ZTE Nubia V80 Max Arrives in Pakistan with Drop Safety, 50MP Camera & 6000mAh Battery

They teased the Nubia V80 Max in Pakistan a few days ago, and now it’s here. The price is quite reasonable, too, for the specs it has. Its biggest edge over other phones in the same price range is actually 1.8 meters of drop safety. This is everything you need to know about the handset.

Its ability to sustain a 1.8-meter fall is Nubia V80 Max’s biggest claim. The design is quite durable. All four corners are reinforced, sort of 360° impact protection. TUV SUD tested this phone for an IP64 rating, and SGS gave it a 50-month performance fluency certificate as well.

Galaxy S25 Plus and the new ZTE Nubia model look very similar, at least from the back. The camera stack has three lenses floating on the backplate with no raised plateau. It’s not an original design, and Nubia doesn’t try to hide it either. The front side has a notch that immediately gives it away. 

By the way, the cameras include a single 50MP main shooter and two decorative lenses on the back. It fits into a notch on a 6.9” 120Hz IPS LCD. That’s just an HD+ panel that pushes 780nits. That’s ~41% better brightness than the older V70 Max. They’ve added a no-name glass layer on the screen to resist scratches.

It took them a while, but they are finally shipping phones with Android 16. The V80 Max is their first phone in the Pakistani market with that OS. Nubia AI suite is baked into the OS, so it’s not just a bland Android skin. And it’s all running on a Unisoc T7250 chip with 8GB RAM.

The chip will be a bottleneck here, not the RAM. Unisoc T7250 is not exactly known for its high performance as it’s only a 1.8GHz chip. The sole variant in Pakistan has 256GB storage, which is pretty rare in this price segment.

The battery here is a 6000mAh pack with 22.5W wired charging support. They guarantee 4-year battery health on the V80 Max. This newcomer also has a fingerprint sensor; it’s that power button on the side with a red accent. Nubia V80 Max 8/256GB trim is priced at Rs 39,999 in Pakistan.