Speaking of Nubia mobile phones, innovation in the imaging field is definitely its biggest label. Moreover, the characteristic designs of each generation of Nubia mobile phones are still regarded as classics, such as the small red circle and optical frameless screen, which are still very distinctive designs even today. On February 25, Nubia released their latest generation imaging flagship phone, the Nubia Z40 Pro, which once again brings users a different mobile phone shooting experience through customized sensors and the industry's first 35mm focal length main camera. So let’s take a look at what kind of performance this Nubia Z40 Pro brings to us.
Appearance:
As the flagship product of Nubia Z series, the appearance design retains many distinctive styles of the previous generation products, and the square overall appearance still leaves an impression on people. Very impressive. In terms of details, it not only retains some blockbuster features, but also maintains a certain degree of restraint.
The Nubia Z40 Pro is about 8.5mm thick and weighs 199g. The whole machine uses a classic design that combines straight lines and hyperboloids. The style is obviously different from the current mainstream rounded corner style. The straight outline and curved screen match, and the overall design language has a distinctive personality and a more concise and neat purity.
In order to solve the hand-gripping problem caused by the square body, the Nubia Z40 Pro also has an arc treatment on the aluminum alloy middle frame, giving a better transition between the front and rear panels. The upper and lower borders adopt a "circular runway" design, with a concave transition in the middle. The details are very well processed. Among today's many mobile phones, it can indeed bring a bright feeling to the eyes.
The screen uses a 6.67-inch AMOLED eye-protecting fully flexible screen, with a high refresh rate of 144Hz, supports 100% DCI P3 color gamut and 10Bit color depth display, and supports full-link DCI-P3 color gamut. Make the display effect and image shooting more unified, and you can get the most complete color effect experience whether watching movies or playing games.
The 144Hz high-brush flexible curved screen provides the function of intelligently identifying a variety of application scenarios, realizing multi-speed shifting, matching the refresh rate, and matching the corresponding uses one by one for different scenarios such as reading, video, and picture browsing. The refresh rate ranges from 60Hz to 144Hz to achieve more comprehensive scene adaptation.
The back cover of the Nubia Z40 Pro has been upgraded to use the Starlight AG glass process. Based on the AG glass process, it has been further polished and etched more than 1 million micron-level glittering crystal surfaces into the glass. On the surface, each three-dimensional crystal emits a diffuse starlight effect from different angles. This process achieves multiple textures on the back, which makes it feel delicate and rich when held. There are no fingerprints or other stains left when we actually hold it, and it has strong scratch resistance.
The design of the Nubia Z40 Pro’s logo and lens area is distinguished from the AG glass material of the back cover. The exclusive custom photolithography technology used also gives the back cover a rich visual effect. At the same time, two different materials on the back cover collide and merge together, which not only enriches the visual effect on the back of the phone, but also further enhances the recognition of the overall design.
The Nubia Z40 Pro has achieved a relative balance between its square appearance and good feel. The new AG appearance technology and the splicing of different materials also leave a deep impression.
Image:
Imaging experience has become an important battlefield for competition among flagship products. Similarly, this year, Nubia Z40 Pro once again demonstrated its imaging capabilities. The industry's first 35mm equivalent focal length main camera has been customized and launched, bringing users a different shooting experience from previous mobile phones.
First of all, let’s take a look at the camera configuration parameters of Nubia Z40 Pro, 64 million high-definition humanistic main camera + 50 million ultra-wide-angle main camera (116-degree ultra-wide angle) + 8 million periscope rear camera ( The overall 9x optical zoom camera combination covers an equivalent focal length of 14 to 125 mm, meeting the needs of users who want to take clear and complete photos.
After 3.5x zoom, automatically switch to the telephoto lens for shooting
Use the telephoto lens to capture more details in close-up scenes
The main camera A custom-made 35mm (equivalent focal length) lens is used. Due to factors such as sensor size and lens distortion, the commonly used mobile phones we use today generally use a focal length of 26mm. If the focal length is increased, the sensor must also change accordingly. Nubia teamed up with Sony this time to launch a customized sensor IMX787 for the 35mm focal length main camera. The matching design from sensor to lens further improves the shooting experience.
Friends who know photography should know that the 35mm focal length is more in line with the human eye's perspective when shooting, and the composition of the shot can be purer, making the subject more prominent. It is the golden focal length for shooting portraits. When shooting other objects, the 35mm focal length can also focus more on the subject of the picture and eliminate unnecessary cluttered backgrounds.
We shot at the same location. The 35mm object distance is farther than the 26mm main camera of traditional mobile phones. This way, users can have a longer and safer shooting distance when shooting portraits or other objects. It will make the person being photographed feel oppressed.
