Huawei has announced the Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G LOHAS Edition smartphone in China. The major highlight of the smartphone is that it is equipped with a new chipset named Kirin 820E.

Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G LOHAS Edition specifications and features

The Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G LOHAS Edition features a 6.5-inch IPS LCD punch-hole screen. It offers a Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels and a 20:9 aspect ratio. The device runs on EMUI 10.1 based Android 10 OS. It is equipped with a side-mounted fingerprint scanner for security.

The 7nm Kirin 820E chipset that includes the all-new Kirin 820E, which is a lower version of the Kirin 820 SoC powers the Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G LOHAS Edition. It is a hexa-core processor that comprises of 3 x Cortex-A76 cores clocking at 2.2GHz and 3 x Cortex-A55 that works at 1.84GHz along with Mali-G57 GPU. The SoC is accompanied by 8 GB of RAM. It has 128 GB of internal storage and an NM card slot for additional storage.

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Selfies can be shot using the 16-megapixel front camera of the Nova 7 SE 5G LOHAS Edition. The rear-facing quad-camera system of the phone has a 64-megapixel primary camera with f/1.8 aperture, an 8-megapixel ultrawide lens, a 2-megapixel depth sensor, and a 2-megapixel macro lens.

The Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G LOHAS Edition carries support for 40W fast charging for its 4,000mAh battery. The usual connectivity options such as dual SIM, 5G, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.1, USB-C, and 3.5mm audio jack are also available on the device.

The original Nova 7 SE 5G that was announced in April has been discontinued. In Q4 2020, the company introduced the Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G Vitality Edition with Dimensity 800U. The only major difference between the LOHAS and Vitality Edition is the presence of a new chip.

Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G LOHAS Edition pricing and availability

The Nova 7 SE 5G LOHAS Edition has arrived with a pricing of 2,299 Yuan. The phone comes in four colors like silver, green, black, and purple. It will go on sale from Jan. 23.

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HUAWEI MatePad 5G 10.4 launches quietly in China just after a few hours from the announcement of Apple iPad 8th Generation and iPad Air 4th Generation. It is the company’s first mid-range 5G tablet with design cues from its premium MatePad Pro lineup.

HUAWEI MatePad 5G 10.4 Specifications

As the name suggests, the newly launched Huawei tablet flaunts a 10.4-inch IPS LCD panel with a resolution of 2000 x 1200 pixels, 225ppi, 10 point multi-touch, anti-fingerprint coating, 85° viewing angle, TÜV Rheinland certification for low blue light emission, and also supports input from HUAWEI M-Pencil.

It is powered by HiSilicon Kirin 820 chipset paired with 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage with support for microSD card up to 512GB. Thanks to this silicon, it comes with 5G connectivity, dual-band WiFi 6, and Bluetooth 5.1.

Apart from the above-mentioned internals, it also features all the required sensors like compass, ambient light sensor, hall sensor, and gravity sensor. Further, a 7,250mAh battery runs the show, which the brand claims to offer 12.5 hours of battery life.

Other features of this tablet include 8MP fixed focus (FF) rear-facing camera, another 8MP sensor on the front but with autofocus (AF), power key, volume rocker, 4 microphones for better noise reduction, quad-speaker with HUAWEI Histen 6.1 Sound and Harman Kardon tuning, 22.5W fast charging, and EMUI 10.1 operating system based on Android 10.

HUAWEI MatePad 5G 10.4 Pricing & Availability

The new HUAWEI MatePad 5G 10.4 is priced at 3,199 yuan ($473) and is limited to China for now. It will be available for pre-order starting September 16 in the country in two colors namely Fritillary White and Night Ash. The tablet will go on sale from September 23.

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A new leak has revealed the performance of the MediaTek Dimensity 1000C SoC. Reportedly, the chip marginally outperforms popular rivals in the segment like the HiSilicon Kirin 820 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G.

According to a post on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, the Dimensity 1000C is built on a 7nm process and features 4 ARM Cortex-A77 cores paired with another 4 ARM Cortex-A55 cores alongside the Mali-G57 GPU. The leak was shared by @数码闲聊站 on the popular Chinese social media platform with screenshots of performance scores of the processor through benchmarks.

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Furthermore, the Dimensity 1000C uses a MediaTek AI processing unit (APU 3.0) that runs the smartphone’s AI cameras, voice assistant, and other applications as well. As per the benchmark scores, it achieved 601 points on Geekbench 5’s single core tests and 2,365 points in the multi core performance test. In comparison, the Snapdragon 765G scores 607 points in single core tests but only 1,777 points in the multi core tests.

According to ITHome, the processor is being built specifically for the United States market. Interestingly, the chipset is also housed in the LG Velvet 5G T-Mobile variant. It is a mid range chip with performance being more similar to Dimensity 800 series chip over the higher end Dimensity 1000 chips. Although, it still beats the Snapdragon 765G and manages to rival the Kirin 820 SoC as well.

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Case images of two upcoming Enjoy 20 series phones by Huawei were spotted at Alibaba.com retailer site. These devices were named as Huawei Enjoy 20 and Enjoy 20 Plus. Reports surrounding both phones have revealed that the former has a WKG-AN00 / TN00 model number whereas the FRL-AN00a / FRL-TN00a model number belongs to the latter. Enjoy 20 has already appeared in the database of China’s 3C and TENAA regulatory bodies. Now, the FRL-AN00a that is believed to be the Huawei Enjoy 20 Plus has bagged approval from the 3C authority.

The 3C appearance reveals that FRL-AN00a is a 5G-enabled smartphone. The listing suggests that the phone could be supporting 40W fast charging technology. However, there are contradictory reports that the phone will support 22.5W fast charging. No other specs are mentioned in the 3C listing. Hopefully, the phone will soon emerge at TENAA with its entire specifications and images.

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Huawei Enjoy 20 Plus Specifications (Rumored)

The Huawei Enjoy 20 Plus is rumored to be equipped with a full HD+ 6.6-inch IPS LCD panel with notch-less design. The phone could be sporting a pop-up selfie camera. The back panel of the phone could be featuring a circular camera housing with 48-megapixel triple camera setup and LED flash inside it.

The Enjoy 20 Plus could be drawing power from Kirin 820 5G chipset and up to 8 GB of RAM. The phone may offer users with up to 128 GB of built-in storage.

The device may draw power from a 4,300mAh battery. It seems to be fitted with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. The EMU 10.1 based Android 10 OS is likely to come preinstalled on the smartphone.

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The Huawei Enjoy 20 Pro 5G debuted in June as the first Enjoy 20 series phone. Recent reports have revealed that there are three more devices in the series such as Huawei Enjoy 20, Enjoy 20s, and Enjoy 20 Plus. Recently, the Chinese firm unveiled the Maimang 9 phone in China. Reports surrounding it have revealed that the Enjoy 20s is the other name of the phone. Enjoy 20 is believed to be the WKG-AN00 / TN00 that was recently approved by TENAA whereas the FRL-AN00a / AN00 / TN00 model number belongs to the Enjoy 20 Plus. The case images of the Enjoy 20 and Enjoy 20+ have surfaced on Chinese retailer Alibaba to reveal their front and rear design.

Huawei Enjoy 20

The Huawei Enjoy 20 case images show that it has a waterdrop notch display and a square-shaped triple camera system on the rear. It also reveals that the phone has a side-facing fingerprint reader.

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The TENAA listing of the Huawei Enjoy 20 revealed that it has a 6.6-inch HD+ 20:9 display. It could be powered by Dimensity 800 or Dimensity 720 chipset. The 5,000mAh battery of the phone supports 10W charging. It will come with 4 GB / 6 GB / 8GB of RAM and 64 GB / 128 GB storage editions. It has a 13-megapixel + 5-megapixel + 2-megapixel triple rear cameras and an 8-megapixel front camera.

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Huawei Enjoy 20 Plus

The Huawei Enjoy 20+ case images show that it has a pop-up selfie camera, a notch-less display, a round-shaped camera module, and a side-facing fingerprint reader.

