hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and we're going to take a look at the Nubia
z20 this is a dual screen smartphone that's a little bit different so this
comes in at five hundred and forty nine dollars and comes in two options blue
and black so let's go ahead and open it up so we'll take the top off here and
inside we've got some literature right on top we've got a sim card removal tool
see what we've got in here so it looks like we get a case for the back and this
is a TPU case it's clear it has a little bit of texture to it and then it looks
like we have a screen protector that we can apply if we'd like to as well then
we've got some documentation here it's got a quick starter guide as well as a
warranty card so let's set this aside and take a look at what else is in the
box so here is the phone itself and this is quite a lot of phone for the price
let's set it aside for a moment see what else we've got so we've got a separate
box here and then we've got a USB charger so you'll see this is the Nubia
adapter with USB a on the back and then what else do we have in here I think we
open it on this side and then we get two adapters we've got a USB c2 3.5
millimeter headphone jack as well as USB a two USB C so let's set this aside and
take a closer look at the phone itself I've heard a lot about this phone and I
think it should be pretty interesting now down here at the bottom it tells me
that I've got a screen protector pre-installed that should be highly
transparent and durable let's take the wrapper off so as you can see this is
the black colour I talked about so there's black and then there's a blue
colour as well this has eight gigabytes of RAM inside along with 128 gigabytes
of storage for 549 like I said earlier it's covered in gorilla
five both front and back and we'll talk about the displays in a moment but
internally this actually has a pretty good processor in fact it has one of the
best processors if not the best snapdragon 855 plus with an Adreno 640
GPU it has a four thousand milliamp hour battery and has three cameras on the
back and the cameras are 48 megapixel it's an F 1.7 Sony sensor with optical
image stabilization then there's an ultra wide 16 megapixel F 2.2 along with
a telephoto 8 megapixel F 2.4 and it can record 8k video at 15 frames per second
in 10 bit which is pretty impressive but I'm not sure you would want 15 frames
per second now let's look around the phone and then we'll turn it on so on
this side we have a volume button here we have our power button then on the
bottom it looks like we have a speaker and a microphone with a USBC in the
middle and then on this side it looks like we have another button here as well
as our sim tray and then on the top we have a microphone again let's pop the
sim tray out and see what we have inside so it looks like we have dual SIM cards
in here so if you want to use a couple different SIM cards you can do that and
let's go ahead and turn it on now I'm holding this button here and you'll see
it says new be a smart phone powered by Android and that's kind of interesting
it says be yourself and then it has an introduction with a privacy policy and
you have to scroll to the bottom and say you've read it and then hit continue now
I'll set this up in just a moment but the front-facing display is 6.42 inches
at 23 40 by 1080 with 401 pixels per inch on the back I don't see anything
yet but we'll see that in just a moment I think and you can turn it on or off
using either button on the side so if I push the left side or the right side
they do the exact same thing so that's pretty nice I haven't seen that before
let's go ahead and hit start says connect to a mobile network I won't put
my sim card in just now let's go ahead and connect to Wi-Fi now as I was typing
in my password for the Wi-Fi network you could feel it vibrate with haptic
feedback but it wasn't quite as good as say a pixel for Excel for example it
didn't vibrate as much so it's okay but it's it's not as nice as that I won't
copy any data for now it says checking info I'll skip signing in for now I'll
do all of that later we'll accept these terms and then it says please select the
input fingerprint so apparently you can set up your fingerprint on either side
I'll select the right we'll hit next I'll put in a pin I wouldn't ever use
one two three four I'm just using it for this demonstration it says touch the
sensor so it says lift finger touch again so it's not quite as sensitive as
I'd hoped so normally when I'm just pushing my finger down moving it around
if you put it down in the same spot it makes you do it again
there we go well hit next and it says adding finishing touches it wants me to
consent to location use I'll just hit next so now we're at the home screen and
if I hit this button it says switch display screen well hit OK and we should
have the display on the back now it's noticeably more damn or not as easy to
see but this is a 5.1 inch 1520 by 720 display with 330 pixels per inch so you
still can't see the pixels but it's definitely not as bright as the other so
I'll say don't remind me and then we'll flip so you can easily flip the display
if you want to turn it off we'll try the fingerprint sensor and it's back on so
it actually works pretty quickly as far as that goes now let's take a look at
the version of Android that you get with this and you'll see it's Android 9 so
you're not getting the latest I don't know how they are as far as updates are
concerned but this should have some incredible specs so if we want to flip
this over we can use this display in the back display well we're in the district
in the actual camera will hit agree and it's kind of interesting to be able to
see yourself through the cameras on the back that's something I think would be
pretty useful as far as video is concerned so then you could record
yourself with the best camera instead of having to use the front-facing camera
that's typically not as good as the rear camera and you'll see we don't really
have a front-facing camera here they've just put all three on the back which
makes a lot of sense so this is something that I think is really
interesting and definitely different and will be very helpful for those that want
to record videos whether that be of themselves or anyone else this just
makes it that much easier to take a selfie that's maybe a little bit better
than you see on anything else I wouldn't say the display is amazing in fact you
can see the overhead camera there the display isn't that amazing but it's
pretty interesting to see that we have a little display on the back and then we
just rotate it around and we can use it on the front now if we go into the
camera we've got a bunch of different options here as far as grid and all
sorts of things but let's see we'll turn off the new be a watermark
let's go back to camera settings maybe we'll go to video you'll see what we've
