ZTE AXON 30 Ultra Full Review: ZTE is back! By gizmochina

Hi and welcome to gizmo china, I'm Kieran, it's been a while, since ZTE launched its flagship phone, the axon 30 ultra, I'm sure you guys are just as curious as us to see how good the high-end phone from ZTE really is. With that in mind, let's take a look at how it performs when I first saw this phone, I really liked it. It has a square appearance with the top and bottom cut flat and the camera module is rectangular, but has some details with the dark, gray, frosted glass. The whole shape is very calm and elegant. This shape reminds me of the Samsung note series, but considering that Samsung may not launch a new note model this year, the axon 30 ultra, maybe one of the most square phones you can buy this year. The camera is color coded and reflects colorful shades when exposed to light the 188 gram weight makes it one of the lightest flagship phones from any brand this year.

Honestly, I really like the look and the lightweight feel of the device, but it is not without drawbacks. The bezel is quite prominent, and it can be a bit uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time other than that, I'm very happy with the design. Xm30 ultra features 144hz refresh rate FHD, plus 10 bit color depth. Support screens the hole punch is in the middle of the screen. Although the screen has no screen protector, the oleo phobic layer of the screen is sufficient, so it is very smooth to operate.

The upper and lower bezel is almost equal in width, but it is not on the same plane as the screen, so it cuts your hand when sliding. Although the supply of the screen is not Samsung, it still uses diamond-like pixels. The fingerprint recognition area is situated a bit higher than usual, and it is more comfortable when unlocking in short, axon 30 ultra screens is average for a flake ship, not particularly outstanding to wow people, but it has no obvious shortcomings for users to complain about, since it is called the ultra. The phone naturally features top end hardware, like the snapdragon 888, UFS, 3.1 and lpddr5, a n22 benchmark, the phone scored, 790 thousand and eleven well in 3d mark it scores five thousand eight hundred fifty-seven, the geek bench five scores for 1125 for single core and 3575 for multi-core. The benchmark scores are the usual level for flagship phones.

Next, let's take a look at the gaming performance. The frame rate curve of PUBG is very smooth, which means that the most basic cooling measures are implemented without any problems. The axon 30 ultra uses a 2 80 square millimeters, liquid cooling plate, which seems to have made a significant difference in the extreme gaming tests. Gentian impact's frame rate curve is not as stable as PUBG's, but the average frame rate of 52 fps and the absence of sudden and significant frame rate drops makes for a good gaming experience. Bright ridge's gaming performance is also similar to gen chin impact.

Of course, it has the same shortcomings as the other snapdragon 888 phones. The phone heats up quite a bit, but since ZTE has chosen to unleash full performance, a temperature increase is inevitable. The camera system of axon 30 ultra is very interesting. Three of the four lenses are all main camera level lenses. They are 64 megapixel, main camera, 64 megapixel portrait lens 64, megapixel ultra-wide lens.

The last one is an eight megapixel five times telephoto lens the main camera, even with the AI tuning, is not too gaudy. HDR is moderately strong. The details are plentiful, the white balance is stable, and the finished photo style is one of the type that is stable without mistakes at night, axon, 30, ultra's, auto mode, is not integrated any night mode algorithm. So you can see that the auto mode photos are faithfully restored to what the naked eye sees and the dynamic range of the photos is relatively small. However, once the night mode is turned on, all aspects of the photos are improved tremendously.

The noise is also less while retaining details, which already belongs to the first year level of flagship phones. The ultrawide camera has basically the same tuning as the main camera, however, because the hardware is weaker than the main camera. The exposure in low lighting scenes is also a bit darker and there will be more noise. The axon, 30 ultras portrait lens is not the same kind that other phones use to assist with both. Rather, it is called a portrait lens because it is close to the equivalent 35 millimeter focal length.

However, to take 35 millimeter equivalent photos, you need to manually slide the adjustment to 1.3 times or switch to portrait mode to achieve it. The default mode gives you a two-time zoom button. The both algorithm is not very effective if the portrait mode is not a human subject. So generally, I use this lens as a two times telephoto. This lens works very well at two times zoom and the results at night are not bad.

In addition to the noise limited by the hardware, exposure has been at par with the main camera. The last five times, telephoto lens performs well in the daylight, but at night, when the lighting goes down, the image may turn out to be blurred, plus it doesn't have night mode, so it's better to avoid using it. If the light is too low. I think the advantage of the axon 30 ultras image system is that it has a full range of focal length, so you can choose the right focal length to compose a picture, no matter how close or far this is very friendly for photography enthusiasts, because all three lenses are at the main camera level, except for the five times telephoto. They are all able to record 4k 60fps video.

The main camera can support up to 8k 30fps video and can also record HDR video five times telephoto intelligently records up to 1080p 60fps video with strong image stabilization. It is a phone with very good video recording features, axon 30 ultras new pre-installed system. My OS 11 is also a change from the previous design. The UI and icons have become more youthful and vibrant and the animations are smooth if you've used the global version of mini or other Chinese branded custom android OS, my OS is very similar to them, but unfortunately, the global version of my OS 11 is less functional than the Chinese version. For example, the streamlined desktop on the Chinese version is not present on the global version, which is a pity.

Axon 30 ultra supports up to 65 watt of charging power. The charger is included in the box, and it is worth mentioning that the charging interface is type c and the charging cable sent is also USB c to c, and this 65 watt charger is very small and supports PPS, which is considered to be a better overall quality of the charger that comes with the box. Charging speed is okay, 10 minutes gets you to 28 30 minutes to 64 and 52 minutes to fully charge the device. So it looks like the charging tech doesn't use trickle charge. However, it is rather unfortunate that the flagship is not equipped with wireless charging, although it is only 188 grams ZTE still stuffed a 4 600 William hour battery in the real life battery test, the phone consumed five percent for half an hour of tick, took, four percent for half an hour of online video, nine percent for one game of pub g, twenty-two percent and twelve percent for half an hour of gentian impact and twenty minutes of bright rich respectively.

So the battery life is also at a moderate level. The axon 30 ultra is undoubtedly a very well-balanced flagship phone that has almost no special shortcoming. But if you look at it the other way, it doesn't have any obvious strengths either. Perhaps the squares design, the dominant appearance and the complete range of focal lengths are its most prominent highlights, but would you buy this phone alone for these two strengths? Let us know in the comments section down below: that's it. For today, I'm Kieran from gizmo china, and we'll see you next time.

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