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Rumors surrounding the Enjoy 20+ have revealed that it has a 6.63-inch FHD+ display and it is powered by Kirin 820 chipset. Its rear-facing triple camera setup is speculated to be equipped with a 48-megapixel main camera. The phone may come with up to 8 GB of RAM and up to 128 GB built-in storage. It may house a 4,300mAh battery with 22.5W fast charging support.

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It is speculated that Huawei will be launching the Maimang 9 smartphone in China on July 26. The other name for the smartphone is Huawei Enjoy 20. It will be positioned lower than the Huawei Enjoy 20 Pro 5G that debuted last month in China with a price tag of 1,999 Yuan (~$286). Since the Enjoy 20 will also support 5G connectivity, it is expected to debut in China as the cheapest 5G-ready Huawei phone. Ahead of the rumored July 26 launch date, a Chinese tipster has shared a render to reveal its front and rear design.

The leaked render of the Huawei Enjoy 20 shows off its full-screen display. It is said to be equipped with a 6.63-inch notch-less IPS LCD panel that supports Full HD+ resolution. The device is equipped with a side-facing fingerprint reader.

There is a round-shaped camera module on the rear side of the Enjoy 20. It comprises of an LED flash and three cameras. It is speculated that the phone has a primary lens of 48-megapixel. The bottom edge of the phone seems to feature a speaker grille, a USB-C port, and a 3.5mm audio jack.

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The Enjoy 20 Pro is fueled by Dimensity 800 SoC by MediaTek. Rumors have it that the upcoming Enjoy 20 could be fueled by Kirin 820 5G SoC. The device is expected to offer users with up to 8 GB of RAM and up to 128 GB of built-in storage.

The Enjoy 20 will run on EMUI based Android 10 OS. It has a pop-up selfie camera. Huawei is expected to offer 22.5W fast charging support for Enjoy 20’s 4,300mAh battery. The model numbers FRL-AN001a, FRL-AN00, and FRL-TN00 belong to its network variants heading to Chinese markets.

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Update: A new leak reveals that the handset will be arriving in China as Maimang 9 and it will be also known as Huawei Enjoy 20. The new leak has a live shot of the phone’s notch-less display. it is likely to launch on July 26 in the homeland.

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Earlier this week, a leak revealed that a forthcoming Huawei or Honor phone will arrive with a rectangle-shaped camera housing with a 48-megapixel quad-camera setup inside it. While the identity of the phone remains a mystery, a new leak has revealed key details of a Huawei smartphone that has a model number of FRL-AN00a. Unfortunately, the final product name of the device is not known yet.

Two tipsters from China with a decent track record on revealing information on upcoming smartphones have shared key details of the Huawei FRL-AN00a smartphone. The FRL-AN00 and FRL-TN00 are the network variants of the phone for the Chinese markets.

The Huawei FRL-AN00a smartphone features a notch-less display of 6.6 inches. Its an LCD panel that offers Full HD+ resolution. The device is equipped with a pop-up selfie camera and a side-facing fingerprint reader.

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The Kirin 820 5G chipset is present under the hood of the mysterious Huawei phone. The SoC is coupled with 8 GB of RAM. It receives power to perform from a 4,300mAh battery. The device is expected to come with 22.5W fast charging support.

The handset is equipped with an internal storage of 128 GB. It is most likely to run on Android 10 OS and the latest EMUI edition. The rear shell of the phone has a round-shaped camera setup that includes a 48-megapixel triple camera system. Hopefully, the identity of the device will be revealed in forthcoming reports.

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Recent reports have revealed that Honor is gearing up for its next launch event for announcing new smartphones. Recently, a Chinese tipster had claimed that Honor’s next unveil event may take place on July 4 or July 5 in China. The same tipster took to Weibo today to share a live shot of the Honor X10 Max.

The side view of the alleged Honor X10 Max reveals that it has a very slim body. The left side of the device is almost barren as it only features a SIM card slot towards the top.

The major attraction of the Honor X10 Max is that it will be arriving with a massive display. The same tipster had previously revealed that it is equipped with a 7.09-inch display. It is unclear whether it is an LCD or OLED panel. It is speculated to arrive with support for DCI-P3 color gamut.

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Some reports have claimed that the Honor X10 Max will be featuring a notch-less display and a pop-up selfie camera like the Honor X10 5G that went official last month. However, the leaked shot of the purported X10 Max seems to show that it has a teardrop notch on the screen.

Rumors have it that it could be driven by the Kirin 820 5G SoC that fuels that X10 5G. The big form factor of the phone suggests that it could be housing a 5,000mAh or larger battery. It is also expected to arrive with support for fast charging.

Speculations surrounding the Honor X10 series have revealed that the Chinese firm is also working on a handset called Honor X10 Pro 5G. It is expected to feature the same 6.63-inch notch-less display available on the X10 5G. It may feature an additional camera on its back. It is said that the launch date is yet to be finalized.

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AnTuTu has released the list of best-performing smartphones in flagship and mid-range categories in May 2020 for China. The flagship list is entirely populated by Snapdragon 865 mobile platform and the first phone to lead the pack is OPPO Find X2 Pro with a score of 604,123. The midrange list is led by Dimensity 1000L powered OPPO Reno3 5G. It managed to score 403,607 points.

AnTuTu’s flagship list for the previous month has the OPPO Find X2 in the second position with a score of 600,884. The third place is held by Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro. It has scored 600,264.

The OPPO Ace2, iQOO Neo3, and Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition are placed on the fourth, fifth, and six positions. The remaining phones that made it to the list include iQOO 3, Realme X50 Pro, OnePlus 8 Pro, and Vivo NEX 3S 5G. Surprisingly, there are no Kirin 990 5G powered Huawei and Honor phones in the top 10 list.

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The top 10 mid-range list for May 2020 by AnTuTu has phones powered by different processors from MediaTek, Qualcomm, Huawei, and Samsung. After the Reno3 5G, the Honor 30 featuring the Kirin 985 is placed on the second position with a 387,583 score. It is followed by Huawei Nova 7 with a score of 385,323. The handset is also powered by Kirin 985 SoC.

The Honor 30S, Honor X10 and Huawei Nova 7 SE phones that feature the Kirin 820 chipset have secured fourth, fifth and sixth positions. The Reno3 Pro 5G featuring the Snapdragon 765G is on the seventh position.

The Vivo S6 5G and Vivo X30 5G fueled by the Exynos 980 SoC are on the eighth and ninth positions. The SD765G powered Redmi K30 5G is placed on the tenth place on the list.

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On May 20, Honor unveiled the Honor X10 5G smartphone in China. With a starting price of 1,899 Yuan (~$266), it debuted as the cheapest 5G-ready phone from the company. The handset includes many attractive features such as a large-sized notch-less display, a powerful mid-range SoC, a flagship-grade that promises stellar photography experience in low-light conditions, and a decent battery with fast charging. Honor carried out the first sale of the smartphone today in China.

Honor X10 5G pricing

The Honor X10 5G is available in three variants like 6 GB RAM + 64 GB storage, 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage and 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage in China. They are priced at 1,899 Yuan (~$266), 2,199 Yuan (~$308) and 2,399 Yuan (~$336). Probing Black, Racing Blue, and Lightspeed Silver are the three color editions of the smartphone.

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Honor X10 specifications

The Honor X10 has a Full HD+ 6.63-inch IPS LCD notch-less display that supports up to 90Hz refresh rate. The Kirin 820 chipset powers the device along with LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.1 storage. The 4,300mAh battery of the Honor X10 supports 22.5W fast charging. It is equipped with a side-facing fingerprint reader.

The Honor X10 boots to Magic UI 3.1.1 based Android 10 OS. It has a NM card slot for additional storage. There is a pop-up selfie snapper of a 16-megapixel camera on the device. The rear side of the phone features a triple camera unit that includes a Sony IMX600y 40-megapixel main lens, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide lens, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor.

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Honor announced the Honor Play 4T and Play 4T Pro smartphones in April. These phones arrived with budget-friendly specifications and pricing. Yesterday, an upcoming Honor Play4 Pro popped up on a Chinese retailer site. The listing revealed the images of the smartphone. The Chinese leakster who shared the same images on Weibo claimed that it is powered by Kirin 820 5G chipset. However, another tipster from China who is known for Huawei and Honor leaks has claimed that the Play4 Pro has Kirin 990 5G.

