While most eyes were on ZTE’s Neo 5 series in Pakistan this week, the company quietly added two more phones to its local line-up — the ultra-slim Nubia Air Pro and the budget gaming-styled Nubia Neo 3, both launched in Pakistan today. Both are 5G phones, both ship with 256GB of storage, and both are priced to undercut the usual suspects in their segments. Here is everything we know about the pair.
Nubia Air Pro: 5.99mm slim, 108MP camera, Rs 109,999
The Air Pro is the star of the duo. At just 5.99mm thick, it is one of the slimmest phones on the market right now — an all-metal body with a full-width camera bar across the back that takes an obvious cue from the current slim-phone trend.
Inside is MediaTek’s Dimensity 7100 chip — the same silicon powering the Neo 5 Max — paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage in the Pakistan variant. The 6.77-inch AMOLED display runs at a 144Hz refresh rate with a claimed 4500-nit peak brightness for HDR content, and the bezels are slim on all sides with a near-uniform chin.
Camera hardware is headlined by a 108MP main sensor — though there is no optical image stabilisation — plus a 32MP selfie camera in a punch-hole cutout. A 5000mAh battery with 44W wired charging may sound modest next to the 6000mAh-plus cells common in Pakistan, but it beats both the iPhone Air and the Galaxy S25 Edge on paper. And the Air Pro carries a full IP69K dust-and-water rating, which is rare at this price.
The Air Pro is priced at Rs 109,999 in Pakistan. For context, the phone was listed in Europe earlier this year at €499 — roughly Rs 158,000 — for the 512GB trim, so the local 256GB variant lands notably cheaper.
Nubia Neo 3: budget gaming looks for Rs 69,999
The Neo 3 plays a different game. It wears an eccentric, gaming-phone-inspired design — RGB lighting on the back and gaming triggers on the frame — while keeping the internals firmly in budget territory.
The Unisoc T8300 6nm chip does the heavy lifting with a Mali-G57 MP2 GPU, backed by 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, with no microSD slot. It ships with Android 15 out of the box. The 6000mAh battery charges at 33W wired.
Photography comes from a 50MP main camera without OIS and a 16MP front camera, both capped at 1080p video recording. The 6.8-inch IPS LCD display is the real highlight here — a 120Hz refresh rate, 1000 nits of peak brightness, and FHD+ resolution. Dual speakers sit on the plastic frame; there is no IP rating and no headphone jack.
At Rs 69,999, the Neo 3 is aimed squarely at young buyers who want gaming-phone looks without paying gaming-phone money — and it undercuts most 5G phones with a 120Hz display in this bracket.
A busy week for Nubia in Pakistan
The launches cap a busy week for ZTE’s Nubia brand in the country — the Nubia Neo 5 Max and Neo 5 Pro went on sale in Pakistan just days ago, starting at Rs 99,999, as the brand clearly pushes to own the sub-Rs 110,000 5G segment.
Both new phones are 5G-ready and arrive as local smartphone manufacturing crosses new milestones in the country. The prices quoted are the official Pakistan launch prices reported today; as always, street prices at retailers in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad may vary slightly.
Between the Air Pro’s slim flagship ambitions and the Neo 3’s budget gaming flair, ZTE is covering both ends of the mid-range. Which one would you pick?
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