Huawei’s Kirin 990 5G chipset is already powering some of the flagship and premium devices from the company. Now, it seems that the company is now also gearing up to launch Kirin 985 chipset for premium phones.
As per the latest information, the upcoming Honor 30 series of smartphones could come powered by the Kirin 985 SoC. It is also being said that the chipset will come with support for largest image sensor in the mobile industry.
It is also being reported that the Honor 30 will come with a custom 50-megapixel Sony IMX 700-series camera sensor with Full-Pixel Focus, along with a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera and an 8-megapixel telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom support.
The report further adds that the Kirin 985 chipset could go official on 15th April. However, it seems that the upcoming Huawei Nova 7 series smartphones will also come powered by this Kirin 985 processor.
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This upcoming chipset could be built using the 7nm+ EUV lithography process and could be paired with the Balong 5000 modem. The performance of the processor will definitely be better than the recently launched Kirin 820 5G chipset.
There’s a possibility that the Honor 30 and the Huawei Nova 7 come powered by this new Kirin 985 SoC while the Pro variants both the upcoming series come packed with the company’s flagship Kirin 990 5G SoC.
As Huawei is still banned from using Google services on its new devices, both the smartphone series will come with the company’s own Huawei Mobile Services with its AppGallery, which is meant to replace Google’s offerings.
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