all right ah so I made a video a while
back on a device from Nubia called the
Nubia X it took the whole bezel lists no
notch no front facing camera thing to a
crazy level to display setup so that
when you want it to take a front-facing
picture you would just flip the whole
device around and then on the other side
on the main display you would never you
wouldn't have to worry about any
distraction because you don't need a
front-facing camera but they're not done
they came back with a brand new version
which is set to distribute more widely
to the North American market Europe this
is the one you actually can get it's
called the Z 20 it's actually a
surprisingly decent value as well it's
packin a Snapdragon 855 chipset inside
of it eight gigs of ram up to 512 gigs
of storage and the price for it is gonna
be somewhere between four and five
hundred maybe five and six like
somewhere in that territory which is
actually really competitive especially
when you consider you have OLED displays
full display on the front no notch no
nothing so it's it's actually kind of
interesting package now this one came
straight from China so this is not the
international version that's important
to mention so the packaging will likely
change for your locale it also features
fast charging up to 27 watts this is
where things get real fence okay so a
very Samsung esque construction going on
so it's got Gorilla Glass it's gonna be
fairly durable you can kind of tell
there's a display hiding right around
here so that's obviously the back of the
device it kind of feels like an over
engineering but people are doing crazy
things to get these bezel list designs
on the front this is a solid-state play
like nothing has to move here to be able
to deliver front-facing images is that
two flashes it looks like two flashes
actually and three camera units the
fingerprint scanner rather than be in
display like so many that are out there
right now it's along the side similar to
the samsung galaxy s 10 II I don't mind
this implementation your thumb goes
there anyways it has the exact same
thing mirrored on the other side you can
unlock it this way looking at the camera
you can unlock it this way
looking at the main display the bottom
of the device is actually concave this
little groove goes inward it's all
metallic and glass it feels very
high-quality USB type-c power brick
included in the package as I said fast
charging capable the phone can go up to
27 watts a fairly nice black and red
type-c cable they've included a type c2
mini jack connector as well for typical
analog headphones it's a simple unboxing
experience that's what you're gonna get
all right so this display actually looks
pretty nice
it's fhd and somehow actually the
resolution is the same on both displays
so your pixel density is weirdly gonna
be better on the rear display
nonetheless you go from six point four
inches to five point one quite a bit
more dim on the back it's important to
know because it's coming through this
kind of mirror finish it almost acts
like a filter sort of for getting less
of those cool tones associated with OLED
displays coming through to me it's just
a bit dimmer you seen fingerprints more
it's more reflective and if you go and
boot up the camera here you're using
your high quality rear camera that goes
for the main camera that goes for the
wide camera which is super wide whoa
that is crazy wide let's see if I can
snap this that might be the widest
selfie we've taken that's some funky
that's almost like GoPro level if I was
trying to take a selfie of a large group
of people I get almost six people in
there that's one of the widest I've seen
12 millimeter equivalent that's pretty
wide I'm still a bit pretty looking in
the in the complexion there I did turn
the beauty down look at this Jack when I
go out of the camera I pull out of the
camera it's blue then it goes yellow you
see that
so like the eye care thing appears to
pop on and that's showcased as you can
see when I click back over a dedicated
button for switching displays the
alternative display through the software
the fact that you could pack all of this
in there is pretty wild you don't have
the slimmest bezels on this guy this is
sort of like iPhone 10 our territory now
granted you might make the mental edge
Smit given the fact that you're at a
different price point here compared to
some of the big dogs like the note
series this thing's gonna be between
four and five hundred all right so the
big camera unit on the back is gonna
give you 48 megapixels it's got a four
thousand milliamp hour battery and it's
all jammed in there alongside the extra
display now speaking to that camera we
can showcase its capabilities here I'm
gonna have the HDR set to auto that's at
1x
here's 3x there's your wide which
measures 0.6 and we have all the way up
to 10x here whoa that's pretty Wow did
you see that look at his tattoos
I don't even noticed those tattoos on
his arms on that character previous to
this a 2 point 5 centimeter macro so
does that mean I could be even closer to
him it went into this like almost AI
mode called super micro spur look that
we've done a lot of photos in this
environment and without using some kind
of adapter I can't say we've ever got
that close to this figurines tattoos
like that's his tattoo holy moley is it
time for a macro beard hair it's never
been done before
bananas that's a whole new beard hair
level going on hold my goodness gracious
I mean that's just a regular zoom photo
that's not any kind of macro effect or
something that's just the zoom
functionality the wide functionality and
then the standard focal range I mean
these are some pretty nice photos here
North America this price doesn't put it
in the same realm as a note series as
the upcoming iPhone at that thousand
plus price point it's half that so for
me it's it's definitely mid-range it's
definitely value territory like that's
OLED now between four and $500 that's
two displays that's four thousand
milliamp hour Snapdragon a fifty five
eight gigs of ram is it's an interesting
package that's for sure now you know I
always care about the the audio
performance as well I'm just on the web
browser version of YouTube here because
Google Play services aren't currently
installed in this remember I told you
this is the the Chinese version of this
device so we can get a sense for what
the video looks like and also the audio
performance some of the categories
include explore Great Britain real and
riveting the speaker is pretty clear
it's not crazy loud but it's better than
plenty that I've heard it seems like
it's just firing out of the bottom real
yeah it's quite better than I expected
it's definitely not the best the
majority of phones that show up here
sound worse than this one I would say
it's iOS only that's probably telling
that they're just experimenting on iOS
cool I'm alright with that what's the
story of this phone well yeah it kind of
is another smartphone in a vast
landscape of smartphone options and an
increasingly crowded area of the
smartphone market place in a four to
five hundred dollar range which actually
seems to be like the real battleground
we're crazy stuff is happening these are
these are the people taking chances the
device is taking chances I should say
and I don't know there's something about
this one that to me is kind of cool if
you had this device you know you kind of
have something that a lot of people
wouldn't have seen before obviously
that's not typically enough to make a
purchasing decision just to show it off
the thing about this device is it kind
of backs it up from a spec perspective
snapdragon a 55 4000 milliamp hour
battery
lots of megapixels some cool camera
units to play around with the rear
display is an absolute fingerprint
Fiasco you will pretty much be crazy to
put a case on this obviously because
you'd be covering up an important
component of the device so you're going
to live in fingerprint land whether you
like it or not so that's something
you've also got to take into
consideration and and the fact that you
got to be a bit gentler with it because
a case will not be an option but
nonetheless it's cool it's not gonna
replace the device that I'm currently
using I'm glad that it exists it's the
more widely available version of the
previous Nubia X now in the form of the
Nubia z20 screen number one screen
number two