ZTE Axon 30 Ultra 5G review By GSMArena Official

Hey, what's up guys will here for GSM arena, even if you've never heard of ZTE's axon series before their latest phone looks quite interesting? It's the ZTE axon 30 ultra 5g. Now that's a mouthful, but on top of flagship specs it has 200 megapixels worth of cameras on the back. Let's see what it's all about in our full review. The axon 30 ultra is a flagship phone made of gorilla glass 5, with a metal frame with this flat back. It has quite a clean look with the most notable feature being the huge island for those high-res cameras. Ours is in this smooth matte black finish and the racer thin frame adds some grip as well.

The phone isn't too heavy and the thin bezels on the front side are impressive. Although this is a flagship device, you do miss out on any sort of official waterproofing here, but you might argue, this is already reflected in the price, as this is one of the more affordable flagship camera phones around the axon 30 ultra screens is a curved 6.67 inch AMOLED protected by gorilla glass 5 with a 1080p resolution. A superfast 144hz, refresh rate and a 300hz touch sampling rate. This means that the display is quite responsive and motion on screen like swiping or scrolling, looks extra smooth. It's not as adaptive as other flagship displays.

Auto mode and settings tends to lock things at 90 hertz, enabling 144hz mode will get you this on the home screen and UI, but nowhere else really, as we were capped at 120 fps for supported games despite being lower res than the higher tier flagships. This display looks good. You get deep blacks, HDR, 10, plus support and decent, but not outstanding, max brightness for this class 550 nits with the slider and 200 nits in auto mode when in bright sun colors aren't the most accurate by default, but you can get them close if you fiddle with the color settings, there's support for an always-on display and there's also an optical fingerprint reader sitting under the display. It sits a bit higher up than what we usually see but is quite fast to wake up and unlock the phone. The axon 30 ultra doesn't have a headphone jack, but it does have stereo speakers.

There's one located at the bottom and the other are near the top and doubles as the earpiece. They earned a very good rating on our loudness charts and sound quality is decent with clean vocals there's not much for bass, though you can fit plenty of music or other media on this phone. While storage isn't expandable, you can opt for up to a terabyte of space on board. The interface of the axon 30 ultra 5g is Maya, OS version 11 based on android 11. , it's quite close to stock android, with most of the differences here being cosmetic.

The app drawer is pretty standard issue, as is the task switcher, but the notification shade is different on the first swipe you get four large bubbles with Wi-Fi Bluetooth, mobile data and flashlight. The settings menu is also custom with ZTE's own organization and icons. The about phone screen is particularly nice. Looking and through the screen edge mist ouch prevention panel. You can make the screen's curved edges less sensitive to input handy.

If you keep running into accidental activations. There is also something called z-pop. It's an arrow shortcut on the home screen through which you can access shortcuts behind. All of these features is this year's top tier Qualcomm chipset, the 5 nanometer snapdragon 88, it's at the heart of this year's top performing android phones and in benchmarks the ZTE axon 30, ultra 5g sits right alongside them, both in CPU and GPU tests. Unfortunately, we did notice some thermal throttling after prolonged heavy use.

However, this is common across many of these high-powered flagships, which don't have an intensive setup for cooling. The axon 30 ultra is powered by a 4 600 William hour battery, which is pretty average for this class and no surprise. The battery life here is average as well. It's not bad, though the phone earned an endurance rating of 91 hours in our proprietary tests for charging the phone comes with a 65 watt power delivery, adapter, and it was able to charge from zero to 74 percent in half an hour. This is quite fast, though, not as fast as some competitors these days.

Finally, let's get into the axon 30 ultras quad, camera setup, there's a main camera with the Sony, 64 megapixel quad bear sensor and is, then there's an ultra-wide cam and a 35 millimeter equivalent portrait camera both with a 64 megapixel quad, bear Samsung sensor and finally, there's an 8 megapixel optically stabilized periscope telephoto cam with five times optical zoom. Let's start with the main camera in daylight. These shots come out at 16 megapixels and while they aren't best in class, they are great, colors are lively, white balance is accurate and the dynamic range is wide. The detail levels are excellent too, but the rendition isn't the most natural with some heavy sharpening visible at times.16 megapixel shots from the ultra-wide camera are also great in quality. The images are sharp and the detail level is excellent and dynamic range is really nice.

The colors are more saturated than the main cams, though, and you don't get out of focus on this. Camera portraits are taken with the dedicated portrait cam in good lighting. These 16 megapixel photos are excellent, with great detail, wide dynamic range and nearly perfect subject: edge detection. You really do have to have plenty of light, though you can also snap some regular photos with this camera with that 35 millimeter look. These are sharp and quite nice, looking with a wide dynamic range and colors quite similar to the main cams.

If you zoom to two times magnification, the phone will do it by cropping and upscaling from the portrait camera. As a result, these photos are a bit soft and the software tries to compensate by adding extra sharpening on top five times. Zoomed photos taken from the periscope telephoto cam are actually upscaled from 8 megapixels to 16 in order to match the other cameras. This means that these shots also aren't tack sharp, particularly for fine details. Besides that, though, colors are nice and dynamic range is good.

At night, photos from the main cam are just average in quality. There's plenty of detail in well-lit areas, but these shots are overall underexposed and dynamic range is narrow, night mode brings dramatic improvement in exposure and dynamic range highlights are preserved and shadows are lifted. The trade-off is that these photos are a bit softer. The ultra-wide cam struggles in low light. The photos are really dark, while lit areas do have good sharpness and detail, though again night mode helps a ton at the cost of some softness highlights are rained in and shadows are boosted, revealing detail and color at two times.

Digital zoom shots from the portrait. Cam, look, okay with good sharpness and detail, but narrow, dynamic range night mode adds a big improvement to the highlights and shadows and detail at the extremes gets a nice boost too five times. Zoom shots from the telephoto cam aren't great in low light, they're again underexposed with narrow, dynamic range and there's no night mode. Support on this camera selfies are taken with a 16 megapixel front-facing cam and the results are decent overall they're well exposed with ok, dynamic range and pleasing colors. The detail level really depends on the lighting, though the ZTE axon 30 ultra 5g records, video and up to 8k resolution at 30fps from its main camera.

This footage isn't impressive, though the detail level doesn't seem much more than 4k, and we're not fans of the rendition dynamic range is average too. We do like the colors, though 4k video from the main cam has plenty of detail, which is a bit grittier and more heavily processed than some competitors. The dynamic range isn't that wide, but the colors are again likable clicking on 2 x, zoom on the viewfinder will switch you to the portrait cam, and it actually records at the native 1.3 times. Magnification you get more natural processing than the main cam, as well as wider dynamic range. The ultra-wide camera's 4k footage is very sharp and detailed.

Dynamic range is ok, but not too wide, while colors are more saturated than on the other cameras. The periscope telephoto shoots in 1080p, and it's good enough detail is about what you'd expect at this resolution and dynamic range is okay. Electronic stabilization is available on all four cameras in all modes, except for 8k. The results are excellent, walking is nicely ironed out and pans are smooth. So that's the ZTE axon 30 ultra 5g, you get a standout design made with the premium materials a curved high, refresh right, AMOLED with thin bezels, a flagship grade, chipset fast charging and some great and versatile cameras.

There are some things we would have liked to see here, though, like waterproofing and wireless charging, and there are some competitors with brighter and higher res displays, but still even though it has ultra in the name. This phone is much cheaper than the highest tier flagships and outside those it offers one of the best camera experiences you can get. So if that's what you're after the axon 30 ultra deserves a recommendation, thanks for watching guys, stay safe and see you on the next one, you.

Source : GSMArena Official