A Christmas miracle? There’s a phone that apparently made $140 million in… one second

It’s that time of year again when we recall the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and we reflect on the morals of “A Christmas Carol”: “There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!”

Now, we’re going to talk about money some more: China’s newest Terminator, the Nubia Z60 Ultra, apparently made some crazy money on its debut.

Go to the basement, take out your salt stocks and prepare to take a big bite out of it, since Gizmochina is reporting some crazy numbers. The initial sales of the flagship Nubia Z60 Ultra exceeded $140 million in revenue within “just a single second”, but there’s no source cited – that’s where the salt comes into play.

The Nubia Z60 Ultra is available in multiple variants in China, such as 12GB/256GB (~$601), 16GB/512GB (~$658), 16GB/1TB (~$740), and 24GB/1TB (~$839) and if those rumors are true, that’d make it quite the popular phone right now.

The camera-centric phone packs three main cameras: an 18mm ultra-wide, a 35mm “street photography” lens, and an 85mm telephoto camera.

The rest is pretty impressive, too: the phone packs a 6.8-inch OLED display with a 1.5K resolution and a buttery smooth 120Hz refresh rate. Under the display, there’s a 12-megapixel selfie camera and a fingerprint sensor. It comes preinstalled with My OS 14, that is based on Android 14.

Under the hood, the Nubia Z60 Ultra brings the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 raw power experience, fast LPDDR5x RAM, and UFS 4.0 storage. It has a massive 6,000mAh battery that supports 80W fast charging. There is no support for wireless charging on the device, but you’ll get over it, right?