At the IFA 2019 tech trade show, Huawei took off covers from the Kirin 990 chipset. The 7nm flagship chipset from the company is integrated with a 5G modem. Apart from the upcoming Mate 30 series from Huawei, its sub-brand Honor is also expected to launch Kirin 990 powered flagship smartphone. Today, Honor confirmed through a Weibo post that the Honor Vera30 (V30) series will be coming with 5G Kirin 990 chipset.
In the previous week, Honor President George Zhao had confirmed that Honor’s 5G phone will be Honor V30 5G and it will be powered by Kirin 990. The below shown poster has been released today to confirm that it will be arriving in China as ‘Vera30.’ At present, there is no information available on the specifications of the smartphone. However, it is speculated that it could be sporting a round-shaped camera housing on its rear.
The Kirin 990 chipset come with an octa-core processor that two cores of Cortex A76 gunning at 2.86GHz and another two cores of Cortex A76 working at 2.36GHz. Its quad-core Cortex A55 clocks at 1.95GHz. The SoC includes 16-core Mali-G76 graphics and it tags along two big-core and one tiny-core NPU unit. There is a 4G only variant of the Kirin 990 that offers slower clocking speeds. The 5G modem integrated variant is capable of reaching upload speeds of 1.25Gbps and download speeds of 2.3Gbps.
The Honor V20 had gone official in December 2018. The smartphone was made available in international markets as Honor View 20. Probably, the Honor Vera30 could be debuting in China by December 2019.
The Honor V20 that is fueled by Kirin 980 chipset features 6.4-inch IPS LCD display with punch-hole design. It offers full HD+ resolution and 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The punch-hole on the display has a 25-megapixel selfie camera. The rear shell of the phone features a Sony IMX586 48-megapixel lens with f/1.8 aperture and a ToF 3D camera.
The smartphone is backed by a 4,000mAh battery that supports 22.5W fast charging. There is no microSD card slot on the device. It features up to 8 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB of native storage. It also features a 3.5mm audio jack.
