I, the preface: the strongest true full-screen phone Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version is here!
Nubia is not the first to put forward the word “full screen”, but only Nubia will carry forward the full screen.
At the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, the concept of “full screen” appeared in the Chinese cell phone market. In the era when cell phones generally lacked the aesthetics of industrial design, its appearance was tantamount to a nuclear bomb explosion, which greatly subverted the world's aesthetics.
Thus, in just a few months, a large number of full-screen cell phones are listed. However, due to the lack of uniform standards on the market, many pseudo-comprehensive screen products abound that overemphasize the 18:9 screen ratio and do not take into account the destructive damage caused by the large bezel to the aesthetics of the screen on the front of the body.
At that time, Ni Fei, then general manager of Nubia smartphones, took the lead in publicly shouting to the industry - “full-screen” in another way is no bezel, or from the front view angle can not see the bezel.
You know, Nubia from the beginning of the brand was founded in 2012 has always insisted on narrow bezel design, but this insisted on 5 years of thinking until 2016 suddenly changed the name of a “full-screen” was brought up.
So, from this point of view, Nubia is China's earliest cell phone brand to establish the standard of full-screen. Calling it “the originator of the full-screen”, I believe that most of the friends who have experienced the history of the development of cell phones will not have a problem.
Today, technology has evolved over the generations, and the full-screen form factor is not what it used to be. In the hottest weather of 2024, Nubia has once again brought its passion for full-screen to the table with the Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version, a 100-point answer to today's full-screen flagships.
Although the name is only the Leading Version, but the new machine compared to last year's Nubia Z60 Ultra upgrade is not a star: the world's only sixth-generation under-screen camera (last year it was the fifth generation), the exclusive Snapdragon 8Gen 3 Leading Version (the main frequency of up to 3.4GHz of Qualcomm's most powerful processor), the exclusive AI dialect interpreting and translation, and the exclusive support for WeChat calls of the AI translation.
As for the absolute strength of Nubia's watchword image, Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version gives the 35mm Humanities + 18m Starry Night + 85mm Portrait High Definition Optical triple primary camera, as well as the Sony IMX906 flagship CMOS, and the addition of the Neovision Taishan 2.0 AI image algorithm, so it can be said that the hardware and software sincerity is all Gave enough.
In this era of not mentioning AI are embarrassed to go out, Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version of the AI ability with the support of the Nebula AI big model, there are many practical functions. This we'll table later in the real-world test.
Of course, there's also the 6000mAh Carbon Silicon Negative Battery with 6300mAh equivalent, which also surprised us in the real-world battery life session.
Let's see if this latest flagship of Nubia, which is very recognizable in appearance, is worthy of the name of the most powerful Ultra in 2024, and let's go to the real test.
II: The ultimate form of true full-screen, perfectly eliminating the front camera.
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version inherits the design of a true full-screen, and in today's market where hole-punched screens dominate, Nubia's insistence on this is especially valuable.
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version's exclusive sixth-generation under-screen camera integrates the UDC Ultra independent screen display chip inside the phone, making the color transition of the front camera area more natural.
Moreover, the phone's screen uses a new light-emitting material and custom substrate from BOC Q9+, which significantly improves the stability of the phone's color display.
Under normal use of the phone, we can't notice the presence of the front camera at all.
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version utilizes the COP packaging process, which aligns the chin with the width of the three bezels, creating a visual borderlessness, which in turn makes the entire phone more uniform in terms of display.
The most striking feature on the back of the phone is the three large camera modules, which extend all the way to the edges of the phone, giving the impression of infinite extension.
The main camera in the lower left corner inherits the classic red circle design, with an ultra-wide-angle lens above it and a periscope telephoto lens on the right.
After precise calculations, the designers have set the optimal spacing for the three cameras to ensure the image experience while keeping the design aesthetically pleasing.
In the lower right corner of the camera module, the brand logo “nubia” is printed.
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version comes in a Racing Black color scheme with a customized lenticular racing pattern for a sense of speed and power.
