The 4.7-inch ZTE Nubia 5S Mini is an LTE-capable phone that'll be available on August 27 for $280. You can get it unlocked on Amazon, with pre-orders starting on August 20. It's an attractive phone that's no slouch in the performance department, but its cameras aren't spectacular.
Picture imperfect
The Nubia 5S Mini packs a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, and a 13-megapixel rear shooter. In my testing, I found that the cameras weren't nearly as "dSLR-like" as ZTE claims them to be.
Cumbersome camera interface
Those cameras are nothing if not ambitious, though. Plenty of features are packed across all three shooting modes, but you'll need to do a fair bit of fiddling to get a perfect shot.
The Nubia 5S Mini runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and a custom skin, so this isn't the place to be for a cutting-edge, stock Android experience.
A tall order
A 4.7-inch display doesn't strike me as very mini, but the phone is comfortable enough to hold.
Light on its feet
It's fairly light, too, at a respectable 4.5 ounces.
Fairly svelte package
And at just 0.32-inch thick, you shouldn't have trouble fitting the Nubia 5S Mini in a pocket.
Lackluster beats
Skip the speaker -- its whiny, tinny audio isn't worth your time. And here's another shot of the logo: those stylized circles are the "b" and the "a" in Nubia.