As a complete surprise, the well-known Asian phone brand has just introduced itself in Hong Kong its new ZTE Axon 40 Ultra, a high-end smartphone focused on games and content playback, equipped with the latest Qualcomm processors, a complete overhaul of its cooling system, large screen and performance, a new improved camera system and an ultra-thin format that will hide great potential.

And it’s because, despite our focus on games and multimedia, we face a truly sleek rectangular phone that makes the most of all its angles to lay out a curved 71-degree waterfall-style FullView screen and ultra-slim size. barely reaches a thickness of 3.9 millimeters.

Starting with your first strength, your chosen screen consists of 6.8-inch AMOLED panel with FullHD + resolution (1,116 x 2,480 pixels), with a maximum brightness of 1,500 nits, 100% gamut color coverage of the DCI-P3 with a depth of 10 bits and the ability to reproduce up to 1.07 billion colors. Although it will be a place where its game orientation stands out because this screen has support refresh rate up to 120 Hz and touch up to 360 Hz.

Equipped with new processors Snapdragon 8 Gen 1The ZTE Axon 40 Ultra completes the rest of its configuration with up to 12 GB LPDDR5 RAM and storage up to 256 GB UFS 3.1, ideal for providing exceptional performance for any daily task, reproducing multimedia content and games. In fact, the phone is equipped with dual stereo DTS speakers compatible with Snapdragon Sound, which allow for more realistic and immersive playback in all circumstances.

And this phone is designed to withstand the toughest tasks without sacrificing performance or integrity nine-layer heat dissipation system (which hardly occupies a space of 36 356 mm2, together with a two-channel liquid coolerwhich improves the design and speed of thermal conductivity by up to 400% compared to the previous model; and a phase change steam chamber constructed of graphene aviation grade, able to improve thermal conductivity and improve temperature distribution by up to 140% compared to its predecessor.

On the other hand, another of the great advantages of this phone is undoubtedly its cameras. And that’s exactly what the ZTE Axon 40 Ultra is equipped with triple camera system consisting of a 64-megapixel main lens, a 64-megapixel ultra-wide sensor and a 64-megapixel periscope telephoto lenssupported by a powerful processor dedicated to them, which allows shooting at a professional level.

If we dive a little deeper into it, Both premium and ultra-wide angle lenses equipped with this phone will be equipped with the Sony IMX787 sensor, is the first phone in the industry to include it. Thanks to this configuration, dual full-pixel omnidirectional focusing can be achieved, which enables faster and more accurate focusing.

The main camera uses a 7P lens with an equivalent focal length of 35mm af / 1.6 to provide a hardware-level optical blur effect. The ultra-wide camera combines wide-angle and macro functions and uses the equivalent focal length of 16 mm and 4 cm macro AF for ultra-low distortion on curved surfaces. Finally, the periscope telephoto lens uses an equivalent focal length of 91 mm with a 5.7x optical zoom from wide angle to telephoto, and a Steadicam-level image stabilization systemguaranteeing optical image stabilization OIS + image stabilization EIS.

All with the support of the powerful 5,000 mAh battery with support for 65W super fast charging. Finally, as a small surprise, it is surprising that the ZTE Axon 40 Ultra has full support for hardware encryption and contains an independent chip that guarantees the security and privacy of the device.

Availability and price

With the announced availability for the international market, the ZTE Axon 40 Ultra will begin to be distributed from next June 21Available for purchase through the brand’s official website with prices starting from 829 eur its variants with 8 GB and 128 GB, reaching 949 euros for the superior model 12 GB and 256 GB.