ZUK is a new buzz architect that has accustomed abetment from Lenovo and the Z1 is their aboriginal smartphone. On paper, the accessory seems to avowal absolutely an absorbing set of appearance and blueprint save for the beforehand Snapdragon 801 processor that was apparent in yesteryear’s smartphones. However, you can’t absolutely address off a buzz just because its processor is a bit old. Afterwards all, the OnePlus One is aswell powered by a Snapdragon 801 and even today, the smartphone is approved afterwards by abounding and aback the ZUK Z1 is aswell aimed at a agnate bulk point, the buzz does accomplish sense. In this review, we yield a attending at how the buzz performs in absolute activity and whether that absorbing specs bedding translates to an absorbing all annular achievement in absolute activity as well. We would aswell be comparing the buzz to the OnePlus One which could be alleged its abutting competitor.
Unboxing
The capacity of the box are:
ZUK Z1 smartphone in White color
Reversible USB 3.0 Type-C cable
2-pin AC charger (5V-2A)
SIM ejector tool
Quick Start Guide
Design, Materials and Physique Quality
The architecture of the ZUK Z1 up foreground is actual agnate to that of the Meizu m2 Note. Not alone are both the accessories apartment 5.5″ displays but they accept actual agnate shapes and looks. The capital appropriate agency is conceivably the ellipsoidal home button compared to the m2 Note that has an egg-shaped blazon of home button. Admitting accepting the aforementioned awning admeasurement as the m2 Note, the Z1 is in actuality absolutely a bit above as it measures 155.7 x 77.3 x 8.9 mm compared to the 150.9 x 75.2 x 8.7 mm of the m2 Note. It is aswell added than the m2 Note by 26 grams. The primary acumen for this admission in weight and admeasurement (at atomic in agreement of thickness) is the actuality that the Z1 packs an impressively massive 4100mAH array central it.
The array and aback console are non-removable admitting but that’s something that we’ve appear to apprehend of a lot of phones afresh so we aren’t complaining. The aback has a arced pillow array of feel and it looks actual simple yet affected which reminds us of the iPhone 3G and 3GS. It has a chichi address of sorts and the appearance of the aback makes the buzz absolutely simple to authority and handle admitting its almost bigger size. Although it is bigger than the m2 Note, it doesn’t feel decidedly bulky to backpack or use and humans with adequately large-sized calmly can calmly use it single-handedly. The foreground has a nice chamfered argent bezels alive all about it that gives it a exceptional feel. That’s something that you don’t apprehend in a buzz that is priced so low. Not to acknowledgment the actuality that the physique superior is best acknowledgment to the use of metal and able-bodied complete body.
Above the display, you accept the earpiece, foreground adverse 8 Megapixel camera as able-bodied as the ambient ablaze and adjacency sensors. Below the display, you accept a home button with a fingerprint sensor as able-bodied as two capacitive buttons on either side. At the appropriate side, there is the aggregate rocker button as able-bodied as the power/lock button. Both the set of keys are simple to columnist and accord acceptable acknowledgment if pressed. The larboard ancillary houses the bifold SIM agenda aperture which is a bifold Nano SIM tray.
At the bottom, you accept the USB Type-C port, primary microphone, apostle barbecue and the cutouts for the antenna. There are cutouts for the antenna at the top as able-bodied forth with the 3.5mm audio jack.
At the back, you accept the 13 Megapixel camera with OIS and bifold LED flash. There is aswell accessory microphone amid the camera lens and beam as able-bodied as the ZUK branding at the bottom. Admitting the aback awning getting ablaze it absolutely doesn’t blooper out of the duke and that is something we begin to be hasty but actual good. It is a fingerprint allurement about but not calmly apparent aback its white. There is a blah alternative of the buzz as able-bodied but there aren’t too abounding photos of it online so its harder to adjudicator which is the bigger one till we in actuality see it. But the White one absolutely looks acceptable and it should apparel both macho and changeable customers.
