In recent years, the experience of the domestic mobile phone industry is enough to write a novel with a magical reality theme. In the domestic mobile phone market in the Red Sea, black swan events are emerging in an endless stream. Huawei's withdrawal, Honor's solo flight, global semiconductor chip shortage... Piles and piles came down, triggering a new round of industry reshuffle. Looking back at 2021, Apple is the only one in the high-end market, but the product side presents "micro-innovation"; the market as a whole, ZTE & Nubia is making steady progress, and both the product and the volume have made obvious improvements and progress.
The release of the Snapdragon 8 has launched a wave of updates to the flagship model in 2022. ZTE also gave the slogan of "three arrows at the same time". After the release of the Red Devils 7 game phone, the Nubia Z40 Pro image flagship followed on February 25. The main theme of the machine is "humanistic shooting", and the main camera with the equivalent focal length of 35mm has been customized with Sony, which is innovative at the camera level. At the same time, the Nubia Z40 Pro is equipped with the Snapdragon 8 flagship processor, 80W super fast charge and other configurations, and the hardware talent tree is all full. So, how does the Nubia Z40 Pro, the flagship of the image, actually perform? Can you maintain ZTE's brand trend of "steady progress"? Today, the "Listen to the Phone" editorial department takes you to get a sneak peek at the Nubia Z40 Pro.
Tough lines + hyperbolic body, Nubia Z40 Pro's "Iron Man Tenderness"
As a product that modern people almost 24 hours a day, the appearance of smartphones has undergone many changes. From the very beginning of a hundred flowers, gradually evolved to "sleek and exquisite", and showed a trend of great unification. Of course, there are also sharp outliers of the sleek era who insist on updating, and the Nubia Z40 Pro is one of them.
Nubia Z40 Pro, the whole machine uses a large number of straight elements, giving people a "angular, tough" feeling; especially the bottom of the fuselage is highly flat, can stand on the desktop. The toughness of the Nubia Z40 Pro machine continues the family design DNA of the Nubia Z30 series and ZTE Axon30 series, which is quite in line with the image of ZTE "polytechnic man".
Tough to tough, Nubia Z40 Pro doesn't cut hands when held. The front and back of the machine have added a 3D symmetrical hyperboloid design, which is much softer in both visual and hand feel, bringing a warm and jade-like grip. It is worth mentioning that the Nubia Z40 Pro controls the thickness and weight of the fuselage at 8.46mm/199g, which is very textured in the hand.
Returning to the fuselage, the Nubia Z40 Pro is equipped with a 6.67-inch AMOLED flexible screen on the front, with 1080P resolution, 10bit color depth and 144Hz adaptive refresh rate. Coupled with a high screen ratio and dual speakers, the Nubia Z40 Pro has a great sense of drama immersion.
Turning the fuselage slightly, the Nubia Z40 Pro features a glossy two-sided panel on the back. The camera module part adopts a completely different glossy design, which is highly recognizable; the other parts use the starlight AG matte surface, which not only brings a matte feel, but also a little bit of starlight under the illumination of the light - this kind of shining small detail makes this interstellar black color matching also look different, showing the "careful thinking of the science and engineering man". In terms of appearance, the nubia Z40 Pro machine design is rigid and soft, and the "tough guy temperament" is compatible with the "soft breath", showing simplicity, atmosphere and fashion.
Customized 35mm focal length humanistic main camera, Nubia Z40 Pro's unique understanding of mobile phone photography
Imagery is one of the most obvious function points of the flagship model's perception. From single to multi-camera, from single main camera to multi-main camera, from raw image straight out to computational optics, mobile phone images have gone through many generations. Limited by the international semiconductor supply problem, the upgrade of imaging hardware has fallen into a downturn cycle, and even some flagship models have cut off periscope lenses, which cannot help but be lamented. Of course, more manufacturers are focusing on imaging algorithms and picture adjustment, and using software optimization to innovate in imaging.
This time, the Nubia Z40 Pro brings a full-scene multi-main camera system composed of three lenses: humanistic main camera, wide-angle main camera and periscope telephoto. Dual main camera + periscope telephoto, Nubia Z40 Pro image hardware is unambiguous, described as "against the current", not exaggerated. Specifically, the three lenses of the Nubia Z40 Pro are:
Humanistic main photographer. Combined with Sony's customized IMX787 main camera, 64MP, equivalent focal length of 35mm, and has a large f/1.6 aperture, OIS optical image stabilization.
Wide angle main camera. 50 million pixels, 14mm focal length, 116 degrees of large viewing angle, ultra-low distortion.
Periscope telephoto lens. 8MP, 125mm-equivalent focal length (approx. 5x equivalent), OIS optical image stabilization, and up to 30x digital zoom.
The biggest surprise: the Nubia Z40 Pro chose the 35mm focal length as the absolute workhorse lens. You know, the choice of the main focus section of the general model is 24mm/26mm, why does the Nubia Z40 Pro use the 35mm focal length? When I took out my camera and compared it, the answer was revealed.
(Taken in the same position| the picture above is a 26mm focal length model, and the bottom picture is the Nubia Z40 Pro 35mm focal length)
In the same position and at the same angle, another model and the Nubia Z40 Pro are photographed against the same model. It can be seen that the shooting screen of a certain model of 26mm focal length is relatively empty, and the portrait is not obvious; the Nubian Z40 Pro shooting portrait of the same position 35mm focal length is prominent, the background bokeh is more natural and delicate, and the distortion at the edge of the image is less, and the picture is more comfortable. In addition, the Nubia Z40 Pro also brings a special humanistic mode, which is better at taking portraits.
