the global version of the zte accent 30 ultra is finally up for pre-order today which in turn marks
today as the day i get to share my full review with you all in this extremely detailed review
i'll be going in depth in terms of design display cameras software features speakers
144 fps gaming and finally benchmarks i will also be comparing the device to its direct competitors
and if its flagship predecessor the accent 10 pro is anything to go by
it shouldn't have any problem keeping up with some of the best ultra flagship smartphones around
of course i have done this initial unboxing before i thought i'd show some newcomers it again we get
a case in the box it is a hardshell transparent case as well as an earphone adapter and some
earphones as well we also get a type c to type c a 6 ampere cable to power through that 65 watt
charging coming through its brick which is indeed included in the box
the phone is there of course as well which is what we're gonna go ahead and unwrap right now
i have the black color variants of the device it is known as anti-glare glass this color that is
there are other colors available in china i'm not quite sure if they're going to be releasing more
colors in global regions but we do have gorilla glass 5 on the front and back with an aluminum
frame which is nice and slim as well and that anti-glass back is definitely a anti-fingerprint
smudger but we do have that hard shell case in the box if you'd like to use it on day one i think it
actually looks superb and can be used in the long run too the back looks fantastic and inside of
that we have a 4 600 milliamp hour battery 65 watt flash wide charging and we have 5g nfc wi-fi 6e
and of course a bluetooth 5.2 on the right side of the device we have a textured power button a
volume rocker at the top we have a microphone at the bottom we have the other microphone a dual sim
tray with no support for expandable storage usb a 3.1 type c port and the first speaker of 2 it
is indeed dts x ultra driven the second speaker is found within the earpiece which is above the
2.6 millimeter punch hole a selfie camera the camera bump at the back is pretty hefty bigger
than many others around but slightly smaller than other ultra smartphones around we'll get to the
actual optics a little bit later but as for now the surface wobble is not the best because of that
massive camera module at the back i might say it looks pretty nifty pretty much in line with
other 2021 flagships it looks fantastic if you ask me i really like that matte black finish and it
is lighter and thinner than all the other flagship devices around the back looks fantastic like i've
mentioned so many times but what about the front well we are welcome to a 20 by nine aspect ratio
6.67 inch flexible curved display it is full hd plus with a ppr of 395 it is of course amoled
with one billion colors and a max peak brightness of 800 nits and we do have 144 hertz refresh rates
and 300 hertz touch sampling rate the color accuracy is on par with all other flagships
around and some of them aren't even matching the 1 billion colors that we see on the accent 30 ultra
the curves aren't quite as subtle as other smartphones but slightly more subtle than other
smartphones i guess it's pretty much in between the rest of them and the white color balance is on
par with other flagships around sometimes a little bit better some may say slightly more yellowish
than others i still think it looks pretty much on point like i said nice bright and vivid compared
to the rest of them not the brightest around it does have a pretty tiny hole punch at the top one
of the smallest around and it is in the center like the s21 ultra and not on the side which
is something that i prefer it is slightly boxier than other phones and unfortunately no wqhd plus
like we see on other phones around here but we do have 144 hertz over here which is honestly only
seen in gaming phones i'm pretty sure this is the only non-gaming centric device that actually
houses 144 hertz most phones in this lineup or in this flagship category only has 120 hertz panel
with 240 hertz touch sampling rate this has 144 hertz with 300 hertz touch sampling rates
and yes it can use order refresh rate though it does not automatically adjust from like one to
two to three to four like many other phones around but it can jump between 60 all the way up to 144
and you can lock it as well to anyone that you'd prefer we have night light over here different
color modes we can also change the reading mode to only specific apps and we have a screen
touch prevention mode which allows you to decide how much touch prevention there are on the edges
of the phone which is something that i think we should see in all other phones dark mode is
there it's pretty gray though not too black and it does affect the wallpaper on the home screen
as well as everything else about the phone but it doesn't support third-party apps we also
have a bunch of different styles when it comes to always on display though there aren't really many
customization options over here you can tweak with the basic ones but the really cool ones you can't
really adjust that much though i still think they look superb especially this spiraling one
over here and of course we have an under display fingerprint sensor unlike many other phones that
have slowly been shifting back to physical ones i still prefer the in-display fingerprint sensor
take on it and you can use it for shortcuts and there are a bunch of different animations
it's pretty much on par if not a tad slower than other smartphones around i know that xiaomi and
oppo and oneplus all known for snappy fingerprints and it's pretty much on par with the one scene
within the s21 ultra which is ultrasonic this one is optical we do have 2d face unlock here
it's not as secure as the fingerprint sensor and there's no 3d face unlock not many androids
have this pretty much only huawei and it does a pretty decent job once again not the quickest
around but it is very snappy and when you're not comparing it you're not going to notice
the difference in speed it is still very very snappy but it can be used for something else and
that is taking pictures it is 16 megapixels and the pictures come out nice and crisp and clear
though when in portrait mode there is quite a lot of edge detection hopefully this gets fixed with
