Nubia has revealed when it can announce its subsequent flagship smartphone, the Nubia Z80 Extremely.
The corporate has taken to Weibo to disclose that it’s going to unveil the Nubia Z80 Extremely on 22 October at 2pm China time.
We additionally get a great have a look at the Nubia Z80 Extremely’s design, which seems to be a evenly refined model of the Nubia Z70 Extremely (pictured beneath). Color choices will embody Mild White, Phantom Black, and the corporate’s signature Starry Sky Collector’s Version, impressed by Van Gogh’s well-known portray.
The corporate additionally revealed {that a} new “skilled images package” (by way of machine translation) shall be included within the announcement, which seems to encompass the telephone in a Leica-inspired housing.
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Nubia Z80 Extremely specs
Certain sufficient, images goes to be an space of curiosity with the telephone. Count on a 1/1.3-inch Omnivision 990 predominant digicam, a brand new 1/1.55-inch ultra-wide digicam, and an OIS-assisted telephoto digicam able to a 50x hybrid zoom.
The latter may also be able to capturing 15cm ultra-close telephoto macro pictures, with the corporate posting a number of close-up wildlife picture samples.
It’ll run on the brand new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, with Nubia usually one of many first to market with the most recent Qualcomm chip.
We’re additionally anticipating Nubia to stay with the identical elevated 144Hz OLED show as final yr’s mannequin. These preliminary snaps counsel that firm is sticking with its under-display selfie digicam.
In my expertise, that results in a pleasing unobstructed viewing expertise, however horrible selfies. Right here’s hoping Nubia has managed to handle that.
We don’t have pricing but, however the Nubia Z70 Extremely began from simply £649 when it launched final yr. In different phrases, the Nubia Z80 Extremely may be very prone to be considerably cheaper than the Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely, all whereas outgunning it within the efficiency and battery stakes.