Smartphone Huawei nova 5 Pro - advantages and disadvantages

The new smartphone Huawei Nova 5 Pro, which was presented on June 21, 2019 in China, represents an advanced line, as evidenced by the presence of a four-module camera, an advanced 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 amazing and distinguish the gadget from rivals.

Huawei: current position of the brand

In mid-May 2019, US President Donald Trump announced a boycott of Huawei - in his opinion, the Chinese pose a threat to the national security of the country. This is his latest attempt to force Beijing to 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 are not too upset about this, because they also have a personal development - the Kirin processor and the Balong 5000 5G modem.

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

Device description

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

The ratio of sides is 19.5 to 9: an ideal solution for users, because the parameters make it possible to interact 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 graphics settings without any problems and freezing the device.

The internal memory of the smartphone is rather big - 128/256 GB, it can be expanded, but the microchip slot is connected to the slot for the SIM card.

The 4000mAh battery capacity is the dream of those who like to sit on social networks for a long time or just on the Web, 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 Wi-Fi wireless network, there is also Bluetooth v5 .0.

To be able to make 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 one place or another, A-GPS, Beidou and GLONASS navigation systems 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 official representatives of Huawei, less than two hours had 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 - that's 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 the Sony IMX586 sensor and dual LED flash.

The front-facing 32-megapixel camera is almost as good as the main ones, and makes it possible to take unique selfies, there is no flash.

Characteristics of photo modules:

• 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, separate macro camera), 2 MP (f/2.4, depth sensor);
• functionality of the main photo module - LED flash, panorama, HDR;
• recording video clips - , ;
• front camera - 32 MP (f/2.0), HDR, video recording

Good lighting allows you to take great pictures, but in low light, detail is reduced, 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, it can be recorded at 4K resolution and 30 frames per second. Thanks to the 42 Mbps bit rate, you get an excellent picture with good detail, natural colors and the highest contrast. But there is also a drawback - not always good sound quality in the captured video clips.

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

A word about sound quality

Will Huawei Nova 5 Pro appeal to lovers of perfect sound clarity?

It all depends on how exactly you listen to it, the sound picture is ambiguous: when listening to audio in headphones, a pure 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 fairly 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 the 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. Graphics quality is provided by the integrated ARM Mali-G76 accelerator.
The Kirin 985 chipset is manufactured using 7nm Extreme Ultraviolet Light technology and will henceforth 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, when buying, Huawei offers customers to take out inexpensive insurance that guarantees free repairs just in 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;
• the ratio of quality and cost;
• the latest cold processor Kirin 985;
• uninterrupted connection with GPS;
• 85% of the working area of ​​the display;
• NFC support;
• support for fast charging;
• lightness and strength of the metal case;
• good autonomy;
• one of the best cameras in the class, thanks to which, the photo has rich detail;
• excellent contrast ratio and deep black screen;
• low noise level;
• panoramic shooting;
• HDR - enhances already good shots.

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

Conclusion

So, based on the foregoing, we can conclude that the novelty is perfect for a wide range of customers.

The gadget is endowed with many advantages - from the appearance and body, to high-quality photo modules, a powerful processor and an autonomy rating. Among the features of the device, one 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 variety of age groups, regardless of the type of activity: 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.

According to IDC, Huawei occupies an honorable third place in the list of leaders in the production of smartphones.