Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Nubia Z20 Is A Very Different Smartphone”.
All right, ah so I made a video a while back on a device from Nubia called the Nubia X. It took the whole bezel lists, no notch no front facing camera thing to a crazy level to display setup so that when you want it to take a front-facing picture, you would just flip the whole device around and then on the other side on the main display. You would never you wouldn’t have to worry about any distraction, because you don’t need a front-facing camera, but they’re not done. They came back with a brand new version which is set to distribute more widely to the North American market, Europe. This is the one you actually can get. It’S called the Z 20, it’s actually a surprisingly decent value as well. It’S packin a Snapdragon 855 chipset inside of it eight gigs of ram up to 512 gigs of storage and the price for it is gon na be somewhere between four and five hundred, maybe five and six like somewhere in that territory, which is actually really competitive, especially When you consider you have OLED displays full display on the front, no notch, no nothing! So it’s it’s actually kind of interesting package.
Now this one came straight from China, so this is not the international version that’s important to mention, so the packaging will likely change for your locale. It also features fast charging up to 27 watts. This is where things get real fence: okay, so a very Samsung esque construction going on.
So it’s got Gorilla Glass! It’S gon na be fairly durable. You can kind of tell there’s a display hiding right around here, so that’s obviously the back of the device. It kind of feels like an over engineering, but people are doing crazy things to get these bezel list designs on the front.
This is a solid-state play like nothing has to move here to be able to deliver. Front-Facing images is that two flashes. It looks like two flashes actually and three camera units, the fingerprint scanner, rather than be in display, like so many that are out there right now, it’s along the side similar to the samsung galaxy s. 10 II.
I don’t mind this implementation. Your thumb goes there anyways. It has the exact same thing mirrored on the other side. You can unlock it this way.
Looking at the camera, you can unlock it. This way, looking at the main display, the bottom of the device is actually concave. This little groove goes inward. It’S all metallic and glass. It feels very high-quality, USB type-c power, brick included in the package. As I said, fast charging capable the phone can go up to 27 watts, a fairly nice black and red type-c cable, they’ve included a type c2 mini jack connector as well.
For typical analog headphones, it’s a simple unboxing experience, that’s what you’re gon na get all right, so this display actually looks pretty nice, it’s fhd and somehow. Actually, the resolution is the same on both displays, so your pixel density is weirdly gon na be better on the rear display. Nonetheless, you go from six point four inches to five point, one quite a bit more dim on the back. It’S important to know because it’s coming through this kind of mirror finish.
It almost acts like a filter sort of for getting less of those cool tones associated with OLED displays coming through to me. It’S just a bit dimmer. You seen fingerprints, more, it’s more reflective and if you go and boot up the camera here, you’re using your high quality rear camera that goes for the main camera that goes for the wide camera, which is super wide whoa.
That is crazy. Wide. Let’S see if I can snap this, that might be the widest selfie we’ve taken. That’S some funky, that’s almost like GoPro level. If I was trying to take a selfie of a large group of people, I get almost six people in there. That’S one of the widest I’ve seen 12 millimeter equivalent.
That’S pretty wide, I’m still a bit pretty looking in the in the complexion there. I did turn the beauty down. Look at this Jack. When I go out of the camera I pull out of the camera. It’S blue, then it goes yellow. You see that so, like the eye care thing appears to pop on and that’s showcased as you can see when I click back over a dedicated button for switching displays the alternative display through the software. The fact that you could pack all of this in there is pretty wild. You don’t have the slimmest bezels on this guy. This is sort of like iPhone 10, our territory now granted. You might make the mental edge Smit, given the fact that you’re at a different price point here compared to some of the big dogs. Like the note series, this thing’s gon na be between four and five hundred all right, so the big camera unit on the back is gon na give you 48 megapixels. It’S got a four thousand milliamp hour battery and it’s all jammed in there alongside the extra display. Now, speaking to that camera, we can showcase its capabilities here.
I’M gon na have the HDR set to auto that’s at 1x, here’s 3x there’s your wide which measures 0.6 and we have all the way up to 10x. Here, whoa, that’s pretty Wow. Did you see that look at his tattoos? I don’t even noticed those tattoos on his arms on that character. Previous to this, a 2 point, 5 centimeter macro. So does that mean I could be even closer to him? It went into this like almost AI mode called super micro spur look that we’ve done a lot of photos in this environment and without using some kind of adapter. I can’t say: we’ve ever got that close to this figurines tattoos like that’s his tattoo holy moley. Is it time for a macro beard, hair? It’S never been done before bananas. That’S a whole new beard, hair level going on hold.
My goodness gracious. I mean that’s just a regular zoom photo, that’s not any kind of macro effect or something that’s just the zoom functionality. The wide functionality and then the standard focal range I mean these – are some pretty nice photos here, North America. This price doesn’t put it in the same realm as a note series, as the upcoming iPhone at that thousand plus price point. It’S half that so for me it’s it’s definitely mid-range. It’S definitely value territory.
Like that’s OLED, now between four and $ 500. That’S two displays. That’S four thousand milliamp hour Snapdragon, a fifty five, eight gigs of ram.
Is it’s an interesting package? That’S for sure! Now you know, I always care about the the audio performance as well, I’m just on the web browser version of YouTube here, because Google Play services aren’t currently installed in this. Remember I told you this is the the Chinese version of this device, so we can get a sense for what the video looks like and also the audio performance. Some of the categories include explore Great Britain, real and riveting.
The speaker is pretty clear: it’s not crazy. Loud, but it’s better than plenty that I’ve heard it seems like it’s just firing out of the bottom real yeah, it’s quite better than I expected it’s definitely not the best. The majority of phones that show up here sound worse than this one. I would say it’s iOS only that’s probably telling that they’re just experimenting on iOS cool, I’m alright with that. What’S the story of this phone well, yeah, it kind of is another smartphone in a vast landscape of smartphone options and an increasingly crowded area of the smartphone market place in a four to five hundred dollar range, which actually seems to be like the real battleground we’re Crazy stuff is happening. These are these: are the people taking chances? The device is taking chances? I should say – and I don’t know, there’s something about this – one that to me is kind of cool.
If you had this device, you know you kind of have something that a lot of people wouldn’t have seen before. Obviously, that’s not typically enough to make a purchasing decision just to show it off the thing about this device. Is it kind of backs it up from a spec perspective, snapdragon a 55 4000 milliamp hour battery lots of megapixels some cool camera units to play around with the rear display is an absolute fingerprint Fiasco. You will pretty much be crazy to put a case on this. Obviously, because you’d be covering up an important component of the device, so you’re going to live in fingerprint land, whether you like it or not. So that’s something. You’Ve also got to take into consideration and and the fact that you got to be a bit gentler with it, because a case will not be an option, but nonetheless it’s cool. It’S not gon na replace the device that I’m currently using. I’M glad that it exists. It’S the more widely available version of the previous Nubia X now in the form of the Nubia z20 screen number one screen number two: .