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After so many rumours and leaks, ZTE’s Nubia today announced its new smartphone in China with the previously rumoured name ZTE Nubia Z17 Mini will be the successor to the ZTE Nubia Z11 Mini launched last year.
Nubia Z17 mini Price
The Nubia Z17 mini is priced at 1699 yuan (around $246) for the 4GB RAM and Snapdragon 652 processor and the top-end 6GB RAM and Snapdragon 653 processor variant is priced at 1999 yuan (around $289). Pre-orders for the device are now started in China and the sales of the device will start this April 13th in the country. No details are available about its global debut. The Nubia Z17 Mini comes with Elegant Black, Black with Gold, Champagne Gold and Red colour options.
Nubia Z17 mini Specifications
The Nubia Z17 Mini features a full metal unibody design and features a 5.2-inch Full-HD 2.5D curved glass display with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution, 1500:1 contrast ratio and 85% NTSC colour gamut. It comes powered by two processors including the octa-core Snapdragon 652 / 653 processors that comes with Adreno 510 GPU. It comes with 4GB / 6GB of RAM along with 64GB inbuilt storage capacity that is further expandable up to 200GB with a microSD card and it runs on the Nubia UI 4.0 that is based on the Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) OS out of the box.
The Nubua Z17 Mini supports Hybrid Dual-SIMs and it features a dual camera with a 13-megapixel monochrome lens and a 13-megapixel RGB lens on the rear side with Sony IMX258 sensor, f/2.2 aperture, OIS and 4K video recording. It also comes with a 16-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture and 80-degree wide-angle lens. It is backed up by a 2950mAh battery with fast charging feature and connectivity options include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac (2.4/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.1, GPS + GLONASS, NFC and USB Type-C port. It measures 146.65 × 72.5 × 7.45mm and weighs 155 grams. It comes with a fingerprint sensor on the rear side of the device for enhanced security.
A Weibo user also shared some more details about this device including some of the specifications of the device. According to the user, this new device will be launched Nubia Z17 Mini and will be a successor to the Nubia Z11 Mini launched last year. This name also confirms that the company may also launch Nubia Z17 and Nubia Z17 Max smartphones.
The Weibo user further confirmed that this device won’t be using the Snapdragon 835 SoC as we saw in the previous leaks for this device. He also shared a specs sheet of the device confirming most of the specifications of the device. the company was expected to launch the device on March 21st as per previous rumours and a new teaser was added by the company on their Weibo account that confirms a dual camera setup for this upcoming unknown Nubia smartphone that will be launched on the company March 21st event at Shekou, China.