The tipster stated that the Honor Play4 Pro won’t be a low-budget device like the Play 4T series. He said that the Play4 Pro is the spiritual successor of the Honor Play that had debuted in 2018. At that time, the Honor Play with Kirin 970 SoC onboard arrived as a gaming-focused handset.

Hence, the Honor Play4 Pro is expected to arrive as a flagship device with Kirin 990 5G. Like the Honor Play, the Play4 Pro is likely to come with gaming capabilities. The tipster claimed that the phone may arrive with a pricing of around 3,000 Yuan.

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Honor is yet to confirm the existence of the Honor Play4 Pro. The tipster said that the smartphone may debut either in June or July. The handset is speculated to have an OXP-AN00 model number and it was spotted at Wi-Fi and 3C certification platforms recently. The 3C listing of OXP-AN00 that it could be coming with a 40W fast charger whereas Wi-Fi listing revealed support dual-band Wi-Fi and EMUI 10 based Android 10 OS. The handset is believed to feature a Sony IMX600Y 40-megapixel main camera on its back.

The Honor Play4 Pro images have revealed that it is a dual punch-hole screen and a side-mounted fingerprint reader. The smartphone has a dual-camera setup on its rear.

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In April, Honor introduced the Honor Play 4T and Play 4T Pro budget-friendly smartphones in China. A fresh leak reveals that the Chinese firm is now gearing up to launch a new smartphone called Honor Play4 Pro. A trustworthy tipster from China who first spotted the handset on a Chinese retailer site shared its key specs and renders.

The images show that the Honor Play4 Pro is equipped with a display that has a pill-shaped cutout at the upper-left corner for its dual front-facing cameras. With a slightly thick chin and slim bezels around the display, the Play4 Pro delivers a high screen-to-body ratio.

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The right edge of the Honor Play4 Pro has a volume rocker. Below it is a fingerprint sensor that is embedded in the power button. The blue colored rear of the phone has a unique futuristic appeal. The top-left corner of the Play4 Pro’s rear shell has a camera module that houses dual lenses and an LED flash. The text imprinted below the cameras show that it is equipped with a 40-megapixel primary shooter.

The tipster revealed that the Honor Play4 Pro is a 5G-ready device. The exact size of its battery size is not known. It is rumored to arrive with support for 40W fast charging. The 40-megapixel lens is a flagship-grade Sony IMX600Y RYYB sensor. The image sensor is available on the Honor X10 5G phone that was announced yesterday in China. It has been previously used on flagship devices like Honor V30 Pro and Huawei Mate Xs.

The only non-flagship 5G-ready Kirin chipset by Huawei is the Kirin 820 5G. With a pricing of 1,899 Yuan, the Honor X10 is the cheapest 5G phone from Honor. The tipster claims that the Honor Play4 Pro is powered by a 5G Kirin chipset. It remains to be seen whether the Kirin 820 will be present under the hood of the Honor Play4 Pro.

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In July 2019, Honor unveiled the Honor 9X and Honor 9X Pro smartphones. Today, the Chinese tech giant took off covers from the 5G-ready Honor X10. It has debuted as the cheapest 5G smartphone from Huawei’s sub-brand. Instead of calling the successor phone as Honor 10X, the company decided to settle with Honor X10 5G moniker in a bid to let consumers to not get confused with Redmi’s upcoming Redmi 10X 5G and Redmi 10X Pro 5G smartphones. Compared to the predecessor model, the Honor X10 comes with many upgraded features like 5G support, larger notch-less display, flagship-grade main camera, and a larger battery with fast charging capabilities.

Honor X10 5G specifications

The Honor X10 5G is a glass-bodied smartphone with 163.7 x 76.5 x 8.8mm dimensions and it weighs 203 grams. The Honor 9X featured a 6.59-inch notch-less screen with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The successor X10 flaunts a slightly bigger 6.63-inch IPS LCD display with notch-less design. There is no punch-hole on the 20:9 aspect ratio display, it delivers a high screen-to-body ratio. One major improvement on the display of the X10 is that it comes with support for the 90Hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch sampling rate.

The Kirin 820 5G chipset fuels the Honor X10 smartphone. At the unveiling event, the company proudly boasted that the handset supports 9 5G bands such as n41, n78, n79, n1, n77, n38, n80 and n84. The handset can reach download speeds of up to 1003Mbps on 5G. It is equipped with Huawei’s Super Uplink (SUL) 5G technology that increases the uplink rate as well as a cell edge network by 412 percent.

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The SoC of the Honor X10 5G is coupled with LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.1 storage. There is a dedicated NM card slot on the device for additional storage. The phone draws power from a 4,300mAh battery that carries 22.5W fast charging support. The predecessor Honor 9X was packed with a 4,000mAh battery with 10W charging support. The X10 5G smartphone boots to Android 10 OS customized with the latest Magic UI 3.1 skin.

The Honor X10 5G is blessed with a pop-up selfie camera of 16-megapixel. There is a rectangle-shaped camera housing at the upper-left corner of X10’s glass back. It is pioneered by Sony IMX600y 40-megapixel RYYB that was previously used on Honor V30 Pro and Huawei Mate Xs. The main sensor of X10 is accompanied by an 8-megapixel ultrawide shooter and a 2-megapixel depth assist lens. The ISP 5.0 image sensor processor that is provided with Kirin 990 5G SoC can be also found on the Kirin 820. The RYYB capture more light than the traditional RGGB sensor which results in bright low-light shots. The X10 has excellent night shooting capabilities with up to ISO 153600, claims the company. The rear cameras with other features like fast autofocus, AI scene detection, AIS handheld Super Night Scene 2.0, 4K UHD video shooting, and 960fps slow-motion video recording.

The Honor X10 5G is equipped with a side-facing fingerprint sensor that can unlock the device in only 0.3 seconds. It comes with connectivity features like dual SIM slot, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.1, GPS, USB-C, and 3.5mm headphone slot.

Honor X10 5G price and availability

Here is the pricing of the different variants of the Honor X10 5G:

• 6 GB RAM + 64 GB storage – 1,899 Yuan (~$267)
• 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage – 2,199 Yuan (~$309)
• 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage – 2,399 Yuan (~$337)

The X10 5Gcan be bought in colors like Racing Blue, Light Speed Silver, Burning Power Orange, and Speed Black. Honor will be selling customized phone cases for Honor X10 buyers. The first sale of the phone will be carried out on May 26 in China. The company did not unveil a Pro variant for the Honor X10.

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Last week, Honor began with the reservations of the Feather Red color variant of the Honor 30S phone that went official at March-end in China. As promised by the company, the sales of the new color variant begin from today in the home market.

So far, the Honor 30S has been available in China in colors like Feather White,  Feather Green and Midnight Black. The new Feather Red edition is a blue-red gradient. Like the other color editions, the Feather Red Honor 30S comes in 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage and 8 GB RAM + 256 GB storage versions. They are priced at 2,399 Yuan (~$337) and 2,699 Yuan (~$379). Currently, the Honor 30S is the cheapest 5G phone from Honor.

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Honor 30S specifications

The Honor 30S has a 6.5-inch IPS LCD screen that features a punch-hole at the top-left corner. The handset supports full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels and 20:9 aspect ratio. The Kirin 820 5G fuels the device. The handset ships with LPDDR4x and UFS 2.1 storage.

The Android 10 OS coupled with the latest Magic UI runs on the smartphone. The phone has a 4,000mAh battery that supports 40W rapid charging.

The Honor 30S has a side-facing fingerprint reader and it has a shared SIM slot for adding a nano memory card. The Honor 30S has a front camera of 16-megapixel. Its rear has a quad-camera setup that includes a 64-megapixel main shooter, an 8-megapixel telephoto lens, an 8-megapixel ultrawide sensor, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor.

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The P40 Lite 5G is the latest Huawei phone to go official in the European markets. It joins the Huawei P40 family that includes members like Huawei P40, P40 Pro, P40 Pro+, and P40 Lite. While the Huawei P40 Lite 5G is a new device for Europe, it is a rebranded version of the Huawei Nova 7 SE 5G that went official in China in April.

