Huawei has announced its new Nova 9 series of smartphones in China today. The new Nova phones are focused on providing the best-in-class camera performance and Huawei has pulled all the stops to achieve this. The Nova 9 series also comes with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 778G chipset, and an incredibly fast charging technology.
Nova 9 and Nova 9 Pro Specs
The Nova 9 has a 6.57-inch 2340 x 1080 screen while the Nova 9 Pro packs a bigger 6.72-inch 2676 x 1236 screen. Both displays are curved OLED panels with a 120Hz refresh rate, a 300Hz touch sampling rate, and a P3 color gamut. One distinguishing feature is that the standard model has a centered punch hole for a single camera while the pro model has a bigger cut-out on the top left corner for two cameras.
Both Nova 9 phones have the Snapdragon 778G processor under their hood but with 4G instead of 5G. The chipset is paired with 8GB of RAM and both phones will be available in 128GB and 256GB configurations.
The cameras are an important part of these phones, so we will talk about them under a separate heading. For the rest of the specs, the Nova 9 has a 4300mAh battery capacity with support for 66W fast charging while the Nova 9 Pro has a smaller 4000mAh battery but charges faster at 100W. Huawei claims the pro model will charge from empty to full in 20 minutes. The pro model also has VC + graphene cooling to keep the temperature down when playing games or running CPU-intensive tasks.
The two phones have Bluetooth 5.2 with support for LDAC, NFC with support for payment, dual-band Wi-Fi, dual-SIM support, dual-frequency GPS with support for NavIC, and an in-display fingerprint scanner. Huawei will ship both phones with HarmonyOS 2 out of the box.
Huawei Nova 9 series cameras
The camera department is one of the major differences between both phones. The Nova 9 Pro has two 32MP front-facing cameras – one sensor is an ultrawide angle camera with an f/2.4 aperture while the other is an f/2.0 portrait camera. On the Nova 9, there is a single 32MP front-facing camera.
Huawei says the front cameras can record in 4K, slow motion, shoot portrait videos, and have video stabilization. There is also night mode for videos, and support for recording time-lapse videos. For photos, users can take ultrawide angle selfies, portrait selfies, and portrait selfies with night mode.
On the back, the Nova 9 and Nova 9 Pro have four cameras – a 50MP f/1.9 RYYB main camera that captures up to 40% more light than a regular camera. There is also an 8MP ultrawide angle camera, a 2MP depth of field camera, and a 2MP macro camera.
The rear camera packs several features such as vlog mode, audio zoom, night mode, dual view video which allows you to record from both the front and rear cameras at the same time, and timelapse mode. One interesting feature is Multi-camera mode which allows you to connect to a nearby phone and get more angles for the shot you want to take or the video you are recording. The two phones also come with Petal Clip, a one-click video-editing software.
Huawei Nova 9 Series Price and Availability
The Nova 9 is priced at ¥2699 (~$418) for the 8+128GB version and ¥2999 (~$464) for the 8+256GB version. The Nova 9 Pro starts at ¥3499 (~$542) for the 8+128GB version while the 8+256GB version is ¥3899 (~$604).
Both phones will be available for pre-order starting today and will be open for purchase on September 29.
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