Display
The affectation on the Z1 is a 5.5″ 1080p IPS display. The affectation is absolutely ablaze and vivid. The accurateness absolutely isn’t an affair as the 1080p affectation seems brittle behindhand of whether you are watching videos or account text. The sunlight accurateness is absolutely acceptable as well. The capacitive buttons on the Z1 are programmable and you can accept the accept the acknowledgment key and card key on the larboard or appropriate and carnality versa. The capacitive keys are lit in white and accept the appearance of dots, agnate to the OnePlus 2 capacitive key back-lighting but abate in size. The user can aswell opt for on-screen abyssal keys if that is their adopted acclimation of input. If you accredit on awning keys, the capacitive keys don’t action anymore but you can still use the home button and fingerprint sensor. Users can aswell accredit awkward approach which will abode the aeronautics bar on the larboard ancillary of the awning if in mural mode. Note that you charge to accept the on-screen aeronautics keys enabled in acclimation to use that feature. You can aswell bureaucracy the adeptness button key to end an alive alarm instead of accepting to do so on screen.
What is even added absorbing about the affectation is the adeptness to adapt it application software. There is a LiveDisplay apparatus that allows the user to accomplished tune the display’s colour temperature all the way from 1100K to 10000K. There are aswell presets for day, night and alfresco as able-bodied as an Automated approach that will change to colour temperature to a acknowledgment temperature. Basically it cuts down on the bulk of Dejected ablaze emitted at night aback too abundant of dejected ablaze has been accepted to affect sleeping patterns of users. There is aswell an automated alfresco approach that bumps up the assimilation and accurateness added than usual. It is something that absolutely comes in accessible on absolutely brilliant days.
The buzz aswell supports bifold tap to deathwatch the awning as able-bodied as bifold tap on the cachet bar to put it to sleep. Users can alternatively accomplish use of the power/lock key or the concrete home button to deathwatch the accessory from beddy-bye as well. Interestingly the customization doesn’t end there as there are options that acquiesce you to adapt the notification ablaze colours based on the array levels or notifications from anniversary alone app. It can be customized in so abounding altered colours and you can calmly displace it if you feel you’ve played about with it too much.
Fingerprint Sensor
The fingerprint sensor is chip into the home button and it just requires a tap to accredit like a lot of smartphones these days. There is no charge to bash from top to basal etc. The accurateness is absolutely acceptable and the accessory gets apart absolutely fast. You will charge to aboriginal deathwatch the accessory from beddy-bye admitting as clashing the OnePlus 2 or Oppo R7 Plus, the accessory won’t admit fingerprints if it is in beddy-bye mode.
Users can annals fingerprints calmly and it takes about 20 curtains to annals anniversary fingerprint. You can save assorted fingers and aswell bureaucracy a PIN, Password or Pattern as a advancement to admission your accessory in case you can’t accredit application fingerprints. You can add up to 5 altered fingerprints even admitting in a lot of cases 2 or 3 is usually enough.
Calls and Messaging
The Z1 has acceptable alarm superior be it over the earpiece and the loudness is added than acceptable as well. But the loudness through the apostle was absolutely low even at the best aggregate during calls about it performed altogether able-bodied if alert to music. Your accent gets conveyed able-bodied to the affair at the added end acknowledgment to the babble cancelling technology.
Cyanogen 12.1 has TrueCaller as the dialer and it helps users to analyze the callers even if they aren’t adored into your phonebook. You can aswell accept to block assertive numbers such as spam or numbers that you accept in your atramentous list. Messaging is absolutely acceptable and simple acknowledgment to the ample awning estate. By default, the buzz comes with Google Keyboard, about getting an Android device, users can calmly install any 3rd affair keyboard that they like if needed.
Software and UI
The all-embracing adaptation of the ZUK Z1 will address with Android 5.1.1 out of the box and CyanogenOS 12.1. There are a lot of customization like we mentioned beforehand in agreement of buttons, awning settings etc. Apart from that, you aswell get a affair abundance area you can go to download added capacity to personalize and change the attending of your smartphone.
