Huawei nova 2 Plus Review: For the avid selfie shooters
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Huawei nova 2 Plus
RM 1999.00
Pros
- Great build quality
- Accurate & fast fingerprint scanner
- Great 5.5-inch 1080p IPS display
- Great camera performance
- Good performance
- Excellent battery life
Cons
- No IP-rated water and dust resistance
- Overly saturated rear camera
- No OIS
- Slow charging
Performance & Battery Life
Kirin 659, 4 GB RAM & 128 GB storage
Under the hood, the Huawei nova 2 Plus sports a brand new Kirin 659 System on Chip and 4 GB of RAM. Frankly speaking, the Kirin 659 is just a slightly improved Kirin 658, featuring Bluetooth 4.2 over the Bluetooth 4.1 and a teensy higher clock speed, 2.36 GHz vs 2.35 GHz to be exact. Other than that, the Kirin 659 only has 802.11 b/g/n WiFi instead of Kirin 658’s 802.11 b/g/n/ac WiFi. Do all those make a lot of difference in real life usage than the Kirin 658? I hardly felt any.
The Huawei nova 2 Plus comes with 128 GB internal storage for the Malaysian market. That is a lot of photos and music you can store on it. Since it is a mid range phone, don’t expect it to come with UFS storage. The eMMC chip fetches around 250MB/s sequential read speed and 125MB/s sequential write speed.
Battery
The battery life is amazing. The screenshot above shows the phone has been unplugged for 24 hours and I manage to crank out 5 hours and 30 minutes of screen on time. That just showcased the extreme power efficiency of the 16nm FinFET+ fabrication process of the Kirin 65X series.
Huawei Quick Charge
Charging is not that impressive as Huawei reserved the much superior Huawei Super Charge for their premium P series smartphones. While the Quick Charge manages to top up the 3340 mAh battery in 2 hours, but I’m sure Huawei could do better than that.
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