THE ALTERNATIVES
The display was never anything less than magnificent. We’d comfortably call it the phone’s best feature, which on a phone this good is definitely saying something.
The only negative was the area where the curved screen meets the rest of the phone’s casing on the long edges: there is a small sharp lip of raised screen, which wouldn’t take much more than a glancing blow to cause damage to the phone’s display. However, this is a nitpick.
Behind the screen
The X2 Pro’s rear camera array consists of a 48MP wide-angle lens, a 48MP ultra-wide angle and a periscope 13MP telephoto lens with up to 60x digital zoom. It doesn’t quite live up to the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra’s frankly Brobdingnagian 100x “space zoom” functionality, but we’re not sure it really needs to.
At the full 60x digital zoom, there’s not a lot of detail worth taking a photo with. At mid-range, the camera shines, with its wide-angle and ultra-wide angle capturing beautiful scenic shots and eye-popping colours. The camera’s 48MP sensor, the Sony
IMX689, works with the phone’s Ultra Vision camera system’s algorithm to create great photos and consistent colours even in low light.
It’s able to record footage in stunning 4K. However, one small niggle is the inability to continue recording and switch to the ultra wide-angle lens, as 4K recording is limited to the primary lens.
The X2 Pro is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, the same 5G chipset as the Samsung Galaxy S20 series, and that should give you an indication of the phenomenal performance available here. With 12GB RAM at your disposal, it’s powerful and fast, processing high-resolution photos, editing videos and performing everyday tasks with speed and ease.
Its ColorOS 7.1 goes a long way here. It’s ergonomic and userfriendly, allowing you to get where you need to go with minimal fuss. The setup is a breeze and it’s easy to use.
The battery is where things could have really fallen down. With a gargantuan 120Hz, super-bright screen gobbling up power, the 4,260Hz battery could have taken a