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The Nubia Z80 Ultra is not only a beast with 7,200 mAh battery. It also has a photography kit that transforms it into a camera

October 27, 2025 by usatoday24

Nubia does not fail its annual event and has just announced its new high-end, the Nubia Z80 Ultra. The ZTE subsidiary follows in the footsteps of the Nubia Z70 Ultra and opts for a technical sheet that practically has no room for more cutting-edge features. Furthermore, this year they are jumping on the bandwagon of photographic mobiles with a kit that transforms it into a retro camera. Let’s see everything it offers. Nubia Z80 Ultra technical sheet nubia z80 ultra DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT 164.5 x 77.2 x 8.6mm 227 grams screen 6.85 inch OLED FullHD+ resolution (2,688 x 1,216 pixels) 144Hz 2,000 nits No notch processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5 ram memory 12/16GB LPDDR5x internal storage 256/512GB/1TB UFS 4.1 rear cameras Main: 50MP, 1/1.3″, 35mm, OIS, f/1.7, OV50H Ultra wide angle: 50MP, 1/1.55″, 18mm, f/1.8, AF, Macro 5.5cm, OV50E Telephoto: 64MP, 70mm, f/2.48, OIS, OV64B front camera 16MP battery 7,200 mAh 80W fast charging (wired and wireless) operating system Nebula AI OS 2.0 Android 16 connectivity 5G, WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, GPS L1+L2+L5, NFC USB type C others Camera under the screen Fingerprint reader under the screen Face unlock DTS:X Ultra camera button Artificial intelligence Water resistance IP68, IP69 price To be confirmed Without a camera in front, with a super camera in the back It was 2020 when ZTE hid the front camera under the screen of the phone for the first time. ZTE Axon 20. It has already become a hallmark of its high-end range and in its Nubia range it was not going to be any less. Thanks to this, The front of the phone is all screen, specifically a 6.85-inch panel with brightness of up to 2,000 nits and a refresh rate of 144Hz. In addition to the front camera, the screen also hides a fingerprint reader. When we turn it over we find its other hallmark, the camera module that resembles the appearance of a retro camera. It is rectangular and occupies the entire width of the phone. Furthermore, unlike other cameras that usually place the sensors together in a square or circular arrangement, here we have the main sensor that stands out from the rest, with the telephoto one below and the angular one further to the right. All three sensors are OmniVision. The main one, 50 megapixels, is the largest, brightest and has an optical stabilizer. The wide angle also offers the same resolution, but the sensor is smaller and the lens is not as bright. Finally, the telephoto lens has 64 megapixels of resolution and also has an optical stabilizer. The photographic kit. Speaking of cameras, the Nubia Z80 Ultra comes with a photography kit sold separately and consists of a housing to which we can attach an external telephoto lens. The housing has controls on the top that make it almost a compact camera. No details have been given about the telephoto lens, but it is very reminiscent of the Vivo X300. The latest from Qualcomm and battery for a while Under the hood of the Nubia Z80 Ultra we find the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 which Qualcomm announced just a month ago. In addition to the most advanced chip, it also has 12 or 16 GB of LPDDR5X RAM and storage up to 1TB UFS4.1. Comes standard with the cape Nebula AI OS 2.0 based on Android 16. For the battery, it is surprising that the new model shares almost the same dimensions and weight as the previous one, but its battery is much larger. Are 7,200 milliamps and 80W fast charging, whether we use a cable or a wireless charger. Versions and prices of the Nubia Z80 Ultra The Nubia Z80 Ultra goes on sale in Spain on November 6 and will arrive in several versions depending on color and memory. In addition to the black and white versions, Nubia repeats one more year and brings a ‘Starry Night’ version, decorated with a drawing reminiscent of the well-known work of Van Gogh. At the moment, they have not revealed the prices for Spain, but we will update as soon as they are confirmed. The versions that will go on sale are these: 12+256GB: black. 16+512GB: black, white and ‘Starry Night’. 16+1TB: black. Images | Nubia In Xataka | Google finds it difficult to continue boasting about the best photographic processing: Vivo has surpassed the Pixel on its own field

A Spaniard has patented a mast that transforms wind and waves into electricity. His invention challenges diesel in ships

August 26, 2025 by usatoday24

A mast shaken by the wind, the waves pushing without rest: usual scenes in any maritime journey. The interesting thing is that the same movement can serve to generate electricity. A canary who is one step away from being an engineer has designed a system that converts the strength of the ocean into usable energy, with the ambition to reduce the dependence of the diesel in the ships. It is an idea that takes the everyday of the sea and makes it a concrete technical proposal, simple enough to intrigue and ambitious enough to demand validation in the sea. “In the end it is a three -dimensional generator,” Juan Francisco Sarmiento Medina said in an advance of the Podcast of the Stier Groupand described the mechanism with simple images: “Let’s imagine that my arm is the mast. When the wind comes in front, it clashes, as the mast of a flag, and begins to oscillate. The keel works as a piston of a combustion engine (…) then movement occurs in the x, y y y z axes, all under Faraday’s law,” he explained. That narration of the inventor itself forms the technical spine of the project. What exactly is the e-mast. In its LinkedIn account the project appears as E-MAST (Energy Mast System) and is presented as a technology that transforms the structural vibration of the mast into clean electrical energy. According to the textthe system integrates an encapsulated rotor without exposed parts, linear generators and piezoelectric elements to convert oscillations into electricity, and can direct part of the induced air under the keel in the form of microburbujas. The advantages of the inventor are clear: “Without diesel engines, or maintenance. The owner of the boat, as there are no mechanical parts that have to be maintained with oil or that are broken, also reduces costs in that sense,” He pointed to El Español. The inventor also underlines the operational silence due to the absence of external propellers and the total structural integration into existing masts. These benefits, in any case, will require trials to measure power, autonomy and acoustic signature. Of production patent. The applications of applications published by the author encompasses autonomous marine surveillance, oceanographic research, defense and ecological navigation platforms in protected areas. According to Sarmiento Medina, the e-mast is protected by two patents, ES202430338 and ES202430339, with a favorable report according to the promoter. According to the newspaper La Provinciathe promoter figure around half a million euros international protection and development and has conversations with shipyards in France and the Netherlands to explore production. The sea still has the last word. Sarmiento says that he is a neighbor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and recognizes that part of his learning and opportunities come from the Stier Group, which has supported his training. This local support, added to the intellectual protection that it declares in its public profile, has allowed to convert a daily element of any ship at the base of an ambitious technological proposal. Now the most difficult part remains: validate the system in the sea. But the idea has already demonstrated something important: that there is still margin to imagine new things, even in an environment as old as navigation. Images | Juan Francisco Sarmiento Medina In Xataka | A “Roomba” to clean rivers: the ship that the three throats has launched in China

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