Nubia Neo 5 series did get most of the coverage, but there are two more devices that were more discreetly unveiled in Pakistan by ZTE today. Nubia Air Pro 5G and Nubia Neo 3 5G are the other two handsets. This is everything we know about the duo.
ZTE Nubia Air Pro
The phone’s chassis is apparently 5.99mm thin, and it’s an all-metal design too. The Nubia Air Pro name came from that specific attribute. It’s the thinnest modern phone they’ve made, just like Apple’s iPhone Air. It even stole the camera bar design from the iPhone.
They made it a double-decker camera island with two lenses. Not both of them are functional. There’s a 108MP main photo clicker on the back. OIS is absent, by the way. A selfie camera is put in a punch-hole cutout where a front 32MP unit nests.
The screen has very thin bezels. This is an AMOLED at a 6.77” size. The refresh rate is 144Hz on what we assume is a 1.5K resolution. 4500 nits will be the peak brightness for when you watch some supported HDR content. The chin is almost uniform on the Air Pro.
Nubia Air Pro is pretty thin, but they still outfitted the handset with at least a 5000mAh battery. And this cell will recharge at a wired 44W input. Those sound like ordinary numbers. But the Air Pro beats the iPhone Air and Galaxy S25 Edge on paper.
The phone actually passed all the tests for an official IP69K rating. There’s a Dimensity 7100 chip here, exactly the same as the Neo 5 Max. Pakistani market only got an 8GB/256GB trim, and the local price tag for the Nubia Air Pro is Rs 109,999.
ZTE Nubia Neo 3
This phone is not as thin. But the Neo 3 has probably carved its own niche for budget users. This phone has an eccentric design, like a gaming phone and such. But it’s very basic on the inside. Yes, it’s also a 5G handset with a great 2.2GHz chip.
They’ve put a Unisoc T8300 6nm platform within the Neo 3, and it’s supposed to run all your games on a Mali-G57 MP2 GPU. They put Android 15 on this newcomer straight from the factory. You’ll be left two generations behind because the current version is Android 17, and ZTE doesn’t have a regular update schedule.
Anyway, the performance should be snappy for the most part. Apparently, the version shipped in Pakistan has a 6000mAh battery (33W charging). The storage is 256GB. There’s no SD card slot here. 8GB of physical memory on the Neo 3 5G is more than enough for regular users.
The main camera is 50MP, and there’s no OIS. It only supports 1080p (30FPS) video recording. The same goes for its 16MP selfie camera. They’ve put two speakers on the plastic frame. The IP rating is absent, and so is the headphone jack.
The screen is actually the high point for the Nubia Neo 3. It’s built around a 6.8” big IPS LCD that has a 120Hz refresh rate. It gets really bright, up to 1000nits. The resolution is FHD+ 1080p. It doesn’t just mimic a gaming phone. Neo 3 has gaming triggers and RGB on the back. The local price for this Nubia Neo 3 5G is Rs 69,999.
