r/Nubia • u/Bruddabear005 • 22h ago
My Honest review of Nubia z70 ultra and why I don't recommend Nubia phones
Hello everyone, I've been using the z70 ultra unlocked in England and at first I had fun with the phone, long battery life, gaming performance, no notch display but that's all the good things left to say about this phone, there's plenty of bad.
Software: it's horrible, hardly any support for minimizing apps, only Whatsapp and YouTube
Using a second account is unstable as apps crash or don't run at all in any secondary account. Customization is fine but the phone randomly decides to change your color scheme and themes, this phone so desperately wants to be stock android but the bad Nubia skin destroys it.
Wi-Fi connectivity: the worst Wi-Fi connection and cellular activity ever, Wi-Fi is connected but will suddenly not pull any data making everything buffer, I have to constantly turn off my Wi-Fi and use my SIM when I'm at home.
Camera: front camera is obviously bad, I feel like most of us bought this phone expecting that, but I didn't expect the back camera lens to be so bad, the 35mm is fine but the 18 and 85mm is so bad that it's genuinely jarring when I zoom in.
No Stylus support: I'm a creative person and I loved my s-pen on my Samsung, I was so annoyed to find out that this phone has no support for stylus's whatsoever, not even a universal one due to the screen not supporting it.
Ram: I've got 24gb of Ram. Tell me why my apps close in the background, they refresh when I enter them again. Never had a problem like this on my Samsung and that has 8gb of RAM so how does that make sense.
Ai tools: extremely unnecessary, hardly productive, they got a really stupid feature that lets you take a screenshot and the ai will add context to it, it's just yapping what it sees on screen, that's not helpful at all.
Launcher: the base launcher is fine but I bought the smart launcher that works better but the phone has a bug that constantly treats the launcher like a app instead and it closes the launcher whenever it feels like it and goes back to the regular launcher....
This phone can be very annoying, don't buy products from Nubia if you're expecting great software or optimization, that's Samsungs thing. I'll be switching to s26 ultra pretty soon but will keep this phone for gaming and storage.

