ZTE has officially introduced its flagship smartphone, the Axon 40 Ultra. The novelty received a high-quality main camera, which can probably compete with the best camera phones on the market – Galaxy S22 Ultra, iPhone 13 Pro Max and Honor Magic4 Ultimate.

In terms of design and appearance, the ZTE Axon 40 Ultra has one big advantage – it has a sub-screen camera, so the screen is solid, without any cutouts or “attachments”. By the way, the screen is not small, but quite high quality: the smartphone received an OLED BOE panel with a diagonal of 6.8 inches, a resolution of 2480×1116 pixels, a frame rate of 120 Hz and a maximum brightness of 1500 cd. / square meter The screen is curved, going to the sides at an angle of 71°. The front sub-screen camera uses a 16-megapixel sensor.

The hardware platform is based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen1 SoC connected with LPDDR5 RAM and UFS3.1 flash memory.

The main camera has three modules, all three use 64-megapixel sensors: two – Sony IMX787 and the third periscope – OmniVision OV64B. The main module uses a lens with an equivalent focal length of 35 mm, the second – a lens with an EDF of 16 mm. EDR lens periscope module – 91 mm. Thus the optical zoom achieved due to the difference in EDR of the lenses is 5.7x. Optical image stabilization system is applied in main and periscope modules.

ZTE Axon 40 Ultra received a 5000 mAh battery with support for fast charging with a capacity of 80 watts. Also in the configuration of the device – stereo speakers, three microphones, infrared emitter. Thickness is 8.41 mm, weight – 204 grams. As the operating system, Android 12 came with the MyOS 12 interface.

Of course, with such parameters ZTE Axon 40 Ultra was not cheap, but the manufacturer did not save on flash memory: the first flagship of 2022 with 256 GB of flash memory in the basic version. Also on the base of 8 GB of RAM. This option costs $745. The cost of other variants of the ZTE Axon 40 Ultra looks like this: 12/256 – $ 790, 12/512 GB – $ 860, 16 GB / 1 TB – $ 1085.