Smartphone Huawei nova 5 Pro - advantages and disadvantages

The new smartphone Huawei Nova 5 Pro, which was presented on June 21, 2019 in China, presents an advanced line, as evidenced by the presence of a four-module camera, an improved processor and a Kirin 985 chipset.

The novelty can be purchased in one of their unique gradient colors: bright green, orange, blue-violet. They look awesome and distinguish the gadget from the competitors.

Huawei: current brand position

In mid-May 2019, US President Donald Trump announced a boycott of Huawei - in his opinion, the Chinese pose a threat to the country's national security. This is his next attempt to make Beijing work and live on favorable terms for America. In this regard, Trump imposed a ban on cooperation with Huawei for American IT giants - Intel, Qualcomm and Xilinx, Google.

However, the Chinese were not too upset about this, because they also have personal development - a Kirin processor and a Balong 5000 5G modem.

The situation is gradually stabilizing, and negotiations are currently underway on the possibility of removing the company from the US blacklist.

Description of the device

The creators endowed the Huawei Nova 5 Pro with a 6.39-inch display with a fingerprint scanner, a glass body with a metal frame, a drop-shaped notch for the front camera, and a triple main camera, supported by a TOF lens, on the back.

The sides correspond to 19.5 to 9: an ideal solution for users, because the parameters allow interaction with a wide variety of content - games, videos, reading, Internet surfing.

The smartphone fits comfortably in the palm of your hand.

The matrix of the device, made using OLED technology, has a high resolution of 1080x2340, and the pixel density per inch is 403 ppi. The usable screen area is 85% of the front panel.

The presence of the top Kirin 985 processor, combined with 8 GB of RAM and the Mali G76 MP10 video accelerator, allows you to try out any resource-intensive game with maximum graphic settings without any problems and device freezing.

The internal memory of the smartphone is rather big - 128/256 GB, you can expand it, but the microchip connector is connected to the place for the SIM card.

The 4000mAh battery is the dream of those who like to spend a long time on social networks or just on the Internet, because the charge will last for 1-2 days without recharging.

The phone supports communication standards: 2G, 3G, 4G (LTE band 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 19, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41. It is possible to connect to a wireless Wi-Fi network, there is also Bluetooth v5 .0.

For the possibility of making contactless purchases, an NFC chip is built into the gadget, and so that the user can always know exactly where he is and how to get to a particular place, the navigation systems A-GPS, Beidou and GLONASS are built into the system.

It is interesting!
At the end of June, the first batch of Huawei Nova 5 Pro smartphones went on sale, but, according to a source citing Huawei officials, not even two hours have passed since all the gadgets were sold out. Unfortunately, the number of devices in the new batch is not known: several tens of thousands of copies are for sure.

Photo and video quality

Good photo and video quality at any time of the day is provided by the main 48, 16.8 and 2-megapixel photo modules, in conjunction with a Sony IMX586 sensor and a dual LED flash.

The front 32-megapixel camera is practically not inferior to the main ones, and makes it possible to take unique selfies, there is no flash.

Photo modules characteristics:

• main camera - 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);
• functionality of the main photo module - LED flash, panorama, HDR;
• video recording - 2160p @ 30fps, 1080p @ 30fps;
• front camera - 32 MP (f / 2.0), HDR, video recording 1080p @ 30fps.

Good lighting allows you to take great pictures, but if there is insufficient light, detail is reduced, and noise may be present. Here the situation is fixable if you adjust the shooting parameters manually: you need to increase the shutter speed to two seconds.

As for video, you can record it at 4K resolution, and the frequency is 30 frames per second. Thanks to the 42 Mbps bitrate, an excellent picture is obtained with good detail, natural colors and the highest contrast. But there is also a drawback - not always good sound quality in the filmed video clips.

The front camera of the smartphone does its job perfectly: selfies are clear and detailed - just what you need for social networks.

A little about sound quality

Will the Huawei Nova 5 Pro be liked by fans of perfect audio clarity?

It all depends on how to listen to it, the sound picture is ambiguous: when listening to audio in headphones, the purest signal is observed, but if you try to connect an external amplifier, intermodulation distortion occurs, and sometimes noise occurs.

One of the advantages of the gadget is a rather powerful multimedia speaker: even at maximum volume, the sound is quite clear.

The presence of aptX HD codecs allows you to use a wireless headset, and a high-quality earpiece accurately conveys the voice of the interlocutors.

CPU

The Kirin-985 chip is an improved version of HiSilicon Kirin 980, which combines eight computing cores - two ARM Cortex-A76 with a clock frequency of 2.6 GHz, two ARM Cortex-A76 with a frequency of 1.96 GHz and four ARM Cortex-A55 with frequency of 1.8 GHz. The graphics quality is ensured by the integrated ARM Mali-G76 accelerator.
The Kirin 985 chipset is manufactured using 7nm Extreme Ultraviolet Light technology and will now be installed in Huawei's flagship gadgets.

It is interesting!
The very next day after the Nova 5 Pro went on sale, a photo appeared on the Web with a broken gadget in his hand. Many of the owners of smartphones with a glass back panel faced such a problem as a "cobweb" after a fall. What happened next with the broken phone is unknown. However, Huawei, when buying, offers customers to take out inexpensive insurance, which guarantees free repairs in just such cases.

Pros and cons of Huawei nova 5 Pro

• Fingerprint's scanner;
• powerful rear and front camera modules;
• aesthetic appearance;
• build quality and materials;
• ratio of quality and cost;
• the latest cool Kirin 985 processor;
• uninterrupted communication with GPS;
• 85% of the working area of ​​the display;
• NFC support;
• availability of support for fast charging;
• lightness and strength of the metal body;
• good autonomy;
• one of the best cameras in the class, thanks to which the photo has rich details;
• excellent contrast and deep black screen color;
• low noise level;
• panoramic shooting;
• HDR - Enhances already good pictures.

• no Jack 3.5;
• the capacity of the battery could be higher;
• wireless charging is not supported;
• no infrared port;
• lack of moisture protection;
• no 5G support;
• minor bugs.

Conclusion

So, based on the above, we can conclude that the new product is perfect for a wide range of buyers.

The gadget is endowed with many advantages - from appearance and body, to high-quality photo modules, a powerful processor and an autonomy rating. Among the features of the device, we can note the presence of a fingerprint scanner, the possibility of fast charging and a 32MP front camera.

Huawei nova 5 Pro is suitable for a wide variety of age groups, regardless of the type of activity: for surfing the Web, watching movies, taking good pictures. The device is endowed with everything you need to run the most resource-intensive games.

Yes, there are also disadvantages, but some of them can be compensated for.

According to IDC, Huawei is ranked third in the list of leaders in the production of smartphones.