This is definitely the mainstream mobile phone with the toughest design ID in the past two years - Nubia Z50 Ultra. Especially in recent years, after various mobile phone manufacturers have worked hard to feel and warm design, those mobile phones with sharp lines and tough designs seem to be gone. The appearance of the Nubia Z50 Ultra undoubtedly hit the aesthetics of a group of Founder's "brick machine" enthusiasts.
This time, Nubia combines the angular body design with the two design IDs of the full screen of the camera under the screen - a small R corner metal middle frame straight up and down, a flat UDC full-screen OLED panel edge with a small edge of 2.5D glass - handsome is really handsome, but to a certain extent sacrifice the feel is also true, but despite it, the warm and moist mobile phones on the market are already the same, and the special mobile phone looks cool enough.
The back of the Nubia Z50 Ultra continues the design of the Z40S Pro to a certain extent, the black version on the hand, the entire back cover is dominated by black glass matte texture, the surface is shining like the ripples on the calm sea at night, called the "night sea", and another glossy glass material on the camera decoration module splits it in two, like the quiet sky on the night sea horizon - what do you think of the back design?
This is a screen that looks very handsome just by eye, a fairly square, no holes, narrow border, equipped with UDC screen front camera and under-screen fingerprint recognition 6.8-inch full screen, Nubia calls it "Neovision UDC full screen" - visual satisfaction does not need me to say, I believe you can also feel it by looking at photos across the screen.
This screen is from BOE, and the pixel arrangement captured by our laboratory microscope camera is as follows, which is a blue diamond arrangement with high display efficiency.
▲ Normal display area subpixel arrangement
The density of the pixel arrangement of the camera area under the screen remains unchanged, and the size of the subpixels will shrink slightly, so that the processing will not produce a display effect like a Samsung window screen, it can be said that daily normal use will not perceive the existence of the UDC area.
▲ UDC region edge subpixel arrangement
And our laboratory also measured the performance of this screen, first of all, the brightness, the manual brightness is up to 586nits, and the external strong light is excited to 749.83nits, which is the performance of the flagship panel, but there is still room for improvement.
In terms of color, there are also Nubian traditional default "vivid", optional "standard" and "soft" three color modes, and all support the color temperature adjustment of the color wheel mode, which can be highly customized - among them, the default "vivid" mode The default white point color temperature is 7769K, which will be slightly cooler visually; The default white point color temperature for Standard mode and Soft mode is slightly warmer in style, measuring 6837K and 6827K respectively.
But more importantly, it is necessary to look at the gamut coverage and color accuracy of the three modes, first look at the default "vivid" mode, just as this mode pursues the positioning of "bright colors", measured that it has 106.96% of the NTSC color space volume coverage (the closer to 100% in theory, the better), the color accuracy under this color gamut, see the average ΔE2000 of 124 colors (the lower the theory, the better, hereinafter referred to as ΔE) is 5.1, which is in line with the positioning of the mode.
"Standard" mode and "Soft" mode perform well in this area, like "Standard" mode measures 101.25% P3 color space volume coverage, and in terms of color accuracy, ΔE is controlled at 3.27 - which is good for the P3 standard color gamut. The "soft" mode, on the other hand, measures 100.93% of the volume coverage of the sRGB color space, has a high coupling degree with the sRGB color space, and the ΔE pressure is 1.81, and the color accuracy is high.
In addition, this screen supports high-frequency PWM dimming, the frequency is 1440Hz, and the measured UI brightness is about 50% or less. In addition to high-frequency PWM dimming, this screen also does a certain degree of blue light protection in terms of eye protection, our laboratory measured the spectral distribution of this screen, in which the blue light peak did migration, and the wavelength where the blue light peak is located is measured at 460nm, basically avoiding the recognized harmful blue light wavelength range.
In addition, we also did a spectral analysis of the eye protection mode provided by the system, and the 50% and 100% levels achieved a significant decrease in blue light energy, but visually this screen will inevitably have a warm yellow look.
In addition to this "complete" comprehensive screen, the image is actually one of the main selling points of the Nubia Z50 Ultra.
This 35mm equivalent focal length main camera has become the largest label in Nubia today, before Nubia from the Z40 Pro, the 35mm equivalent focal length as the real main camera to use, the future Z40S Pro, and the same generation of Z50 still continue this "tradition" - it seems to be the only one on the market at present.
The 35mm end camera on the Nubia Z50 Ultra uses an IMX787 sensor, customizes the whole set of lenses, the lens group is 7 plastic lenses, and all use a new optical coating to prevent glare; There is also a 64-megapixel 85mm periscope telephoto end and a 50-megapixel 14mm ultra-wide-angle macro end – three cameras are not counted, and a multi-channel multispectral + Flicker sensor is hidden in the ring fill light to improve color perception and environmental strobe resistance.
