A preface: Nubia Z60 Ultra moves the camera's native focal length into the phone
In March this year, Nubia launched its first Ultra model, the fourth generation of under-screen camera technology gives the phone a complete screen, completely eliminating the front camera, to the ultimate form of the full-screen, let us marvel, but also by the netizens teased as "millet MIX5".
Time has passed for half a year, the under-screen camera technology is also maturing, just now, Nubia launched the second Ultra model this year - Nubia Z60 Ultra, with the fifth generation of the under-screen camera technology, the hiding effect is better, the screen color is more delicate, no matter from which direction it looks, it is difficult to notice the presence of the front camera. The Nubia Z60 Ultra, not only hides the front camera better, but also has more detailed colors on the screen.
Nubia Z60 Ultra, not only the screen Ultra, the image is more Ultra, it even moved the camera in the most classic native focal lengths, 18mm + 35mm + 85mm three customized lenses, all with OIS optical stabilization, the new NEOVISION Tarzan image system, so we see a most camera-like Nubia phone.
1, the fifth generation of flexible under-screen camera technology display more colorful
Nubia Z60 Ultra with the latest fifth-generation flexible under-screen camera technology, built-in UDC Ultra independent screen display chip, using an independent pixel drive mode, for the under-screen front camera area to do the color correction, no matter from which angle it is difficult to notice the difference between the under-screen front camera and the surrounding screen area.
2, 18mm + 35mm + 85mm high definition optical three main camera all support OIS
Nubia has adopted a customized main camera with a 35mm focal length since the Z40 Pro, and after 2 years and the accumulation of photographic technology through a variety of cell phone products, this time, Nubia has finally realized the change of the traditional three cameras.
Nubia Z60 Ultra, the depth of customization of the three lenses, the camera's most classic native focal lengths moved to the phone, 18mm + 35mm + 85mm three focal lengths, so that Nubia has become the industry's first cell phone manufacturers to realize the camera's classic native focal lengths optical customization.
The most worthwhile thing to say is that these three lenses, Nubia has given the arrangement of OIS optical stabilization, all support 4K 120 fps video recording, so that users can get the best image experience in a variety of shooting environments.
3, third-generation Snapdragon 8 performance iron triangle
As Nubia's annual flagship, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is also essential, supplemented by LPDDR5X + UFS4.0 storage combination, forming the strongest performance iron triangle today.
4, the first flagship phone with a 6000mAh silicon carbon negative battery
Nubia Z60 Ultra is equipped with one of the largest 6000mAh silicon-carbon negative battery ever, with a 20% increase in capacity over its predecessor, which is not only the largest battery in Nubia's history, but also the largest battery in a flagship phone, which dramatically improves the battery life of the phone while maintaining its size.
Second, the appearance: the ultimate form of the true full screen Perfectly eliminate the front camera
The new generation of flexible UDC screen gives the Nubia Z60 Ultra a complete display, a 6.8-inch AMOLED screen with a 2.5D flexible straight screen design, and the whole screen looks very square.
This Z60 Ultra screen uses a BOE Diamond-like Pixel (Blue Diamond) arrangement, and with the fifth-generation under-screen front camera, the screen has a resolution of up to 2,480x1,116, with a standard RGB PPI of 400, and an OLED-equivalent PPI of 326.
Inside the Z60 Ultra's screen, the UDC Ultra independent screen display chip is integrated to make the display color transition in the front camera area more natural, and this screen is made of a new light-emitting material from BOE Q9+, a customized substrate that significantly improves the stability of the phone's color display.
We can see that under normal use of the phone, the presence of the front camera is completely unnoticeable.
Nubia Z60 Ultra This screen adopts the COP encapsulation process, and the extremely narrow chin and the width of the three bezels are basically the same, forming a visual borderless feeling, so that the whole machine is more unified in the display effect.
Let's feel the stunning visual effect brought by the Nubia Z60 Ultra, a true full screen.
The back of the Z60 Ultra carries on the family design of the Ultra series, and the back panel of the body is made of AG glitter sand glass with millions of micron-sized crystal structures attached to the surface, giving the phone a quicksilver metallic texture.
