ZTE nubia Z50 Ultra
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- Sousa
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- 09 Jul 2023
This is my review of the Nubia Z50 Ultra.
After the payment, it took 4 days to ship. To Portugal it took almost 2 months, very long waiting time. It got stuck on customs and I had to pay extra taxes.
The phone arrived very well packed, everything in perfect state.
After passing more than a day configuring it as I wished, I started using the phone to replace my OnePlus 7T Pro. I’ve been using it now for almost 2 weeks so here’s my thoughts.
After installing all the updates, I reset the phone, which made me lose Google Play and Play Services. A quick search on apkmirror and I got it back again.
The screen is just gorgeous, the colors are very nice for an AMOLED, the maximum brightness being 1500nits isn’t honestly that bright, specially on the sunlight, indoors it’s more than enough. The battery life is very good, even better if you turn off 5G.
The build quality is amazing, the phone looks very nice.
The China Rom is ok, almost everything works well. I have had some bad experiences though:
-Hey Google voice search doesn’t work. Google assistant will work only if you open the app, no voice control.
-I logged in my Google account, 3 days later I could not access my Google Photos app and I had to login again for everything to work.
-Google Pay/Wallet worked until yesterday where I was about to pay and all my cards had disappeared. I had to add them all again today.
-No way to create a ZTE account, so no backup option, not possible to download Themes, etc.
-The fingerprint scanner sometimes is ultra quick sometimes I won’t recognize my fingerprint at all so I’ll need to insert the pin code.
-In the settings there’s a part to add custom apps to force Dark Mode on them but nothing appears
-To make this phone work with my galaxy watch was a real nightmare. I was able to do it but Google Pay on watch no longer works.
-The most annoying feature of the software is the floating notification. If you receive a message and immediately expand it, instead of expanding, it opens on a floating window. This is horrible because if it’s for example Whatsapp, the other person will know that you have seen the message.
Apart from these small things, it’s a really good phone. I don’t think I’ll ever buy a China Rom phone again, though. The small things that don’t work are too important to me so it’s better to have an EU ROM where everything works as it should.
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- Anonymous
- tDI
- 09 Jul 2023
Anonymous, 06 Jul 2023Yes.... Do you know how to activate?
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- l300lvl
- rbE
- 06 Jul 2023
Anonymous, 05 Jul 2023This phone does not have a global version?(usually China ve... moreYou can get global with Google services/play store from AliExpress,
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005343238469.html
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- Anonymous
- IWP
- 06 Jul 2023
Anonymous, 06 Jul 2023Does Nubia Z50 Ultra support VoLTE?Yes....
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- Anonymous
- tDI
- 06 Jul 2023
Does Nubia Z50 Ultra support VoLTE?
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- Anonymous
- 6W9
- 05 Jul 2023
This phone does not have a global version?(usually China version does not have google service preinstalled and is not easy to install as well)
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- Anonymous
- xjH
- 04 Jul 2023
I love this phone
It is awesome
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- IbG
- 03 Jul 2023
Anonymous, 02 Apr 2023Everything thing else works fine, well at least in my case ... moreWhat country do you live? The USA 🇺🇸?
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- Santos
- nw7
- 29 Jun 2023
Hello. I received my phone and it has not been easy trying to make everything work... Google assistant no way to make "hey Google work", it was almost one full day to make my galaxy watch4 work with this phone. No way to creat a ZTE account....
Well if someone has this phone can you please check on settings>Displa>Dark mode, there's an option called App Custom, where normally it should show up all the apps that don't have dark mode and you'd be able to force the dark mode. Mine doesn't show anything, no apps... Can someone check if it's the same with their phone?
Apart from the hey Google Voice wake-up, Google pay no longer works with the long presso of the power button and some other minor things I'm quite happy with the phone.
The most annoying feature I found and I can't disable is that floating window on notifications. If you receive a notification and you go to the status bar to expand it, it will go into a floating window, opening the conversation and now the other person knows you saw the message. No way to disable this...
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- Chuckyg
- dUM
- 14 Jun 2023
Yes its fine, just go with a seller that has a high percentage and sold phones. Just read some reviews on the store first. I got one
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- Totte
- MRi
- 13 Jun 2023
New update today 13.0.16MR3. Optimization of, among other things, camera and battery function. Security patch April
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- Sidonio Sousa
- J1V
- 05 Jun 2023
Chuckyg, 04 Jun 2023Mine dosent work with wired headohones, also i dont have a ... moreWell reading your complain list I would definitely do a reset. The fact that the apps are hidden and half of the things don't work makes me think they sent you an open box and that the phone has been used before one way or another. Do a full system reset.
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- Chuckyg
- 3Wq
- 04 Jun 2023
Sidonio Sousa, 04 Jun 2023I'm not sure if it's the same and in laptops, but... moreMine dosent work with wired headohones, also i dont have a music player installed on my phone. Why would it not have one. In system apps its on the list as Audio player but its small about 50kb and i cant open it??
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- Sidonio Sousa
- J1V
- 04 Jun 2023
Chuckyg, 03 Jun 2023Thanks for the advice. Im new to phone and kinda sorted it... moreI'm not sure if it's the same and in laptops, but DTX-Ultra generally only works with wired headphones.
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- Chuckyg
- 3Wq
- 03 Jun 2023
Totte, 25 May 2023If you have received the latest system update, you can try ... moreThanks for the advice. Im new to phone and kinda sorted it. I found they were uninstalled so had to reinstall in system and update. Now i have a problem with the DTS x ultra. When im using with headphones wired or BT it does nothing. Pressing any different headphone brands or changing equaliser makes no difference to sound. Optimised audio dors nothing either, am i missing something.
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- Chuckyg
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- 03 Jun 2023
Totte, 25 May 2023Don't know if this can help but here are the software ... moreHi using the nubia Z50 Ultra in uk. Think all is ok but when i use the DTS x ultra on headohones, wired or bluetooth or in car the options dont work or change the sound of music in anyway at all. Has anyone got any idea about this. It changes sound when its coming through phone speakers but that all. Thanks
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- Anonymous
- 39x
- 31 May 2023
So, this won't be released globally?
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- Anonymous
- t7y
- 28 May 2023
Samson, 26 May 2023Still don't bit my note 20 ultra I mean bezel, materi... moreGalaxy Note 9 was Peak Samsung phone the rest was garbage
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- Anonymous
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- 28 May 2023
This is the most beautiful perfect design for a phone ever. This is peak smartphone, it quite literally cannot get better than this as long as we live in a 3-dimensional world where Euclidean laws apply