Honor announces $550 V30 Pro with 5G Kirin 990

Honor has announced the V30 and V30 Pro, the latest in its range of generally impressive upper-mid-range phones. The Honor V range is usually released globally as the View series and offers competitive specs based on parent company Huawei’s latest technology: this year’s View 20 debuted with a 48-megapixel camera, Kirin 980, and hole-punch selfie camera, for example.

The V30 Pro has a 6.57-inch 1080p screen with a double-wide hole-punch cutout that’s reminiscent of Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Plus. Unlike that phone, however, Honor has included an 8-megapixel wide-angle selfie camera along with the regular 32-megapixel unit. Honor describes the finish on the device as “the world’s first aurora nano texture,” though until we see it in person it...

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