Just a few days after announcing the Huawei P40 series globally, the company’s sub-brand, Honor has announced the Honor 30S for China. This will be the company’s upper mid-range device, placed below the flagship P40 series with 5G connectivity. The Honor 30S is the first smartphone to use the company’s awaited Kirin 820 chipset.

The Honor 30S builds on the design of its predecessor. So it features the same rounded corners and the butterfly 3D glass back design as seen on the Honor 20S. There’s a side-mounted fingerprint sensor too! One big difference at the back is the new rectangular matrix camera housing that features four cameras and a flash module. Upfront, the phone features a single punch-hole camera similar to its predecessor.

The Honor 30S comes in four colors: Black, Blue, Green, and a new Feather Red gradient model.

Honor 30S Specs

The Honor 30S comes with the new 7nm Kirin 820 processor. Despite its mid-range placement, the chipset offers incredible performance and AI capability comparable to some of the best processors of 2020. The chip comes with 1 x Cortex-A76 core clocked at 2.36GHz, 3 x Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.22GHz, and 4 x Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.84GHz. Thanks to this chip, the Honor 30S does way better than some of the best flagships in the market today in terms of AI performance. You have Mali-G57 6-core GPU taking care of graphics.

The phone comes with 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage. Note that these are LPDDR4X and UFS 2.1 standards, respectively. The Honor 30S has a 6.5-inch LTPS LCD punch-hole display upfront with 2400 × 1080 pixel resolution and HDR10 certification. Thanks to Kirin 820, the phone supports 5G SA/NSA dual-mode standards and Wi-Fi ac, BL 5.1, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Note that there’s no NFC or an IR port.

The Honor 30S also supports a special e-Reader mode (Black & White), eye-protection mode, Link Turbo, GPU Turbo and an anti-aging software feature that the company claims will keep the UI smooth and snappy for more than 30 months.

The phone comes with a 4000mAh battery with 40W fast wired charging. It runs on Magic UI 3.1.1 on top of Android 10.

Honor 30S Camera Setup

The Honor 30S comes with a quad-camera setup at the back. The primary camera is a 64MP f/1.8 shooter which is paired with an 8MP f/2.4 telephoto shooter with 3x optical zoom, 5x hybrid zoom, and 20x digital zoom. There’s another 8MP f/2.4 ultra-wide-angle lens and finally, a 2MP f/2.4 macro shooter which can take close up shots up to 4cm. Unfortunately, the phone doesn’t get OIS.

The new Honor model supports 4K videos and 960fps slo-mo video at 720p resolution. You also get AIS and EIS for stabilization.

There’s a single front punch-hole camera of 16MP taking care of your selfie needs.

Honor 30S Pricing & Availability

The Pricing and availability details of the Honor 30S are as follows.

8GB RAM + 128GB ROM – 2399 yuan (~$338)

8GB RAM + 256GB ROM – 2699 yuan (~$380)

The Honor 30S will be up for pre-sale at 9 PM today in China and will go on sale for the first time on April 7. Offline sales in China kick off from April 10. Notably, the Huawei P40 series, including the brand new Huawei P40 Pro Plus will launch in China on April 8.

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All things being equal, Huawei’s Honor brand will officially launch the Honor 30s on March 30. The device is expected as Honor’s first premium model for the year and is said to pack a Kirin 820 chipset. The company has also released several teasers which confirm the device will have a curved display and a gold-accent on the rear camera. The AnTuTu score of the model is equally in the public domain already. The camera sensor is now the subject of a new leak.

According to DigiTrend, citing a “trusted source”, the Honor 30S will feature a 64MP main camera with 3X optical zoom features. The source equally shared a picture which looks like a local promotional poster for the device. Even though the text is written in Chinese, the picture shows the device will use a rectangular camera module design. The module will house a Quad-camera setup as well as an LED flash as has been seen on leaked renders of the Honor 30S. The camera is also promoted to come with AI features but no information was given concerning the other three sensors.

An earlier leak had revealed that the Honor 30S will feature a large 1/1.3 inch sensor on the main camera with a pixel size of 1.2um. The sensor will be of the Sony IMX range but the exact sensor is yet to be revealed.

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