On the back of the phone, the most attractive thing is still the three large camera modules, which adopt the industry's first rear camera borderless design, the image function area has been extended to the edge of the phone phone, giving people a boundless feeling.
The main camera in the center, the continuation of the classic red circle design, because all three mirror groups support OIS optical stabilization, so after precise calculations, the designers finally gave the three cameras the most reasonable spacing, which ensures both the image experience and the aesthetics of the design.
Z60 Ultra side of the power button, retaining Nubia's classic red design, put with an ergonomic custom sliding key, a flick can quickly open the camera, which also takes into account the mute, recording, flashlight, game space four custom functions, with a flick of the hand, a key to start, convenient and quick.
Nubia Z60 Ultra package, in addition to the phone body, randomly attached to the 80W fast charging charging kit, transparent silicone phone case, and instructions.
Image: Restore the classic three focal lengths of the camera and shoot different perspectives.
Nubia Z60 Ultra utilizes the NEOVISION Tarzan imaging system, three high definition optical cameras with the most classic focal lengths of the native camera: 18mm + 35mm + 85mm.
The ultra wide-angle lens uses an 18mm OV50E sensor with 50 effective megapixels, a 1/1.55-inch sensor, and a 1.01μm single-pixel area.
The main camera is a 35mm IMX800 sensor with 50 effective megapixels, 1/1.49-inch sensor, and 1.0μm single-pixel area.
The periscope telephoto carries the most classic 64-megapixel OV64B sensor with 1/2-inch sensor and 2.4x optical zoom.
All three lenses of the Z60 Ultra support OIS optical stabilization.
So how is its image performance? Let's move on to the real-world samples.
-35mm main camera samples
Like normal focal lengths, to highlight the subject of the picture, we mostly crop to 1.2~1.5 times the focal length for shooting.
And this 35mm focal length main camera of Nubia Z60 Ultra, compared with the 24mm focal length of other phones, gives the most intuitive feeling that the field of view is more focused on the subject, so that we do not need to zoom and crop when we shoot, direct shooting, and the picture will not overemphasize the contrast and saturation, and it can be rendered in a way that is closer to the true colors seen by the human eye.
-85mm Periscope Telephoto Samples
The telephoto part, the color saturation of the shot is a little higher than the main camera, but it looks just right, the light and shadow details texture is clear, and the use of lower zoom multiplier, the shot is equivalent to the visual effect of other cell phones in the same class of 3.5X or so, straight out of the picture is not cropped, and for the subject of the shot details show is also very spot on.
--18mm Ultra Wide Angle Sample
The 50-megapixel large-bottomed ultra-wide-angle lens ensures enough light intake, and when shooting in a backlit scene, the lens is able to record enough light and shadow details to meet all the daily needs of large scene shooting.
And the Z60 Ultra's ultra-wide angle is also given to distortion correction by default, the two ends of the screen to ensure the integrity of the image, there is no previous kind of cropped bokeh component, the sample photo looks more transparent.
--Zoom process
18mm (0.5X ultra wide angle)
35mm (1X main camera)
85mm (2.4X periscope telephoto)
170mm (4.85X Hybrid)
350mm (10X Hybrid)
--Night Sample
The main camera of Nubia Z60 Ultra still maintains good purity in the face of direct light, bright where it should be bright, dark where it should be dark, deep and delicate, and dark scenes without noise, excellent performance for capturing details, noise reduction processing and dynamic range control, allowing users to easily take high-quality night photos.
--Portrait Sample
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35mm Portrait
50mm Portrait
85mm Portrait
The 35mm customized main camera, known as the golden focal length, longer distance shooting, can make the image clean and concise, using the main camera to shoot portraits, can be a perfect blend of the characters and the environment, and also has a very excellent highlighting effect on the characters.
The cropped 50mm focal length of the main camera is widely recognized as the ideal focal length for shooting portraits due to its similar perspective to the human eye, it can accurately capture the facial expressions and emotions of the characters, which makes the portrait samples look more realistic and vivid, at the same time, the Z60 Ultra can also provide a good background bokeh effect, and the subject of the characters is more prominent.