Huawei P40 Lite 5G specifications

The Huawei P40 Lite has a 6.5-inch IPS LCD panel that has a round-shaped cutout at the top-left corner for the 16-megapixel selfie camera. The display offers a Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels and an aspect ratio of 20:9. The Android 10 OS along with EMUI 10 runs on the device. It lacks support for Google apps and services.

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The Kirin 820 5G SoC is the driving force of the smartphone. The SoC is coupled with 6 GB of RAM. It has 128 GB of built-in storage. There shared SIM slot supports the NM card for additional storage.

The back panel of the phone has a quad-camera setup that comprises of a 64-megapixel main lens, an 8-megapixel ultrawide shooter, a 2-megapixel macro lens, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. The device has a 4,000mAh battery that supports 40W fast charging.

Huawei P40 Lite 5G pricing

The Huawei P40 Lite 5G has arrived with a price tag of 399 euros in Europe. The pre-orders of the phone have started, and its sales are expected to begin on May 29.

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The Honor X10 5G smartphone debuting on May 20 in China is speculated to arrive as the company’s cheapest 5G smartphone. The first rumors of the Honor X10 had revealed that it will be equipped with an RYYB sensor for better photography even in low-light conditions. Yesterday, the company released the camera samples of the Honor X10 5G to reveal its capabilities at capturing shots in dim-light scenarios. Today, the Chinese firm released an official confirmation on Weibo that the smartphone is equipped with an RYYB image sensor.

The entire specifications of the Honor X10 5G are known thanks to its TENAA appearance. It revealed that the smartphone has a 40-megapixel + 8-megapixel + 2-megapixel triple camera system. Initial reports of the X10 had revealed it has a Sony IMX600Y 40-megapixel primary shooter. It is the same lens that is available on the Huawei P30 Pro phone from last year.

The below-shown camera shots that were captured around 2 AM at Mount Everest shows how good the X10 can be at shooting photos in extreme low-light conditions. The camera samples do suggest that the X10 will offer better photography experience than its competitor models in the same price segment. Honor is yet to confirm the existence of Honor X10 Pro. Rumors have it that the X10 Pro will come with OIS support for the same main camera.

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Honor X10 5G specifications

Yesterday, popular tipster Ishan Agarwal released a tweet that mentioned the specs of the Honor X10 along with a render that revealed its color variants. The Honor X10 has a 6.63-inch LCD display with a notch-less design. It supports 90Hz refresh rate, 1080 x 2400 pixels Full HD+ resolution, and 397ppi pixel density. The rear camera system of the phone has an f/1.8 aperture 40-megapixel Huawei’s SuperSensing Camera with RYYB, an f/2.4 aperture 8-megapixel lens and an f/2.4 aperture 2-megapixel sensor.

The Kirin 820 5G SoC and 4,300mAh battery powers the Honor X10. It supports 22.5W fast charging. The other features of the phone include Android 10 OS with Magic UI 3.1.1, up to 256 GB nm card, side-facing fingerprint sensor, Bluetooth 5.1 + LE, and IPX5 rated dust and water-resistant chassis. It may arrive in 6 GB RAM + 64 GB storage and 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage models in China.

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The Honor X10 smartphone will go official on May 20. The appearance of the handset was revealed through its appearance at the database of China’s TENAA certification platform last month. Today, the company rolled out a new poster to reveal the front and rear appearance of the handset. Also, the phone is now up for reservations on Vmall.

The new poster shows that the Honor X10 5G is equipped with a notch-less display. The company has already revealed that the X10 supports a high refresh rate of 90Hz and it will also offer users with 180Hz touch sampling rate.

The TENAA listing of the Honor X10 revealed that it has a 6.63-inch IPS LCD panel. The screen produces a

Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels and a tall aspect ratio of 20:9. The poster also gives a good look at the side-facing fingerprint reader.

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The top edge of the phone houses a retractable camera. TENAA revealed that the phone possesses a 16-megapixel camera for capturing selfie shots. A 3.5mm headphone slot and a microphone can be also seen on the top edge of the smartphone.

The rear side of the Honor X10 seems to be made out of glass and has a distinctive pattern. The top-left corner has a rectangular housing that includes three cameras and an LED flash unit. The “Super Night Vision” text imprinted inside the camera housing suggests that the X10 will be good at capturing brighter shots in dim-light conditions. After all, the handset is speculated to be equipped with Sony IMX600y RYYB 40-megapixel main shooter. It will be accompanied by an 8-megapixel lens and a 2-megapixel sensor.

The Honor X10 will feature the 5G-ready Kirin 820 chipset along with graphene cooling system. The handset has a rated battery of 4,200mAh. The 3C listing of the phone revealed that it may ship with a 22.5W rapid charger. The handset may come with a price tag of 2,299 Yuan (~$324) for its base model.

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Honor is all set to announce the Honor X10 smartphone on May 20. While the company hasn’t released an official confirmation, the rumor mill has claimed it will be also announcing the Honor X10 Pro alongside the vanilla model. The Honor X10 will be replacing the Honor 9X Pro from last year that came with a 6.59-inch notch-less screen. The TENAA listing of the Honor X10 5G has revealed that it will be flaunting a larger notch-less display compared to the predecessor phone. Today, the company revealed that the X10 will support a higher refresh rate and touch sampling rate.

The poster released by Huawei’s sub-brand confirms that the Honor X10 5G’s display will support the 90Hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch sampling rate. A higher refresh rate promises better viewing experience while scrolling, animations, and transitions than the conventional 60Hz display. Higher touch sampling rate means the screen will refresh at a faster rate to register a touch. Hence, it appears that the Honor X10 will be arriving with some gaming capabilities.

According to yesterday’s leak, the Honor X10 Pro is supposed to get a higher 90Hz refresh rate and the standard X10 will use a 60Hz display. But the above image mentions 90Hz for the X10, so it’s possible that the leak wasn’t entirely accurate.

Honor is yet to confirm on the other features of the smartphone. Since the smartphone appeared on TENAA last month, its entire specifications have been revealed.  The handset is expected to debut as the cheapest 5G-ready smartphone form the company.

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Honor X10 5G specifications

The Honor X10 is expected to come with a 6.63-inch Full HD+ resolution supporting notch-less display. The Kirin 820 5G chipset will be fueling the device. The phone may come with up to 8 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB of built-in storage. The phone will come with a graphene cooling system.

The EMUI based Android 10 OS will run on the device. It may arrive with a 4,200mAh battery that supports 22.5W fast charging. It may possess a 16-megapixel pop-up selfie shooter and a 40-megapixel (Sony IMX600y RYYB) + 8-megapixel + 2-megapixel triple camera setup on the rear.

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Last month, Honor revealed that its upcoming X-series will be breaking cover as Honor X10, and not as Honor 10X as many expected. It is speculated that the company decided to modify the name because it does not consumers to confuse between its X series phone with the upcoming rival phone named Redmi 10X 4. One major difference between the two phone is that Redmi 10X is a 4G phone and the Honor X10 is a 5G-ready device. The specifications of the Honor X10 appeared on TENAA last month, but the company did not reveal its launch date. Today, the Huawei sub-brand took to Weibo to reveal that the Honor X10 will be announced on May 20.

As it can be seen, the poster released by the company reveals the launch date and has no details on its key features. The TENAA listing of the Honor X10 revealed that it has a 6.63-inch IPS LCD display. Like the predecessor Honor 9X, the X10 will have a notch-less screen and a pop-up selfie shooter.

The Kirin 820 5G chipset is expected to be present under the hood of the Honor X10. The phone houses a 4,200mAh battery that supports 22.5W fast charging through USB-C.

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The handset has a pop-up selfie snapper of 16-megapixel. The rear-side of the device has a rectangle-shaped camera module that houses three lenses such as a 40-megapixel primary lens, an 8-megapixel secondary lens and a 2-megapixel sensor. It is said to be equipped with a Sony IMX600y custom sensor as the main lens.