future software updates what's up guys this is tech neck recording a 1080p at 30fps video using
the brand new zte accent 30 ultra i'm currently using the global variants of the phone let me know
what you guys think of the audio and video quality and taking video at night 1080p 30fps like i said
before is the cap doesn't look the best in evening conditions but not many people actually take video
when using the selfie cam at night when it comes to pictures there is a night mode for photos so it
doesn't look the best in terms of selfies at the back we have a main ultrawide and telephoto sensor
all with 64 megapixel counts we also have laser autofocus across the board as well as optical
image stabilization and we have a fourth camera here that being a periscope which is indeed eight
megapixels and can go all the way up to five times optical and 60 times hybrid zoom the ultra
wide sensor takes some pretty decent snaps and you can bend it down to 16 megapixel using four to one
binning to get a super pixel you can do the same with the main camera once again it looks slightly
better once been done thanks to ai 64 megapixel telephoto this is the portrait camera over here
which does two times optical zoom periscope does not get bent down it does five times optical zoom
it can also do 10 times hybrid zoom 30 times hybrid zoom and the max is 60 times though
it doesn't look as good as i've seen on other smartphones around we are back to the main sensor
here 16 megapixel bend everything will be bent from here on out and then zooming in to the five
times optical zoom looks great ten times hybrid doesn't look too bad now that this is a slightly
better day 30 times hybrid slightly better than the pictures we took earlier those 60 times hybrid
i guess it's kind of going on the edge a bit over there it should have been kept at a 30 taking
pictures of myself well my wife actually had the phone in her hand looks pretty great in terms of
portrait shots you can take some portrait shots blurring the foreground and background keeping
the middle ground focused as well as focusing on the foreground over there does a pretty great job
and macro mode is here strange thing it actually drops to five megapixels and i did test it out
with my finger at the back to see which lens it's using it is using the main camera instead
of the ultrawide very strange and comparing the main sensor to the s21 ultra and some snaps over
here i actually think the color reproduction is more natural in the accent 30 ultra over here but
sometimes there's slightly more detail on the s21 ultra but you got to remember that the s21 ultra
does cost a hell of a lot more money but when we do go from ultra wide which doesn't look as
good on the accent to main which is a little bit more dull but packs a little bit more detail to
five times and ten times zoom on both i actually think there's slightly more detail on the accent
but it is slightly more dim compared to the s21 ultra when it comes to video recording
it is slightly more stable on the s21 ultra but they both look absolutely fantastic recording 4k
at 60 frames per second no complaints here with the accent 30 ultra and we can go all the way
up to 8k here at 30 frames per second which is the max resolution and frame rate when recording at 8k
it's a little bit more shaky but a lot less shaky than other smartphones i've tested at 8k
4k 60fps is a lot more fluid we're using optical image stabilization over here with the main camera
it's nice and smooth not dirty anymore over here sticking to 60 fps with 1080p once again nice and
smooth moving the camera very fast motion paste over here it picks up a lot of detail and doesn't
tend to give off too much motion blur 4k 60fps can be used within the ultrawide lens as well using
electronic image stabilization instead of optical image stabilization it still does an absolutely
great job not quite as good as the main camera though it's very nice and stable thanks to the
ultrawide feature very similar to what you would see from a gopro over here so the stabilization is
even better and talking about stabilization when we turn the stabilizer off within the settings
menu you can see how janky it truly is and going into 4k fps keeping the resolution and the fps
the exact same with the stabilizer on it is a hell of a lot smoother and when you go into the ultra
wide with the stabilizer on as well it's even smoother than that so i must say they've done
a pretty great job in terms of stability over here three different sound profiles that you
can actually use when recording video we have front recording which is this rear recording
using only sound coming from the back of the phone and then to round recording which is now
this which gets the front and the back let me know if you guys can actually hear a difference record
using three different cameras at the same time so right now i'm using the telephoto camera to
do 5x zoom and i'm also using the regular camera to do just regular 1x zoom and also the selfie cam
which is actually pretty nifty you can only do three at a time but you can choose any camera of
your choosing you can also do the same with photos and with a photo you can actually take a picture
using ultrawide and it lands up taking a picture of all the cameras at the same time and then you
can choose which one you prefer later on which is once again pretty epic we can also record 8k
at night though it tends to bring down the frame rate quite a lot to 11 fps it's a lot more shaky
4k gets dropped to 58 fps for some reason it's not as shaky but it's a hell of a lot demo compared to
8k same thing with 1080p over here though if you drop it to 30fps things will look a lot brighter
though it will be a little more shaky when it comes to taking pics at night with the ultra wide
night mode off in nine mode on night mode on is a lot brighter but it loses a lot of detail with
the main camera sensor it actually retains the detail and brightens up the shot a lot
when enabling night mode and using the portrait telephoto lens over here once again brings more
detail and brightens things up even more so i guess you could kind of say as with most
phones ultrawide doesn't look the best with night mode on though in this scenario it kind of does
but with the main and the zoomed in shots it looks even better than the regular snaps thanks to
ai using night mode and the wonderful bend down 16 megapixel picks of course