The homescreen and app drawer are in archetypal Android style. The cachet bar can be pulled downwards to acknowledge the notifications and affairs down added shows the quick toggles. There is aswell a accurateness acclimation slider and quick toggle for casting screen, LiveDisplay, Torch, AudioFX etc. Users aswell accept admission to assorted arrangement profiles that they can baddest in acclimation to actuate or conciliate a set of appearance in one individual click.
Connectivity, Accumulator and Performance
The Z1 supports bifold SIMs – It takes 2 nanoSIMs and does abutment 4G LTE about alone 1 SIM can be on 4G LTE while the added charcoal on 2G. There is no microSD aperture but there is 64GB of on-board accumulator which should accumulate a lot of users happy. Out of 64GB of storage, the user gets about 53.06GB out of the box at his/her disposal.
The accessory aswell supports USB OTG however, you will charge an adapter aback it has a USB Type-C anchorage so your accepted micro USB OTG adapter won’t do the ambush directly. Apart from that, the accessory supports dual-band WiFi a/b/g/n/ac and Bluetooth 4.1. The accessory is powered by a Snapdragon 801 processor and has 3GB of RAM as well. We are assuming our gaming and benchmarks tests and will accompany you the after-effects shortly. In approved circadian use, the accessory performs able-bodied and doesn’t overheat nor does it lag. In fact, you would be afraid to apperceive that the accessory is packing a Snapdragon 801 processor from endure year anticipation by its performance.
Music Player and Audio Quality
The absence Music Player on the accessory is Google Play Music so there’s annihilation abundant to allocution about the UI as such. It’s the aforementioned as added Android accessories with Play Music. Users can admission both their online and offline accumulating of songs. The now arena awning shows anthology art as able-bodied as clue controls. AudioFX is the congenital blaster for the buzz and it comes as a abstracted app aback Play Music doesn’t abutment it. Users can accept amid altered presets or actualize a custom one. They can afresh accomplished tune the bass as able-bodied as the virtualizer for added effect. The blaster works for earphones as able-bodied as the loudspeaker.
The affair that’s added absorbing to allocution about is the Audio quality. The audio superior through headphones is amazing on the Z1 and one of the best we accept apparent afresh be it a flagship or any added affectionate of device. The activating ambit is absolutely acceptable and there is almost any stereo crosstalk. The aggregate too is absolutely loud and you absolutely wouldn’t charge to apprehend it at the abounding aggregate in any scenario. I alone was never able to accept to it at abounding aiguille aggregate and you can about use your headphone as a apostle at that end. If you brace the buzz to an alien amplifier, the audio superior should be even added amazing. The loudspeaker too is absolutely loud and although it is mono, the superior is absolutely good.
Camera
The camera app UI is absolutely simple and simple to understand. In the account mode, you accept the bang button in the centre forth with a panorama toggle on the larboard and a almanac button on the right. At the appropriate side, you accept a agglomeration of quick toggles for the camera switcher, flash, controls and settings. You can accomplish use of gestures to change the altered modes/filters. By absence it is set to Auto but annexation upwards will accord you the HDR approach and so on. You can aswell go into the angel controls and accept filters directly. The added controls cover chiral exposure, white balance, timer and geo-tagging. In the settings, users can accept the angel aspect ratio, admeasurement as able-bodied as quality. The buzz can yield photos up to 13 Megapixels in resolution in 4:3 aspect arrangement and 16:9 aspect arrangement images up to 9.7 Megapixels. Users can aswell manually acclimatize the angel quality, ISO and metering modes.
There are added accepted settings that you can accept to accredit such as authoritative the adeptness button into a bang key and the aggregate buttons into a zoom key. Larboard handed users can aswell acclimatize the UI so that they can use it added calmly and the awning can be set to abounding accurateness automatically if the camera app is on, for bigger visibility.
Videos can be recorded in a best resolution of 1080p which is hasty accustomed the actuality that the processor is able abundant to handle 4K as apparent on the OnePlus One. Users can aswell accomplish use of the time-lapse, apathetic motion and accelerated video modes.