With the 85mm telephoto portrait lens that the phone has, you can shoot a little farther away from the subject, causing less disturbance to the character.
Due to the narrowing of the scope of view, it is also more conducive to avoiding the surrounding clutter, focus on the center of the screen, so that the portrait is also more natural, due to the lossless quality of the 64-megapixel output, we can see the use of telephoto shooting portraits, the picture is transparent and bright, the resolution of a great deal of increase in the character after zooming in the details can be seen clearly, such as the eyes, the nose, and even the hair can be seen clearly.
Fourth, performance and gaming: third-generation Snapdragon 8 plus gaming energy efficiency ratio increased significantly
Nubia Z60 Ultra as a mega cup model, must give enough sincerity, the third generation Snapdragon 8, UFS4.0 + LPDDR5X performance of the Iron Triangle is certainly a necessary configuration, we have the version of 12GB + 512GB, and then we test the theoretical performance of the phone and the actual performance of the game.
For the theoretical performance test, we conducted it indoors in an office environment at 25 degrees Celsius, and during the test, adjusted the brightness of the phone to 50% and turned off auto-brightness, and turned off memory expansion.
-Performance test
We started with the AnTuTu Comprehensive Performance Test, which totaled 2,089,000 points, an improvement of about 26% or so over the previous generation of the Nubia Z50 Ultra, which was powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen2.
In the CPU single theory test, Geekbench 6 single-core score reached 2287 points, multi-core score directly broke the 7000,mark, came to 7209 points, compared to the previous generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen2 equipped Nubia Z50 Ultra, single-core performance increased by 20.7%, multi-core performance increased by 30.7%.
Moving on to the GPU test, GFXBench's six 1080P programs scored the following under continuous testing conditions:
Aztec Ruins OpenGL: 196FPS
Aztec Ruins Vulkan: 223FPS
Racing Chase Frame Rate: 160FPS
Manhattan 3.1 Offscreen: 250FPS
Manhattan Offscreen: 313FPS
Tyrannosaurus Rex Offscreen: 518FPS
Compared to the previous generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen2, this generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen3 also has a more obvious advantage in graphics rendering capabilities, with up to 70% or more improvement, which theoretically brings a very big improvement in the smoothness of the game.
--Gaming Tests
Next is the game test session, we in the room temperature of 25 degrees Celsius office environment, choose 3 popular handheld games, respectively, "Peaceful Elite", "Original God" and "Wipeout: Star Dome Railroad", choose the highest frame rate under the highest quality (with the quality of the first priority) for the game test, and record the frame rate, power consumption, energy efficiency ratio, and the temperature performance of the machine body in the process of the game.
1. Peaceful Elite
We first carried out the peace elite handball test in the middle load, in HDR HD quality open limit mode, the game runs at a maximum of 60FPS, after nearly 15 minutes of battle, the average frame rate stabilized at 59.95FPS, the frame rate during the game is as stable as a straight line, the screen is coherent and without the slightest lag.
In terms of power consumption, it averages around 3.4W, with an energy efficiency ratio of 17.45FPS/W, an increase of 18.71% year-on-year.
Temperature, the front of the body up to 37 degrees Celsius, the back up to 35 degrees Celsius, in holding the phone can be said to be very two double, smooth game playing almost no obstacles.
2, the original God
Next is the heavy load of the original God's hand game test, the highest picture quality + the highest frame rate, while running the map to fight monsters, after half an hour of testing, the average frame rate stabilized at 60.3FPS, really realize the full-frame output, the game to release the big move of the screen is extremely stable.
The average power consumption is less than 5W, only about 4.9W, with an energy efficiency ratio of 12.3FPS/W.
Temperature, the front of the body up to 40.8 degrees Celsius, back 40.3 degrees Celsius.
3. Crash: Star Dome Railway
Finally, we also tested the Crackdown 3: Star Dome Railway handheld game, running the map and fighting monsters in the highest quality + 60 fps mode, after 30 minutes of game testing, the average frame rate is stable at 59.54FPS, close to full frame operation, although the frame rate fluctuation during the game is slightly higher than the original God, but the good thing is that there is no obvious lag phenomenon in the process of the game.