we also have my os 11 based on android 11 and apparently this software will evolve over time
i can in my opinion can expect android 12 to come around mid-year next year due to
the fact that the xn10 pro only got its android 10 update from android 9 roughly six months after the
android 10 release so i guess you could kind of expect a six month delay but that's pretty much
normal for phones that are releasing around this time even for phones coming from samsung
we have a lot of different features over here once again we have some sensitivity for edges over here
when pulling on the sides for the gestures we also have pocket mode touch disable mode for
when your phone is accidentally getting activated in your pocket and we also have shake to turn on
your flashlight though third time lucky over here i guess this could get improved i'm not quite sure
why it's still an option we also have well-being to see how much we've unlocked our phone
and we can also keep track of the hardware and of course we have all google services and haptics
are fantastic though not my preferred style since each rumble kind of rolls into the next
screen locking sounds are pretty awesome what's even better is the included hi-fi
deck when peering in a pair of earphones and of course you have dtsx ultra speakers which
we're going to compare to the s21 ultra's dolby atmos and the me 11 ultra's homocotton
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reloading come with me
before diving into some gaming it is worth mentioning that there is a triple cooling
system within this non-centric gaming device and we're going to kickstart things off here
in the gaming front with ganshin impact with the highest possible graphics and the maximum
frames per second the cap of this game is 60fps even though the phone can reach 144 fps this is
because of the game not the phone and hitting a rock solid 60 in generation impact if you
ask anyone that knows the game is impressive to say the least especially on a non-centric gaming
powered smartphone pubg mobile can go all the way up to 90 fps on low settings low graphics
settings that is on some phones though it's not supported yet with the accent i'm pretty sure
it will get support in the near future that will be sitting at a solid 60 fps with max
graphics and fps once again max graphics and fps once again with call of duty mobile over here
once again it can jump up to 90 fps on medium graphics though the options not available yet
for the accent it was still sitting in a rock solid 60. when it comes to bullet force it has
an unlimited fps and yes it is supported by the accent 30 ultra we should be seeing 144
they'll be sitting at around 125 fps since it is a pretty graphics intense game same thing can be
said with dead trigger 2 on ultra graphics and max fps sitting at around 100 frames per second
which isn't too shabby if you ask me even here with real racing 3 sitting at 120 130 fps but
what about benchmarks well we do of course have a snapdragon 888 chipset inside we have lp ddr5 ram
i have the 8 gig version over here and we also have ufs 3.1 storage and that wonderfully big 4
600 milliamp battery we're currently powering through antutu version 9 geekbench version 5 and
3dmark wildlife version 2.2 which just focuses on graphics i did test out the battery percentage
at the start and now we're going to compare it at the end to get the million power per minute
reading which is sitting at 33.7 which is not necessarily the best i also recorded the temps
at the start which jumped up by 29.2 degrees in celsius bringing it all the way up to 56.7
when it comes to antutu version 9 it sits right in the middle of the pack over here which is pretty
impressive considering how much cheaper this device is compared to these other smartphones but
when it comes to geekbench version 5 it sits right at the bottom with the weakest single core but not
necessarily the worst multi-core which is pretty much on par with the rest of the devices and when
it comes to the graphics heavy 3d mark wildlife run we once again slap bang in the middle here
with 34 frames per second the zte accent 30 ultra is a stunner from all angles it's nice and slim
and is very lightweight with most of its weight being found within the camera module which not
only looks professional but packs a punch with a trio of 64 megapixel cameras and a periscope
lens to boot the curved display may not be the brightest around and may lack a qhd resolution
but it is one of the only non-gaming smartphones to pack any 144 hertz refresh rates paired with
300hz touch sampling rates making its simplistic yet feature packed software a breeze to use
not to mention it games like an absolute monster thanks to qualcomm's flagship leading snapdragon
888 chipset even though it can heat up a bit at times all that said the axon 30 ultra does have
some steep competition the oneplus 9 pro and oppo find x3 pro are identical on paper and both sport
qhd displays wireless charging and an ip68 water and dust certification but neither of them beat
the xm30 ultra in terms of camera performance they lack the xn30s 144hz display and while the oneplus
9 pro might not cost as much as the find x3 pro they both cost quite a bit more than zte's finest
then there's the other two ultra smartphones the samsung galaxy s21 ultra and xiaomi mi 11
ultra which once again outdo the accent 3d ultra in terms of high resolution displays
wireless charging and water resistance unlike the oneplus and oppo the s21 ultra and mi 11 ultra
do take slightly and i mean slightly better picks and vids compared to the x and 30 ultra but they
both cost a hell of a lot more money and in my opinion don't justify the price in cameras alone
that begs the question is the zce accent 30 ultra worthy of its ultra name well yes and no
yes due to it having a fantastic camera system and top-end flagship specifications
but no due to its lack of mainstream flagship features with that said the axon 30 ultra cost
a lot less than the competition meaning its ultra name is more than justified in my books
if you don't have 2020 vision don't care much for simply plugging your phone into charge don't drop
your phone in water often but do care about how much money you spend on a smartphone then i can
highly recommend the zte accent 30 ultra after all it is ultra in so many more different ways