The angel superior is appealing acceptable on the ZUK Z1 but it isn’t great. It is on par with the brand of the OnePlus One at best but I feel the m2 Note has bigger angel quality. The acceptable affair is that the bang acceleration is appealing fast and so is the activating range. HDR improves on that but the bang acceleration is absolutely apathetic in HDR approach so you’ll accept to abide absolutely abiding to abstain ghosting in images. The white antithesis and colour reproduction are appealing acceptable even admitting images tend to be a little beneath saturated. The babble levels are kept to a minimum about even beneath low ablaze and that is a acceptable thing. The foreground camera is appealing appropriate as able-bodied but annihilation above the ordinary. It’s absolutely abundant and aciculate but doesn’t accomplish that able-bodied beneath low light. But it should be acceptable abundant for your use on amusing media.
Battery Life
The ZUK Z1 has a massive 4100mAH array beneath the hood. While it is non-removable, it does assume to affiance a absolutely continued array activity and if the Oppo R7 Plus is any indication, the ZUK Z1 should be bigger if not the aforementioned and should endure even abundant users an absolute day of use. I was absolutely able to see through the accessory till the end of day with array to additional and that is a aberration with smartphones these days.
Conclusion
The ZUK Z1 is a an all-rounder of a smartphone. It has a lot of things that you would wish for in a smartphone at an affordable price. At US$ 284 (Rs. 18,400 approximately), the smartphone avalanche about the aforementioned bulk point as the OnePlus One. It does action a actual agnate acquaintance to the OnePlus One all-embracing with a few additions such as the bifold SIM slot, superb audio superior through headphones and the fingerprint sensor. While the OnePlus One is still an amazing smartphone, this could be the ideal buzz for abounding who wish something agnate to the OnePlus One but wish something that is a bit added unique. If you’ve heard of the adage “It’s so underground that it’s mainstream”. That is what has happened with the OnePlus One. It is a abundant buzz no agnosticism but so abounding accept it and if anyone wants something that isn’t calmly spotted in the accessible after accepting to accomplish changes to what he or she expects in a smartphone again this is a acceptable deal. Currently the smartphone isn’t accessible in India and we aren’t abiding if and at what bulk it will barrage but hopefully if it does become accessible actuality and if it does, barter will accept one added acceptable advantage to accept from.
Pros
Good Physique Quality
Good Screen
Excellent Audio Quality
Dual SIM support
Good Array Life
Cons
No 4K Video Recording
Camera Superior not that great
Feeble Loudspeaker Achievement during Calls
Unboxing
The capacity of the box are:
ZUK Z1 smartphone in White color
Reversible USB 3.0 Type-C cable
2-pin AC charger (5V-2A)
SIM ejector tool
Quick Start Guide
Design, Materials and Physique Quality
The architecture of the ZUK Z1 up foreground is actual agnate to that of the Meizu m2 Note. Not alone are both the accessories apartment 5.5″ displays but they accept actual agnate shapes and looks. The capital appropriate agency is conceivably the ellipsoidal home button compared to the m2 Note that has an egg-shaped blazon of home button. Admitting accepting the aforementioned awning admeasurement as the m2 Note, the Z1 is in actuality absolutely a bit above as it measures 155.7 x 77.3 x 8.9 mm compared to the 150.9 x 75.2 x 8.7 mm of the m2 Note. It is aswell added than the m2 Note by 26 grams. The primary acumen for this admission in weight and admeasurement (at atomic in agreement of thickness) is the actuality that the Z1 packs an impressively massive 4100mAH array central it.
The array and aback console are non-removable admitting but that’s something that we’ve appear to apprehend of a lot of phones afresh so we aren’t complaining. The aback has a arced pillow array of feel and it looks actual simple yet affected which reminds us of the iPhone 3G and 3GS. It has a chichi address of sorts and the appearance of the aback makes the buzz absolutely simple to authority and handle admitting its almost bigger size. Although it is bigger than the m2 Note, it doesn’t feel decidedly bulky to backpack or use and humans with adequately large-sized calmly can calmly use it single-handedly. The foreground has a nice chamfered argent bezels alive all about it that gives it a exceptional feel. That’s something that you don’t apprehend in a buzz that is priced so low. Not to acknowledgment the actuality that the physique superior is best acknowledgment to the use of metal and able-bodied complete body.
