We just got our Huawei Nova Plus review sample and we wanted to share our initial impressions about it. In fact, we played with it at IFA Berlin already and now I’m working on the full review.

Huawei Nova Plus: VIDEO

Huawei Nova Plus: UNBOXING

In the box, you are getting all the usual stuff that includes a charging brick, USB C cable, SIM ejector pin, a pair of earphones and some paperwork that my review unit did not come with.

Huawei Nova Plus: FIRST IMPRESSIONS

The phone has a 5.5” 1080p display, which uses the LCD technology and it is pretty sharp and vibrant.

The Nova Plus sports a familiar premium design we’ve seen from Huawei. It’s made out of metal, except for those plastic top and bottom parts for antennas.

We have a 16MP camera, which can shoot 4k videos and dual led flash. The image quality seems to be pretty good but I took just a few shots, so I can’t really tell you my verdict on the camera. In addition, there is a have a fingerprint sensor, which so far seems to be pretty accurate and it unlocks your phone straight from the standby mode.

On the front, we have an 8MP selfie shooter and on-screen navigation buttons.

As far as specs, we are looking at the upper-midrange phone. The Nova Plus ships with an octa-core Snapdragon 625 chip with the clock speeds of 2.0GHz, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable storage. The gaming performance has been good so far but I’ve noticed a few skipped frames when playing Asphalt 8.

The Nova Plus ships with the EMIUI 4.1, which is built on top of Android 6.0.

If you have used any other Huawei phone, the user interface will look exactly the same. There is no app tray but there are quite a few added features and customization options. So far, the UI has been fast and fluid but I need to spend a little bit more time with the device.

The Huawei Nova Plus smartphone will be available to buy in over 50 countries starting from October, although a date is yet to be set.

It will be first available in Europe for 429 EUR. The pricing for other countries is yet to be confirmed. Stay tuned to Gizmochina for a full review.

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Linas got a considerable amount of time at the ZTE Booth at IFA Berlin this year. You can check out the video below for details about the device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arEls_K43HY

The Axon 7 mini is a baby Axon 7. It sports most of the great qualities of its bigger brother. For example, it’s made of metal, it sports Hi-Fi audio chips, Dolby Atmos audio system, and powerful front-facing speakers. In fact, the Axon 7 mini won the Technical Innovation award for the exceptional audio quality.

The phone sports 5.2” 1080p AMOLED screen, it has an octa-core Snapdragon 617 chip, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable storage.

Other key features include a 16MP camera on the back, a fingerprint scanner and 8MP camera on the front.

Finally, it will retail for just $299 and sound like a compelling offering but we will tell our final verdict in our full review.

Also, there were some other devices that you could take a look at the ZTE booth.

For example, V7 series smartphones that include the V7, V7 Lite and V7 Max fall into budget smartphone category.

All of these phones run on MediaTek processors. The most powerful is the V7 Max as it sports an MTK6755 chip, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage and 5.5” 1080p display.

What is common to all 3 phones is that they run on the Android 6.0 with the ZTE’s skin on top of it, which has tons of features and customization options. Also, all the phones sports great build quality and they are made out metal.

Also, there were dedicated rooms where you could check out the audio, video and VR features of the ZTE devices.

Linas also had a chance to participate in the ZTE’s design panel where the company shared their vision about the design of the products and how their customers actually get involved in designing ZTE’s products.

So that would be it for this short video, I hope you guys enjoyed it and stay tuned for more coverage from IFA Berlin, 2016.

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ZTE’s recent efforts have been to strengthen the audio on its smartphones and the ZTE Axon 7 made sure that the company’s flagship device featured top-notch audio support. For some, audio is just another feature in a smartphone, but for others, it is one of the most used as well as important features on their phone.

ZTE has now confirmed that we will meet another audio-centric smartphone at the famous IFA Berlin in 2016. The event will be held on September 1, the same day that Huawei unveils its brand new device. From the press release sent to us, it is confirmed that the phone will be a premium device, coming with superior audio quality.

“We’re delighted to be debuting our latest products to the world in Berlin,” says Adam Zeng, CEO of ZTE Mobile Devices. “Our fan community played a huge role in the development of our new smartphones, delivering valuable input that helped inspire and motivate our team. The result is a suite of devices that pack cutting-edge, innovative features and the latest technology.”

The company claims that audio has been a shortcoming on many of the flagship smartphones in recent times and with their advanced research and development, ZTE’s recent phones like the Axon 7 aims to fill these special needs of customers.

Hopefully, we will get to hear more about this audio-centric ZTE smartphone in the coming days.

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Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin otherwise known as IFA Berlin is one of the major tech events of the year. It is an event that allows exhibitors present their latest innovations and products to the general public.

Quite a number of manufacturers always host their own personal conference right before the official opening to launch a new device or announce a new technology, and Huawei seems to be doing the same this year. The company has sent out invites for an event on September 1 which sources say is for the launch of a new phone.

The company’s senior Vice President, Yu Chengdong has announced that the event will take place at the Velodrom in Berlin at 1630 hrs on September 1. Yu Chengdong, in his own words says that the new release will ”exceed expectations”. Are we surprised? Not really. The company has had an impressive year so far and has exceeded expectations already of so many people most especially folks in the US following the recent release of the Honor 8.

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Rumours say the company wants to release a new sub-brand called Nova which will be aimed at the female folk. Further, sources say, Chinese actress, Guan Xiaotong has been invited to speak at the event.

It is also speculated that the device reported to be the Mate S2 which showed up at TENAA days ago, might actually be the first Nova device. The phone which shares a resemblance to the Nexus 6P also features a fingerprint scanner at the back.

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A few months ago, Lenovo showed off a concept tablet and phone with flexible displays at their Lenovo Tech World event which was held in San Francisco. It seems the device is going out of concept and will see an official launch following a new video release.

The video which is released ahead of the IFA Berlin 2016 conference is based on the theme “Different For the Sake of Better”. The video shows a couple of devices such as what appears to be a new Lenovo Yoga, a new type of keyboard, and most importantly, a phone with a flexible display and a foldable tablet.

Samsung and LG are two other big names in the flexible phones race. Samsung says they plan on bringing flexible phones to the market come 2017 with a possibility of showing up early next year during Mobile World Congress.

LG on the other hand already has 2 bendable phones: the G Flex and G Flex 2, but still doesn’t plan to get outdone by its Korean brother. So they are also preparing to launch phones with foldable displays next year.

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If Lenovo does launch their flexible phone this year, they’ll officially be the first company to do so. The thing about flexible phones isn’t the display itself but other components which are not easily bendable such as the battery.

August 31 is two weeks from now and we are really excited to see Lenovo’s new phone.

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