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“It looks like a menstrual pad”: Netizens slam ZTE’s wearable smartphone

Is it a wearable smartphone or a really huge smartwatch?

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Weibo users have not been kinda to the Nubia Alpha, but... can you blame them? (Picture: Nubia)
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In a sea of identical-looking smartphones, imagine a new device. A wearable smartphone, with a long, flexible display that wraps around your wrist, lets you use real apps, make phone calls, and even take selfies.

And this is no dream, it’s real: ZTE’s sub-brand Nubia showed off this very device at the consumer electronics show IFA.

Sound good? You may want to take a look at it first.

The prototype, named Nubia Alpha (Nubia-α) seemed to work just fine… but it’s not really the functionality that’s the problem here, right?

Whether you want to call it a wearable smartphone or a huge smartwatch, it’s big and bulky. There’s a wide band that wraps around the display and a thick body that stores the camera and other components.

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