Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Huawei unveiled their all-new Huawei Nova 2s, the company’s latest smartphone in the Nova series in China. The Nova 2s comes with a bezel-less display, metallic design and a glass back. There is still a home screen physical button placed below the display, even though it packs an 18:9 display.

The Huawei Nova 2s boasts a 6-inch FHD+ LTPS display with a screen resolution of 2160 x 1080 pixels and an aspect ratio of 18:9. There is a 2.5D curved glass atop the display. Under, the hood, the smartphone packs an octa-core Kirin 960 SoC with IntelliSense i6 sensor hub.
The highlight of the Nova 2s is the quad camera setup with dual front and dual rear cameras. It has a 16MP RGB camera along with a 20MP monochrome sensor with f/1.8 aperture, PDAF, LED flash, 4K video recording. Up front, is a dual selfie camera, with a 20MP primary camera with f/2.0 aperture and a 2MP secondary camera with LED flash.The front camera too supports bokeh effect and comes with face recognition.
This is not the first Huawei smartphone to feature four cameras as the Honor 9i in the past arrived with two cameras on the front and back. However, the Nova 2s features much better setup than the Honor 9i.
Other than that there is rear facing fingerprint sensor, a 3.55mm headphone jack and a Hi-Fi audio chip on board. The device includes 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, NFC, USB Type C port, hybrid dual SIM support for connectivity options. A 3300mAh battery powers the device, and it runs Android 8.0 Oreo topped with EMUI 8.0 out of the box.