I go so I have with me here to unbox today the ZTE Nubia Z17 this is their
latest flagship mobile phone from them so it's 5.5 inches powered by a Qualcomm
Snapdragon 835 processor a very healthy 6 gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of
internal storage there now it's dual SIM it has a three thousand two hundred
mAh battery that supports Qualcomm quick charge 4 technology and
on the rear two cameras one the 12 megapixel the other is a 20 megapixel
camera and then on the front we've got a 16 megapixel
southey cam so let's get this one on box here check it out in greater detail
before my final review so this one I got here from EU direct now as the name
suggests that this retailer it came via Europe you can see this posted with
Royal Mail so this one came via England and I didn't have to pay as a result any
taxes on this which is great because I've been having a lot of issues with
DHL ridiculous document feeds they've been charging as of late I've had $200
mobile phones from China and I've been having to pay up to 80 euros on them
which is just ridiculous I understand I've got to pay my 21 percent tax that's
normal but it's just their handling fees just getting out of control there so
I've included of course an adapter there so that's going to be curious to be you
reasonably well packaged up here and I also have included there a case with it
which is great so this looks like to be one of those tempered glass protectors
which it is the phone of course to put that aside for just a second and see
what else we get in here so I'm not too sure what that is at all it's all in
Chinese of course be yourself there's our sim tool and here we have a
USB 2 type-c cable in red quite nice to take a little clip around that and the
3.5 millimeter to type-c adapter that we're going to need
if you want to use your 3.5 milimeter headphones and here is the charger this
is rated to 12 volts 1.5 and maximum so that's Qualcomm quick charge for its
pull off all the protective plastics that are on this that you normally have
typically this is just to protect it when it's in transit so the paint job
doesn't get all scratched up there's even one on the camera there and on the
front of the screen too and looking at the way it's 172 grams so it's not the
lightest but of course it's got the metal build on it so that's why it's a
little bit heavier but so far I mean it feels really good in hand and it is
seven point nine five millimeters thick now that's not where the camera is that
protrudes a little bit you can see and that comes - then at eight point eight
millimeters so quite thin so on the rear we've got dual cameras the one on the
right as a fixed main camera which has an F 1.8 aperture 12 megapixel sensor
and then the one on the left which has a slightly larger lens because it's got 2
times optical zoom as a 23 megapixel sensor with a 2.0 aperture you can see
next to it the 2 tone LED flash and then below as our rear fingerprint reader so
the front-facing camera is a 16 megapixel sensor here you can see the
earpiece to the right of it and left of the air piece as the proximity and
ambient light sensor right down the bottom that's where you'll see the home
button which sticks out with that red circle the side of the mobile you'll
find the dual SIM tray here now no micro SD card support
unfortunately so it takes to nano Sims and they have used a rubber seal that's
around the SIM card there to help keep dust out which is great on the bottom of
the time support loud speaker and microphone the fingerprint reader on the
red does sit in a little bit so it's not flush with the rear there so it won't be
prone to scratches however that camera will be because it does protrude by
about a millimeter or so items on the right side these are made
out of metal now if you do give it a good hard shake you will hear a rattle
and also notice that the glass is 2.5 D that it does have curved edges lastly on
the top secondary microphone IR transmitter and this right here you can
see is the antenna line which is a long Lea whole top of it
so the body is all made out of metal and it does feel really great in home so
let's get this powered on small little haptic feedback vibration and we'll
check the boot time now I'm not too sure whether this is going to have placed or
and stalled on it because it is a Chinese mobile phone normally that is
missing so you will have to find out a way to install that and quite a lengthy
boot up logo animation okay so you can see that Play Store is installed on
there well have a look at these left and right bezels they are what I would call
bezel is almost I've inductive touching right on the border data it's really
good very nice just give you a close-up of that you can see just how slim those
lifting light bezels are but I have noticed something here you can see along
the very edge of the glass here these vertical lines which is just a minor
tiny little complaint there I guess that's something to do with the
manufacturing process to get the screen so close to the border there to the
outer housing so the hardware navigation keys at the bottom you can see they do
have a backlight in them but it's very hard to see just a tiny little red dot
here the main home button that also has a light behind it so swiping up will
bring up all of our typical toggles here you've got your brightness control and
everything like that I've just put it into manual mode at the moment so let's
have a look how dumb it can go so dims down very low that's barely legible so
they were great for nighttime use and then the maximum brightness is pretty
much currently overpowering my camera settings now swiping from the right here
brings up what they call the command center that's just telling you your
reminders and everything there so a quick way of just getting a quick
overview of all your things they're smart travel there seems to be a few
bloatware application on here I mean we've got all the Google
Apps which is great to see because I was a little worried that this ROM would not
include Google Playstore on there as some others have mentioned that it
didn't come with play out of the box but at least this one does from EU direct
now there are some things in here in tools that could be considered maybe as
bloat well there's just various different applications and their backup
application but it's not too bad so far because I do see a lot of these Chinese
mobile phones some of them become absolutely crammed packed for the
bloatware and and this doesn't so it does have android sevens split-screen
enabled you're able to resize those screens of course to say you want exit
out of them and control all of that as you would on other Mobile's so under the
settings here I can't seem to find any options for an over-the-air update
system I don't know whether is because maybe my rom I have here isn't the
official Chinese rom and it could be disabled because this one of course has
Google Play services all installed so it is running Android 7.1.1 which isn't the
latest version I think it's one point one point two and you also notice that
the security patch level is dated from February the 5th 2017 so it's not
exactly new so as you can see here the main keyboard is Google's G board
otherwise known as the Google keyboard and play store is working on just