Looking at other samples, it can be clearly perceived: no matter day or night, nubia Z40 Pro resolution and tolerance are very good, there is no sense of smearing in the sky at night, and the details of the dark part of the road surface are retained. It is worth mentioning that the Nubia Z40 Pro with a 10bit color depth/1 billion color display, as well as color calibration, brings a full-link DCI-P3 color gamut, color reproduction is more realistic.
(Nubia Z40 Pro 0.6x shooting)
(Nubia Z40 Pro 1x shooting)
(Nubia Z40 Pro 3.5x shooting)
(Nubia Z40 Pro 30x shooting)
In terms of zoom, the Nubia Z40 Pro supports ultra-wide angle, 1x, 3.5x, and up to 30x digital zoom. From wide angle to telephoto, the Nubia Z40 Pro offers panoramic views of the landscape, with stable picture clarity and detail preservation, making it a brand of mobile phones that shoot stars. When it comes to shooting stars, Nubia Z40 Pro has added nine starry sky algorithms, starry sky enhancement and AI constellations and other modes, interested friends can try.
Snapdragon 8+ top heat dissipation, Nubia Z40 Pro: full fire temperature control does not roll over
The flagship chip is not necessarily the flagship mobile phone. But the flagship mobile phone must be equipped with a flagship chip. For most mobile phone manufacturers, the performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon's flagship platform also affects the performance and experience of the whole machine. With the delisting of Kirin chips, Qualcomm has become a toothpaste factory, and last year's Snapdragon 888 and this year's Snapdragon 8 Gen1 performance improvement is not obvious, but the fever is still not optimistic. As a result, the tuning of Snapdragon 8 has become a compulsory exam for various manufacturers. How to balance snapdragon 8 performance, power consumption and temperature control is a difficult problem that must be overcome in this big test.
According to the many Snapdragon 8 flagship machines we have tested so far, the tuning strategies of manufacturers can be roughly divided into three types:
Power consumption is preferred, and some peak performance is sacrificed to reduce the temperature difference;
Balance performance and power consumption, reduce power consumption in a stacked way to reduce power dissipation to ensure continuous performance output;
The polarization strategy clearly gives the choice of two modes of equilibrium and performance, and the dual mode corresponds to the completely different power consumption performance, leaving the choice to the user.
So, which way will the Nubia Z40 Pro choose? Let's test it. Sharpening the knife without mistakenly cutting wood, let's first understand the hardware parameters of the Nubia Z40 Pro. The machine adopts the flagship performance configuration combination of Snapdragon 8+ UFS3.1 + full blood version of LPDDR5, and uses AnTutu to test running points, easily breaking millions.
Of course, running points do not represent actual experience. So we chose three popular games, Glory of Kings, Peace Elite, and Protos, tested the Nubia Z40 Pro, and recorded the frame rate curve and body heating.
Glory of Kings 120fps
Peace Elite 60fps
Protoshin 60fps
It can be seen that the average frame rate of King Glory and Original God is 119.4 frames and 57.6 frames, respectively, and the frame rate fluctuation is small, and the overall performance is good. When testing, nubia Z40 Pro has not yet been adapted to 90 frames and peace elite, then first conduct 60 frames test, the average frame rate of 59.9 frames, the overall stability is like a straight line, which shows the excellent performance of Nubia Z40 Pro. Thanks to the blessing of the X-axis linear motor, the Nubia Z40 Pro has obvious vibration effect at the moment of shooting, and the force feedback is moderate, which is a good experience.
In terms of temperature control, the Nubia Z40 Pro also does a good job. Half an hour of the game, the glory of the king rose from 30-32 ° C before the game to 38-39 ° C, rising by 8 degrees, and the fuselage was warm. Even the high-load game 60fps proto-god, heating up 12-13 ° C. This is mainly due to the powerful heat dissipation system "nine-layer surround cold front" and the aerospace-grade heat dissipation material "micro-nano cavity graphene phase change temperature equalizer plate", the Nubia Z40 Pro fuselage recovered from 40 °C to room temperature of 28 °C, and it only takes about 7 minutes, and the heat dissipation speed is in the upper middle level of the models we have tested.
In terms of battery life, the Nubia Z40 Pro has a large 5000mAh battery. Starting from the full power test, the game/video/vibrato/video is half an hour each, and the Nubia Z40 Pro has a remaining 72% of the two-hour typical battery life, which performs normally in a group of Snapdragon 8 models. The first three battery life performance is excellent, and the video power optimization can achieve excellent battery life level if it can be further optimized, but even with the current battery life, the Nubia Z40 Pro can meet the day's work.
In terms of fast charging, Nubia Z40 Pro is equipped with 80W super fast charging, because the fast charging head has not been mailed during the test, and the fast charging data is followed up, so stay tuned.
PS: The mass production version will give away 80W fast charging head, but it is packaged in two boxes.
Regular upgrades are full of surprises, nubia Z40 Pro: step by step steady forward
Nubia Z series belongs to the "one year a year" video flagship. Under the background of image hardware squeezing toothpaste, nubia Z40 Pro has taken a different path, taking 35mm humanistic shooting as the starting point, bringing a unique shooting experience with two other high-quality cameras to complete the image coverage of the full-time full-focus section.
In terms of performance, the Nubia Z40 Pro is also reassuring. Whether it is the dragon training technique of the ZTE Axon series or the powerful heat dissipation of the Red Devils series, it lays the foundation for the tuning of the Nubia Z40 Pro. Coupled with the simple, pure MyOS 12 system, the Nubia Z40 Pro has all the basic functions needed for daily use, so there is no need to worry about a poor system experience.
In the past two years, the innovation of smart phones has fallen into a bottleneck period, and the release of the Nubia Z40 Pro still looks like a regular upgrade, perhaps under the cold winter of the industry, step by step, it is the most stable choice for the Z series.
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