This customized Sony IMX787 has 64 million pixels, providing higher resolution and clearer picture performance. The 35mm optical lens customized by Nubia suppresses edge distortion to less than 1%. Compared with the 26mm lens of the previous generation product, the optical distortion is reduced by 35%.
Main camera shooting sample
In order to maximize the effect of this 35mm lens and IMX787, Nubia has also specially launched a humanistic street photography mode, which is available in the main camera interface. You can choose to find it. Shooting in this mode can provide more realistic optical blur. By adjusting a series of parameters such as color, the shooting space, characters, and environment can be appropriately brought into the picture, making the entire photo full of story.
Humanistic street photography can automatically adjust the color of the picture according to the scene
Not only customized lenses, Nubia has also optimized the photo shooting function and launched adaptive shutter shadow tracking. The algorithm performs AI motion detection on the target object and detects the shaking degree of the phone itself. It intelligently adjusts the exposure parameters of the shutter according to the scene, fuses multi-frame RAW data, AI neural network noise reduction, image fusion calculation and in-depth optimization, and finally forms a A clear photo.
Thanks to the high resolution of the main lens, the details of the photos are also handled well, and the photos have less noise. Moreover, the overall color reproduction of the sample is realistic. If you want a different color style, you only need to modify it with simple filters to achieve a different look and feel. Under the high-pixel lens, both the shadows of the interlaced branches and the reflective details of some small ornaments under the light can be well presented, with light and dark complementing each other.
Night scene shooting samples
As for the performance of night scenes, the color grading style of Nubia Z40 Pro is biased toward bright colors. For some scenes with insufficient light, you can adjust the The color enhancement can directly produce some night scene samples with a style that is very pleasing to the user's eyeballs, and users can save themselves the trouble of retouching the pictures in the later stage to a large extent.
The color adjustment in dark light environments with richer colors is very suitable for shooting in situations with a lot of neon lights. While the colors are full, the color transition is smooth and the layering is quite good, which can present a very dazzling night scene.
Even when the scene light is very weak, the sample can still retain a lot of picture details. You can notice that the line texture of the building is still very sharp.
Of course, in addition to these regular experiences, this time Nubia Z40 Pro also adds many new ways to play in night scenes. The previous astronomical imaging system has also been retained. Using the big data of the star research team + Nubia’s self-developed AI algorithm, it can achieve handheld shooting of star trails and aurora in seconds.
Nubian Z40 Pro deeply integrates nine starry sky algorithms, bringing more starry sky shooting methods. In the starry sky enhancement mode, computational photography is used to eliminate the smear caused by long exposure, and the smart starry sky filter is superimposed to capture a truly gorgeous starry sky. It lowers the threshold for professional starry sky photography, allowing ordinary users to take photos of the bright starry sky with just one click.
Z40Pro also provides multi-camera recording and shooting at the same time. Select multi-channel shooting in the more options of the image. You can switch between photography and video in the lower right corner. Multi-channel video can open up to three frames at the same time and record at the same time. , you can choose to combine multiple videos into one video, or you can choose to save them separately as multiple independent videos, so you can get rich video materials in one shot.
The customized lens of Nubia Z40 Pro allows the entire camera to perform very well in the shooting function. The sample details are clear and sharp, and the color adjustment is bright and pleasing. These advantages are liked by users and can satisfy them. Most daily recording needs. Different from the shooting focal length of traditional mobile phones, it brings simpler and clearer shooting samples. At the same time, its built-in multi-camera simultaneous recording function, star track shooting and many other gameplay methods also allow users to have more room for manipulation in mobile phone photography.
Performance:
As a flagship mobile phone, in terms of performance configuration, Z40 Pro continues Nubia’s consistent product philosophy of honest and honest products, with a full set of flagship top-of-the-line configurations: the new generation Snapdragon 8 The mobile platform + full-blooded LPDDR5 + UFS3.1 lays the hardware foundation for the Z40 Pro to output surging performance.
AnTuTu reading and writing performance test
The new generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 mobile platform adopts the new ArmV9 instruction set, including the ultra-large core X2 designed for short-term, high-burst computing tasks , the highest frequency reaches 3.0GHz; the new A710 large core designed for long-lasting high-performance tasks, the highest frequency also reaches 2.5GHz. Thanks to the new architecture, the energy efficiency core has also been further upgraded. The Qualcomm 8 series platform has officially bid farewell to the A55 small core that has been used for four generations, and upgraded to the A510 with a maximum frequency of 1.8GHz. The small cores enjoy the same design. L3 cache further reduces power consumption when used.
We used the actual running test to further understand the performance of the CPU part. In terms of the overall performance of AnTuTu, the Z40 Pro reached a score of 1.01 million points. Compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 888, it still has a certain promote.