Restore the camera's three main focal lengths! Nubia Z60 Ultra review: 2023 the most image-savvy phone is not it!
Power consumption, the average power consumption of about 4.667W, a little lower than the original God.
Restore the camera's three main focal lengths! Nubia Z60 Ultra review: 2023 the most image-savvy phone is not it!
Temperature, the front of the body up to 40.3 degrees Celsius, the back 38.6 degrees Celsius.
V. Charging and battery life: 36 minutes full charge in exchange for 14 hours of long battery life
Nubia Z60 Ultra is built with a 6000mAh silicon-carbon anode ultra-large-capacity battery, which is a 20% increase in battery capacity over the previous generation while maintaining the size of the phone, and a significant increase in battery life.
And, while the battery capacity has been greatly increased, it maintains its predecessor's 80W Spirit Flash charging.
In this regard, we also did a series of tests on the Nubia Z60 Ultra's charging ability and battery life.
--Charging Test
Before the charging test, we turned on the rapid fast charging mode in the settings.
Charging test, charging from 1%, 10 minutes of power to 35%, 20 minutes of power has been more than half of the 64%, half an hour charging to 89%, and finally completely full in 36 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, Battery Dog automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen to 50%, turns off auto-brightness, and adjusts the volume to 30% in order to keep the environmental variables uniform across all models as well as to ensure the accuracy of the test results.
After the battery dog continuous uninterrupted actual test, the power from 100% consumption to 20%, with 11 hours, 50 minutes and 18 seconds, after conversion, full battery life can reach close to 14 hours, this 6000mAh big battery, with is cool, Nubia Z60 Ultra this battery life ability, in 2023 annual flagship cell phone is very rare, it can be said to be the most in the industry, and even with the The Nubia Z60 Ultra is a rare flagship phone in 2023, and can be said to be the industry's best, even comparable to mid-range phones that focus on long battery life.
Nubia Z60 Ultra this battery life, the average user intermittent use, with a day and a half time do not have to charge.
Six, summarize: camera native focal length of the first creator of the flagship battery life of the breakers
Nubia Z60 Ultra is one of the very few smartphones at this stage that uses a true full-screen form, we can barely notice the presence of the front camera under normal brightness, and only when the screen brightness is relatively low at night can we slightly see the position of the lens, compared to the under-screen perforated front camera, playing the game with no obstruction, so that we can focus more on the game itself.
Imaging is the main event of Nubia Z60 Ultra, it restores the most classic three major focal lengths in the camera, this diversified focal length collocation, in order to meet the user's diversified shooting needs at the same time, but also shows Nubia in the field of cell phone photography technical strength and innovation, in the future of the cell phone image track, Nubia is expected to once again will become a dark horse to lead the development trend.
As Nubia's annual flagship, the third generation Snapdragon 8 performance iron triangle in our game test, the original God full frame, power consumption is less than 5W, which is not only the Soc itself to bring a high energy efficiency ratio, but also Nubia's chip vigorously tuning and depth of adaptation.
In addition, Nubia Z60 Ultra built-in 6000mAh battery, in our test, Z60 Ultra comprehensive endurance breaks through 14 hours, in the same class cell phone belongs to the industry's most, in the strong image, strong performance at the same time, taking into account the super endurance, is our unexpected, after all, as a performance, image flagship, most friends will be to the After all, as a performance and imaging flagship, most friends will make some trade-offs for battery life, but Nubia has taken a different approach, and battery life, performance and imaging are all important.
On the whole, we believe that the Nubia Z60 Ultra is the flagship phone with the strongest photographic ability, the highest playability, and the most attractive frontal face value in the 5,000 yuan price range, which is not only the leader of the under-screen camera, or the first creator of the camera's native focal length, but also the breakthrough of the flagship battery life.
If you love photography and want a flagship phone with a true full-screen, then the Nubia Z60 Ultra, is the best phone for you to buy today, bar none.
