The Honor V30 arrives in five days and while the camera prowess seems to be the focus, there are other important details too. Ahead of the launch, the device has made its way to Geekbench and the benchmark tool reveals some details about the upcoming flagship.

Benchmarked as the Huawei OXF-AN10, the Honor V30 is shown to run Android 10. We are sure there is a heavy layer of Honor’s Magic UI on top and it will come along with quite a number of new features.

The phone has 8GB of RAM and is powered by an octa-core processor with a base frequency of 1.95GHz. This chipset is the Kirin 990 5G as its base frequency is higher when compared to the Kirin 990’s 1.86GHz.

The Honor V30 scored 3856 points in the single-core test and 12,221 points in the multi-core test.

The Honor V30 will launch alongside the Honor V30 Pro and both will have support for 5G. Both devices will have punch-hole displays albeit of different sizes and types. The phones will also have 60MP primary rear cameras and support for fast charging. The Honor V30 Pro will add support for wireless charging, a first for the manufacturer.

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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.

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In the media interview after the Wuhan Honor Conference, Honor President George Zhao reaffirmed that we’ll definitely be seeing Honor’s 5G phone by the end of the year. This time however, he names the device as the Honor V30 5G, and on top of that he also hints that the the processor the device will run is launching within the next two days.

This is a pretty clear admission that the Honor V30 5G will come running the Kirin 990, since it’s set to launch at IFA and in China tomorrow. This is pretty big news if it’s true, since it basically confirms that we’re getting a brand new and powerful 5G device in the Honor V30 5G fairly soon, and it’s going to be more affordable than Huawei’s options.

According to previous reports, the Kirin 990 5G will be the world’s first 5G SoC chip based on the 7nm FinFET Plus EUV process. The biggest advantage of this process over the previous generation 7nm process is addition of EUV lithography to further increase transistor density. This helps in enhancing the chip performance per unit area and reducing power consumption overall.

With so many competitors planning to throw their hats into the 5G market, it’s beginning to look like there’ll be some very heated competition. As someone who enjoys watching a competitive market and more options, I’m really excited for the prospects of what’s coming soon. Hopefully this leads to some affordable 5G devices really soon.

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Soon after Xiaomi’s VP Lu Weibing confirmed the Redmi K30 smartphone with 5G support, Zhao Ming, President of Honor, has confirmed on Weibo that the Honor V30 will be the brand’s first 5G smartphone.

He has revealed that not only the Honor V30 will come with 5G support, the smartphone will also have support for full 5G SA and NSA network, similar to the flagship smartphones. However, he has shared no further details about this phone.

However, we expect the upcoming 5G smartphone from Honor to come powered by the company’s own flagship Kirin processor for powerful performance. Since the Kirin 990 SoC is set to get launched in a couple of weeks, we expect the Honor V30 to come powered by the same chipset.

Honor’s parent company Huawei has started selling its first 5G smartphone in its home country China. Huawei Mate 20 X 5G smartphone is now available for purchase in China costing 6,199 Yuan, which roughly converts to $881. It comes with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage in Emerald Green color.

The Huawei Mate 20 X 5G features a massive 7.2-inch OLED display with a waterdrop notch, Full HD+ screen resolution of 1080 x 2244 pixels and an aspect ratio of 18.7:9. The 7nm Kirin 980 chipset is present under the hood, along with Balong 5000 5G modem that brings 5G connection on the device. It is a dual SIM phone that supports a 5G SIM and a 4G SIM at the same time.

On the front side, the phone comes with a 24-megapixel selfie camera having f/2.0 aperture. The rear shell of the smartphone features Leica engineered three camera sensors housed inside a square-shaped module. It includes an LED flash, an f/1.8 aperture 40-megapixel primary sensor, an f/2.4 aperture 8-megapixel telephoto lens with OIS and a 20-megapixel ultrawide lens.

Other features on the device include Dolby Atmos support, facial unlock, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, USB-C, 3.5mm headphone jack, and a rear-facing fingerprint sensor. It comes pre-loaded with Android 9 Pie OS that is customized with EMUI 9.1 and is powered by a 5,000mAh battery that supports 40W fast charging.

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