Nubia Flip: A Stylish and Functional Small Foldable Smartphone

Under the same screen experience as traditional straight-screen phones, small foldable screen smartphones have a smaller and more delicate body, with a full sense of ceremony in their opening and closing, and are relatively more affordable compared to large foldable screen phones. Therefore, since its inception, small foldable screen smartphones have been favored by those who pursue exquisite lifestyles. The first small foldable smartphone from Nubia, the nubia Flip, has officially arrived, attracting attention with its highly recognizable design, playful features, excellent imaging experience, powerful AI capabilities, and affordable price.

Throughout its history, the Nubia brand has always been associated with a youthful vibe. As Nubia's first foldable screen product, the overall design of the nubia Flip also follows a youthful and fashionable style. The first impression of the nubia Flip is its high recognition factor. Unlike most small foldable smartphones that choose a square outer screen design, the nubia Flip uniquely combines a 1.43-inch circular outer screen with a circular camera module, creating a design language reminiscent of a vinyl record player.

This circular module design, combined with a lightweight body, presents a strong sense of fashion. The nubia Flip comes in three colors, named Milk Tea, Caramel, and Taro. The Milk Tea and Caramel versions of the nubia Flip feature a starlight AG glass design, which feels warm to the touch and adds visual depth.

Although the overall design is lightweight and stylish, the materials used in the nubia Flip are solid. The middle frame is made of aerospace aluminum alloy, providing a good grip despite its straight-edge design. Coupled with a back cover that is not prone to fingerprint smudges and a thickness of only 7mm, it feels very comfortable to hold and manipulate.

In terms of the hinge, the nubia Flip uses high-strength aerospace steel material, ensuring the reliability of the hinge folding and enabling multi-angle suspension. Careful attention has also been paid to the hinge area to make the inner screen of the nubia Flip smoother and the folding experience more comfortable.

When unfolded, the nubia Flip features a 6.9-inch AMOLED flexible screen with a resolution of 2790*1188, providing exceptionally clear display effects. It also supports a 120Hz high refresh rate and a 2160Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, ensuring smooth display and eye protection.

The outer screen of small foldable phones is often overlooked by users, but as an interaction window in the folded state, how to make the outer screen more valuable is a significant test of the phone brand's capabilities. As Nubia's first small foldable product, the nubia Flip is also endowed with many functionalities for its outer screen.

This circular outer screen boasts high display quality and supports numerous functions, including system-level applications such as weather, camera, music, calendar, sports health, timer, voice recorder, and calendar, all accessible by swiping left or right in the folded state, eliminating the need to open the cover to view information. When the phone receives messages or alarms, users can also operate directly on the outer screen.

In addition to system-level applications, the nubia Flip also supports third-party applications, currently including apps like Kwai and Bilibili, allowing users to watch video content on the outer screen. Although the screen size for watching videos is relatively small, it is convenient for watching less critical video content. Nubia may introduce more application support in the future to enhance the performance of the outer screen.

Moreover, when listening to music, the outer screen displays music content like a vinyl record, providing an immersive music listening experience. Regarding wallpapers, Nubia offers a wide selection for the nubia Flip's small screen, including dynamic wallpapers for the twelve-hour system and custom lock screen displays for the Year of the Dragon.

Especially noteworthy is that the small screen of the nubia Flip supports pet wallpapers, with many adorable pets to choose from. When using dynamic pet wallpapers, the pets on the screen will interact when touched, adding a lot of fun. The combination of cute pets and stylish young body design makes it very suitable for young users.

It's evident that Nubia has put a lot of effort into this outer screen, leveraging its impressive display quality and rich application functionality to fully utilize its potential. Nubia has put a lot of thought into its first small foldable product.

Entering the small foldable phone market for the first time, Nubia has also leveraged its accumulated imaging capabilities, fully exploiting its advantages in form and imaging. Firstly, in terms of hardware, the nubia Flip features a dual-camera setup consisting of a 50-megapixel OIS stabilized main camera and an independent depth sensor, delivering excellent overall imaging performance. Additionally, based on Nubia's camera family, it offers a variety of rich features, providing a fulfilling photography experience.

From actual samples, the overall imaging style of the nubia Flip tends to be rich in color, which is very appealing. In well-lit environments, it produces highly stylized photos, perfect for sharing on social media. In low-light conditions, the nubia Flip also performs well, thanks to its large aperture on the small foldable screen, ensuring sufficient light and image quality.

In terms of portrait and selfie capabilities, the nubia Flip also performs admirably. Firstly, the nubia Flip features a 32-megapixel front camera with excellent image quality. Thanks to the folding and outer screen support, the nubia Flip also supports outer screen selfies, using the higher-quality rear camera for photography, resulting in better photo quality and depth effects. This is a great experience for selfie enthusiasts.

While taking photos, the nubia Flip also supports outer screen preview, allowing friends to see the picture from the outer screen while helping with the shot, making it easier to adjust angles and positions.

Due to the nubia Flip's hinge supporting multi-angle hovering, it also brings the ability for hovering photography. It not only allows for better selfies without a tripod but also supports various interesting photography effects such as time-lapse photography and long exposure in conjunction with various shooting modes from the Nubia camera family.

In terms of video capabilities, the nubia Flip also introduces an interesting DV mode. Thanks to the advantages of its small foldable screen form, it can be used like a handheld DV when shooting videos, making it very convenient in today's era of short videos for capturing daily life.

In terms of configuration, the nubia Flip is well-equipped, featuring a Snapdragon 7 Gen1 processor with impressive performance for daily use and common games, ensuring smooth operation. Nubia also introduces the X-Fi Performance Engine, which uses AI technology to manage phone performance, ensuring stable performance output.

Compared to straight-screen phones and large foldable smartphones, small foldable phones often have to compromise on battery life due to their size. However, the nubia Flip is equipped with a large 4310mAh battery and 33W wired fast charging, combined with the high energy efficiency of the Snapdragon 7 Gen1, ensuring worry-free battery life.

Another highlight of the nubia Flip is its AI capabilities. Based on AI large models, Nubia introduces AI Smart Voice, AI Smart Translation, and AI Magic Erase functions. The phone not only serves as an all-around smart assistant in life but also enables real-time translation and AI intelligent processing of photos.

In this era of ubiquitous AI, smartphones are the most accessible carriers of user AI capabilities, and Nubia is also at the forefront of the industry in AI, providing rich features to make AI readily available in daily life. With continuous optimization, I believe the nubia Flip can bring even better AI experiences.

Although the nubia Flip is Nubia's first small foldable product, its overall completeness reflects Nubia's deep thinking on the exterior design and functional experience of small foldables. The combination of a circular outer screen and imaging module, fashionable design with recognition; rich functionality, bringing a more practical outer screen experience; Nubia's outstanding imaging capabilities combined with DV mode, hover selfies, and other unique and fun features of foldable screens, bringing users a novel imaging experience. With its stylish appearance, powerful AI, and excellent imaging capabilities, as a rising star among small foldable phones, the nubia Flip is truly a treasure trove in the palm, making the small foldable screen market more vibrant and giving users more choices.