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Achillias

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"Today, at a press event in Beijing, China, Nubia has launched its latest smartphone — Nubia Z17S, along with Nubia Z17 MiniS.

The Nubia Z17S comes with a bezel-less full-screen display, which has become a norm these days. Almost every company is now coming out with a bezel-less smartphone — a trend that started with Xiaomi Mi MIX.

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It comes with a 5.73-inch display with a screen resolution of 1080 x 2040 pixels and pixel density of 403ppi. The screen has an aspect ratio of about 17:9 and sports DCI-P3 wide colour gamut, with colour saturation of 96 percent.

There is a layer of Gorilla Glass 4 on top of the display for added protection. To make space for the bigger display, the company’s trademark red-circled home button has been removed.

The smartphone is powered by Qualcomm‘s flagship Snapdragon 835 octa-core 64-bit processor, clocked at 2.45GHz along with Adreno 540 GPU. The device is available in two variants — one with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, while other with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage.

The Nubia Z17S comes with a dual camera setup at the back. It has a 12-megapixel primary camera and a 23-megapixel auxiliary camera. It has 1.4-micron pixels, f/1.8 aperture, and 6P optical lens. The camera supports 2X optical zoom and 10X digital zoom. It comes with additional features such as 3D noise reduction. It comes with a layer of sapphire protection lens.

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The camera comes with the all-new NeoVision 7.0 image engine. It has AI Portrait mode — an algorithm for personality learning for additional features such as face recognition, edge processing, 3D beauty, level enhancement, among others.

On the front, it features a 5-megapixel dual camera setup with an 80-degrees wide angle lens and f/2.2 aperture. It also supports background blur and beauty mode along with multi-effect filter.

The phone supports 4G LTE along with the usual set of connectivity options, which includes Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth, NFC and GPS. There is one port on the device — USB Type C"

The screen to body ratio is 90.36%.
 

Voodoochild346

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That is stunning! I love the Gold on Black look! I wish my Note8 had that colour combo
Honestly, I wish I had access to the same Orchid Grey that the S line has. I like how my phone looks don't get me wrong but I wish it was more purple. I also wish all the colors were available in the states. I know people who i got to switch to the Note 8 would like to have the Deep Sea Blue as an option or even the Gold.
 

elf69

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looks amazing and nubia is a ZTE brand so be assured of a good device!

I'd love one!
specs looks great!
especially the 8gb ram version!
 

Tsepz

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Honestly, I wish I had access to the same Orchid Grey that the S line has. I like how my phone looks don't get me wrong but I wish it was more purple. I also wish all the colors were available in the states. I know people who i got to switch to the Note 8 would like to have the Deep Sea Blue as an option or even the Gold.
We had Midnight Black, Orchid Grey and Gold Don here, but I prefer Black.

I nearly did pick Orchid Grey as it is truly stunning, but I love the 'Murdered Out' look of the Midnight Black
 

convergent

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Honestly, I wish I had access to the same Orchid Grey that the S line has. I like how my phone looks don't get me wrong but I wish it was more purple. I also wish all the colors were available in the states. I know people who i got to switch to the Note 8 would like to have the Deep Sea Blue as an option or even the Gold.

I got the Orchid Gray, but would have perferred the Deep Sea Blue personally. Not a big deal though.

On the OP, the ratio looks to be me to be almost the same as the Note 8.
 

Fireblade

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Jan 25, 2011
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Nice!

But why is nowadays nearly every smartphone manufacturer saying it's smartphone would be bezelless?
Bezelless would mean a screen to body ratio 100%
 
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spinedoc77

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Jun 11, 2009
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Nice!

But why is nowadays nearly every smartphone manufacturer saying it's smartphone would be bezelless?
Bezelless would mean a screen to body ratio 100%

It's just marketing, like retina display, truetone, etc. When it's truly bezelless oems will come up with a new, fancy term.
 
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