Huawei will announce the nova 5 series on Friday,
and the company keeps teasing the new devices on its Weibo account. The latest
information is that the phone will sport a 32 MP selfie shooter. Interestingly
enough, the phone is displayed with a notch, instead of the punch-hole design
we saw earlier this month, but we expect the same Samsung GD1 sensor in all the
phones.
Expectations are the Huawei nova 5i will have a hole
on the LCD, while the nova 5 should keep the waterdrop cutout for the
front-facing camera. The nova 5 Pro was also envisioned with a teardrop
display, while a phone called nova 5i Pro will have a wider notch, similar to
the Huawei P20 series.
While the nova 5i is expected to have a Kirin 710
chipset, the regular nova 5 should come with Kirin 980. The information is
double-confirmed by a Geekbench listing from the phone with a model number
SEA-AL10, which is the vanilla version of the nova family. The single-core and
multi-core results are quite close to other Kirin 980 smartphones, so this is
most likely the real deal.
