The ZTE Nubia Pad SE has a footprint of 257 x 168 mm with a thickness of 7.65 mm and a weight of 515 g, giving it a relatively compact physical profile for a tablet of its size. Its total volume works out to approximately 330.30 cm³. While it carries an IP44 ingress protection rating, offering some resistance against solid particles and water splashing from any direction, it does not have a formal water resistance classification beyond that. The device does not ship with a stylus, and there is no support for a detachable keyboard or backlit keyboard accessory. Pen tilt sensitivity is also absent.
The ZTE Nubia Pad SE uses a 10.95″ IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 px and a pixel density of 207 ppi, delivering a reasonably sharp image across its panel. The display runs at a 90Hz refresh rate, which contributes to smoother on-screen motion during scrolling and general navigation. It does not feature branded damage-resistant glass, an anti-reflection coating, or a sapphire glass surface, and there is no support for HDR10, HDR10+, or Dolby Vision, nor is it an e-paper display.
The ZTE Nubia Pad SE is powered by the Unisoc Tanggula T760 system-on-chip, built on a 7 nm process and configured with an octa-core CPU using big.LITTLE architecture — four cores clocked at 2.2 GHz and four at 1.8 GHz — totalling 8 threads across a 64-bit design. It comes with 6 GB of LPDDR4 RAM running at 2133 MHz across two memory channels, with the platform supporting a maximum of 32 GB, and 128 GB of internal storage that can be expanded through an external memory slot; ECC memory is not supported. Graphics are handled by the integrated Mali-G57 GPU, which has a turbo clock of 650 MHz and supports DirectX 12, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 2. The SoC also integrates LTE connectivity and includes ARM TrustZone for hardware-level security. The tablet ships with Android 14 and achieves Geekbench 5 scores of 541 single-core and 2155 multi-core.
The ZTE Nubia Pad SE features a 13 MP rear camera built around a CMOS sensor, capable of recording video at 1080p and 30 fps with continuous autofocus during recording and a single LED flash; it does not include a back-illuminated sensor, optical image stabilization, or optical zoom. Manual controls cover ISO, focus, exposure, and white balance, and a built-in HDR mode is available, though manual shutter speed, slow-motion recording, timelapse, burst mode, panorama, and 360° panorama are not supported. The flash is a single-LED unit with no dual-tone or RGB variant, and a video light is present; HDR10 and Dolby Vision recording are not available. On the front, there is a 5 MP camera without a dedicated flash. 3D photo and video capture is also absent.
The ZTE Nubia Pad SE includes stereo speakers for audio output but does not have a 3.5 mm headphone jack or a built-in radio. On the wireless audio codec side, none of the advanced Bluetooth audio profiles are supported — there is no aptX, aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, or LDAC.
The ZTE Nubia Pad SE is equipped with a 7510 mAh rechargeable battery that supports fast charging, and a battery level indicator is available to monitor remaining charge. The battery is non-removable, and wireless charging is not supported.
The ZTE Nubia Pad SE connects wirelessly via Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) and Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Bluetooth 5.0, and it includes a cellular module with a single SIM slot, though 5G is not supported. Physical connectivity is handled through a USB Type-C 2.0 port; there is no HDMI output, Ethernet support, or NFC. On the sensor side, an accelerometer is present, while a gyroscope, compass, barometer, and infrared sensor are all absent, and the device does not support GPS or Galileo positioning. Biometric security options are limited — there is no fingerprint scanner, iris scanner, or 3D facial recognition. The software feature set is fairly broad: the tablet supports split-screen multitasking, picture-in-picture, dark mode, dynamic theming, theme customization, widgets, full-page screenshots, a media picker, customizable notifications, clipboard warnings, voice commands, offline voice recognition, on-device machine learning, an extra dim mode, a child lock, multi-user support, battery health check, device tracking, and sharing intents. Privacy controls include location privacy options, camera and microphone access management, and the ability to block app tracking, though cross-site tracking blocking, Mail Privacy Protection, and Wi-Fi password sharing are not available. Focus modes, app offloading, Quick Start, and direct OS vendor updates are also not supported.
In Geekbench 5 testing, the ZTE Nubia Pad SE records a single-core score of 541 and a multi-core score of 2155. The device uses DDR4 memory.
