Today, the newly-announced Huawei Nova 5 opened pre-sale. It is aiming at young customers. Therefore, it’s logical to see many features put there for them. The 8GB + 128GB version is priced at 2799 yuan ($407).
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The Huawei Nova 5 is equipped with a 6.39-inch FHD+ OLED screen. It supports 108% DCI-P3 color gamut and full-range DC dimming. There is a 7.33mm body, which comes with a diamond cutting process, and a fully symmetrical metal middle frame. Due to the 3D carved texture design on the back, the phone looks outstanding and provides a light-and-shadow effect under light angle change. The weight is 171g. The manufacturer offers three colors of the dim forest, midsummer purple, and bright black. The Huawei Nova 5 Pro also has a coral orange color.
Our protagonist is packed with the Kirin 810 chip. The latter is based on a TSMC 7nm process. Compared with the Samsung 8nm process, the transistor density is increased by 50%. Moreover, compared with a 10nm process, the transistor density is increased by 64%. The overall energy efficiency is 28% higher than the 10nm process.
Kirin 810 Design
In terms of specifications, the CPU part of Kirin 810 adopts the 2 large cores + 6 small cores architecture design. The two Cortex-A76 large cores have a frequency of 2.27GHz and six Cortex-A55 small cores come with a frequency of 1.88GHz. In the GPU part, the Kirin 810 used a customized version of the Mali-G52 MP6, clocked at 820MHz. In addition, the Kirin 810 is also equipped with a self-developed DaVinci architecture NPU. The phone supports super file system EROSF, Ark compiler, GPU Turbo, and AI.
The Huawei Nova 5 supports 40W super-fast charge. The phone can charge 50% in 15 minutes and 85% in 30 minutes.
On the front, the Huawei Nova 5 carries a 32MP lens with an aperture of f/2.0 aperture, four-in-one equivalent pixel 1.6um support, and advanced custom beauty. More interestingly, with the launch of this handset, the company has brought the portrait super night scene to the front camera. On the opposite side, the Huawei Nova 5 sports an AI quad-camera. It combines four sensors: 48MP high-definition lens, 16MP super wide-angle lens, 2MP macro lens, and 2MP depth of field lens.