ZTE Blade A55

The phone has a conventional slab form factor — it does not fold and carries no rugged certification. It measures 167.7 x 77.4 x 8.5 mm with a total volume of 110.33 cm³ and weighs 185 g. There is no water resistance rating of any kind.

The device uses a 6.75″ IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 720 x 1600 px at 260 ppi and a 90Hz refresh rate for smoother scrolling. The panel does not support HDR10, HDR10+, or Dolby Vision, and there is no Always-On Display mode or secondary screen. Branded damage-resistant glass is also absent.

The phone is powered by the Unisoc SC9863A chipset built on a 28 nm process, featuring an eight-core CPU arranged in a big.LITTLE configuration running at 4 x 1.6 GHz and 4 x 1.2 GHz across 8 threads, with a 3W TDP and 0.512 MB of L3 cache. Graphics are handled by the PowerVR GE8322 with 4 execution units, 128 shading units, a base clock of 550 MHz, and a boost of 800 MHz, supporting DirectX 11, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 2. The device ships with 4GB of DDR4 RAM at 933 MHz across two channels, with a maximum memory ceiling of 6GB and a peak bandwidth of 7.464 GB/s, paired with 128GB of eMMC 5.1 storage. LTE is integrated directly into the SoC, and benchmark results include a Geekbench 6 multi-core score of 725, a Geekbench 5 multi-core score of 2,956, and a PassMark result of 1,327.

The main camera is a single-lens 13 MP unit with a CMOS sensor, phase-detection autofocus, touch autofocus, and continuous autofocus during video recording, backed by a single LED flash. Manual controls cover ISO, focus, white balance, and exposure, and the camera also supports HDR mode, burst shooting, and in-camera panoramas. Video recording tops out at 1080p at 30 fps, with no slow-motion, HDR10, or Dolby Vision recording available, and no optical zoom or optical image stabilization is present. The back-illuminated sensor, dual-tone flash, RAW shooting, timelapse, 360° panorama, manual shutter speed, and laser autofocus are all absent. The 8 MP front camera is a single-lens unit with no front-facing flash and is not positioned under the display.

The phone runs Android 14 and includes a broad set of privacy controls, covering clipboard warnings, location privacy options, camera and microphone access management, and app tracking blocking, though Mail Privacy Protection and cross-site tracking blocking are not available. Usability features include dark mode, extra dim mode, dynamic theming, theme customization, customizable notifications, notification permission controls, a media picker, split-screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture, full-page screenshots, Live Text, sharing intents, widgets, a child lock, and the ability to play games while they download. The OS supports on-device machine learning, offline voice recognition, voice commands, phone tracking, multi-user accounts, and battery health checks. Wi-Fi password sharing, focus modes, app offloading, Quick Start, and the ability to function as a PC are not present, and direct OS updates from the vendor are not provided.

The phone is equipped with a 5000 mAh rechargeable, non-removable battery with a battery level indicator included. It supports fast charging at 10W, and a charger is included in the box. Wireless charging is not available.

The phone includes a 3.5 mm headset jack and a built-in FM radio, but does not feature stereo speakers. Bluetooth audio codec support is limited, with no aptX, aptX HD, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, or LDAC available.

The phone supports dual SIM cards and connects via Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), Bluetooth 5.2, and a USB Type-C port running on USB 2.0, with cellular connectivity built in but no 5G support. NFC is present alongside a fingerprint scanner for biometric unlocking, while 3D facial recognition and an iris scanner are not available. Location is handled by GPS with Galileo support, and an accelerometer is included, though a gyroscope, compass, and barometer are absent. The device has an external memory slot for storage expansion, and cellular data speeds reach up to 300 Mbits/s download and 150 Mbits/s upload. Features such as HDMI output, infrared sensor, satellite SOS, crash detection, DLNA certification, ANT+, heart rate monitoring, motion tracking, optical tracking, and a built-in projector are all absent.

The phone includes a video light for use during video recording. The display is flat rather than curved, and neither sapphire glass nor an e-paper panel is used.