installed antutu benchmark so almost 160,000 just
bear in mind that benchmarks of course aren't everything I believe it's more
how the ROM is the ROM performance and how it games does it has slowed down or
stutter all of that I will find out of course in my final review of this after
I've used it for a week or so so the new video 17 has only one speaker on the
bottom it's a shame they didn't decide to adopt a dual speaker solution or do
what other manufacturers are doing and that is to use the earpiece as a
secondary loudspeaker as well so that's a shame there they didn't decide to do
that but let's have a listen anyway to how the speaker sounds
all right you can hear from that that it's reasonably loud it picks up over 90
decibels and it does have a bit of bass to it for a single speaker it's not a
bad loud speaker so I have my fingerprint set up now for the rear
fingerprint reader and you can see that the mobile phone too is also getting
covered in fingerprints that's to be expected with this matte black paint job
that it has so let's have a look and see how fast it can unlock now you don't
have to wake the device first to simply place your finger on there and it
unlocks reasonably fast I mean this isn't the fastest I have seen there's a
delay there of about one or two seconds which doesn't make it as quick as some
others for example the 1 + 3 T and the 1 + 5 they are not pretty much
instantaneously they are super quick so this is lagging behind a little
yeah about 1 to 2 seconds so here now in the camera application I wanted to show
you some of the modes we get so there's various different ones here are some of
the while you would call more gimmicky kind of modes that you've got in here
that a lot of people probably wouldn't even use and the camera family sitting
now in Pro Mode we get different settings here you've got control of the
shutter speed white balance ISO and then the focus modes now it's not
straightforward how you get to use the second sensor but it's when you zoom I
think it comes into play here because if I show you the settings go into more
settings you see this is where we're able to control things and what it will
do is I've just found out along here that when you want to use the the second
sensor it will do that only in the zoom mode as far as I can tell with a dynamic
zoom gear so what it's going to do in pro and photo mode will automatically
adjust to the best pixels when zooming you can add time ups and things like
that so front-facing video quality to maximum is 1080p the rear camera the
maximum is 4k and as I stated in the beginning I don't actually think there's
any optical image stabilization on this camera but I will check that out and
just a second so there's the Steep photo mode and when i zoom in here - two times
I think that now swapped over it would have gone to
the secondary center the auxilary center and the photo shutter rate seems quite
quick on that so I'm gonna go right now and take a few snaps with the camera and
some video so we can get a sneak peek at what the kind of quality is going to be
so this is the front camera now which is 16 megapixels if you think of the
quality things arriving quite right at the moment of course a very good
lighting for the camera I don't mind it's too bad I mean I've seen worse I've
seen better but overall think it's acceptable quality here from the front
facing camera rear camera sample now shot in the highest setting available
which is 4k 30 frames per second now you notice that the video is shaky anyone
out there read lessen all I can gather from this is something about Octavius I
have not studied Latin also I can't read that I'm sure there's some people out
there that can of course so overall the quality I've noticed too
that the frame rate at least looking at the preview on the mobile phone is quite
choppy doesn't seem to be 30 frames per second either so very disappointing and
of course without optical or digital stabilization the footages well kind of
ruined isn't it by all the shakiness you're going to have to use a 3-axis
gimbal some form of stabilization or tripod
okay so that's my hands on there an unboxing of the Nubia 17 from ZTE and so
far must say that I really am impressed with the build quality it's great it's
definitely a top flagship mobile phone judging by the build I love the fact
that it's got almost zero visiting right that looks good but if you look really
close I mean here you can see it's a normal distance you look at the screen
you cannot see those tiny little black vertical lines at the very edge of the
screen now for some people that are very picky and fussy that could be a bit of a
deal-breaker here now the fingerprint unlocking is I would say a little bit
slow considering that this is powered by Snapdragon 835 it takes on average about
one to two seconds sometimes around two seconds to read and unlock at least you
don't need to wake the device first but compared to the one plus five I've
looked at which is the fastest so far that one takes only milliseconds and
let's take seconds which is I looks like a disappointment there now the ROM on it
seems great that we've got Play Store on there however I'm a little bit concerned
that where are we going to get the updates for this ROM if the over-the-air
system doesn't seem to be present at all I can't find it
perhaps because my rom is like a custom ROM that's been flashed on there and
this is why it is missing but that's probably going to be an issue later in
the future if there are important bug fixes coming out then you're going to
have to reflash and one of the wrongs of course that has those fixes and then
includes Google Play services but it's great to have Play Store on there and
not have to miss about trying to install it now the cameras on the rear mm no
optical image stabilization which means video quality is really not that great
at all you're going to have to walk around with the tripod or something go
use one of those handheld through access gimble's to get stable footage there I
find that that's just a real disappointment for a flagship mobile
phone to be lacking optical image stabilization or even electronic or
digital just as in great at all just like the fact that we're missing the 3.5
millimeter headphone jack that should be there and that's going to be a
deal-breaker for some people and then comes the price retailing for around I
think it's about 500 US which is a lot more expensive than the
likes of the Xiaomi me6 which is a lot cheaper that's only about 370 u.s. and
basically the same kind of features you've got the snapdragon 835 and you
have dual cameras on the rear one of them has the optical zoom and you can
just click and use that one straight away so similar viable is that's quite a
bigger gap there in the price so I'll be back with the full review of this which
will include low-light camera samples my time with it if I find any bugs or
anything like that of course that's going to take a week or two of use
before I discover those kind of things and also things like the call quality
GPS all that's going to be covered and battery life which is very important so
I do have to see you then thank you so much for watching this unboxing and
detailed preview if you have any questions please let me know down in the
comments bye for now