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Huawei has just announced a new smartphone called Huawei Nova 2S in China that comes with dual rear and dual front-facing cameras. It comes with a bigger 6-inch full-HD+ 18:9 aspect ratio display. It is priced at 2699 yuan ($408) for the 4GB RAM + 64GB inbuilt storage option, 2999 yuan (around $454) for the 6GB RAM with 64GB internal storage and the top-end Yixing Zhang customized 6GB RAM + 128GB internal storage is priced at 3399 yuan (around $514). It comes with Black, Gray, Red, Rose Gold and Blue colour options and it has a shiny glass back with a fingerprint sensor on the front of the device. Let’s check out the specifications of the device next.
Huawei Nova 2s specs
It features a 6-inch Full HD+ 18:9 LTPS 2.5D curved glass display with 2160×1080 pixels resolution and is powered by an octa-core Huawei Kirin 960 (4 x 2.4 GHz A73+ 4 x 1.8 GHz A53) processor + i6 co-processor and Mali G71 octa-core GPU. It comes with 6GB of RAM with 64GB / 128GB internal storage options and 4GB RAM + 128GB internal storage option with all variants supporting expandable storage up to 256GB with microSD card slot. It runs on Android 8.0 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.0 OS out of the box and comes with Hybrid Dual SIMs.
It features a dual rear camera with 16-megapixel (RGB) + 20-megapixel (Monochrome) cameras having f/1.8 aperture, LED flash, PDAF and 4K video recording along with a dual front-facing camera with a 20-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture and a secondary 2-megapixel camera with LED flash. It will have a 3340mAh battery and connectivity options include 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11ac (2.4GHz/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS / GLONASS, NFC, 3.5mm audio jack, Hi-Fi audio chip and USB Type-C. A fingerprint sensor is available on the front panel. It measures 156.9×75.1×7.5mm and weighs 169 grams. It also comes with support for face recognition.
Huawei launched the Nova 2 and Nova 2 Plus in May earlier this year. The Nova 2 was launched with a 5-inch Full HD LTPS 2.5D curved glass display, an octa-core Kirin 659 processor (4 xA53 at 2.36GHz + 4 x A53 at 1.7GHz) with Mali T830-MP2 GPU, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage capacity, expandable storage up to 128GB with microSD card slot, Android 7.0 Nougat OS based EMUI 5.1, Hybrid Dual SIM.
It has a dual rear camera with 12-megapixel + 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, PFAF, 1.25μm pixel size, f/1.8 aperture along with a 20-megapixel front-facing camera, a 2950mAh battery, connectivity options includes 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS / Glonass, USB Type-C and 3.5mm audio jack with audio enhancements features like AK4376A Hi-Fi audio chip and 3D surround sound features in addition. It has a fingerprint sensor on the rear panel and it measures 142.2×68.9×6.9mm with 143 grams weight.
The bigger Nova 2 Plus was launched with a 5.5-inch Full HD LTPS 2.5D curved glass display, an octa-core Kirin 659 processor (4 xA53 at 2.36GHz + 4 x A53 at 1.7GHz) with Mali T830-MP2 GPU, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of internal storage capacity, expandable up to 128GB with microSD card slot, Android 7.0 Nougat OS based EMUI 5.1, Hybrid Dual SIM, a dual rear camera with 12-megapixel + 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, PFAF, 1.25μm pixel size, f/1.8 aperture along with a 20-megapixel front-facing camera.
It has a 3340mAh battery, connectivity options include 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS / Glonass, USB Type-C and a 3.5mm audio jack with audio enhancements features like AK4376A Hi-Fi audio chip and 3D surround sound features in addition. It has a fingerprint sensor on the rear panel and it measures 153.9×74.9×6.9mm with 169 grams weight.
