ZTE unveils the Nubia Z18

ZTE has taken the wraps off the Nubia Z18 flagship in China, possessing a notched screen and good hardware to boot.

The company touts a 91.8% screen-to-body ratio with a tiny notch intended for the front camera. Powering the device is a Snapgradon 845 chip and AI-assisted Nubia UI 6.0 over Android Oreo. The device also has the built-in Nubia NeoPower 3.0 which kills background processes, claiming to give the phone up to two days of usage on a single charge.

ZTE Nubia Z18 specs:

• 5.99-inch IPS display @ 1080 x 2160px
• Corning Gorilla Glass 3
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (8 x 2.8GHz Kryo 385 CPU)
• Adreno 630 GPU
• 6GB, 8GB LPDDR4X RAM
• 64GB, 128GB UFS 2.1 internal storage
• 24MP f/1.6 OIS dual pixel PDAF + 16MP f/1.6 AF dual rear cameras with Dual LED Flash
• 8MP f/2.0 front camera
• 4G VoLTE
• Dual SIM, Dual Standby
• Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz)
• Bluetooth 5.0
• GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
• USB Type-C 1.0, USB OTG
• Fingerprint Scanner
• DTS Sound
• Nubia 6.0 UI (Android 8.1 Oreo)
• 3,540mAh battery
• 148.6 x 72.6 x 8.6 mm
• 172 g

The ZTE Nubia Z18 comes with two plain colors (Nebula Red and Deep Dark Night Black) and a special two-toned Starry Night variant patterned after Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting. It goes on sale in China this month for CNY2,799PHP 22,562USD 385INR 32,588EUR 366 (~Php22,000USD 375INR 31,781EUR 357CNY 2,730) for the 6GB+64GB variant, while the beefier 8GB+128GB model will hit stores for CNY3,299PHP 26,593USD 453INR 38,410EUR 432 (~Php26,000USD 443INR 37,560EUR 422CNY 3,227).

Source: Nubia