The top of the phone comes with a separate IR remote sensor that can be used as a remote control for home appliances and a noise-canceling microphone on the side.
The openings at the bottom from left to right are the SIM card slot, Type-C port and the speaker.
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version features earpiece symmetrical dual speakers.
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version's power button and volume buttons are located on the right side of the body, with the classic red power button having an interlocking texture attached to its surface, and the camera shortcut call button integrated at the bottom, with a customizable call function.
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version has a fast charging adapter that supports up to 80W of power output.
III, AI function experience: Nebula AI model makes cross-language communication no longer an obstacle.
The Nebula AI model built into the Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version has a solid foundation for text generation, and can easily cope with daily text writing needs.
In the face of complex problems, the voice assistant is able to flexibly avoid conventional response modes and show more creativity and flexibility.
When faced with questions that require comprehensive search and integration of information, such as “looking for recommendations for snacks that don't make you fat”, the voice assistant not only quickly gives an accurate list of answers, but also attentively attaches the nutritional value of various types of food, which exceeds the expectations of the service to simplify the user's decision-making process, but also greatly improves the convenience and satisfaction of use.
With this AI real-time translation for two-way calls, it's like having a translator on the go. No matter what language you speak, it understands it instantly and speaks it in another language, as well as displaying it as text, making communication easy and fast.
Not only English, Spanish, French and other foreign languages, but also our Cantonese, Hebei, Sichuan, Shanghai and other local languages. When chatting or videoing on WeChat or QQ, this function can help you, making cross-country chatting easy and convenient.
The AI recorder, not only turns every word you say into text, but also helps you a lot with the smart editing function.
It can fulfill all your writing needs, whether you need inspiration to stretch, turn a long speech into a concise summary, or want to translate ideas into different languages, it can handle it all.
This smart little helper is like your writing buddy, helping you organize your thoughts anytime, anywhere, making your words smoother, more informative, and able to communicate easily across languages.
AI Notepad is like a smart writing partner that helps you write whatever you want.
If you need inspiration, it helps you brainstorm; if you need to organize your thoughts, it helps you write an outline; if you want to write a press release, it can also help you.
Moreover, it can help you continue to write your story, refine key points, list to-do lists, expand content, streamline text, make the article read more smoothly, and even translate into other languages.
IV, Image: New CMOS and classic three focal lengths combine to create a very different perspective.
The imaging system of the Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version continues the classic 35mm + 85mm dual golden focal lengths, combined with the 18mm ultra-wide-angle lens, forming a full-focal length triple camera module.
Among them, the main camera adopts a new 50-megapixel Sony IMX906 CMOS with a 1/1.56-inch sensor, 1G+6P lenses, f/1.59 large aperture, support for OIS optical stabilization, and a 35mm equivalent focal length.
The periscope telephoto lens uses a 64-megapixel OV64B sensor, 1/2-inch sensor unit, supports OIS, and has an equivalent focal length of 85mm.
The ultra wide-angle lens features a 50-megapixel OV50E sensor with a 1/1.55-inch sensor and an 18mm equivalent focal length.
Meanwhile, the phone integrates a laser focus sensor as well as a Flicker and multispectral color temperature sensor.
So how does it really perform in terms of image performance? Let's move on to the real-world samples.
-35mm main camera samples
In common focal length photography, we usually choose a focal length of 1.2 to 1.5x in order to emphasize the subject in the picture.
However, the Nubia Z60 Ultra's 35mm customized Sony IMX906 main camera gives a more focused field of view experience compared to the 24mm focal length of other phones.
This means that when shooting, we can just shoot without zooming or cropping.
Moreover, with the new large bottom sensor, the images taken will not overemphasize contrast and saturation, and will be able to present colors that are closer to the real world.
-Night Sample
The Nubia Z60 Ultra's main camera captures light accurately when faced with direct lighting, keeping bright areas bright and dark areas crisp and clear, with excellent noise control.
The night samples taken not only delicately capture every subtle detail, but also skillfully suppress noise, leaving the image pure and deep.
