Huawei made a massive announcement yesterday in China, as they unveiled plenty of devices. The highlight of the event was three nova 5 smartphones. They are the Huawei Nova 5, Nova 5 Pro, and Nova 5i. We shall be looking at each of their individual features, specification and price.

Huawei Nova 5 Pro Features
The Huawei Nova 5 Pro is definitely the start among the trio. The phone has an OLED panel, fancy colours, and an under-display fingerprint scanner. The display is 6.39 inch in diagonal and comes with Full HD+ resolution and a waterdrop notch for the 32MP front-facing camera. There are 4 cameras in the rar – a 49MP main shooter, 16MP wide-angle lens, 2MP depth sensor, and 2MP macro camera.
Huawei Nova 5 Pro Price and Release Date
The Nova 5 Pro come with the flagship Kirin 980 chipset paired with an 8GB RAM, while internal storage is either 128GB or 256GB. The phone is equipped with a 40W Huawei SuperCharge, which tops up its 4000mAh battery. The Nova 5 Pro price starts at CNY2,999 ($435 or €385) for the 8GB/128GB variant, while the 8GB/256GB costs CNY3,399 ($500 or €440).
There is a fancier version called Huawei Nova 5 Pro Limited Edition which costs CNY3,799 ($550 or €490),and it comes with special purple FreeLace earphones in the retail box. Pre-orders for the nova 5 Pro are already available at Vmall.com, with shipping scheduled for June 28th 2019.
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Huawei Nova 5
The Huawei Nova 5 is the first Huawei phone to arrive with the brand’s new Kirin 810 chipset. In fact, its launch is scheduled for mid-July as manufacturing it requires more time. The chipset has two Cortex-A76 powerful cores running at 2.27GHz, six efficient Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.88GHz and a Mali-G52 MP6 GPU.
Apart from this, the Nova 5 is identical with the Nova 5 Pro – you will get the same notched OLED at the front and an identical quad camera at the back. The Nova 5 has only one memory option – 8GB/128GB and it will cost CNY2,999 ($435 or €385).
Huawei Nova 5 Full Specification
NETWORK | |
Technology | GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE |
2G bands | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2 |
CDMA 800 & TD-SCDMA | |
3G bands | HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 2100 |
4G bands | LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 8(900), 19(800), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) |
Speed | HSPA, LTE-A |
GPRS | Yes |
EDGE | Yes |
LAUNCH | |
Announced | 2019, June |
Status | Coming soon. Exp. release 2019, June |
BODY | |
Dimensions | 157.4 x 74.8 x 7.3 mm (6.20 x 2.94 x 0.29 in) |
Weight | 171 g (6.03 oz) |
SIM | Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) |
DISPLAY | |
Type | OLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
Size | 6.39 inches, 100.2 cm2 (~85.1% screen-to-body ratio) |
Resolution | 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~403 ppi density) |
DCI-P3 108% |
PLATFORM | |
OS | Android 9.0 (Pie), EMUI 9.1 |
Chipset | HiSilicon Kirin 810 (7 nm) |
CPU | Octa-core (2×2.7 GHz Cortex-A76 & 6×1.88 GHz Cortex-A55) |
GPU | Mali-G52 MP6 |
MEMORY | |
Card slot | NM (Nano Memory), up to 256GB (uses shared SIM slot) |
Internal | 128 GB, 8 GB RAM |
MAIN CAMERA | |
Quad |
48 MP, f/1.8, 26mm (wide), 1/2″,
0.8µm, PDAF 16 MP, f/2.2, (wide) 2 MP, f/2.4, 27mm (wide) dedicated macro camera 2 MP, f/2.4, depth sensor |
Features | LED flash, HDR, panorama |
Video | 1080p@30fps |
SELFIE CAMERA | |
Single | 32 MP, f/2.0 |
Features | HDR |
Video | 1080p@30fps |
SOUND | |
Loudspeaker | Yes |
3.5mm jack | No |
Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic |
COMMS | |
WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot |
Bluetooth | 5.0, A2DP, LE, aptX HD |
GPS | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS |
USB | 2.0, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go |
FEATURES | |
Sensors | Fingerprint (under display), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass |
BATTERY | |
Non-removable Li-Po 3500 mAh battery | |
Charging | Fast battery charging 40W (85% in 30 min) |
MISC | |
Colours | Black, Purple, Green |
Models | SEA-AL00, SEA-TL00 |
Price | About 360 EUR |
Huawei Nova 5i
The Huawei Nova 5i comes with a deceitful and less exiting chipset when compared to the other two – Kirin 710 chipset. Though the phone stands out with its punch hole camera.