The Honor X10 has 163.7 x 76.5 x 8.8mm dimensions and it weighs 203 grams. The Honor 30S has a starting price of 2,399 Yuan (~$338) in China. It is speculated that the Honor X10 will be Honor’s cheapest 5G phone. It is likely to be priced around 2,000 Yuan (~$282).

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In April, the Chinese benchmarking platform – Master Lu shared a report on the market share of smartphone brands in the first quarter of 2020 in China. Huawei ranked first followed by Honor, OPPO, Xiaomi and Vivo. Today, the company released the list of best performing smartphones for the month of April. The list is led by the OPPO Ace2 flagship that was announced earlier in the same month.

The OPPO Ace2 scored 522,110 in Maser Lu benchmarks. Second came the iQOO Neo3 phone that recorded a score of 483,920. The OnePlus 8 Prov acquired the third spot with a scored of 465,814.  Fourth came the OnePlus 8 with a score of 464,401. The top four are Snapdragon 865 mobile platform powered devices.

The Honor 30 Pro+ Kirin 990 5G powered surpassed Huawei P40 series with a scored of 424,344. The Honor 30 is placed sixth with a score of 421,840. The Huawei P40 Pro recorded a score of 386,083 to gain the seventh position. The Huawei P40 is on the eighth spot with 375,644 score.

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The Honor 30 which is the first Kirin 985 5G chipset powered smartphone reached the ninth position with a score of 341,227. Powered the same Kirin 985 SoC, Nova 7 Pro and Nova 7 gained the tenth and eleventh places in the list with respective scores of 330,930 and 330,431.

The other phones that are included in the top 17 best performing phones in April in China include Snapdragon 765G powered Xiaomi Mi 10 Youth Edition, the Kirin 820 5G powered Huawei Nova 7 SE, Nubia Play 5G that features SD765G, Honor Play 4T Pro driven by Kirin 810, Honor Play 4T fueled by Kirin 710A and Kirin 990 5G powered Huawei P40 Pro+.

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A report from the previous week had claimed that Honor’s next X-series smartphone will be arriving as Honor X10, and not Honor 10X as it was previously thought. Today, Honor President Zhao Ming confirmed today that Honor 10X will be renamed to Honor X10 and it will be arriving as a 5G-ready smartphone.

Ming said that if the Honor 30S powered by the Kirin 820 5G chipset has set off a wave of 5G popularity in China, the X-series will set off a 5G storm. Each generation of Honor’s X-series have been well-received in the home market as the company has managed to sell tens of millions of X-monikered smartphones. Last week, the Chinese firm confirmed that the sales of the Honor 9X exceeded 10 million units in China.

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While the rumor mill has claimed that Honor decided to rename its upcoming X-series phone as Honor X10 in order to prevent consumers from getting confused it with Redmi’s forthcoming Redmi 10X 4G phone, Ming did not share the exact reason behind renaming the product. Speculations surrounding the Honor X10 have claimed that it could be featuring the Kirin 820 5G chipset. It is speculated that the Honor X10 is codenamed as Teller. While the company is mum on the existence of Honor X10 Pro, rumors have it that it could be powered by Kirin 985 chipset and it could be coming soon.

The Honor X10 series is expected to get announced in May. It could be priced under 2,000 Yuan (~$282). A tipster from China has shared the key specs of the Honor X10. Readers are advised to digest the leaked specs with a grant of salt as its authenticity could not be confirmed.

Honor X10 specifications (Rumored)

The new leak reveals that the Honor X10 has a 6.63-inch IPS LCD screen that offers 1080 x 2400 pixels full HD+ resolution. The screen will carry support 120Hz refresh rate. It is equipped with a side-facing fingerprint reader. The Kirin 820 5G powered device will be backed by a 4,200mAh battery that supports 22.5W fast charging.

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Huawei will be launching the Nova 7 series of smartphone in China on April 23. Recent reports have revealed that the series include Kirin 820 5G powered Nova 7 SE phone, Kirin 985 powered Nova 7 5G and the flagship Nova 7 Pro 5G with Kirin 990 5G. The specifications of the Nova 7 series smartphones were revealed over the weekend through their leaked live shots. Two new phones with model numbers HNB-AN00 and NEY-AN00 have appeared on Geekbench benchmarking platform. These phones appear to be the upcoming Nova 7 and Nova 7 Pro smartphones.

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The newly spotted NEY-AN00 Huawei smartphone is equipped with 5G connectivity. The Kirin SoC that fuels it has a base frequency of 1.95GHz which indicates that it could be fueled by the Kirin 990 5G SoC. This suggests that the NEY-AN00 may be the Nova 7 Pro 5GT smartphone.

The NEY-AN00 has 8 GB of RAM and it runs on Android 10 OS. In the Geekbench 5’s single-core and multi-core tests, it scored 753 and 2899 points, respectively.

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The HNB-AN00 Huawei phone recorded 655 in the single-core test of Geekbench 5. The handset achieved a scored of 2326 in the multi-core test. The smartphone is loaded with Android 10 OS and it has 8 GB of RAM.

The base frequency of the Kirin 5G chipset that power the HNB-AN00 is 1.84GHz. It seems to be the Kirin 985 chipset. Hence, it seems that the HNB-AN10 phone could be the Kirin 985 powered Nova 7 5G.

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It has been almost a year since the launch of the Honor 9X series in China. A few days ago, Honor revealed it has sold over 10 million units of the device in China. While Honor has not said anything about a successor yet, a render of a phone alleged to be that of the Honor 10X Pro has surfaced on the web.

The alleged Honor 10X Pro has a punch-hole at the top left corner for a selfie camera and has a pretty slim lower bezel.

On the back, the phone has a slim rectangular camera housing that contains three rear cameras and an LED flash. A text written beside the sensors reads “64MP AI Triple Camera”.

The phone is reported to have a Kirin 820 processor, which is what we expect will power the successor to the Kirin 810-powered Honor 9X Pro. The source also mentions the display is an OLED panel supplied by China’s BOE Display, and that the phone supports 20W fast charge. We hope the latter is true because the Honor 9X series disappointingly only supports 10W charging.

Like we mentioned above, this is an alleged render of the Honor 10X Pro, so take it with a grain of salt. While a successor to the Honor 9X series should already be in development, we have heard no official reports yet.

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On April 23, Huawei will be taking off covers from the Huawei Nova 7 series that seemingly includes three devices such as Nova 7 SE 5G, Nova 7 5G and Nova 7 Pro 5G. Today, the Chinese manufacturer took to Weibo to share a teaser video of the Nova 7. It showcases the attractive curved display of the smartphone.

The Nova 7 teaser video reveals that it is equipped with a display that marvelously curves towards its left and right edges. It seems to be an OLED display that supports full HD+ resolution. There is a pill-shaped cutout at the upper-left corner of the screen which indicates that the phone will be flaunting dual selfie cameras. It could be featuring an in-display fingerprint sensor.

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While the Nova 7 SE is expected to arrive as the starting model in the Nova 7 series, it is unclear whether the handset shown in the teaser video is the Nova 7 or Nova 7 Pro. It is likely that the company may offer a curved display on the Pro model.

A silhouette of the rear design of the smartphone shows that it is equipped with a vertical camera system. A poster of the Nova 7 smartphone that surfaced recently revealed that its quad camera setup includes a periscope zoom lens that will bring support for up to 50x zoom. The Nova 7 could be powered by the Kirin 985 chipset, the Pro model may feature the Kirin 990 5G SoC and the Nova 7 SE could be driven by the Kirin 820 5G.

So far, the rumor mill has only revealed the key specs of the Huawei Nova 7 SE smartphone. The handset is expected to house a 6.5-inch punch-hole IPS LCD panel and it could be featuring a side-mounted fingerprint reader. The rear shell of the phone may have a 64-megapixel primary shooter. The handset is expected to carry support for 22.5W fast charging.

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Yesterday (15th April 2020), Honor, the Huawei subsidiary, had unveiled the company’s latest mobile processor, the Kirin 985 SoC. The chipset is an octa core processor and is 5G enabled. Now, George Zhao, the President of Honor, has stated that the chipset will be positioned between the flagship Kirin 990 and mid range Kirin 820 chipset, and will be aimed at device priced under 3000 Yuan (roughly 420 US Dollars).

