Carrying an amount of RAM that is comparable to a PC, Huawei Mate 9 Pro vs. ZTE Nubia Z17 seems like an unfair and one-way battle. Let’s make some closer comparison to how it turned out.

Huawei Mate 9 Pro vs. ZTE Nubia Z17 on specs: many similarities, few advantages.

Right off the bat, both phones sport a 5.5-inch display. The difference is the ZTE Nubia Z17 got 74.7% screen-to-body ratio while the Huawei Mate has 73.2%. To us, 1.5% difference is not that big. Looking at the operating system, both phones launched with Android Nougat. The ZTE Nubia Z17 is ahead with version 7.1.1 while Huawei Mate 9 Pro starts at 7.0. This difference may be a problem at first, but with time, new updates will come to even out the score.

In term of memory and storage, both phones offer a 128GB internal storage which is not expandable. The chipsets are Hisilicon Kirin 960 for Huawei Mate 9 Pro and Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 for ZTE Nubia Z17. But the processing speed and number of core is almost the same: 4×2.4 GHz & 4×1.8 GHz vs. 4×2.35 GHz & 4×1.9. When it comes to RAM, however, this is where the ZTE phone shines. 8GB is the standard amount of RAM for a computer and a lot better than Huawei’s 6GB RAM.

For the camera, both have dual cameras, but the Nubia Z17 is slightly better with 12MP +23MP compared to Mate 9 pro’s 20 MP +12 MP. For the front camera, Nubia’s 16MP front camera is a clear winner against Mate 9 Pro 8MP. With double the Mega pixels, Nubia is delivering better selfies. On the topic of battery life, the Mate 9 Pro finally have a win with 4000 mAh compared to Nubia’s 3200 mAh, but that’s about it. On the endurance test, it is only 6 hours better.

Huawei Mate 9 Pro vs. ZTE Nubia Z17 on price: huge difference

The Huawei Mate 9 Pro is available at $794 (Rs. 50,955). In the case of ZTE Nubia Z17, it is sold at Rs. 18,899. So all in all, the ZTE Nubia Z17 boasted a spec that is a lot more impressive and price that gives a bigger bang for your buck.