade S6 is a great-value Lollipop phone with strong general performance and an attractive iPhone 6-like build. Dual-SIM and 4G LTE connectivity, a selection of smart gestures and a capable camera all add to this phone’s appeal, but its battery life is no better than average and we’re not so keen on the idea of having all our apps by default laid bare on the home screen.
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