The HiSilicon Kirin 985 5G chipset has been proprietarily developed and is the third 5G ready mobile processor that the company has launched. In an interview, the senior Honor official answered questions regarding its newly launched chip. According to George, the Kirin 985 SoC is meant to act as a bridge and fill the gap between the Kirin 990 and Kirin 820.

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The processor is a flagship unit and will be shipped with devices carrying a price tag under 3,000 Yuan. In other words, it will be a more viable offering in budget flagship smartphones that does not compromise too much on performance over the company’s faster Kirin 990 5G SoC. The Chinese tech giant is placing an increasing emphasis on 5G networking as it is the future of smartphones and cellular data.

The HiSilicon Kirin 985 houses an integrated 5G modem alongside the new Mali-G77 GPU. It also features the same dual core NPU as the Kirin 990 and has been specifically designed for improvements on “processing power, communication capabilities, thermal and structural design.” Previously, we had reported on the processor crossing the 380,000 mark on AnTuTu benchmark ratings, so it seems that the chip is powerful, to say the least.

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A Chinese tipster had revealed at the beginning of this month that the Huawei Nova 7 series of smartphones will debut on April 23.  However, Huawei remained mum on the arrival of the Nova 7 lineup. Today, the confirmed released a post on Weibo to confirm that it will be announcing the Nova 7 phones on April 23.

The poster released by the company which confirms the Huawei Nova 7 launch date showcases the vertical camera setup placed at the upper-left corner of its rear. The setup can include as many as four cameras along with an LED flash. The company did not reveal any information on the specs of the Nova 7 models.

Rumors surrounding the Huawei Nova 7 series have revealed that it comprises of three 5G-ready devices such as Nova 7 SE, Nova 7 and Nova 7 Pro. It is speculated that three phones could be powered by Kirin 820 5G, Kirin 985 5G and Kirin 990 5G.  They are expected to be priced between 2,000 Yuan (~$282) and 4,000 Yuan (~$565) in the home market.

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A leaked poster of Huawei Nova 7 series that is now being circulated on Weibo has revealed the key specs and design of the Nova 7 smartphone. It revealed that the smartphone draws power from the new Kirin 985 chipset. After the Honor 30 phone that was unveiled yesterday, the Nova 7 will be the second phone to arrive with the new 7nm chipset that clocks at 2.58GHz.

The Nova 7 sports a curved display with a dual punch-hole at the upper-left corner that will most likely accommodate two front-facing cameras. The rear-facing quad camera system of the Nova 7 includes a periscope zoom lens that supports up to 50x digital zoom. The handset can be seen in three colors like red, purple and gradient white. It is expected to arrive with 40W fast charging support.

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Huawei is rumored to be working on the launch of Huawei Nova 7 series. A recent report had revealed that the Chinese firm may announce it on April 23. However, the company is still mum on the existence of the arrival of Nova 7 lineup. A popular leakster from China has shared a blurry poster of the Nova 7 series. The blurry image manages to reveal the front and rear design of the smartphone.

Past reports have revealed that the Huawei Nova 7 lineup comprises of three devices, namely Nova 7, Nova 7 SE and Nova 7 Pro. All these phones are expected to arrive with 5G support. It is unclear whether the handset shown in the leaked poster is the vanilla Nova 7 or SE or the Pro model.

The poster reveals that the Nova 7 series handset has a rectangle-shaped camera housing on the back. The handset seems to be equipped with an impressive curved screen. There is a pill-shaped dual camera cutout at the top-left corner of the display. It appears that the smartphone will be available in blue and gradient white colors. Lastly, the poster reveals that popular Chinese singer Yi Yangqiaxi (also known as Jackson Yee) endorsing the Nova 7 series.

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The Nova 7 lineup is expected to be equipped with Kirin 820, Kirin 985 and Kirin 990 5G chipsets. The three phones are expected to be priced between 2,000 Yuan (~$284) and 4,000 Yuan (~$568). A past report had carried the specs of the Nova 7 SE phone. The specs of the Nova 7 and Nova 7 Pro are under the wraps.

The Nova 7 SE is likely to feature a 6.5-inch punch-hole display and it could be powered by a mid-range Kirin 5G chipset. It may feature a 64-megapixel primary shooter on its back. The phone may arrive with 22.5W fast charging support.

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Honor has released a new poster through its Weibo account in China. The image shows that the Honor 30 series is powered by three different 5G-capable processors. The Honor 30S which belongs to the same series is powered by the Kirin 820 chipset. The poster reveals that Honor 30 and Honor 30 Pro will be arriving with Kirin 985 5G and Kirin 990 5G, respectively.

The Honor 30S debuted as the first Kirin 820 5G phone. The Honor 30 will be the first phone powered by the Kirin 985 5G chipset. The Kirin 990 5G chipset that powered the likes of the Huawei P40 series, Mate Xs foldable phone and Mate 30 Pro 5G will be driving the Honor 30 Pro.

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Past reports have revealed that Honor 30 and Honor 30 Pro will have different rear-facing cameras. The Honor 30 Pro will have a primary Sony IMX700 lens whereas the vanilla model will flaunt a 40-megapixel lens. The Honor 30 is expected to arrive with 8 GB of RAM while the Pro model could be available in 8 GB as well as 12 GB RAM versions. The rest of the specs are believed to be identical on both phones.

The Honor 30 and Honor 30 Pro are expected to come with 6.57-inch AMOLED displays that deliver full HD+ resolution. These phones are likely to arrive with 4,000mAh batteries that will support 40W fast charging.

The Android 10 OS along with the latest version of the Magic UI will be loaded on the Honor 30 and 30 Pro. These phones are likely to come in 128 GB and 256 GB storage versions. Lastly, both phones will have 32-megapixel frontal shooters.

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Between October last year and now, Huawei‘s Hisilicon chip department has released two high-end chipsets. The flagship Kirin 990 SoC which was used on the Mate 30 series and of late the P40 series. The foundry has also unveiled the Kirin 820 premium mid-range chipset that found its way into the Honor 30S first. The Chinese market leader has now revealed that another high-end chipset – Kirin 985 is in the works and it has earlier been tipped to roll out onboard the premium Honor 30.

The Kirin 985 first popped up in the rumour mills as far back as December 2018 and it was speculated to launch with last year’s Huawei P30. One of the rumours tipped that Kirin 985 to launch in the second half of 2019 and another leak hinted that it will be mass-produced by TSMC in Q2 2019. The mass production was later rumoured to commence in Q3 2019. The Kirin 985’s pathway didn’t pan out exactly as the rumours predicted but apparently there is some bit of truth in the rumours. Honor’s Business department vice-president has now confirmed the existence of the Kirin 985. Since it is coming from the Honor end, we may as well conclude the chipset will feature on the Honor 30 first.

In a Weibo post today, the Honor VP shared the latest AI benchmark ranking with the Kirin 985 in the third spot. The chipset has ahead of it, only the Kirin 990 which is in the first spot and the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 in the second spot. The Kirin 985 is raked ahead of notable 5G chipsets like the Kirin 800 chipset in the third spot, the non-5G Kirin 990 variant in fifth while the premium mid-range Dimensity 1000L is at the sixth position in terms of AI prowess.

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The Snapdragon 865 flagship SoC is ranked at number 8 while the SNapdragon 855 Plus sits at the 9th spot. A surprising inclusion is the Unisoc Tiger 710 which completes the top 10. Samsung’s Exynos 990 chipset is at the eleventh position.

The Hoor VOP extols the capability of the company’s self-developed Neural Processing Unit (NPU) which is responsible for the impressive performance of the four Huawei chipset on the list, including the Kirin 985.

The screenshot shows the Kirin 985 is far below the Kirin 990 but is apparently a better SoC than the Kirin 820. However, the chipset is an octa-core processor with the same cores as the Kirin 820. It features a single Cortex-A76 core clocked at 2.58GHz and three Cortex-A76 cores with clocking frequencies of 2.4GHz each. There are also four Cortex-A55 cores with lower clock frequency of 1.84GHz. The Kirin 985 is listed as equipped with dual-core DaVinci NPU whereas the Kirn 820 has a single-core DaVinci NPU. Thus, the 985 has a slightly improved performance over the Kirin 820.

