52 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020
REVIEW
the second display – use an always-on display on
both panels at once and the phone will drain in half
a day, but with more conservative settings you can
getbetweena dayora dayanda halfofuse,which
ispretty typical for Android right now.
The side-mounted fingerprint sensors are both quick
and easy to use, and still preferable to the slightly
slower in-display sensors for the most part. With no
selfie camera there’s no face unlock – not even on the
rear display – so it’s fingerprint or PIN only though.
Cameras: Less is more
An extra screen perversely means fewer camera
lenses. The whole point of slapping an extra screen
ontheZ20’sbackis toavoidputtinganycamerason
thefront.Instead,yousimplyusetherearcameras
forevery photo,turningthatscreenonwhenyou
wantto take a selfie.
There’s a benefit there, as it means getting to use
the high spec rear cameras for selfies, rather than
putting up with a lower resolution camera squeezed
intoa notch.AndNubiahasleantintotheZ20’scamera
specs– thoughactualperformancedoesn’tquite
liveup to the promise on paper.
The main lens is 48Mp, as you’ll find on a whole
rangeofhigh-endphonesthisyear– thoughas
withmostofthose,it defaultstotaking12Mp
photosand using pixel binning to up the quality.
HDR support does a good job of managing
exposure and light levels, helped by an f/1.7 aperture,
but on the standard photo mode Nubia’s camera
software heavily over-saturates photos and unless
