Huawei launches Nova Flip foldable with square cover display, dual rear camera setup, HarmonyOS 4.2, and more

On August 5th, Huawei launched the Nova Flip foldable phone featuring a unique square cover display, improved camera capabilities, a durable battery, and a fresh design. Its new look is enough to capture consumers’ attention in the smartphone market.

So without any further ados, let’s jump into specs details.

The first thing that will catch your eye on the Huawei Nova Flip foldable is its distinct square display. Unlike Pocket 2 and other predecessors, the company has integrated a squarish external screen with rounded edges on the Nova flip-flop device.

Users can pick the device from four trendy colors which are: New Green – the star color, Zero White, Sakura Pink, and Starry Black. It has a dimension of 169.77 (unfolded) and 87.76 (folded). It has a width of 75.4mm with thickness as follows:

• Plain leather: 15.08mm when folded and 6.88mm when unfolded, 195 grams weight
• Glass Plate: 15.12mm when folded and 6.9mm when unfolded, 199 grams weight

The main display is 6.94-inch with a 1-120 Hz adaptive refresh rate. It has a 2690 × 1136 pixels resolution. Nova Flip supports SuperMotion and SuperVision with AI Image HDR for immersive visual effects. It has Touch Turbo 4.0 for precise touch feedback.

The cover display OLED is now 2.14 inches upgrading from 1.15 inches in Pocket 2. It has a 480 x 480 pixels resolution and supports P3 wide color gamut.

Hinge:

Huawei says its new device has gained the industry’s first Swiss SGS 1.2 million bending durability certificate. It uses a basalt water drop hinge, greatly reducing the gap and showing a flat screen after unfolding.

The double arm gear reflects a floating design and further allows easy opening and closing. Nova Flip brings the super anti-collision protection property for better durability.

Camera:

Huawei Nova Flip comes with a dual rear camera setup including a 50MP (f/1.9 aperture) RYYB primary shooter and an 8MP ultra-wide lens (f/2.2 aperture) with a 112-degree angle. It features 10x digital zoom and several shooting modes like high pixel, 2cm macro, and more.

The front part equips a 32MP selfie lens (f/2.2 aperture) in a single punch-hole design. Users can enjoy portrait, panoramic, voice-activated capturing, and timed photography.

The camera section adopts the company’s Da Vinci Portrait Engine 2.0 to generate amazing portrait selfies. It intelligently optimizes the shape, color, texture, light, and painting, making the face shape three-dimensional and offering beautiful portraits.

Users will find various filters like native, texture, and makeup under the new portrait engine mechanism. As a result, they will get a high-definition look, gentle makeup finish, or attractive effects as per their preference. One can also customize the interval time to click various shots at multiple angles.

Other features count:

• 1:1 square composition: Get simple and concise 1:1 ratio portraits via the square cover display.
• Hover Night Portrait: Capture a hands-free selfie or shots with stable long exposures.

Battery and Charging

Nova Flip packs a 4400mAh silicon anode irremovable battery. It supports 66W super fast charging with 11V/6A power capacity and Turbo 2.0 service for a durable experience.

Software and Features:

This phone comes with HarmonyOS 4.2 out of the box and features several AI tools for camera and communication. For instance a new Call Fun Display for the unique square cover display, image retouch features for the optical framework, and more.

• Call Fun Display: The cover display will show animated lights during a call. Users can set various styles or patterns for this feature.
• Cute Pet: Users can apply a cute panda or other pet animals showing funny animations on the cover screen.
• Custom Style: One can also style their own picture, alter the clock or other fonts, or simply match the color of the wallpaper on the main screen to make the device more stylish.
• Interactive Themes: Apply fun wallpapers on the cover screen like Star Maze, astronauts, mini-games, and more.

Nova Flip supports a productive home screen that enables users to access apps from the cover screen. It can generate shortcut widgets to quickly launch important apps. Huawei has also integrated a Live Window feature for the external display.

HarmonyOS 4.2 brings AI elimination and a Smart Cutout feature that lets you edit images within no time. You can erase unwanted objects or clip out a particular section from the image as per your requirement, using these new tools.

Celia is more effective with Nova Flip. It helps users with skin consultancy, travel or trip planning, and document or table editing.

HarmonyOS Intelligent Communication 2.0

The latest capability delivers a strong signal irrespective of time or place. It supports dual-SIM Super Acceleration with faster upload and download speeds. The feature also has a weak signal enhancement mode that pairs the fast and slow wave antenna for a smooth signal in weak areas.

Price:

Huawei Nova Flip foldable comes in three versions which are priced as follows:

• Nova Flip (12GB + 256GB) – 5288 yuan
• Nova Flip (12GB + 512GB) – 5688 yuan
• Nova Flip (12GB + 1TB) – 6488 yuan

The pre-sale of the new foldable will begin today at 20:30 on the official VMall while the open sale is scheduled for August 9th in China.