The Chinese manufacturer ZTE has announced its top-of-the-range ZTE Axon 40 Ultra smartphone. It comes with a front camera below the display, further optimized than the one introduced on last year’s ZTE Axon 30 5G. To complete the package, we find very respectable hardware equipment, starting from the SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 by Qualcomm.
The company also announced the ZTE Axon 40 Pro, a high-end Android smartphone that, however, draws much less of the spotlight on itself.
ZTE wants to confirm itself as a pioneer in terms of cameras under the display and equips the brand new ZTE Axon 40 Ultra with the new generation of this type of front camera. This, combined with the excellent 6.8-inch AMOLED display, equipped with a particular resolution of 1116 x 2480 pixels and with a refresh rate at 144 Hz, curved at the edges, undoubtedly gives a “full-screen” appearance to the smartphone (the display, in fact, it occupies over 93% of the front of the device).
To optimize the shots of the 16-megapixel front camera, there is the Selfie 3.0 algorithm which, through artificial intelligence, manages to reduce noise and allows you to focus images under different lighting conditions.
ZTE Axon 40 Ultra also wants to surprise you with its triple set of rear cameras, housed within a rectangular plate. There are three 64-megapixel sensors, all three very useful. The main camera and for the ultra-wide angle, the new Axon 40 Ultra has brought Sony’s IMX787 sensor to its debut; the third sensor is an OmniVision OV64B, used as a periscopic telephoto lens capable of providing a 5.7x optical zoom. Of the three sensors, the main and telephoto lenses are optically stabilized.
ZTE Axon 40 Ultra Specifications
- Dimensions: 163.28 x 73.56 x 8.41 mm
- Weight: 204 grams
- Display: 6.8″ FHD + AMOLED (1116 x 2480 pixels)
- Refresh rate to 144 Hz
- HDR10 + support
- Peak brightness at 1500 nits
- SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (4 nm, octa-core @ 3.0 GHz) with Adreno 730 GPU
- RAM memory: 8, 12 or 16 GB (LPDDR5)
- Storage space: 256, 512GB or 1TB (UFS 3.1)
- Rear camera: triple + ToF sensor
- Sony IMX787 64MP ( f / 1.6) main sensor with PDAF, AF Laser and OIS
- Sony IMX787 64MP Ultra Wide Angle Sensor (f / 2.4)
- 64 MP (f / 3.5) periscope telephoto lens, 7X optical zoom
- Front camera: 16 MP (f / 2.0) below the display
- Audio: stereo speaker, no 3.5mm audio jack
- Mobile network: Dual SIM (nano-SIM + nano-SIM), 5G (SA / NSA), Dual 4G VoLTE
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6e 802.11 ax (2.4 + 5 + 6 GHz), Bluetooth 5.2 (A2DP, LE), GPS , NFC , USB Type-C 3.1
- Fingerprint reader: optical, under the display
- Battery: 5000 mAh with support for fast charging via cable at 80 W
- Operating system: MyOS 12 based on Android 12
Axon 40 Pro Specifications
- Dimensions: 162.9 x 72.9 x 8.46mm
- Weight: 199 grams
- Display: 6.7″ FHD + AMOLED (1080 x 2400 pixels) and 144 Hz refresh rate
- SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 (7 nm, octa-core @ 3.2 GHz) with Adreno 650 GPU
- RAM memory: 8 or 12 GB (LPDDR5)
- Storage space: 256 or 512 GB (UFS 3.1)
- Rear camera: quadruple
- 108MP (f / 1.89) main sensor with PDAF
- 8MP (f / 2.2) ultra-wide angle sensor with 120 ° viewing angle
- 2MP macro sensor (f / 2.4)
- 2 MP depth-of-field sensor (f / 2.4)
- Front Camera: 16MP
- Audio: stereo speaker, no 3.5mm audio jack
- Mobile network: Dual SIM (nano-SIM + nano-SIM), 5G (SA / NSA), Dual 4G VoLTE
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6 802.11x (2.4 and 5 GHz), Bluetooth 5.1 (A2DP, LE), GPS, NFC , USB Type-C 3.1
- Fingerprint reader: optical, under the display
- Battery: 5000 mAh with support for fast charging via cable at 66 W
- Operating system: MyOS 12 based on Android 12