ZTE has taken the wraps off the Nubia Z18 flagship in China, possessing a notched screen and good hardware to boot.
The company touts a 91.8% screen-to-body ratio with a tiny notch intended for the front camera. Powering the device is a Snapgradon 845 chip and AI-assisted Nubia UI 6.0 over Android Oreo. The device also has the built-in Nubia NeoPower 3.0 which kills background processes, claiming to give the phone up to two days of usage on a single charge.
ZTE Nubia Z18 specs:
- 5.99-inch IPS display @ 1080 x 2160px
- Corning Gorilla Glass 3
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (8 x 2.8GHz Kryo 385 CPU)
- Adreno 630 GPU
- 6GB, 8GB LPDDR4X RAM
- 64GB, 128GB UFS 2.1 internal storage
- 24MP f/1.6 OIS dual pixel PDAF + 16MP f/1.6 AF dual rear cameras with Dual LED Flash
- 8MP f/2.0 front camera
- 4G VoLTE
- Dual SIM, Dual Standby
- Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz)
- Bluetooth 5.0
- GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
- USB Type-C 1.0, USB OTG
- Fingerprint Scanner
- DTS Sound
- Nubia 6.0 UI (Android 8.1 Oreo)
- 3,540mAh battery
- 148.6 x 72.6 x 8.6 mm
- 172 g
The ZTE Nubia Z18 comes with two plain colors (Nebula Red and Deep Dark Night Black) and a special two-toned Starry Night variant patterned after Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting. It goes on sale in China this month for CNY2,799 (~Php22,000) for the 6GB+64GB variant, while the beefier 8GB+128GB model will hit stores for CNY3,299 (~Php26,000).
Source: Nubia
