Every year, Nubia releases its top-of-the-line flagship phones with innovative designs and exceptional camera features. And every time, Nubia brings a global flagship, bless it!
This year, we have the Nubia Z80 Ultra, and although it may look like it from the outside, it’s a much better smartphone than any of its predecessors!
While the Z70 Ultra had a 6,150mAh battery with 80W wired charging, the Nubia Z80 Ultra packs a 7,200mAh C/C unit with 90W wired and 80W wireless charging.
Being a Nubia, it has an under-display camera for an uninterrupted display experience. Unless you’re actively using the camera, you’ll never see the hardware beneath the pixels! Here we’ve gone with a macro lens and a little trouble to make it more visible with some photo editing magic.
The display itself is apparently the same, which isn’t a bad thing. You’re looking at a 6.85-inch OLED panel with a maximum refresh rate of 144Hz.
Under display camera
The Nubia Z80 Ultra is similar to the Red Magic 11 Pro. Although it lacks the liquid cooling of this phone, it has both a vapor chamber and liquid metal on the chipset.
While the Red Magic is an out-and-out gaming-centric device with shoulder triggers and a camera system thought, the Nubia Z80 Ultra’s cameras are the main focus.
The 35mm, 70mm, and 18mm lens formulas have not changed. But the hardware has gotten better. The 70mm zoom has the same half-inch sensor size but a slightly brighter F/2.4 lens.
The 18mm ultrawide has gotten a big bump from the 1/2.88-inch to 1/1.55-inch imager. The main camera ditches the variable-aperture lens but adds a remarkable sensor to it—from 1/1.56-inch to the custom 1/1.3-inch.
All of the changes should improve imaging capability all around, which we’ll be testing in full shortly.
Before we get to the review, a word on the unboxing experience. The Nubia Z80 Ultra ships with a case and USB cable, which is pretty good by current standards.