Even novice photographers can easily manage to instantly frame stunning night scenes.
-85mm Periscope Telephoto Samples
The 85mm periscope telephoto lens achieves about 2.4x optical zoom compared to the main camera, but its angle of view is comparable to the 3.5x zoom of other phones in the same class.
With this lens, the color saturation of the image is slightly higher than the main camera, but the effect is just right, with light and shadow details and textures clearly visible.
-18mm Ultra Wide Angle Sample
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version is equipped with a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens with a large sensor that ensures plenty of light enters and captures rich light details when shooting in backlit conditions, making it easy to deal with a variety of wide-open scenes.
In addition, the phone's ultra-wide-angle lens automatically gives an aberration correction function, avoiding distortion of the image edges and ensuring the integrity of the picture.
V. Performance and Gaming: Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SM8650-AC Genshin Impact Ultra 60FPS running without stress
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version comes with the third-generation Snapdragon 8 Leading Version built in, with a peak CPU frequency of 3.4GHz, up from 3.3GHz, and a total computing power of 73 TOPS for its AI engine, which is capable of running AI models with up to 10 billion parametrics on the end-side, and is Qualcomm's most powerful chip to date.
The version we have is the 12GB LPDDR5X + 256GB UFS4.0 storage version, then the phone's theoretical performance and gaming level of the comprehensive assessment, during the test period to turn off the phone's memory expansion function, the game turned on the “wake up mode”, in order to bring out the maximum performance of the phone.
--Theoretical Performance Test
We started with the AnTuTu Comprehensive Performance test, which totaled 2,017,800 points, an increase of about 20% compared to the previous generation Nubia Z50 Ultra with Snapdragon 8 Gen2.
In the CPU single theoretical test, Geekbench 6 scored 2,295 single-core points and 7,181 multi-core points, which is a 21.1% improvement in single-core performance and a 30.2% improvement in multi-core performance compared to the Nubia Z50 Ultra.
Moving on to the GPU test, GFXBench's six 1080P programs scored the following under continuous testing conditions:
Aztec Ruins OpenGL: 190FPS
Aztec Ruins Vulkan: 194FPS
Racing Chase Frame Rate: 142FPS
Manhattan 3.1 Offscreen: 212FPS
Manhattan Offscreen: 262FPS
Tyrannosaurus Rex Offscreen: 463FPS
Compared to the previous generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen2, the latest generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SM8650-AC offers a significant improvement in graphics rendering performance, with an increase of more than 60%, which will greatly enhance the smoothness when running games.
In the flash memory test program, the sequential read speed reaches 3.91GB/s, sequential write speed reaches 3.0GB/s, random read 481.95MB/s, and random write 712.51MB/s, which is at the flagship UFS4.0 performance level.
--Game Test
For the game test, we selected 2 representative mainstream handheld games, namely Game for Peace and hardware killer Genshin Impact, and tested them under the office environment of 28 degrees Celsius indoor, with frame rate priority. During the test, we recorded the frame rate, power consumption, energy efficiency and the heat performance of the phone in the game.
1. Game for Peace
First, we tested the Game for Peace game, which can be played at 120 fps in smooth quality, and after an intense group battle, the average frame rate of the game was stabilized at 120.8 FPS. As you can see from the frame rate graph, the frame rate of the game was maintained at 120 FPS without any fluctuation.
Next, we checked the power consumption of the game, which averaged around 5.4W, with an energy efficiency ratio of 22.37FPS/W. Considering that the frame rate has already reached 120FPS, this is a very good energy efficiency ratio.
After the game, the highest temperature on the back of the body was 43.2 degrees Celsius, located in the periscope telephoto position.
2. Genshin Impact
We then tested the highly loaded Genshin Impact handheld game, in maximum quality + 60 fps mode, with motion blur turned off, and a 15-minute run through Sumeru City, the game's frame rate was surprisingly stable, and the final average frame rate was maintained at 60.41 FPS, running at full frame rate.
Power consumption averaged just 5.06W, with an energy efficiency ratio of 11.94FPS/W.
