Following the launching of the latest P-series by its parent company Huawei a week ago, Honor has unwrapped the Honor 30S. The Honor 30S comes with some impressive specs, premium glass and aluminum design and dual-mode 5G thanks to the new Kirin 820 5G chipset.
The Honor 30S is built around a 6.5-inch FHD+ IPS display with a punch-hole cutout in the top left corner for the 16MP selfie camera. The right-hand-side houses the capacitive fingerprint scanner.
At the back sits a four-camera array housed in a square setup. There’s a 64MP main sensor, an 8MP telephoto module with 3x optical and up to 20x hybrid zoom, an 8MP ultrawide snapper and a 2MP depth helper.
The phone is powered by Kirin 820 5G chipset which packs an eight-core architecture with four ARM-Cortex A55 cores clocked at 1.84GHz alongside four ARM-A76 cores with varying clock speeds. The GPU department is covered by the six-core Mali-G57 and there’s also the Kirin ISP 5.0 image signal processor which is touted to bring flagship-level performance and advanced noise reduction.
Talking about the software section, it comes with Magic UI 3.1.1 based on Android 10 without GMS services. The battery comes in at 4,000 mAh and sports 40W wired fast charging.
Honor 30S Specifications
Network Properties
- 2G bands: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
- CDMA 800 & TD-SCDMA
- 3G bands: HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100
- 4G bands: LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 6(900), 8(900), 18(800), 19(800), 26(850), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500)
- 5G: 5G band 1(2100), 3(1800), 41(2500), 78(3500), 79(4700); SA/NSA
- Speed: HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A, 5G
Launch
- Announced: 2020, March 30
- Status: Coming soon. Exp. release 2020, April 7
Design
- Dimensions: 162.3 x 75 x 8.6 mm (6.39 x 2.95 x 0.34 in)
- Weight: 190 g (6.70 oz)
- Build: Glass front (Aluminosilicate glass), glass back, aluminum frame
- Colors: Black, Blue, Green, Gradient
- SIM: Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
Display
- Type: LTPS IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size: 6.5 inches, 102.0 cm2 (~83.8% screen-to-body ratio)
- Resolution: 1080 x 2400 pixels, 20:9 ratio (~405 ppi density)
- Protection: Aluminosilicate glass
- HDR10
Operating System
- Android 10.0 (AOSP + HMS); Magic UI 3.1
Hardware
- Chipset: HiSilicon Kirin 820 5G (7 nm)
- CPU: Octa-core (1×2.36 GHz Cortex-A76 & 3×2.22 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4×1.84 GHz Cortex-A55)
- GPU: Mali-G57 6
- Storage: 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 8GB RAM
- Memory Card slot: NM (Nano Memory), up to 256GB (uses shared SIM slot)
- UFS 2.1
Cameras
- Main Camera: Quad
- 64 MP, f/1.8, 26mm (wide), 1/1.72″, 0.8µm, PDAF
- 8 MP, f/2.4, 80mm (telephoto), AF, 3x optical zoom
- 8 MP, f/2.4, 17mm (ultrawide)
- 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth)
- Features: LED flash, HDR, panorama
- Video: 2160p@30fps, 1080p@30fps, 720p@960fps, gyro-EIS
- Selfie Camera: Single – 16 MP, f/2.0, (wide)
- Features: HDR
- Video: 1080p@30fps
Multimedia
- Radio: No
- Loudspeaker: Yes
- Audio 3.5mm jack: Yes
- 32-bit/192kHz audio
Connectivity
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
- Bluetooth: 5.1, A2DP, LE
- GPS: Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
- USB: 2.0, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go
Features
- Sensors: Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Battery
- Battery Type & Capacity: Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery
- Charging: Fast charging 40W, 70% in 30 min
Models: CDY-AN90
Honor 30S Price and Availability
The Honor 30S will arrive in black, blue, green and gradient colors. The phone comes with a price tag starting at;
- CNY 2,399 ($338) for 8/128GB
- CNY 2,699 (380) for 8/256GB version
Preorders starts from today while official sales are scheduled for April 7. There is no info on international availability for now.
