Forget huge camera modules: the newest design trend for this year is making your phone look like an actual camera: meet the Nubia Z70s Ultra. Following vivo and Xiaomi’s lead, the brand’s refresh of their previous flagship comes with a bunch of accessories that turn it into a point-and-shoot, as well as an updated camera to shoot with the best of them.
The Z70S Ultra’s camera setup is where it flexes hardest. The triple rear array includes an upgraded 50MP 1/1.3” OmniVision Light Fusion 900 sensor that trades its variable aperture lens to a fixed, f/1.7 lens. It’s accompanied by a 64MP zoom lens with a f/2.48 aperture, and a 50-megapixel ultra-wide lens that doubles as the macro camera. Nubia also included a dedicated shutter key that launches the camera app via a long press. You can then take a photo as normal with a short key press.
Aside from that, the included accessories in the camera kit allow you to swap out lenses just like a DSLR.The company collaborated with Fotogear to develop five T-mount external lenses: a fisheye lens, a macro lens, a 139mm telephoto lens, and a 400mm super telephoto lens. Users can use external lenses to expand the focal length of the main camera.
The phone also gets a massive 6600mAh battery, 80W of fast charging. Despite its bigger battery, it retains the same skinny frame that the original shipped with.
The other features of the phone stay the same as the non-S variant: you’re getting a Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, up to 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB of UFS 4.0 storage, and Android 15 out of the box. The 6.85-inch BOE Q9+ OLED display is a stunner, rocking a 1.5K resolution (2688 x 1216) and a buttery 144Hz refresh rate. With 2000 nits of peak brightness and 2592Hz PWM dimming, it’s a champ in sunlight and easy on the eyes during late-night scrolls. The under-display camera (UDC) gives you a notch-free, 95.3% screen-to-body ratio—pure immersion, protected by Gorilla Glass 7i.
Prices for this beast start at Php 35K when directly converted from its China pricing for its 12GB/256GB variant, with the phone topping out at Php 48.4K for the highest tier 24GB/1TB variant.