After gaming, the maximum temperature at the back of the device was 43.8 degrees Celsius.
In addition, the Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version also supports Genshin Impact picture quality enhancement, through the AI Ultra Realm Picture Quality will be lower than 1080P Genshin Impact game screen up to 1116P, the picture is more clear and rich in detail, we also use this feature with the native picture quality comparison.
Left Native Quality Right AI Ultra Quality
Through comparison, we can observe that after turning on AI Ultra Quality, the characters are better rendered, and the smooth transition of the contour edges and the details of the chest ornaments show a higher degree of clarity.
VI, charging and battery life: 42 minutes of full power in exchange for nearly 14 hours of long battery life
Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version has made an unprecedented breakthrough in terms of battery life, stuffing a 6000mAh silicon-carbon negative ultra-large-capacity battery into the image flagship cell phone, with AI Spirit Rhinoceros power-saving technology, in-depth optimization of power consumption at night, and the performance of the whole machine's battery life has increased dramatically compared to that of the Z60 Ultra.
At the same time as increasing the battery capacity, the 80W super fast charging ability is also retained, in this regard, we have also done the Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version charging as well as endurance test.
--Charging Test
After the actual test, the phone from 1% to start charging the screen, 10 minutes of power to 33%, 20 minutes of power has been half of the 59%, half an hour of power to 83%, and finally completely full in 42 minutes.
--Battery life test
For the battery life test, we use a professional battery life test tool - Battery Dog produced by Fast Tech to conduct the test.
In the test program, the default will be carried out to 20% of the power test, at the same time, including CPU high-pressure, CPU multi-threading, AI recognition, image browsing, video playback and web browsing of all the test items will be checked, through the simulation of the user's use of the scenario, to restore the real load to the greatest extent possible, and infinitely close to the real power consumption situation.
During the test, in order to keep the environmental variables uniform across all models and to ensure the accuracy of the test results, Battery Dog automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen to 50%, turns off auto-brightness, and adjusts the volume to 30%.
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version's 6,000mAh battery has been tested continuously by Battery Dog and the battery life of the Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version is impressive.
It took about 11 hours and 12 minutes to go from 100% to 20%, which translates to nearly 13.5 hours of battery life on a full charge.
For ordinary users, the Nubia Z60 Ultra can last up to a day and a half without charging if used intermittently, providing users with a more convenient and long-lasting experience.
VII, summarize: 2024 by far the strongest Ultra
Performance leading, image leading, screen leading, this generation of Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version in these three dimensions to achieve a breakthrough.
First, the performance dimension, Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version inherits the powerful performance gene of the Red Devil 9S Pro+, the third generation Snapdragon 8 Leading Version chip, and takes the most smoothness of the image phone with a frame rate of 60.41FPS super full frame in the high load Genshin Impact hand game.
Secondly, with the support of Nebula AI Grand Model, Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version reinvents human-computer interaction and improves the efficiency and quality of information processing with its advanced voice recognition, real-time translation and intelligent writing functions.
It crosses language and geographical barriers and not only breaks through language and geographical restrictions to achieve smooth global communication, but also significantly improves the efficiency and quality of information processing by combining a number of translation tools such as AI Recorded Translation and AI Summarization, which provides an efficient and innovative platform for individuals and businesses to work and think.
As for photography, the Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version's new Sony IMX906 primary camera, combined with the three most classic focal lengths in a camera, Nubia not only meets the user's needs for diversified shooting through advanced photography technology and innovative shooting functions, but also reflects its professionalism and innovation in the field of mobile photography.
The Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version's huge 6000mAh battery showed a combined endurance of nearly 13.5 hours in our tests, standing at the top of its class of cell phones, it has managed to combine superb endurance while maintaining powerful images and performance, which is unexpected.
Most flagship phones in its class make some sort of compromise on battery life, but the Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version manages to find a balance between high performance, advanced image processing, and long battery life.
All in, the Nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Version is the flagship phone with the most photographic capabilities, the most playability, and the most attractive front face.
