It’s been a while, but yesterday I finally received our ZUK Z2 Pro Ultimate (yes with 6GB RAM!) to review from shop.gizchina.com.
The ZUK Z2 Pro launched a few weeks back and has been especially difficult to get your hands on due to the wait in acutually getting the phone in the market and the fact that in China the device is selling out fast. Luckily the guys over at shop.gizchina.com managed to get their hands on one of the first lot of phones to go on sale and that’s what I have right here.
This version of the the ZUK Z2 Pro is the all singing and all dancing 6GB RAM, 128GB memory version of the phone with a Snapdragon 820 chipset! That’s one hell of a starting point for a flagship phone but it’s also just the tip.
For their 2nd phone ZUK retained their use of USB Type C and thankfully also kept the 3.5mm headphone jack (located in the base). We also see a return of ZUK’s Utouch physical home button and gesture control navigation system which is similar to what Meizu offers and also has a built-in fingerprint scanner. Speaking of the fingerprint scanner it is super super fast and accurate and does not require a physical press of the button to work.
New for the ZUK Z2 Pro is a 5.2-inch FHD display, this is slightly smaller than the original ZUK Z1 and only slightly larger than the Xiaomi Mi5 which the Z2 Pro hopes to compete against.
On the rear is a new heart rate pulse monitor which an be used with ZUK’s own health app (however the Chinese version needs a Chinese mobile number to create an account) and also in the camera app for selfies with your current heart rate shown in the picture.
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The rear of the ZUK Z2 Pro also has a dual LED flash and 13 mega-pixel main camera with OIS and an impressive aperture size of F1.8. The last Chinese phone with this size aperture that I used was the Vivo Xshot. So far the camera has been fast and takes accurate photos, but its in low light and the evening the camera really excels! There is no slow down and images don’t appear noisy.
Other features of the phone include a 3100mAh battery, fast charging, 8 mega-pixel front camera and ZUK’s own ZUI operating system.
As this is the Chinese version of the phone there is only ZUI available at this time, and so far we have heard no plans to launch an international model of the phone with Cyanogen. The good news is that shop.gizchina.com have managed to pre-install Google services on the ZUK Z2 Pro, and with a custom launcher you can have the phone working pretty much how you like it.
ZUK Z2 Pro hands on gallery
Before you go on to watch the hands on video below I’ll quickly mention the design and build. This white version of the ZUK Z2 Pro is the only current available colour option, if I had a choice I would have had the black. The design looks very Samsung inspired to my eyes, and while the build and materials feels good, I have noticed a little wobble in the physical buttons on the right (not as bad as the Xiaomi Mi5 though).
And then, question is also: why “white” in China is not real white!?
Xiaomi’s devices always look somehow dirty, yellow – ish, and this one also doesn’t have nice white color, as f.e. Samsung use.
That’s true, must be because is a glass panel, that white layer is so thin
Those dirty chinese guys!
Frankly, what the hell do u mean by “those dirty Chinese guys”??? So u think u white guys are cleaner or more superior??
Don’t be such an ass, we are talking about the dirty white phones here, if you can’t read the context go somewhere else
“Those Dirty Chinese Guys”. The sure does seem like an insult to Chinese people.
I don’t care, I’m not even a “white” guy so fuck off, I live in a 3rd world country so say that it’s not an insult to me, I’M TALKING ABOUT PHONES
Then use the word phones next time and not, “guys”. Problem solved.
I don’t see any problem.
The problem is your use of the word “guys” to talk about phones. The word guys makes most people think you are talking about people.
Actually the word “….guys” there emphasize the meaning for someone humans not something.
Better fixed the wording to something else that is more obvious.
I also curse a lot in this forum because of my frustration cannot get my dreamy smartphone. But racism is really not good, it spread disharmony, hatred , anger toward others with different race, color, language, etc etc.
Come on racism ! Haha I live in South America, racism is a matter of concern in EUROPE and USA, not here
That’s the problem, same happens all the time. Big releases of white models and black ones take a long to get, then resellers have the stock and rise the prices (because is more exclusive), so it took months to have a black one.
I don’t rekon it will take too long as its already been seen in the hands of chinese reviewers.