got we can record in 4k 60 if we'd like and then you can record in h.264 or
h.265 or HDR 10 if you'd like to for HDR content so this is a really interesting
phone with a very large battery for a pretty reasonable price now my only
concern would be the updates and let's see how this fingerprint sensor works
it's actually pretty quick so if I push down let's turn it on over here it's not
going to recognize me push down on this side let's see if it works now and it
looks like it's not going to work that time what if I turn it off here turn it
back on it's nice and quick so it's it's actually not bad it just takes a second
to get used to and it works pretty well overall now you've got your typical
Google apps here and then you've got a your app drawer with whatever you want
to keep in it it's the so it looks very familiar as far as stocky Android but
instead everything is square and you probably have some options to change
that as well now the other thing it has is pressure
sensitive gesture controls so I can squeeze it and it will you'll see it
shrinks the phone down or shrinks the screen down so I can easily reach it if
I just squeeze it it actually works pretty well so that's pretty nice
actually like that I'll turn that to the Google assistant and it will be just
like using a pixel phone and speaking of a pixel phone let me show you for a size
comparison so here's the pixel for Excel if I rotate it around it gives you an
idea of the size as far as the thickness and everything else it feels very very
nice in fact in the hand it feels very similar to a galaxy s 10 for example the
bezels are nice and thin and you'll see the screen rolls over the side just a
little bit but overall I think it's pretty nice let's take a look at a
couple of the options that we have here now as I said you'll see it says
pressure border and then long grip super screenshot short holding pressure
one-handed mode you can adjust the pressure level so that's something I
haven't seen mentioned mentioned elsewhere and then you've gotten also
always on display you've got super I care for your secondary discrete or
secondary display so it's kind of a yellow look to it so it doesn't harm
your eyes as much at night and then it's a very slippery phone by the way and
then that's about it as far as brightness goes well we're only at 35
percent brightness we can turn it up that's pretty bright I don't know if I'd
say it's as bright as say the newest iPhones or s10 plus but overall I think
it's pretty nice it's just close to stock Android as I've seen let me take a
quick photo and see what it looks like now let's take a photo here and it's
nice and fast doesn't look bad at all the color is pretty accurate too so it's
hard to say how it would be at night but in general for the price it's half the
price of that pixel for Excel so you're getting a lot here for your money and
even if you broke this you could just buy another one and you'd have the same
thing of course there's no headphone jack but then you've got that secondary
display you can type on it do whatever you want you've got the full operating
system on the back although it is a little bit hard to see we can turn it up
a little bit so that's full brightness it looks ok it definitely is not an
accurate display but the front display looks
great you know just like other Nubia phones we've got the game space and game
space is pretty interesting and fairly helpful if you like to see statistics
about your processor and your GPU so you'll see I have a few games installed
here and for example if I go into this game and then I pull in from the right
we've got a bunch of information here so we've got the GPU speed the CPU speed
and the actual temperature and then we have a couple different modes here as
well to block messages and things like that we can screen capture and it just
works really well it's a nice little addition and it can ramp up the
processor and things like that to get the best performance out of these games
now I thought I'd try a little bit of pub G on this phone to see how it
handles it and as you can see if I go to the graphics mode here we're on HDR and
extreme so it's handling it pretty well you'll
see I'm parachuting in the frame rates quite good no issues here let me just
get down to the ground now I'm on the ground you'll see the frame rates pretty
good I've had no issues here and it's super smooth and fast let's try
something else now you'll see in this game it's running pretty well I did see
a few framerate drops you may see them yourself here but what's really
impressive is even though this is running if I swap to a different game
for example Call of Duty it's still running I can resume it move around it's
running in the background and the same is true for pub G so if we go into pub
key everything's still running it's handling all of this at once I was
eliminated but you'll see it's still working fine and it's really impressive
that it's all running at once and again I can swap back and forth maybe we'll go
back to this game here zoom and we're back in so it's running all of this now
the phone is getting a little bit warm on the back but overall this is a very
impressive phone when it comes to playing games and then also having this
dual screen on the back that has a different different setup that you have
from your front screen so you'll see I'm on the home screen here
swap around if I go back in to say this game you can actually have a different
home screen on this screen verse the but it just depends what you're doing so
overall it's kind of an interesting phone but the way it handles games and
it's a memory management is fantastic now I noticed in apps like YouTube you
can watch HDR video so if we go to this one this is a really nice one from LG so
say got it here's the resolution availability so you'll see you can go
all the way up to 1080p 60 in HDR on YouTube maybe even higher with an update
to 1440 but again on a display of this size you're really not going to see that
resolution but it's nice to have the options but let me know what you think
about the Nubia in the comments below have you used one of these phones I did
a review of the gaming phone they had a while ago this is e 20 is very similar
although it doesn't have a fan and it isn't designed for gaming the other
phone actually has some triggers up here this one is just a dual screen phone
that is a little bit different and I would say is more for the people that
want to take a lot more photo and video because you have that rear-facing camera
system along with that rear facing screen and then you've got those dual
flashes there if you want to use those so I love that idea for taking video of
yourself or whatever you're trying to film and being able to see it all the
time let me know your thoughts in the comments below I'll try and link this
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thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time