ZTE Nubia Z70S Ultra vs Apple iPhone 17e

EDITORIAL: ZTE Nubia has always marched to it's own drum. Best known for it's beautiful selfie-notch-less screens, Nubia delivers another unique phone with a glass back that looks and feels like leather, tiny screen bazels, 144Hz bright screen but it's ambition is in the imaging department that brings a triple lens including a 35mm main and a two-stage camera shutter as well. There is another hardware button that can be asigned to different purposes.

EDITORIAL: Apple used to update it's basic (SE) iPhones every few years but the last year's 16e got it's upgrade just a year later. We will see if this is a beginning of a yearly update cycle - it would make sense if this very modestly equipped $600 phone sells well. 17e comes with a very fast A19 processor and it does great in benchmarks, beating all iPhone 16 models, including 16 Pro Max. It also features the latest iOS version and comes with double the memory for the same price as 16e but this is where the excellence runs out. The rest of the phone is very elementary - same small battery, less-then-a-day endurance, 60Hz Retina display, reliable single lens cameras front and back. This is your cheapest ticket into iPhone world but the plain 17 model is a much better option...