Coming to the display, the Huawei Nova Plus features a Full HD 5.5 inch IPS LCD panel, which, with a pixel density of close to 403 ppi, does a powerful job up front. Sure, you could argue that QHD displays are the IN thing today, but keep in mind, that the Nova Plus is a mid ranger at the end of the day, and for that category, Full HD is more than enough. One drawback here is that Huawei has not provided any sort of protection for the display, and thus, as a result, the display is a scratch magnet. Looks like a screen guard is definitely in order along with this device.
Like most Huawei devices, the Nova Plus has good viewing angles, a good enough degree of brightness and modes that assist you in viewing under sunlight, although on its own, the sunlight legibility is pretty poor. The device also features a blue light filter that helps you view the display in dark light conditions.
All in all, Huawei got the design area bang on, but it looks like they lost the plot in terms of the display. Sure, Full HD panels are something all mid rangers today feature, but when you omit the default screen protection, it immediately puts your device on the back foot.
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PERFORMANCE AND BATTERY –
The Huawei Nova Plus features a 3,340 mAh battery, which is enough to give you an easy day’s worth of use even on moderate to heavy usage. Conservative usage should give you another half day’s worth of usage. Battery life is something you can’t pin point as it varies with use and the user, but as a benchmark, you can assume around a day’s worth of usage on a single charge. Smartphones today come with average battery setups making them instant fails, but in case of the Nova Plus, the battery setup is quite strong.
In terms of the performance, the Nova Plus features the mid range Snapdragon 625 chipset, which features eight Cortex-A53 cores, running at 2.0 GHz, and the new Adreno 506 GPU. This setup is the only factor that differentiates the Nova Plus and the Premium Flagship devices in the market. Alongside this setup, we get 3GB on board RAM , which pairs excellently with the chipset to give you a decent multi tasking experience. Gaming should work fine as well, but we will only know once we do a detailed test on that front.
