Huawei Nova 2 - a device perfectly balanced in characteristics and price

The Chinese brand Huawei constantly releases new models to the market. The policy of the company is aimed at offering the client a device balanced in price-quality ratio. Below is an overview of the Huawei Nova 2, medium-sized models and a curious camera. The rest of the device has quite typical parameters for the phone in the middle price segment.

Specifications

Huawei Nova 2 is a phone with its own Kirin 659 processor, which appeared on the market not so long ago and has already managed to prove its worth in various Huawei and Honor devices. In terms of memory, the device is quite standard - a combination of 4 and 64Gb main and operational. Interest is the camera. The rear module consists of two matrices. The peculiarity of the second lens in a double optical zoom. More on this will be discussed in the camera review.Technical characteristics of the model are shown in the table:

Huawei Nova 2 - a typical gadget in the smartphone segment up to 25 thousand rubles. Today the price of the phone is 19 thousand rublesThat is optimal for the proposed filling. Color solutions - blue, black, gold.

Huawei Nova 2

Design

The dimensions of the Huawei Nova 2 are small - 142.2 * 68.9 * 6.9 mm. The width of the model less than 70 mm makes the device convenient for any hand. The phone does not seem small in a large male hand and looks logical in the female. The thickness of the device is also not the largest, the same can be said about weight. In general, the device turned out compact, lightweight and ergonomic.

The front panel has a display of 5 inches, the frames on the sides are very thin, the top and bottom are standard. On the top panel there is a camera, a light sensor and a speaker. On the bottom panel is the name of the brand. Home, menu and back touch buttons. In the settings you can swap them.The glass on the front panel is 2.5D, a solution that is already familiar to everyone, which, in perception, makes the phone more subtle. There is a protective glass and effective oleophobic coating.

Device case - aluminum and magnesium alloy, the edges on the back are sloping, the corners are rounded. The lower and upper parts on the back have plastic strips, which are necessary for the output of wireless communication antennas under it. These inserts are slightly different from the main color of the smartphone and make the appearance more interesting.

In the center of the back of the device is a round finger scanner. He is a little drowned. Dual camera is located on the top right. The modules are convex. Nearby is a flash. For connectors, everything is standard:

• on the left is a slot for sim
• on the right of the button
• top microphone
• bottom connector Type-C, 3.5, speaker and microphone.

The case material is not slippery and the phone will not fall out of wet hands.

On a note! If we talk about colors, then, according to reviews, the most successful turned out to be blue, not the most popular option - black. Many blame the black model for being too labeled.

The overall impression of the appearance of the model is positive. The phone looks stylish and compact.This is a familiar design, and you can observe borrowing from Apple or Meizu technology, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Assembly as always on top. Case and design - 5/5.

Display

The matrix smartphone Huawei Nova 2 - IPS. The diagonal of the device is 5 inches, the resolution is FHD. The frames on the sides - 3.5 mm, top and bottom - 16 and 16.5 mm, respectively. The display is protected by strong Gorilla Glass, there is anti-reflective coating, quite effective. Matrix colors are saturated, brightness is high. As standard, there is a mode to protect the eyes, auto-adjust the display backlight. The viewing angles are large, the inversion of colors is practically not observed.

The sensor is designed for 10 touches, and here there is one small drawback: at the edges, the sensitivity is rather weak, and you often have to tap the screen several times to make the touch work.. The inconvenience this causes when using applications on the whole screen, where the controls are located on the corners or sides of the display. Example - it is rather difficult to close a tab in the browser, clicking on the cross often passes from the second time. Display rating - 4/5 for low sensitivity.

Autonomy

The characteristics of the Huawei Nova 2 shows that the device is not equipped with a high-capacity battery.This affects the operating time without connecting to the outlet. With active use of a smartphone, it will be enough for 10 hours of work. This is enough to remove the device from charging in the morning, and on returning home you will have to reconnect to power.

Tip! When traveling to a device, you should purchase an external battery, otherwise there is every chance to remain quickly without access to the network.

The average load on the device allowed him to hold out for 1.5 days, provided that the total backlight time of the display was about 3 hours. The phone has several power saving modes.

1. The first will allow for 20% to work for about 11 hours, at the same time any synchronization, background activity and visual effects will be turned off.
2. There is also an ultra economy mode. In it, the device promises to last for about 1.5 days for 20%, but it will be possible to use only a limited set of applications.

The device is more than typical, and those who want to stay in touch for a long time with the full functionality of a smartphone, cannot do this for more than a day with this device. Autonomy - 3/5.

Camera

Camera Huawei Nova 2 double. At the time of the release of the device, this was a trend, and the Chinese brand took the technology into service, inventing new chips for two matrices. A distinctive feature of the phone Huawei Nova 2 is not a black and white auxiliary module: in Nova 2 second module is color and has optical double approximation. This means that the device will be able to bring the object closer and not lose detail. This affects the quality of portraiture. The faces in the photos are very lively and beautiful. The second positive moment of the presence of optical zoom - the camera at night takes almost no noise and flaws.

The front camera has a resolution of 20 megapixels and an aperture of f = 2.0. No complaints about the work. In this case, nothing supernatural 20 megapixels do not give, this value is more of a promotional move than a real advantage. Both cameras take off in FHD with 30 frames per second. Focusing speed is average, video quality is standard. Bottom line, the camera in Nova 2 is good, but no more. Score - 4/5.

Processor and memory

The memory parameters for the device in the middle price segment are quite decent. 4 gigabytes of RAM is the norm. 64 gigabytes is a nice bonus, as manufacturers often trick and make devices with 32 gigabytes, and models that are large in memory sell more expensive. In this case, this did not happen.

Important! What is bad in Nova 2 - the memory is not the fastest, and this affects the operation of the phone. Despite the more than worthy of the Kirin 659 processor, the phone sometimes slows down, and in order to reason with it, you have to unload all applications from the memory. This is a rather regrettable fact.

The Kirin 659 processor is developed by the Huawei company. Here, the brand is not going to abandon its own development and buy chipsets from other manufacturers. For a midrange phone, the processor works well, at Antutu gaining 60 thousand points. Games run on medium settings without any problems at all. Heavy graphics games at high settings can be a little slow, but the fault is again the memory. Device not heated when charging, games and other processes. Score - 4/5.

Conclusion

Buy Huawei Nova 2 is recommended to those people who are not too dependent on the outlet, do not like to play, take pictures often and a lot, and most importantly - they want to get a quality device for a reasonable price. Weaknesses - short battery life and no NFC. The overall rating of the model is 4 out of 5.

Huawei Nova 2