Infinix Zero 5G review

They've now

released their first 5g phone the infinix zero 5g it's not just about the next-gen connectivity this phone also brings some other interesting features too i'm wilford gsm marina and let's see what the infinix zero 5g is all about in our full review

the infinix zero 5g is a budget mid-ranger that brings an interesting design the back is curved and quite glossy and it slopes up to seamlessly

meet the cameras with its shiny finish the back panel is a bit of a fingerprint magnet though the material may look like glass but the

phone is actually made of plastic and it feels like it too there's even a bit of give to the surface if you press on it hard enough the volume rocker is mushy and doesn't feel great but the fingerprint reader slash power button is clicky and quite responsive waking up and unlocking the

phone in an instant the screen of the infinix zero 5g is a 6.78 inch ips lcd with a 1080p resolution and a 120hz refresh rate the high refresh rate is adaptive

meaning that it can dial down depending on the content on screen to save power unfortunately the high refresh rate doesn't really achieve its main purpose

which is to make movement on screen more fluid this is because the display's pixel response time is sluggish and you often get ghosting and blurriness with a pixel density of 388 ppi this screen looks plenty sharp but sadly it has no hdr support of any kind plus the colors aren't veryaccurate at all

everything trends bluish and with no color profiles or tone and adjustment

options available in settings you can't do much about it either

another issue is the max brightness it goes up to around 500 nits in both

manual and automatic mode which may not be enough for good legibility when outside in the sun for audio the infinix zero 5g has a traditional headphone jack and a single bottom firing speaker this speaker

scored a good rating on our loudness charts and its sound quality is okay

with decent sounding highs

the phone comes with 128 gigs of storage on board and that is expandable via microsd card and the infinix zero 5g runs xos 10

which is based on android 11 but features extensive customizations it

brings a ton of extra features and plenty of pre-installed apps too

one difference from stock android you'll notice immediately is that the standard

notification shade is divided into a separate notification center and a

control center the home screen is really customizable too you can choose from different swipe animations and even set your own font

color there is always an app drawer but you can also set the phone to organize your apps into large folders or to keep them all on the home screen itself

you also get a dedicated game launcher which lets you tune your gaming

experience the proprietary features are quite extensive and include things like an ai assistant smart connectivity a system-wide translator and power saving controls and that's just the tip of the iceberg behind all of these features is a mediatek demensity 900 chipset built on a six nanometer process it provides

both solid mid-range performance which outclasses mediatek's helio g series chips as well as the phone's headlining

5g connectivity games run pretty well and thermal throttling isn't an issue at all here

battery life is great too the infinix

zero 5g has a large 5 000 million power

battery and was able to score an

excellent endurance rating of 140 hours

in our proprietary tests

charging speed is nothing to write home

about though despite a decent size 33

watt adapter with it we were only able

to charge the phone from zero to 30

percent in half an hour

now we come to the infinix zero 5gs

cameras there's a 48 megapixel quad

bayer main cam a 13 megapixel telephoto

cam with two times optical zoom and a

depth sensor

the main cam captures 12 megapixel

photos by default and these are decent

but nothing too impressive there's an

average amount of detail and fine

patterns can display a moire effect

colors are a bit dull too while the

dynamic range is limited

we also encountered a bug on our unit in

which the main cams photos would often

come out with a magenta color cast

shots from the two times telephoto are

quite different from the main camps

there's more fine detail here and a more

pleasant color rendition but there are

issues here as well this camera tends to

over expose shots which is made worse by

the somewhat limited dynamic range

and the autofocus isn't the most

consistent either

the infinix zero 5g can shoot portraits

with either the main or the telephoto

camera you'd think that the depth sensor

here would help to provide great subject

separation but in reality it's only

average often getting tripped up by hair

and busy backgrounds

the zoomed portraits don't come out very

sharp either

in low light photos from the main cam

are surprisingly decent there's an auto

night mode that kicks in when it's dark

and the dynamic range isn't all that bad

you get enough sharpness and noise is

under control

you can also toggle a super night mode

which improves things further with

better recovered shadows and highlights

unsurprisingly the telephoto cam

struggles in lolette shots come out

quite soft and even sometimes blurry

enabling super night mode will get you

an over processed but more usable result

selfies are taken with a 16 megapixel

front-facing cam and these are solid

overall the detail and colors are on

point and the dynamic range isn't too

bad

the selfie cam is usable at night too

thanks in part to the phone's selfie

dual led flash

videos can be captured with a main cam

and up to 4k resolution at 30fps this

footage is solid in terms of detail and

dynamic range and there's low noise the

colors are noticeably off though

the zoom cameras videos are capped at

1080p resolution their color rendition

is much better than the main cams and

dynamic range is decently wide there

does seem to be too much sharpening

though

there is electronic stabilization

available for your video recording but

you're limited to 1080p it works

decently eliminating most of the camera

shake

so there you have it guys the infinix

zero 5g brings some clean looks a large

120hz lcd a decent chipset with 5g

connectivity and excellent battery life

plus you get a telephoto lens which is

not too common at this price

its main shortcomings are the ghosting

and the low max brightness of the screen

and the mediocre camera performance too

plus it doesn't have the super

aggressive pricing of other infinix

phones that we've reviewed lately so in

the end unless you're dying for an

infinix phone with 5g support the zero

5g is tough to recommend

thanks for watching guys stay safe and

see you on the next one