Kirin 960 equipped Huawei Nova spied ahead of IFA launch


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Huawei have teased that they could have 2 launches for IFA, with one launch sport set to be filled with the new Huawei Nova smartphone.

Cast your minds back a few weeks and you may remember a TENAA leak which pictured a phone that was similar to Huawai’s Nexus phone, but clearly wasn’t. To help refresh your memory here is a photo of that phone again.

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Now, take a look at these images. The similarity is striking isn’t it? The devices, now thought to be called the Huawei Nova, is expected to launch at IFA and will be available in Europe and China.

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Chinese press claim that the Nova will cost from just 2000 Yuan, yet it will be powered by Huawei’s latest Kirin 960 chipset! That’s an octacore SOC running at 2.6Ghz with ARM Mali T-880 GPU.

What’s more Android 7 has been seen on the Huawei Nova in earlier benchmarks which also confirm that the device will have 4GB RAM, 64GB memory, 5.9-inch display, 8 mega-pixel front camera and 12 mega-pixel rear.

We’ll have to wait and see if these details are accurate, but thankfully not to long.

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25 Comments

  1. David Košič
    September 1, 2016

    The phone in the picture is definitely not 5,9 inches

    • Rob
      September 1, 2016

      I thought that, more like 4.9″! It looks cheap and tacky if it is genuine like something that would cost $50.

  2. Zami
    September 1, 2016

    It doesn’t look like a flagship .
    Its a budget phone .
    What makes it special for Women ?????
    Maybe a powerful selfie cam .

  3. September 1, 2016

    Mostly speculations, this on the pictures looks like an Honor 6.
    The NOVA devices will be premium, but costs around the Honor series mark.
    It will probably feature a very good selfie cam and redesigned buttons layout and few new software tweaks to help female users feel at home.

  4. Karly Johnston
    September 1, 2016

    Another MP4 gpu = crap.

    • realjjj
      September 1, 2016

      Trolling much?
      It is in fact SD625 so much worse than MP4.

      If it were Kirin 960 the GPU would be 2x the perf of the one in 950 and the big cores A73. Sadly it is not.

      • Karly Johnston
        September 1, 2016

        Then the 950 must be a pretty crappy chip.

        • realjjj
          September 1, 2016

          That’s all you do around here, troll anything that is not Qualcomm and the said part is that you are not informed at all on anything.

          • Karly Johnston
            September 1, 2016

            Nah, I like the X20 when it is priced at $200 or less. Huawei makes the same level of chip and charges $400 – $600 for it so they are worthy of laughter.

            • balcobomber25
              September 1, 2016

              Huawei doesn’t charge $400-600 for a Chip. You do realize a phone is made up of dozens of components besides a chip? There are X20 phones priced at $200 there are X20/25 phones that launched for over $300. There are Helio P10 (worse than both) phones that cost over $500 at launch.

            • Karly Johnston
              September 1, 2016

              I think I will call you Captain Obvious.

            • balcobomber25
              September 1, 2016

              I think I will call you Captain Dumb Comments

            • Faisal Shaharyar
              September 1, 2016

              guys lets not fight over this…. but the pricing also depends upon the manufacturer.. look at Sony or HTC on how they have priced their phones. Asus is an exception because their ZF3 looks really good but they have an under powered chip compared to RN3 or Le2 and it cost 2ice.

              Well Sony has not done any game changing thing on their smartphone not even their flagship… except they just churning out flagships every 7 months only doing a spec change.

    • balcobomber25
      September 1, 2016

      Except it’s a Snapdragon chip…

      • Karly Johnston
        September 1, 2016

        Except no one knew that when it was written… Captain Obvious.

        • balcobomber25
          September 2, 2016

          Other sites have been reporting it for a few days now….Captain Dumb Comment

  5. NextHype
    September 1, 2016

    screen/body ratio seems low, plus the black border on the bottom of the phone is huge and don’t have capacitive buttons. Doesn’t look like premium at all.