The Nubia Z40 Pro body as a whole adopts a clever combination of classic straight bars and hyperboloids, which not only retains the purity brought by the lines, but also shows a distinct personality through the surface, revealing a neat and confident from the inside out.
The Star Black we have in our hands uses the Starlight AG process. The process not only maintains the texture of AG glass, but also achieves the ultimate touch of fingerprint resistance and scratch resistance through special treatment. By etching more than 1 million micron-sized flash crystal surfaces onto the glass surface, each stereoscopic crystal surface on the back of the phone can diffusely reflect the starlight effect from different angles.
Combined with a body thickness of 8.46mm and a weight of 199 grams, the overall grip of the Nubia Z40 Pro is maintained within a very comfortable range.
Nubia Z40 Pro front uses a 6.67-inch AMOLED flexible curved screen, supports a maximum 144Hz refresh rate, and can intelligently match the 60Hz-144Hz refresh rate for different scenes such as reading, video, and picture browsing, making the picture smoother when using the mobile phone.
In terms of system, the Nubia Z40 Pro is equipped with a good-looking and fun MyOS12.
First of all, on the My desktop of MyOS12, I can freely combine various icons or folders of different shapes, sizes, and colors, so that every time I light up my phone, I can see a unique desktop that is different.
Secondly, MyOS12 adds a climber behavior lock screen, which can convert the user's daily steps into the height of the mountain, and give the user the corresponding sports medal according to the height of the mountain.
Third, no matter what interface, the Lingxi small window mode can be quickly triggered from the notification message, and it can be seamlessly switched between full screen, small window and mini window.
Fourth, in terms of motion, MyOS12's Lingxi Motion supports the global three-speed motion adjustment.
Finally, it is particularly worth mentioning myOS12's efforts in privacy protection.
This version of the system not only passes iso/IEC 27701 certification, the international standard for privacy information management systems, but also supports fuzzy location information, thus eliminating cross-border collection;
When the APP calls up sensitive permissions such as camera and microphone, MyOS12 will immediately remind in real time in the form of hovering icons.
Nubia Z40 Pro rear uses a combination of 50MP ultra-wide angle + 64MP main camera + 8MP periscope telephoto, of which the most eye-catching must be the equivalent 35mm custom main camera surrounded by red circles in the middle.
Nubia mainly customized this 35mm-equivalent main camera in two aspects: on the one hand, optical customization, selected the most suitable 35mm focal length for humanistic shooting, providing a large aperture of f/1.6, and adopted 7P lenses; on the other hand, it jointly customized the IMX787 CMOS with Sony, providing 64MP ultra-high pixels, full pixel focus and OIS optical image stabilization capabilities.
Choosing to use the 35mm main camera actually requires a lot of boldness, after all, to let users who are accustomed to the 24mm-28mm field of view try the narrower focal length has a certain risk, and it is necessary to start over to cultivate the user's habits. But for a professional photographer like me, the advantages of a 35mm main camera are much more than 24mm or 28mm.
First of all, the 35mm main camera will be closer to the effect of the human eye in the perspective relationship, and the perspective deformation of the near and far is much smaller than that of 24mm or 28mm, which brings more shooting angles to the user and greatly increases the ease of use of the main camera of the mobile phone.
Secondly, the shooting distance will be farther, and it will not make the subject feel oppressive when shooting some humanistic themes.
Finally, 35mm can make your subject more prominent, more suitable for some small scenes, still lifes and portraits.
In default mode, the Nubia Z40 Pro's rear triple camera provides good HDR capability and uniformity, and the imaging is more solid.
In terms of night scenes, the Nubia Z40 Pro supports Super Night Scenes in both the main camera and the ultra-wide angle.
Judging from the samples, the overall imaging is still relatively solid, especially the 35mm main camera is very good for the reproduction of details, the wheels of the bicycle, the bouquet in the window, etc. are very clear.
However, from the sample film, we also found that the overall color of nubia Z40 Pro in the default mode is relatively dull, and it does not leave a deep impression on us in terms of color and texture. Like other manufacturers will deliberately optimize the blue sky, the ground green plants, etc., through the Nubia Z40 Pro shooting is not very outstanding.
However, when we opened the humanistic street shooting mode, this impression was immediately broken, Nubia Z40 Pro not only built-in a variety of classic film filters (such as Fuji, LOMO, Kodak, etc.), but also for skin tone, blue sky, green space and other places I complained about before to optimize the key debugging, so that nubia Z40 Pro photo color is very "film flavor", may be the default color is lighter is for the film mode to better "color" it.
