The well-known subsidiary of the Chinese company ZTE is working on something that we can define as camera connected to a smartphone. Check out the cover image, it speaks for itself. In it, on the left we see the Nubia Z50S Pro, its space for rear cameras was already large, but compared to the new prototype on the right, nothing.

According to the source of this leak, which is one of the most famous in China, the smartphone with a huge camera on the back that Nubia is preparing uses Sony IMX989 sensorand is in an “unoptimized” prototype state. This data is very important because it means that what we see in the image on the cover is not the final design that this terminal will have and that the Chinese company is working to improve it.

In order to improve this design, Nubia will have to reduce the size of the rear camera, as a terminal with an island of these dimensions would be impractical and very uncomfortable to wear and use. Seeing this reminded me of the Lumia 1020, a smartphone that caused some controversy at the time due to its large rear camera, but the truth is that compared to the Nubia prototype, the Nokia one was even “small”.

We will have to see to what extent Nubia is able to optimize this design and reduce the size of the island, but it is clear that it is necessary to achieve a remarkable adaptation so that this terminal stops looking like a camera attached to a smartphone. . We don’t know the name of this model yet, but it could be Nuba Z50S Ultra, a terminal that would be positioned as the top of the line and that would be equipped with very powerful components.

There is no doubt that this has become a trend in the industry, and understandably so, because eventually cameras are gaining immense importance in the smartphone sector. Most users no longer have a separate camera to take their photos, but instead depend on their smartphone, and for this reason, they tend to place a high value on the photography part of the terminal when spending money.

To improve the photographic capabilities of a smartphone, it is necessary, among other things, to use bigger and bigger sensors, And this is where these huge islands come into play, which must contain more or less complex camera configurations depending on the rest of the lenses that accompany the main one.