Friends+Design
- Stylish design with a metal chassis, matte black finish and dual diamond cut metal frame
- The flat edges, the matte finish and the phone’s 168g light form-factor make it easy to handle
- Overall, it's one of the best-designed mid-range smartphones which offers a fine balance between good looks and user comfort
- The oval-shaped home button, which also doubles up as a fingerprint sensor, blends well with the phone’s rounded corners
- The fingerprint sensor is fast and accurate
Display
- Good 5.5-inch AMOLED display - looks bright and sharp - colours pop out well in games and videos and text in web pages and e-books look crisp
Software
- Nubia's custom UI looks good and has some useful gesture controls and features such as dual instance and split screen mode
Performance
- Pretty decent performance - multi-tasking and games everything is handled fairly well - switching between apps is smooth, even if not super quick
- Although performance is decent, it is not the most powerful phone in this price bracket - a lot of the other top phones in this price bracket are powered by Snapdragon 650, or 820, and perform better
Camera
- Decent dual camera setup on the rear - reproduces colours and details quite well, especially during daytime - the macro mode can turn in some good close-ups - the pro mode offers some professional-level tools such as the option to adjust shutter speed and capture fast moving objects with focus panning
- Good front camera too - can muster good-looking selfies even in indoor conditions
- Camera performance in low light could have been better
Battery
- Good battery life - easily lasts over a day on a single charge
