Thursday, 1 September 2016

IFA 2016: Huawei Nova and Nova+ bring big battery life on a budget

IFA 2016: Huawei Nova and Nova+ bring big battery life on a budget

Huawei, fresh from launching the P9, is back with two new phones with a lower price, designed for the younger market.

The Huawei Nova is the first of the two, with a 5-inch 1080p screen inside a metal and curved glass body, with an advanced fingerprint scanner on the back, 3GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 625 chipset inside.

The main selling point will be the battery life: at 3020mAh, that's a large power pack for this class of phone, with more juice on offer than you'll see on the Samsung Galaxy S7. Huawei is claiming that it's got 30% better battery than the Snapdragon 615 (which powered the previous Huawei G8).

It's also got the improved USB-C port on the bottom, along with 32GB of internal storage and a MicroSD slot (which can curiously only handle cards up to 128GB). The camera on the back is a fairly standard-sounding 12MP affair, with an f2.2 aperture, and an 8MP, f.20 aperture snapper on the front... So low light selfies will be half decent.

DoublePlus good?

The Huawei Nova+ is almost identical in terms of specs, but boosts the size up to include a 5.5-inch screen (although sadly it's still only 1080p, presumably to keep costs down).

Nova duo

The Nova+ camera is also upgraded to 16MP with optical image stabilisation, which will help low light performance, and the battery is a much larger 3340mAh unit, meaning you'll get an oddly specific '2.2 days average use' out of the phone, according to Huawei.

The spec list for these phones is pretty good - if the price is right. They could be as much as half the price of some flagships on the market right now, but sadly the Huawei Nova price currently remains a mystery as regional locations (which are still to be decided as well) offer up their own localised costs.

Release date is still up in the air as well - in fact, apart from the way they look and feel in the hand, we don't know much else about these new Huawei phones, it seems.

• Want to see these phones in all their glory? We've got our detailed hands on: Huawei Nova review and hands on: Huawei Nova+ review for you to gaze at lovingly



from TechRadar: Phone and communications news http://www.techradar.com/1327588

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