Huawei Nova 5T
Price: £399 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2tQ73E5
Huawei’s flagship Mate 30 series was the company’s first major release without Google Play services. Ongoing tensions with the US government meant none of the Google apps that have become synonymous with Android handsets were available, and this hit the phone’s prospects of global success hard. However, despite having been announced just a couple of weeks earlier, the Nova 5T retains all of Google’s goodness.
This mid-range handset is therefore able to deliver a reassuringly familiar experience, complete with a few notable upgrades over June’s Nova 5.
But can the first Nova phone to be released in Europe truly compete in the ever-expanding midrange market? Read on to find out.
Design
The Nova 5T has a gorgeous 6.26in, 2,340x1,080 display, which strikes a good balance between quality and affordability. Despite being an LCD panel, it is rich and vibrant, while outdoor visibility is great, with a maximum brightness of 390 nits in our tests.
The 84 percent screen-to-body ratio makes the tiny bezel fade into the background, but the display notably doesn’t blend over the edges of the phone. In that sense, the front of the device looks incredibly similar to Samsung’s Galaxy S10e, albeit with a 32Mp punch-hole camera in the other corner.
There’s just enough room on the front of the device for
