ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini launched with Face ID – Review, Specs and Price

ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini has been launched in China with facial recognition technology and ZTE’s artificial intelligence Neosmart AI. The new smartphone looks sleek and was introduced in beautiful colors as well.

The powerful midrange smartphone comes with a dedicated voice button, a massive battery capacity, bezel-less display, dual rear camera, 6GB RAM and 128GB version. Without further ado, meet the ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini.

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Design

ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini

Made exquisitely from Aluminum Alloy and covered in glass, ZTE knows exactly how to make these beauties. Reflecting light in the most subtle way, the Nubia Z18 Mini is beauty to behold. There’s a rear fingerprint scanner for those who don’t like using the Fae ID feature.

It’s obvious not every OEM is digging the vertical dual shooters placement, as ZTE left the cameras in a horizontal position. The slim device measures just 7.6mm in thickness and weighs 153g overall. It’s a rainbow in terms of colors, you can get it in Black, Gold-Gold, White, Champagne, Violet and Blue colors.

Display

ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini

ZTE is all about reducing the bezels on their smartphones this season, Z18 Mini has major reduction in bezels compared to its predecessor, the Z17 Mini. A full view display that stretches all way to the sides, with super minimal top and bottom bezel.

ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini

The 5.7-inch FHD+ IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen displays classic visuals than most midrange smartphones. Boasting of 1080 x 2160 Pixels in resolution and 424 pixel per inch density. The LTPS screen offers scratch resistant, 85% NTSC Color Gamut, 480 cd/m2, 1500:1 contrast ratio and stretches up to 80% screen to body ratio.

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Hardware and Software

Under the hood is the Snapdragon 660 chip from Qualcomm with Octa-core processor and 64-bit CPU architecture. The 8-cores of processor runs at an impressive speed of 2.2GHz with 14nm process technology. In the graphics department, the Qualcomm Adreno 512 grahics processor is in charge.

A massive 6GB of RAM is available on this “midrange” device, as it offers great value for money. You can multitask through heavy apps and games, it has a memory speed of 1.866GHz as well. There are two versions in terms of storage, there’s one with 128GB and a cheaper variant with 64GB. The Nubia Z18 Mini runs on Android 8.1 Oreo with Nubia UI.

Camera

This smartphone might just make our list of the best smartphone cameras in the world. The 24MP + 5MP shooters has f/1.7 + f/2.4 aperture respectively, with 6P Lens, PDAF and CAF Dual-mode focus as well. Be ready to capture photographs with 5632 x 4224 pixels in dimension.

Record Full HD videos of 2160, 1080 and 720 pixels at 30, 60 and 120 frames per second respectively. The 8MP selfie camera has f/2.0 aperture, 280 degree wide angle lens, f/2.0 aperture, 1.12 um pixel size and Face identification technology.

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Battery

Powering the ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini is a 3450mAh non-removable Li-Po battery with fast charging technology. With the fast charging feature, it shouldn’t take up to 1.7 hours to fully charge up the battery from 0% to 100%.

 

ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini Technical Specifications

General

Device Type Smartphone
Model ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini
Announced April, 2018
Released April, 2018
Status Available on Shopping stores

Network

2G Network Yes
3G Network Yes
4G Network Yes
SIM Type Nano + Nano
SIM Count Dual SIM

Design

Type Aluminum Alloy
Dimensions 148 x 70.6 x 7.6 mm
Weight 153g
Protection Yes
Colours Black, Gold-Gold, White, Champagne, Violet, Blue

Display

Display Type FHD+ IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen
Size 5.7-inch
Resolution 1080 x 2160 Pixels
Colors 16M colors
Pixel Density 424ppi
Screen-To-Body Ratio 80%
Touch Screen Yes
Protection Yes
Features Multi-touch, Scratch Resistant
Secondary Display No

Camera

24MP + 5MP
Yes
Yes
Autofocus 
Continuous shooting 
Digital zoom 
Exposure compensation 
Face detection 
Geotagging 
HDR 
ISO settings 
Panorama 
Scene mode 
Self-timer 
Touch focus 
White balance settings
Yes, dual-LED
8MP

Software

Android 8.1 Oreo
Nubia UI
Yes
Skype Yes
Whatsapp Yes
Facebook Yes
Youtube Yes

Hardware

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 MSM8976 Plus
CPU Octa-Core 2.2GHz
GPU Qualcomm Adreno 512
6GB
Internal Storage 64GB/128GB
No
Fingerprint (Rear)
Accelerometer
Proximity
Ambient Light
Compass, Gyroscope
Controls Touchscreen, Lock Button, and Volume Key

Connectivity

Yes
Infrared No
Wi-Fi Yes
Wi-fi Hotspot Yes
USB Type Yes, microUSB
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
NFC
HDMI
Facial Recognition Yes
No

Battery

Battery Type Li-Po Battery
Capacity 3450mAh
Placement Non-removable
Fast Charging Yes
Standby
Talk Time
Music Play

Media

Yes, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MIDI, WAV, AC3, FLAC
Yes, 3GP, Mp4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 player
Vibration, Ringtones
MP3, WAV
Yes
Yes

Other Features

– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FlAC player
– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
– DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.265 player
– Photo/video editor
– Document viewer
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What is ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini Price and Availability Status?

The ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini is available on Shopping stores from $249 (N80,000) to $349 (N120,000). Click on the links above to view the latest ZTE Nubia Z18 Mini price & availability on Shopping stores.

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