Our lab also tested the objective performance of this main camera, and the data is not bad - for example, the DR value reflecting dynamic range is measured at "12.04", which proves that the light and dark dynamic range of the Z50 camera in low-light environments is still sufficient.
And Shading value is "0.4", it reflects the uniformity of the entire picture, the smaller the value means the more uniform the picture, of course, look at the above three-dimensional coordinate distribution map is more intuitive, the more sagging edges, the more serious the black edges, Z50 Ultra is not prominent, but within a reasonable range.
Finally, there is noise, VN(1) 1.5, VN(2) 1.1, and VN(3) 1.1 that reflect the Z50 Ultra's ideal noise control in low light.
It's still too dry to just look at the data, and you have to speak with the sample from the actual point of view - first of all, the sample of this 35mm main camera in the day.
Overall, the Z50 Ultra feels warmer during the day, more transparent in well-lit environments, and the exposure is more accurate, the chiaroscuro contrast is closer to the naked eye, and the detail restoration when zoomed in is not bad, but the saturation will be improved when shooting more intense objects, which should also be part of the nubia Neovision image style.
This is followed by samples taken in indoor or night environments with more complex lighting, and the Z50 Ultra's performance is not radical, not deliberately improving the overall brightness, but more faithful to the relationship between light and dark seen by the naked eye, which is more realistic, but the night color part continues the warmer performance of the day.
In addition to the 35mm end main camera, this 85mm telephoto end performs well in the daytime light and night light environment, and the quality of the finished film is also quite high, and the color is unified with the main camera, which can give a good review:
The 14mm ultra-wide end also performs quite well, so I won't repeat it here.
As a brand with esports genes, how will the Z50 Ultra + Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 perform in terms of gaming?
Continue to invite out our old friends, "Glory of Kings", "Peace Elite" and "Genshin", let's start with the conclusion, the two words "stable".
Like "Honor of Kings", the three frame rate modes are run against full frames, or even slightly superframed, the curve is flat, there is no visible frame rate jitter on the data, the average power of 3~4.7W is not low, but the maximum temperature control within 39 °C is considerable.
"Peace Elite" has not yet opened 90fps mode to the Nubia Z50 Ultra at this stage, so the performance of 60fps mode is also very stable, no frame rate jitter, the average frame rate is 59.96fps, the average power consumption can also be controlled at the level of 3.7W, and the temperature control of the fuselage is also ideal.
As for the big demon "Genshin" has been "smoothed out" by a number of flagships this year, Nubia Z50 Ultra is no exception, with an average frame rate of 59.53fps, the frame rate curve looks quite straight, only 4 times of serious jitter, the key is that the rendering resolution can reach the level of 720p, and the maximum heat of the fuselage is reasonable at 45.7 °C.
Nubia equipped the Z50 Ultra with a 5000mAh capacity battery, with a fast charging power of up to 80W, we measured that from the Z50 Ultra 1% charge, 5 minutes can begin to get out of the low battery warning, to 20%, the 10th minute can come to 39%, and finally complete the charge in the 32nd minute - this charging speed is not top today, but it is definitely enough.
As for battery life, or the "five-hour endurance test" model we are familiar with, the fully charged Nubia Z50 Ultra can finally leave 66% of the power after a round, and the performance can be said to be very good; Among them, the game stage is the big power consumer, but it also consumes 6% of the power, and also records the highest temperature of the entire test process in the game stage, with 38 °C and 37.5 °C on the back side respectively - so it seems that the Z50 Ultra's cooling system, MyOS performance scheduling and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 platform are still doing a good job.
However, turning on the Nubia Z50 Ultra's mobile network at night, keeping the basic app running in the background for 8 hours, simulating and testing the performance of sleep standby at night, and finally the remaining 96% of the phone's battery, nominally consuming 4% of the battery, there is still room for improvement in this regard.
Indeed, in 2023, we have too many flagships that are considered "comprehensive" to choose from, looking at almost every flagship mobile phone is "perfect" and "balanced", they abide by the "modern flagship" design paradigm of "invisible public model", and take the most stable and value-maximizing optimization path, which is why the entire market seems to have lost some interesting souls and special skins.
Nubia Z50 Ultra, as a flagship born in 2023, has a special 35mm main camera, UDC full screen, and boxy "plate brick" body design that other flagships do not have, that is, it has a different soul and shell - it is not destined to be mainstream, but as a flagship born in 2023, its performance, image, display, battery life, etc., are worthy of the name of "flagship", but can such a soul and skin bag attract you?