Ever since Ni Fei, the General Manager of ZTE’s Nubia division confirmed the existence of a bezelless ZTE Nubia Z9 flagship, we have been seeing a number of leaks about this upcoming device. Yesterday, we came across beautiful renders which gave us a glimpse of the bezelless display of the device.

Today, a person familiar with the matter has revealed a few set of sketches which claims to be of the Nubia Z9 flagship. From what we can see, the sketches does look similar to the leaked model that we saw back in January. However they further throw in some light about the phone’s materials, button and the overall design.

The sketch shows that Z9 could feature a physical home button. Interestingly, the model which was leaked earlier had capacitive buttons. Traditionally, in this age of advanced smartphones, companies often put in a physical home button on their flagship devices to incorporate a fingerprint sensor. For example, the new HTC One M9 Plus has a fingerprint scanner on its home button. So, ZTE may incorporate a scanner inside this home button, but we can’t be sure of that at the moment.

Coming to the other details, the ZTE Nubia Z9 is said to come in a metal plus plastic body. It looks the sides and the front will be made out of plastic while the back will be metal or at least come with a metal finish. Another interesting feature revealed by these sketches is the 2.5D glass. So, it looks like the Z9 flagship will join the likes of many other premium phones by featuring 2.5D glass display. Finally, the sketches show that the phone will have dual speakers at the bottom with the MicroUSB port in the middle.

While these sketches are said to be made by a person who knows the new ZTE Nubia Z9 flagship, we can’t rely on these completely. But, it does give us an idea about what to expect from the upcoming flagship device from ZTE.

So, what do you think about the upcoming Z9?

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ZTE’s Nubia series flagship devices are known for its camera performance. The company has targeted camera lovers with this range and its not surprising to see that the new generation ZTE Nubia Z9 phones feature a much better camera unit than predecessors.

The ZTE Nubia Z7 came with a 13MP unit with OIS and 2K video support @ 30fps. The new Nubia Z9 Max and Mini naturally upgrades the unit to a much powerful 16MP sensor. While we have not yet seen the performance of these cameras in real life, the General Manager of ZTE’s Nubia division, Ni Fei says that the cameras on the Z9 Max and Mini smartphones are one of the best in the market. In fact, he adds that they are even comparable to professional cameras.

This is really a very big claim given that we have seen a lot of powerful camera smartphones in the market lately. It would be really hard to compete with phones such as the iPhone 6, Lumia 1020 and even the new Galaxy S6 in terms of camera quality and performance.

Ni Fei says has always been quite confident about the camera performance of the Nubia Z9 series. In fact, a few days back, we saw a sample which could have been from one of the two Z9 smartphones. The image was of the Aurora and looked extremely good even in the low light conditions.

However, these are all just claims and we will have to see the real life camera performance of both these handsets to judge whether they are better or at least at par with top end competitors.

Still, what do you think? Will ZTE Nubia Z9 Max and Mini be able to compete with devices like the iPhone 6 and the Lumia 1020 in terms of camera performance?

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Chinese companies are known to send out creative invitations for their product events and this time ZTE wowed its invite recipients by sending out heavy packages that not only contained the invite but a lot of other things which probably will turn out to be the accessories for the ZTE Nubia Z9 after its announced.

The package was almost the same as the one we saw before in leaked images. Inside, however was a big surprise! The package contains the the white colored invitation along with a number of other camera accessories. First you have the tripod as well as a metal frame for mounting (the smartphone?). Next up, there are three different camera lenses in the box, one fisheye, macro and 10x telephoto lens.

The invite clearly hints that the new ZTE Nubia Z9 will be a camera centric phone which may even accept accessories. We have already seen a glimpse of the capability of its rear shooter, thanks to a gif image posted by a famous actor in China. But it seems, we will have a lot more to talk about once the phone is officially announced in China on March 26.

So what do you think about this heavy invitation? Impressed?

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