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Multiple reports have claimed that Huawei will be also announcing the Nova 7 series in April. As of this writing, there is no official confirmation on the arrival of the Nova 7 phones from Huawei. However, a fresh leak states that the Nova 7 models will be breaking cover on April 23.

The new leak states that the Nova 7 series include three models such as Nova 7 SE 5G, Nova 7 5G and Nova 7 Pro 5G. The Nova 7 series may feature three different processors such as Kirin 820 5G that went official recently, the unannounced Kirin 985 chipset and the Kirin 990 5G flagship SoC.

The Nova 7 SE could be priced between 2,000 Yuan (~$282) and 3,000 Yuan (~$423). The Nova 7 may cost around 3,000 Yuan and the Nova 7 Pro could be costing between 3,500 Yuan (~$493) and 4,000 Yuan (~$564).

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A previous report had claimed that the Nova 7 SE is powered by a mid-range Kirin 5G chipset which could be the Kirin 820 5G. It may come with a 6.5-inch punch-hole display. Its rear may house a 64-megapixel primary shooter. It is likely to arrive with support for 22.5W rapid charging. There is a possibility that the Huawei Nova 7 could be driven by the Kirin 985 chipset and the Nova 7 Pro could be fueled by the Kirin 990.

Huawei and its sub-branding will be the flooding the Chinese markets with many 5G phones across different price points. The Honor 30S recently debuted with a price tag of 2,399 Yuan (~$338). The Huawei P40 series will debut in China on April 4^th and it may start at 4,498 Yuan (~$634). The Honor 30 and Honor 30 Pro are scheduled to go official April 15. The 4G Honor 9A budget-friendly phone recently debuted in China. The Honor Play 4T and Play 4T Pro 4G phones are slated to debut on April 9.

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Honor had held a press conference on the evening of 31st March 2020. While the focus of the conference was the Honor 30S, the President of Honor, Zhao Ming (or George Zhao) also accepted an interview after the event.

In the interview, the senior executive from the Huawei subsidiary answered various questions regarding the new products and the company’s current direction and plans for the year 2020. One such question was regarding the new proprietary chipset the Kirin 820 5G SoC, which is housed in the Honor 30S. The chipset is notable because it is a great balance between powerful performance and pricing, according to the President.

The Kirin 820 SoC utilizes much of the same architecture as the company’s current flagship processor, the Kirin 990. It is built on a similar 7nm process technology and features a built in 5G modem, which is impressive considering it will be found in a smartphone priced between 2000 to 2500 Yuan (roughly 281 to 352 US Dollars). So, it can be assumed that it fills in the gap between high end and mid range smartphones.

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In regards to one of its primary rivals, Qualcomm, George Zhao stated that Kirin 820 is a mid to high end SoC with an integrated 5G modem. This is different from Qualcomm’s current flagship the Snapdragon 865 SoC which features a discrete 5G modem. In simpler terms, the latter is capable of noticeably better performance, but the key difference here is pricing as the Qualcomm chipset is primarily found in premium grade flagships which are generally expensive.

Thus, in this regard, Qualcomm has no immediate and direct competitor to the Kirin 820 SoC, since the Snapdragon 865 is a flagship processor while the SD700G series have yet to catch up. During the interview, George Zhao also placed an emphasis on competition, stating that rivalry and innovation is what drives the industry forward in advancement.

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At the Honor 30S launch event, the brand also officially announced the HiSilicon Krin 820 5G SoC, which also happens to power the new mid-range smartphone from the company. Now, the AI benchmark score of the new chipset is out, revealing it to be only less powerful than the manufacturer’s own HiSilicon Krin 990 5G SoC and MediaTek’s Dimensity 1000 5G SoC.

Huawei has been leading in on-device AI processing on mobile chipsets for the past couple of years. The company’s Kirin 970 was the first mobile SoC to feature a dedicated NPU (Neural Processing Unit). Later, in the following year, the Kirin 980 became the world’s first mobile SoC to feature a dual NPU design.

Now, even with a single-core NPU on Kirin 820 5G chipset, the manufacturer has mastered AI performance. In fact, the newest mid-range silicon from the company is 73% better in AI processing than its predecessor Kirin 810 from last year.

Talking about pure AI-Benchmark score, the all-new Kirin 820 5G garners 41838 points, and thus makes its way to the third position. The first two places are occupied by Kirin 990 5G and MediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G with an overall score of 70185 and 56158 respectively. Also, it is worth noting that non-5G version of Kirin 990 scores lesser than the new Kirin 820 5G with a score of 41773 points

Smartphones-wise, the Honor 30S with the Kirin 820 5G bags the 6th position with a score of 60843 points. Unsurprisingly, the top 7 positions are acquired by Huawei and Honor smartphones with Huawei P40 leading the chart. This is because we are yet to see a smartphone powered by MediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G SoC.

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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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Honor will be launching the Honor 30S smartphone on March 30. It will be the world’s first phone to come equipped with the Kirin 820 5G chipset. Recent leaks have revealed the rear design of the device. Fresh set of renders have surfaced on Weibo to reveal its front and rear design in full glory. Another leak has revealed the camera details of the Honor 30S phone.

Past reports have revealed that the Honor 30S will be arriving in white and orange color editions. Newly spotted renders show that It will be also available in black and green colorways. The rear shell of the device can be seen flaunting the trendy rectangle-shaped camera system. It comprises four cameras, an LED flash and AI branding.

The camera setup includes a 64-megapixel primary lens and a telephoto sensor that delivers 3x optical zoom. The design of the Honor 30S’ rear is inspired from the wings of butterflies. The side view of the phone reveals its camera bump.

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The images confirm that the Honor 30S is equipped with a side-mounted fingerprint reader. The front view of the phone shows that it has a punch-hole screen. Since the handset has a side-facing fingerprint sensor, it appears that the phone features an LCD display.

The specifications of the Honor 30S are currently under the wraps. The company recently confirmed that it will be arriving with support for 40W rapid charging. The smartphone was recently spotted on AnTuTu benchmarks with 375K+ average benchmarking score. The performance of the Kirin 820 5G SoC was found to be better than Snapdragon 765G and around 22,000 points less than Kirin 980. The AnTuTu listing revealed that the Honor 30S runs on Android 10 and is equipped with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. Its display supports 1080 x 2400 pixels and 20:9 aspect ratio.

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Last year’s upper mid-range phones from Huawei and Honor in China such as Nova 5, Nova 5i, Honor 9X, Honor 20S and Nova 6 SE were all fueled by the 7nm Kirin 810 chipset. Honor recently confirmed that the Honor 30S smartphone that will debut on March 30. It will be the first ever device to feature the successor of Kirin 810 i.e. the all new 5G-capable Kirin 820 chipset. Today, AnTuTu shared the benchmarks results of the Honor 30S smartphone. It revealed that the performance of the Kirin 820 5G is better than the rivaling Snapdragon 765G processor from Qualcomm.

The AnTuTu listing reveals that the Honor 30S (model number CDY-AN90) is powered by Kirin 820 chipset. It is an octa-core SoC with quad-core Cortex-A76 and quad-core Cortex-A55 with maximum clocking speeds of 2.3GHz. The SoC also includes Mali G57 graphics. It scored 130,080 in CPU test, 116,516 in GPU test, 66,886 in memory test and 61,788 in the UX test of the benchmarking platform. Hence, it managed to reach an average benchmarking score of 375,270.

The above shown graph shows that the Kirin 820 5G manages to beat the SD765G in CPU, GPU and memory tests and it scored slightly less in the UX test. Its performance is better than last year’s Kirin 810 chipset. Also, it scored around 22,000 points less than the Kirin 980 chipset which fueled most of the Huawei and Honor flagship phones last year. Hence, Kirin 820 5G powered phones are expected to deliver flagship-like experience at lesser cost.