The Huawei Nova 5i has a fingerprint scanner and four cameras at its rear. The cameras are made up of a 24MP main, 8MP wide-angle + 2MP depth sensor, and 2MP macro lens. The available memory options of the Nova 5i are; 6GB/128GB or 8GB/128GB.
The Huawei Nova 5i also has a 4000mAh battery, but unlike the Nova 5 and Nova 5 Pro, it supports the standard 18W fast-charging that Huawei has been implementing in midrange devices in the past few years.
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Huawei Nova 5i Full Specification
NETWORK | |
Technology | GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE |
2G bands | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2 |
CDMA 800 & TD-SCDMA | |
3G bands | HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 2100 |
4G bands | LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 8(900), 19(800), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) |
Speed | HSPA, LTE-A |
GPRS | Yes |
EDGE | Yes |
LAUNCH | |
Announced | 2019, June |
Status | Coming soon. Exp. release 2019, June |
BODY | |
Dimensions | 159.1 x 75.9 x 8.3 mm (6.26 x 2.99 x 0.33 in) |
Weight | 178 g (6.28 oz) |
SIM | Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) |
DISPLAY | |
Type | IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
Size | 6.4 inches, 101.4 cm2 (~84.0% screen-to-body ratio) |
Resolution | 1080 x 2310 pixels (~398 ppi density) |
DCI-P3 |
PLATFORM | |
OS | Android 9.0 (Pie), EMUI 9.1 |
Chipset | Hisilicon Kirin 710F (12 nm) |
CPU | Octa-core (4×2.2 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4×1.7 GHz Cortex-A53) |
GPU | Mali-G51 MP4 |
MEMORY | |
Card slot | microSD, up to 512 GB (uses shared SIM slot) |
Internal | 128 GB, 6/8 GB RAM |
MAIN CAMERA | |
Quad |
24 MP, f/1.8, 27mm (wide), PDAF 8 MP, (ultrawide) 2 MP, f/2.4, 27mm (wide) dedicated macro camera 2 MP, f/2.4, depth sensor |
Features | LED flash, HDR, panorama |
Video | 1080p@30fps |
SELFIE CAMERA | |
Single | 24 MP, f/2.0 |
Features | HDR |
Video | 1080p@30fps |
SOUND | |
Loudspeaker | Yes |
3.5mm jack | Yes |
Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic |
COMMS | |
WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot |
Bluetooth | 4.2, A2DP, LE |
GPS | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS |
Radio | FM radio |
USB | 2.0, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go |
FEATURES | |
Sensors | Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, proximity, compass |
BATTERY | |
Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery | |
Charging | Fast battery charging 10W |
MISC | |
Colours | Black, Gradient Blue, Red |
Models | GLK-LX1, GLK-LX2, GLK-LX3, GLK-LX1U, GLK-AL00, GLK-TL00 |
Price | About 260 EUR |
Huawei Nova 5i Price and Availability
The Huawei Nova 5i Price is CNY1,999 ($290 or €260) or CNY2,199 ($320 or €280), depending on the memory you select. Shipping will begin in exactly seven days from the announcement date, which should be Friday 28th June 2019. The phone will be available in three colours – Sea Blue, Black, and Amber Red.
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