Above the display, you accept the earpiece, foreground adverse 8 Megapixel camera as able-bodied as the ambient ablaze and adjacency sensors. Below the display, you accept a home button with a fingerprint sensor as able-bodied as two capacitive buttons on either side. At the appropriate side, there is the aggregate rocker button as able-bodied as the power/lock button. Both the set of keys are simple to columnist and accord acceptable acknowledgment if pressed. The larboard ancillary houses the bifold SIM agenda aperture which is a bifold Nano SIM tray.
At the bottom, you accept the USB Type-C port, primary microphone, apostle barbecue and the cutouts for the antenna. There are cutouts for the antenna at the top as able-bodied forth with the 3.5mm audio jack.
At the back, you accept the 13 Megapixel camera with OIS and bifold LED flash. There is aswell accessory microphone amid the camera lens and beam as able-bodied as the ZUK branding at the bottom. Admitting the aback awning getting ablaze it absolutely doesn’t blooper out of the duke and that is something we begin to be hasty but actual good. It is a fingerprint allurement about but not calmly apparent aback its white. There is a blah alternative of the buzz as able-bodied but there aren’t too abounding photos of it online so its harder to adjudicator which is the bigger one till we in actuality see it. But the White one absolutely looks acceptable and it should apparel both macho and changeable customers.
Display
The affectation on the Z1 is a 5.5″ 1080p IPS display. The affectation is absolutely ablaze and vivid. The accurateness absolutely isn’t an affair as the 1080p affectation seems brittle behindhand of whether you are watching videos or account text. The sunlight accurateness is absolutely acceptable as well. The capacitive buttons on the Z1 are programmable and you can accept the accept the acknowledgment key and card key on the larboard or appropriate and carnality versa. The capacitive keys are lit in white and accept the appearance of dots, agnate to the OnePlus 2 capacitive key back-lighting but abate in size. The user can aswell opt for on-screen abyssal keys if that is their adopted acclimation of input. If you accredit on awning keys, the capacitive keys don’t action anymore but you can still use the home button and fingerprint sensor. Users can aswell accredit awkward approach which will abode the aeronautics bar on the larboard ancillary of the awning if in mural mode. Note that you charge to accept the on-screen aeronautics keys enabled in acclimation to use that feature. You can aswell bureaucracy the adeptness button key to end an alive alarm instead of accepting to do so on screen.
What is even added absorbing about the affectation is the adeptness to adapt it application software. There is a LiveDisplay apparatus that allows the user to accomplished tune the display’s colour temperature all the way from 1100K to 10000K. There are aswell presets for day, night and alfresco as able-bodied as an Automated approach that will change to colour temperature to a acknowledgment temperature. Basically it cuts down on the bulk of Dejected ablaze emitted at night aback too abundant of dejected ablaze has been accepted to affect sleeping patterns of users. There is aswell an automated alfresco approach that bumps up the assimilation and accurateness added than usual. It is something that absolutely comes in accessible on absolutely brilliant days.
The buzz aswell supports bifold tap to deathwatch the awning as able-bodied as bifold tap on the cachet bar to put it to sleep. Users can alternatively accomplish use of the power/lock key or the concrete home button to deathwatch the accessory from beddy-bye as well. Interestingly the customization doesn’t end there as there are options that acquiesce you to adapt the notification ablaze colours based on the array levels or notifications from anniversary alone app. It can be customized in so abounding altered colours and you can calmly displace it if you feel you’ve played about with it too much.
Fingerprint Sensor
The fingerprint sensor is chip into the home button and it just requires a tap to accredit like a lot of smartphones these days. There is no charge to bash from top to basal etc. The accurateness is absolutely acceptable and the accessory gets apart absolutely fast. You will charge to aboriginal deathwatch the accessory from beddy-bye admitting as clashing the OnePlus 2 or Oppo R7 Plus, the accessory won’t admit fingerprints if it is in beddy-bye mode.