Teacher Chun roll also took nubia Z40 Pro to Wukang Road in these days to turn around, took a lot of street scene photos with humanistic atmosphere, and his experience of shooting with nubia Z40 Pro's humanistic street shooting mode used "pleasure" to describe, whether it is color, exposure or texture on the film, there is a very strong "film taste", praise.
In addition, while using film color, you can also superimpose the grainy texture of the film on the filter to make the overall imaging more film-like.
However, we believe that if the Nubia Z40 Pro can do a few more optimizations, it will be better: one is to allow the color of some film filters to be used in ultra-wide angle and telephoto, after all, the color in the default mode is not outstanding; the second is that the focal length equivalent to 135mm full-frame can be considered in the focal length setting, after all, the current 1X has become 35mm and is not easy to remember; the third is that in the default mode, more digital zoom focal length can be provided for users to choose.
In terms of assisted shooting, the Nubia Z40 Pro has also made two optimizations: the first is the lightning capture function, the AI will detect the jitter of the subject and the mobile phone, so as to provide the shutter speed and ISO that are most suitable for the current shooting scene; secondly, it provides a preset focus function, the user can set the "hyperfocal distance" in the mobile phone, so that the subject is photographed several meters away to ensure full clarity.
It is worth mentioning that this time the Nubia Z40 Pro opened up a full-link DCI-P3 color gamut from image shooting to color calibration, to the gallery and screen display, in short, from the shooting end to the processing end, and finally to the display end to use DCI-P3 color gamut.
In addition, nubia Z40 Pro also brings nine star algorithms, starry sky enhancement and AI constellations and other algorithms for starry sky shooting, as well as multi-camera simultaneous recording, VLOG template shooting and other functions.
In terms of performance, the Nubia Z40 Pro is equipped with a powerful combination of a new generation of Snapdragon 8 + UFS3.1 + full blood LPDDR5, and Nubia has specially designed a nine-layer surround cold front cooling system for the high fever of the new generation of Snapdragon 8, and uses an aerospace-grade micro-nano cavity graphene phase change temperature equalizer to control the temperature of the mobile phone.
Whether the surround heat dissipation design with a large area of VC liquid-cooled vapor heating plate, graphene, nano carbon fiber heat conductive sheet, high-power gel, graphite layer and other complex heat dissipation materials can tame this vibrant SoC, let's use the game to test it!
In terms of games, we chose Protoshin for two rounds of testing, both of which turned on the 60-frame mode at the highest quality, and the ambient room temperature was 14°C.
The first round was a 30-minute stress test with the scene chosen in Thea's main city.
It can be seen that from the beginning of the test to the end, the Nubia Z40 Pro can maintain 60 frames of full frame operation; but in the whole test process, the main frequency of the mobile phone has dropped a total of 3 times, and in the first 5 minutes, the mobile phone is full of fire, and the main frequency runs to 3.0GHz; then there is a frequency reduction, and the final main frequency remains at 1.5GHz.
The average frame rate came to 60.01 frames, and the jitter, stutter, stutter, etc. were very good.
Then we used a temperature gun to measure the surface temperature of the phone, nubia Z40 Pro screen is 35.8 °C, the battery center is 34.0 °C, SoC is 41.5 °C, the maximum frame temperature is 38.2 °C, when handheld can feel the more obvious heat.
Immediately after that, we conducted another 5-minute high-intensity game test to simulate our daily use scenarios, and we can see that the frame rate map has fluctuated a certain amount at this time, but there is no significant reduction in frames.
Even in this case, the Nubia Z40 Pro still has a frame rate of 58.68 frames running Pro, which is not bad.
In terms of battery life, the Nubia Z40 Pro has a built-in 5000mAh battery, and after our 2-hour B station 1080P video playback, 1 hour 4K video recording and 30 minutes of "Peace Elite" endurance test, the whole machine is 46% left.
Overall, the Nubia Z40 Pro is a veritable performance flagship phone, with aggressive performance scheduling that allows users to feel a gaming experience close to that of a gaming phone.
Coupled with the Nubia Z40 Pro's 35mm main camera with a "red circle" blessing and a variety of film color filters, we use this new machine to shoot humanities, still life and other themes of the experience is very pleasant. While it may be a process of adaptation for the average user who has not been exposed to this focal length, we are also very happy to see manufacturers who can make such bold and interesting innovations in imaging.