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AnTuTu used Redmi K30 5G (SD765), Honor V20 (Kirin 980) and Nova 6 SE (Kirin 180) phones to compare the performance of the Kirin 820 powered Honor 30S. The benchmarking platform claims that the Kirin 820 is a very good 5G SoC and its performance is on par with MediaTek’s Dimensity 1000L. The latter was first seen on the Reno3 5G phone that debut in December last year.

Coming to the key specs of Honor 30S that leaked through its AnTuTu listing, it was found running on Android 10 OS along with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. The size of the display did not appear on AnTuTu. However, it revealed that the screen of the Honor 30S supports 1080 x 2400 pixels full HD+ resolution. The rear-facing quad camera setup has a 64-megapixel primary shooter. A variant of the same phone with model number CNY-AN00 was approved by 3C authority of China in the recent past. It revealed that the Honor 30S may ship with a 40W fast charger.

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Honor 30s leaked multiple times over the last week and yesterday the brand even announced the launch date as March 30. Now, Honor’s president has confirmed that the handset will be first to feature the brand new HiSilicon Kirin 820 SoC.

He said that Kirin 820 with 5G connectivity will perform extremely well and it will debut on Honor 30s. This statement is more than enough for us to anticipate the new chip. Because the only widely used mid-range 5G chip is Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G, whereas MediaTek’s Dimentsity 1000 / L is only available on Oppo Reno 3 5G yet. With more mid-range 5G chips in the market, more people will get to use 5G networks in the regions where it is available.

The Huawei’s HiSilicon Kirin 820 5G chipset will likely be based on the company’s own Da Vinci architecture NPU built on the 7nm process. The silicon should use ARM Cortex-A76 CPU cores and G77 GPU. Further, the newer ISP and NPU present in it will have support for Kirin Gaming Plus technology.

As per previous leaks, the Honor 30s will feature a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, a quad-camera setup, 40W charging support, and will come in White and Orange gradient color options.

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Recent reports had revealed that Honor is gearing up to launch a new smartphone called Honor 30S. The rumor mill had also speculated that the device may go official by the end of this month. The rumors have turned out to be true as Honor released an official confirmation through its Weibo account that the Honor 30S smartphone will be announced on March 30.

The Honor 30S launch date poster only confirms the March 30 date and has no information on its specifications. However, the image highlights the chipset that powers the Honor 30S phone. It is speculated that it will be the first smartphone to feature Huawei’s upcoming Kirin 820 chipset. Since it is said to be a 5G-ready SoC, the Honor 30S will arrive with support for 5G connectivity.

Recent reports have revealed that Kirin 820 will be a 7nm chipset that will come equipped with Cortex-A77 CPU cores and Mali-G77 GPU. The SoC is also rumored to deliver upgraded ISP and NPU experience. Apart from the Honor 30S phone, one of the upcoming Huawei Nova 7 series phone and Honor 10X will be powered by the Kirin 820 chipset. While the rumor mill has dubbed the successor of the Kirin 810 as Kirin 820, its official name is currently under the wraps.

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The Honor 30S will be arriving in Chinese market to replace the Kirin 810 powered Honor 20S phone from last year in September. There is no information available on the specifications of the Honor 30S smartphone. Leaked renders of the phone that were spotted recently revealed that it will be arriving in the market in Orange and White gradient color options.

The handset is rumored to sport a punch-hole display. The backside of the device features a rectangle-shaped camera module at its top-left corner. It houses four cameras and a LED flash. The smartphone seems to be sporting a side-mounted fingerprint reader. It is expected to carry support for up to 40W fast charging.

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While MediaTek and Qualcomm have a couple of 5G chipsets for mid-range phones, Huawei is yet to announce one. There have been reports of one coming soon and it is expected to power the Honor 30S. Specs of the chipset which is reported to be called the Kirin 820 5G have been leaked today by a leaker.

The info was posted on Weibo by Digital Chat Station. According to the leaker, the Kirin 820 will be a 7nm chipset with Cortex-A77 CPU cores and a Mali-G77 GPU. He also added that the chipset will have an upgraded ISP and NPU.

The info doesn’t reveal the CPU arrangement, so we do not know how many Cortex-A77 cores it has. However, it appears to be more powerful than the Snapdragon 765G whose Kryo 475 cores are based on the Cortex-A76. However, it should be able to take on the MediaTek Dimensity 1000L which also has Cortex-A77 cores and a Mali-G77 GPU.

The Kirin 820 5G chipset is expected to launch tomorrow based on a statement by Zhao Ming, the president of Honor. The top executive said on Weibo that there will be an announcement tomorrow which is the 8th anniversary of Vmall, Huawei (and Honor’s) online mall. The announcement will be for a “new product whose core has been redesigned”. This statement is implied to be a hint for the new chipset.

The Kirin 820 5G will appear first in the Honor 30S but expect more devices to follow shortly after it is launched.

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A new report has suggested that Honor, a subsidiary of the Chinese tech giant Huawei, may launch the successor of its popular Honor 9X soon. The Honor 10X will reportedly be announced soon and will feature Huawei’s Kirin 820 5G SoC.

Historically, the Honor X series of smartphones targetted the highly competitive mid range segment in the market. So an Honor 10X is very likely to be in the works and should target the same segment as well. The report regarding its eventual launch arrived from a Weibo post, a Chinese microblogging website. It was shared by the official Weibo account of @长安数码君, which also revealed one of its key specs.

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Unfortunately, the post doesn’t share finer details regarding the smartphone but does share an image and shares a crucial component it will house. While the Honor 9X feature Kirin 810 SoC, the Honor 10X will receive 5G support through the upcoming Kirin 820 processor. For those unaware, the Kirin is a proprietary chipset from Huawei and is manufactured by TSMC.

If it is indeed the successor to the Kirin 810, we can expected decent performance for the similar price range it may arrive in. Although, 5G networking is undoubtedly one of the most important inclusions in the series. If the leak is true, then the Honor 10X will be the first 5G smartphone in the lineup. The 9X was released back in 23rd July 2019, so the Honor 10X should also be expected to arrive around the same time frame.

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In June last year, Huawei had announced the Kirin 810 chipset. The 7nm chipset was designed to power upper-midrange and mid-tier Huawei and Honor phones. The Nova 5 and Nova 5 Pro were the first smartphones to feature the Kirin 810 chipset. Rumors have it that the HiSilicon has started working on the Kirin 820 chipset. Some of the key details of the upcoming SoC have surfaced.

It is speculated that the Kirin 820 could be built with Samsung’s 6nm manufacturing technology which can provide an additional density improvement of 18 percent. This will allow the Kirin 820 to deliver better performance than the same grade chipsets from Qualcomm and MediaTek.

The Kirin 820 chipset could be based on Cortex A77 architecture. There is no information available on the GPU and NPU of the chipset. With integrated 5G modem, the SoC will offer support for dual-mode 5G networks. It is being said that the mass production of the Kirin 820 will begin in the second quarter of this year. There is a possibility that the company may announce it by the end of June or early July this year. The Huawei Nova 7 and Honor 10X are rumored to be the first devices to be driven by the Kirin 820 chipset.

Huawei is yet to confirm on the existence of the Kirin 820. It is likely that the successor of the Kirin 810 may have a different name. Also, readers to advisable to digest the above lek with a grain of salt as there is no concrete evidence to prove its authenticity.

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Huawei Nova 6 SE Specifications

The Nova 6 SE is the latest Kirin 810 chipset powered phone from Huawei. Unveiled in December 2019, the Nova 6 SE comes with a 6.4-inch IPS LCD punch-hole display that produces full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2310 pixels. The SoC is coupled with 8 GB of RAM and it has a massive internal storage of 128 GB. There is a nanoSD card slot onboard for more storage.

There is a front camera of 16-megapixel on Nova 6 SE. On its rear is a quad camera setup that includes a 48-megapixel main lens, an 8-megapixe ultrawide sensor, a 2-megapixel macro lens and a 2-megapixel depth assist lens. The EMUI 10 based Android 10 OS runs on the device. The device is equipped with a side-mounted fingerprint reader. The 4,200 mAh battery of the phone supports 40W fast charging. The handset is priced at 2199 Yuan (~$316) in China.

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