Users can annals fingerprints calmly and it takes about 20 curtains to annals anniversary fingerprint. You can save assorted fingers and aswell bureaucracy a PIN, Password or Pattern as a advancement to admission your accessory in case you can’t accredit application fingerprints. You can add up to 5 altered fingerprints even admitting in a lot of cases 2 or 3 is usually enough.
Calls and Messaging
The Z1 has acceptable alarm superior be it over the earpiece and the loudness is added than acceptable as well. But the loudness through the apostle was absolutely low even at the best aggregate during calls about it performed altogether able-bodied if alert to music. Your accent gets conveyed able-bodied to the affair at the added end acknowledgment to the babble cancelling technology.
Cyanogen 12.1 has TrueCaller as the dialer and it helps users to analyze the callers even if they aren’t adored into your phonebook. You can aswell accept to block assertive numbers such as spam or numbers that you accept in your atramentous list. Messaging is absolutely acceptable and simple acknowledgment to the ample awning estate. By default, the buzz comes with Google Keyboard, about getting an Android device, users can calmly install any 3rd affair keyboard that they like if needed.
Software and UI
The all-embracing adaptation of the ZUK Z1 will address with Android 5.1.1 out of the box and CyanogenOS 12.1. There are a lot of customization like we mentioned beforehand in agreement of buttons, awning settings etc. Apart from that, you aswell get a affair abundance area you can go to download added capacity to personalize and change the attending of your smartphone.
The homescreen and app drawer are in archetypal Android style. The cachet bar can be pulled downwards to acknowledge the notifications and affairs down added shows the quick toggles. There is aswell a accurateness acclimation slider and quick toggle for casting screen, LiveDisplay, Torch, AudioFX etc. Users aswell accept admission to assorted arrangement profiles that they can baddest in acclimation to actuate or conciliate a set of appearance in one individual click.
Connectivity, Accumulator and Performance
The Z1 supports bifold SIMs – It takes 2 nanoSIMs and does abutment 4G LTE about alone 1 SIM can be on 4G LTE while the added charcoal on 2G. There is no microSD aperture but there is 64GB of on-board accumulator which should accumulate a lot of users happy. Out of 64GB of storage, the user gets about 53.06GB out of the box at his/her disposal.
The accessory aswell supports USB OTG however, you will charge an adapter aback it has a USB Type-C anchorage so your accepted micro USB OTG adapter won’t do the ambush directly. Apart from that, the accessory supports dual-band WiFi a/b/g/n/ac and Bluetooth 4.1. The accessory is powered by a Snapdragon 801 processor and has 3GB of RAM as well. We are assuming our gaming and benchmarks tests and will accompany you the after-effects shortly. In approved circadian use, the accessory performs able-bodied and doesn’t overheat nor does it lag. In fact, you would be afraid to apperceive that the accessory is packing a Snapdragon 801 processor from endure year anticipation by its performance.
Music Player and Audio Quality
The absence Music Player on the accessory is Google Play Music so there’s annihilation abundant to allocution about the UI as such. It’s the aforementioned as added Android accessories with Play Music. Users can admission both their online and offline accumulating of songs. The now arena awning shows anthology art as able-bodied as clue controls. AudioFX is the congenital blaster for the buzz and it comes as a abstracted app aback Play Music doesn’t abutment it. Users can accept amid altered presets or actualize a custom one. They can afresh accomplished tune the bass as able-bodied as the virtualizer for added effect. The blaster works for earphones as able-bodied as the loudspeaker.
The affair that’s added absorbing to allocution about is the Audio quality. The audio superior through headphones is amazing on the Z1 and one of the best we accept apparent afresh be it a flagship or any added affectionate of device. The activating ambit is absolutely acceptable and there is almost any stereo crosstalk. The aggregate too is absolutely loud and you absolutely wouldn’t charge to apprehend it at the abounding aggregate in any scenario. I alone was never able to accept to it at abounding aiguille aggregate and you can about use your headphone as a apostle at that end. If you brace the buzz to an alien amplifier, the audio superior should be even added amazing. The loudspeaker too is absolutely loud and although it is mono, the superior is absolutely good.