Compared with the CPU upgrade, this new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform has even more obvious improvements in GPU performance. The new generation of Ardreno GPU is Qualcomm's first overall architecture upgrade in five years. Its core area has increased by 60%, and the graphics rendering speed has increased by 30%, including a 60% performance improvement for Vulkan. Coupled with Qualcomm's new Adreno motion engine technology, the picture quality of the game's sports scenes is smoother, and the three-dimensional rendering technology can also render and restore the graininess of the picture to be more realistic, which can be said to greatly improve the immersion of the game. Big improvement.
In actual use, we used Nubia Z40 Pro to run several games to conduct performance tests. First of all, there are national-level games such as King of Kings and Super God. The actual game process was generally very smooth. There was no obvious frame drop or lag in the 30-minute game in high frame rate mode, and the whole process was stable and smooth.
Using Perf-doctor to conduct the frame rate test of "Honor of Kings"
As a new generation of mobile phone stress test masterpiece, we will naturally not let go of the test of "Genshin Impact". Due to the mechanism of game rendering and loading, when the running scene is first entered, the CPU is always at full load. The number of frames will fluctuate throughout the process, but it can be maintained above 50fps. Later, in the Abyss Secret Realm, due to the relatively single loading scene, The overall game performance will be much more stable. After half an hour, the heat control of the whole machine is considered to be in line with the current flagship level, and there is no problem of overheating or burning hands.
Using Perf-doctor to conduct the frame rate test of "Genshin Impact"
In order to deal with the heating problems caused by long-term operation of high-performance configurations, Nubia Z40 Pro also does some work on the heat dissipation part. Out of strengthening. It adopts a full three-dimensional surrounding heat dissipation design and waterfall-type rapid heat conduction, which can still ensure the efficient performance of the CPU during long-term operation. Ultra-large area VC liquid cooling vapor chamber, graphene, nano-carbon fiber thermal conductive sheet, high-power gel, graphite layer, etc. also further increase the thermal conductivity area.
The Z40 Pro is the industry’s first brand-new aerospace-grade micro-nano cavity graphene phase change vapor chamber. It is filled with micro-nano cavity structure and solid-liquid dual-state phase change materials. It has very high heat absorption and thermal conductivity. Compared with traditional phase change materials, the heat absorption performance is 140% higher and the thermal conductivity is 300 times higher. It effectively slows down the heating problem under high load. When the temperature is well controlled, the temperature remains stable even if you play games for a long time, so you don’t have to worry about hot hands.
Battery life and system experience
In order to deal with the power consumption issues caused by high-performance hardware stacking, Nubia Z40 Pro is equipped with a 5000mAh large-capacity battery. And supports 80W super fast charging protocol. The further increase in battery capacity also ensures daily battery life with higher specifications of hardware performance.
In order to ensure that some heavy users can use their mobile phones frequently, Nubia Z40 Pro also implements a more refined design of hardware power consumption control, millisecond-level resource scheduling, and scene-based frame rate adaptation of the screen. , to achieve an excellent battery life experience.
The Nubia Z40 Pro released this time is also equipped with the new MyOS12 system, which has new upgrades and optimizations in functional applications. The new interface interaction design makes the experience more brisk and the visual effects become simple and fresh.
On My desktop, you can freely combine various icons or folders of different shapes, sizes, and colors. By turning on the climber behavior lock screen in ZTE Super Lock Screen, you can measure the beautiful world with your steps. The number of steps you take every day can be displayed as the height of the mountain climbed. You can obtain corresponding sports medals based on the height of the mountain.
In terms of security, Z40 Pro also provides the function of providing fuzzy location information to achieve precise authorization. It also supports real-time reminders for sensitive permissions. When the camera or microphone is turned on by other applications, the phone will display a floating icon. Form an immediate real-time reminder. Prompts users that they have application calling permission and can close it in time when not needed to protect personal privacy data.
At the same time, special functions are also available. The Neo Smart AI performance engine acceleration allows applications to start faster, and it also allows AI to learn user usage habits, reasonably allocate memory resources, and ensure a smooth user experience. .
Summary:
Finally, we also need to give a summary of the Nubia Z40 Pro. The Nubia brand has always characterized its products with advanced imaging genes and strong innovation. This latest all-around imaging flagship Nubia Z40 Pro also uses an innovative imaging system to bring users a unique mobile phone photography experience. The 35mm focal length also makes it easier for ordinary users to achieve simple and clear compositions when shooting.
While having a unique and recognizable appearance, the hardware configuration is also at the flagship level, and the excellent imaging experience makes the Nubia Z40 Pro a good-looking and easy-to-use imaging flagship. It is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 mobile platform and 144Hz high-refresh screen to ensure performance and entertainment functions. When combined, the Nubia Z40 Pro is an all-round flagship machine with very strong comprehensive strength.