After launching the Nubia Z17 Mini smartphone in April this year, ZTE’s company Nubia has just launched the flagship Nubia Z17 smartphone that comes with the latest Qualcomm chipset with whopping 8GB of RAM and other flagship series specifications. The Nubia Z17 features a metal unibody design and also comes with a fingerprint scanner on the rear side.
Nubia Z17 Price
The Nubia Z17 with 6GB RAM + 64GB of inbuilt storage option is priced at 2799 yuan (around $411), 6GB RAM + 128GB inbuilt storage option is priced at 3399 yuan (around $500) while the high-end 8GB RAM + 128GB inbuilt storage option is also priced at the same 3399 yuan (around $500) just like the 6GB RAM option. The pre-order of the device will start today via the official website and the official sales of the device will start in China starting from June 6th. No details are available about its global debut as of now.
Nubia Z17 Specifications
It features a 5.5-inch Full HD display with 450 nits brightness, 96% NTSC colour gamut, Corning Gorilla Glass protection and 1920×1080 pixels resolution. It is powered by a 2.45GHz octa-core Snapdragon 835 64-bit 10nm processor with Adreno 540 GPU. It comes with 8GB of LPDDR4 RAM with 128GB (UFS 2.1) storage, 6GB LPDDR4 RAM with 64GB / 128GB (UFS 2.1) internal storage and support for MicroSD card expandable storage. It runs on the Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS-based Nubia UI 5.0 and it also supports hybrid Dual-SIMs. It is a water-resistant device.
It features a dual rear camera with 12-megapixel and 23-megapixel cameras with 1.4μm pixel size, f/1.8 aperture / f/2.0 aperture, 1/2.55″ CMOS sensor, and dual-tone LED flash. A 16-megapixel front-facing camera is also available with NeoVision 7.0, f/2.0 aperture and an 80-degree wide-angle lens. It is backed up by a 3200mAh battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0 fast charging.
It comes with 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11ac dual-band (2×2 MU-MIMO ), Bluetooth 4.1, GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, NFC, and USB Type-C connectivity options. It also has a fingerprint sensor on the rear side along with an infrared sensor and it has stereo speakers. It measures 152.60×72.38×7.6 mm and weighs 173 grams.
Nubia Z17 teasers
Nubia started teasing the launch event date of the phone via their web account. There are no details available about the pricing and availability of the device. It was supposed to be available in Silver and Gold colour options and will carry a dual rear camera, the device is expected to be powered by the Snapdragon 835 processor along with 6GB RAM and will also have a fingerprint scanner on the rear side making it a true flagship for the year 2017
The TENAA listing for the device reveals that it will feature a 5.5-inch IPS Bezel less curved Full HD display with 1080×1920 pixels resolution and will be powered by the octa-core 1.59GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor having the Adreno 540 GPU. The other specifications were the same as above.