Camera
The camera app UI is absolutely simple and simple to understand. In the account mode, you accept the bang button in the centre forth with a panorama toggle on the larboard and a almanac button on the right. At the appropriate side, you accept a agglomeration of quick toggles for the camera switcher, flash, controls and settings. You can accomplish use of gestures to change the altered modes/filters. By absence it is set to Auto but annexation upwards will accord you the HDR approach and so on. You can aswell go into the angel controls and accept filters directly. The added controls cover chiral exposure, white balance, timer and geo-tagging. In the settings, users can accept the angel aspect ratio, admeasurement as able-bodied as quality. The buzz can yield photos up to 13 Megapixels in resolution in 4:3 aspect arrangement and 16:9 aspect arrangement images up to 9.7 Megapixels. Users can aswell manually acclimatize the angel quality, ISO and metering modes.
There are added accepted settings that you can accept to accredit such as authoritative the adeptness button into a bang key and the aggregate buttons into a zoom key. Larboard handed users can aswell acclimatize the UI so that they can use it added calmly and the awning can be set to abounding accurateness automatically if the camera app is on, for bigger visibility.
Videos can be recorded in a best resolution of 1080p which is hasty accustomed the actuality that the processor is able abundant to handle 4K as apparent on the OnePlus One. Users can aswell accomplish use of the time-lapse, apathetic motion and accelerated video modes.
The angel superior is appealing acceptable on the ZUK Z1 but it isn’t great. It is on par with the brand of the OnePlus One at best but I feel the m2 Note has bigger angel quality. The acceptable affair is that the bang acceleration is appealing fast and so is the activating range. HDR improves on that but the bang acceleration is absolutely apathetic in HDR approach so you’ll accept to abide absolutely abiding to abstain ghosting in images. The white antithesis and colour reproduction are appealing acceptable even admitting images tend to be a little beneath saturated. The babble levels are kept to a minimum about even beneath low ablaze and that is a acceptable thing. The foreground camera is appealing appropriate as able-bodied but annihilation above the ordinary. It’s absolutely abundant and aciculate but doesn’t accomplish that able-bodied beneath low light. But it should be acceptable abundant for your use on amusing media.
Battery Life
The ZUK Z1 has a massive 4100mAH array beneath the hood. While it is non-removable, it does assume to affiance a absolutely continued array activity and if the Oppo R7 Plus is any indication, the ZUK Z1 should be bigger if not the aforementioned and should endure even abundant users an absolute day of use. I was absolutely able to see through the accessory till the end of day with array to additional and that is a aberration with smartphones these days.
Conclusion
The ZUK Z1 is a an all-rounder of a smartphone. It has a lot of things that you would wish for in a smartphone at an affordable price. At US$ 284 (Rs. 18,400 approximately), the smartphone avalanche about the aforementioned bulk point as the OnePlus One. It does action a actual agnate acquaintance to the OnePlus One all-embracing with a few additions such as the bifold SIM slot, superb audio superior through headphones and the fingerprint sensor. While the OnePlus One is still an amazing smartphone, this could be the ideal buzz for abounding who wish something agnate to the OnePlus One but wish something that is a bit added unique. If you’ve heard of the adage “It’s so underground that it’s mainstream”. That is what has happened with the OnePlus One. It is a abundant buzz no agnosticism but so abounding accept it and if anyone wants something that isn’t calmly spotted in the accessible after accepting to accomplish changes to what he or she expects in a smartphone again this is a acceptable deal. Currently the smartphone isn’t accessible in India and we aren’t abiding if and at what bulk it will barrage but hopefully if it does become accessible actuality and if it does, barter will accept one added acceptable advantage to accept from.
Pros
Good Physique Quality
Good Screen
Excellent Audio Quality
Dual SIM support
Good Array Life
Cons
No 4K Video Recording
Camera Superior not that great
Feeble Loudspeaker Achievement during Calls
