Nubia Z11 announced as a world’s thinnest


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Nubia launched the Z11 today and what has surprised us is that they are going for a world’s thinnest title.

Ok, so Nubia aren’t claiming that the Z11 is the thinnest phone ever made, but they are saying that it is the thinnest smartphone with 5.5-inch display currently available. The actual figures come in at 72.3 x 151.8 with a thickness of only 7.5mm.

Delving in to the specifications we find that the Z11 has a 2.5D curved tempered glass panel, FHD (1920 x 1080) display, and a screen to body ratio of 81%.

Nubia hope the Z11 will lure you away from other flagship phones so they have given the handset a Snapdragon 820 chipset, and options for either 4GB or 6GB RAM. Storage various depending on the RAM version you choose, 64GB is the least you can get while 128GB is the max.

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Like other Nubia phones, the Z11 claims to have DSLR rivalling camera quality with OIS and 16 mega-pixel sensor. The front camera is an 8 mega-pixel shooter.

Other interesting details are a rear fingerprint scanner, 3000mAh battery, fast charging, HIFI audio and Dolby Atmos.

Perhaps the most exciting detail of the Nubia Z11 is the availability. Nubia will launch the phone in the UK, Europe, India, Thailand, the U.S. Mexico and Argentina to name just a few. Pricing for the standard 4GB model will kick off at 499 Euros with the special edition gold and black with more memory will cost you 599 Euros.

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29 Comments

  1. mf1gt3r
    August 31, 2016

    Hehehe. Nubias keep getting expensive. But a just few persons really do appreciate their cameras. Seems like the most underated camera phone.

    • Muhammad Yasir
      August 31, 2016

      i would buy one if i had the cash

      • mf1gt3r
        August 31, 2016

        Haven’t been able to purchase a device that satisfied me the way the Nubia Z7 Max did. It will be difficult doing that now. I got mine for $350 that is about N65,000 in my local currency. Guess how much that same amount is now? $350 is now N122,500. I got the Bluboo Maya for N24,500 had it been at the rate of 2014 same Maya would have been N13,000. I need to leave this country man.

        • Adam Nazifi
          August 31, 2016

          Sai Baba Buhari !

          • mf1gt3r
            August 31, 2016

            Hehehe. I need to shoot you. Don’t wowi, he will return Naira to N1 = $1. Have faith.

          • September 2, 2016

            I’m gonna fire a ballistic missile at you for saying that, not just shoot you.

            Buhari has ruined this country’s economy so bad.

            • Adam Nazifi
              September 2, 2016

              The Economy is very bad , i still dont know what that old man is trying to ‘fix’

        • Assefa Hanson
          August 31, 2016

          sounds like how my country jamaica is going your cost just stop at conversion but when my countries high Taxes and duties kick in basically everypone will cost 2x or near 2X the price if i buy a one plus 3 it would be paying around 680 to 700 usd for it and our dollar is just sliding away

        • Oz
          August 31, 2016

          The Nubia Z7Max is now available for US$120 from a few sellers like Banggood, Tinydeal etc.. I bought mine a year ago for US190. You can update the software to Nubia Ui 4.0.

        • Muhammad Yasir
          September 1, 2016

          tell me about it :p

    • Ibrahim Bahakim
      August 31, 2016

      O.O
      I had 4 Nubias..
      Z5S Z7 Max X6 and now hold Z9 Max Elite..
      They are both good or great I guess, but their cameras are awful…
      I compared the Z9 Max Elite to the new Mi Max.. It is just.. not even close.. Mi Max is like 3-4 times better.

      • Oscar
        September 1, 2016

        You probably don’t know how to use the camera. The auto mode in the nubia range is appalling. However manual mode allows you to capture amazing photos if you know how to use it.

        • Ibrahim Bahakim
          September 1, 2016

          Nope I know how to use it. Yes the pro mode is great, but … I want to take quick photos.. I mean yes if I want to chill at home to take one or two great photos sure. But if I want to capture something on the go I would not want to adjust the exposure and focus etc.. I want to just tap and take the photo..
          ALL of Nubia phones I had don’t do that for me.. The fun mode is really fun lol
          I like to make two or three items appear in the same photo and play with the multi exposure etc…
          Trajectory mode is amazing!! ah don’t even get me started about the light painting it is just fun… I loved all of the modes, but I hated the quality of the normal photos 🙁

          • James
            September 2, 2016

            weird…. I had totally the opposite experience – I got better pics with my Z9 Max than I did with the work iPhone 6s. I’ve never had a phone with a camera as good as that on the Z9 Max (which doesn’t even have physical OIS), it did a great job without manually adjusting in the advanced options. The fact yours didn’t give you good pics is very odd indeed.

            • Ibrahim Bahakim
              September 3, 2016

              Yes ISO is very good and shutter is also very good. Focus has great potintional.
              But quality is not very good.
              I don’t know if I am wrong. I tried it as much as I could, but I just can not do it 🙁

  2. Stiffmah
    August 31, 2016

    Moto Z is 5.2mm and has 5.5″ screen …
    Lies …

    • rigge
      August 31, 2016

      yes, but Nubia is counting the camera bump on the Moto Z.
      However Oppo r9 is just 7.4mm thick with an 6′ inch screen.

  3. Muhammad Yasir
    August 31, 2016

    dat price tho…

  4. Rob
    August 31, 2016

    So is this different from the bezel less z11 that launched a few weeks ago with the same specs? If so how are you guys only getting round to mentioning it now?

    • MattD
      August 31, 2016

      It’s the same phone, but it has band 20 because it was officially released today (hence they’re covering the news today) for european markets!

  5. Kingu Prima
    September 1, 2016

    What about the battery capacity ?

    • Hellvetta
      September 1, 2016

      3000mAh.Read article attentively.

  6. Ricardo Alonso
    September 1, 2016

    Argentina? No Brazil, no Chile, are they crazy!?

  7. Hellvetta
    September 1, 2016

    Hm… Andy, not thinnest, but slimmest. Isn’t so?

  8. balcobomber25
    September 1, 2016

    “Ok, so Nubia aren’t claiming that the Z11 is the thinnest phone ever made, but they are saying that it is the thinnest smartphone with 5.5-inch display currently available.”

    The following phones would disagree with that statement:

    OnePlus 3 – 7.4mm
    Oppo F1 Plus – 6.6mm
    Iphone 6s – 7.3mm
    Moto Z – 5.2mm
    Huawei P9 Plus – 7mm
    Huawei G9 Plus – 7.3mm
    Huawei Nova Plus – 7.3mm
    Gionee S6 – 6.9mm
    Gionee S8 – 7mm

    There’s probably even more to.

  9. Francisco Bernardo González
    September 1, 2016

    “They are saying that it is the thinnest smartphone with 5.5-inch display currently available.”
    It isn’t true, but Nubia Z11 is the less width with 5.5″ and only 7.23 Cm

  10. James
    September 2, 2016

    Launching in the UK?!?!?!?!?!?! Does it have band 20 for 4g on the UK networks then? I was lead to believe it didn’t. If it does I will almost certainly buy it, as I’m only using a Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro as an interim (since the demise of my Z9 Max) until I can find something decent (the ZUK Z2 Pro 128gb in black seems to bade from unobtanium). The camera on the Note 3 snapdragon is just plain terrible after using a Nubia for so long…

  11. slartiblart
    September 2, 2016

    Yeah – not true. My honor 6 plus is 5.5 inches and only 7.5mm (with a battery of 3,600mah)