The world’s second largest smartphone vendor, Huawei, launched the Nova 2s, a mid-range bezel-less phone at an event in China on Thursday. The phone is the successor to the Huawei Nova 2 and the Nova 2 Plus and comes with a 6-inch edge-to-edge display and four cameras.
The Nova 2s, like the previous Nova 2i comes with four cameras, two on each side of the phone. On the rear is a 16-megapixel RGB sensor with f/1.8 aperture and a 20-megapixel monochrome sensor with a 120-degree wide angle lens and f/1.8 aperture. On the front are a combo of 20-megapixel wide-angle sensor and a 2-megapixel lens to capture portrait selfies.
Like most Huawei phones this year, the Nova 2s also features a 6-inch full HD FullVision display, which Huawei’s marketing speak for 18:9 bezel-less panels. The phone is powered by a HiSilicon Kirin 960 chipset coupled with either 4GB or 6GB of RAM and comes with 128GB of storage, which is further expandable via a microSD card.
The Nova 2s is a dual-SIM phone with Bluetooth 4.2, USB Type-C and a 3,340mAh battery. THe Nova 2s 4GB variant is priced CNY 2,699 (roughly Rs 26,300) while the 6GB variant is priced at CNY 2,999 (roughly Rs 29,300). The Shenzhen-based company also launched a special edition “Yixing Zhang” version of the phone priced at CNY 3,999 (roughly Rs 33,000)