HUAWEI Nova 4e review: Fashion and Colorful, meet 32 million pearl self-timer

HUAWEI officially released HUAWEI Nova 4e on 14^th March, and HUAWEI Nova 4e 's ultra-high 32 megapixels also captured the eyes of consumers. Through this review we will know the improvements and changes made by HUAWEI Nova 4e.

Appearance: colorful body, smart pearl screen
In terms of configuration, HUAWEI Nova 4e is equipped with Kirin 710 processor, equipped with 6GB storage +128GB storage, screen size is 6.15 inches / FHD + resolution, battery capacity is 3349mAh, support 18W fast charge.

In terms of screen, HUAWEI Nova 4e with a "pearl full screen" design, the screen size is 6.15 inches, the screen ratio is 19.3:9, and the TP screen ratio is up to 90%. As for the resolution, it has also reached the mainstream FHD+. In addition, the phone has passed the certification of the German Rhine Eye, allowing users to protect their eyes while enjoying the visual effects.

Looking at the front of the phone, the HUAWEI Nova 4e uses exclusive patented technology, using a catheter-type micro-alarm, hidden tri-color indicator and proximity/ambient light sensor fusion design, not only makes the top more symmetrical, but also enhances the appearance of the top of the phone. The design of the catheter type micro earpiece is to achieve a higher screen ratio, increase the width of the earpiece and reduce the height, still can ensure that the volume and effect of the earpiece remain the same, and the volume and effect of the earpiece are also kept unchanged; The three-color indicator light not only ensures the integrity of the function, but also makes the whole mobile phone look more simple; and the hidden proximity/ambient light sensor at the top of the middle frame achieves perfect symmetry of the front side.


Then looking at the bottom of the phone, HUAWEI Nova 4e with beautiful border, not only has a beautiful curve, but also has a perfect pursuit of the body symmetry. The visual effect at the bottom of HUAWEI Nova 4e is also very good, and the whole screen gives people a feeling of natural beauty. The bottom of the phone from left to right: headphone jack, USB Type-C interface, noise reduction mic and speaker.


Then look at the back of the phone, HUAWEI Nova series has been committed to the development of mobile phone color matching, to highlight the user's personality.


The HUAWEI Nova 4e launched three color schemes: Magic Night Black, Pearl White and Garland Blue. The garland blue combines glare and gradualism, and features a unique 3D illusion glass body design that presents a romantic and vibrant blue through a new diaphragm process.

In order to achieve a more layered visual effect, HUAWEI also superimposed a layer of glare film on the ink coating filled with gradual colors. Through the new nano-diffraction texture technology, after more than a dozen rounds of repeated engraving on the transparent diaphragm, and then using the nano-texture to refract and diffract the light, the entire diaphragm blooms with a dreamy light pattern change, which may be HUAWEI 's ultimate pursuit of beauty.

Front: 32 million pixels, capturing the clearest beauty
Photographing is a huge highlight of HUAWEI Nova 4e. Compared with other mobile phone manufacturers, HUAWEI Nova 4e has made the pearl screen more refined, and the 32-megapixel front stereo camera has also reflected HUAWEI 's pursuit of self-timer.

Of course, taking pictures not only depends on parameters, but also depends on hardware calibration and software optimization.

In terms of hardware, HUAWEI Nova 4e 's front camera with a 1/2.75-inch sensor, and the equivalent pixel reaches 1.6μm through a 4-in-1 light fusion. In terms of software, HUAWEI Nova 4e relies on the new AI stereoscopic beauty scheme to automatically match the most suitable model according to the user's face features, and then optimize the overall contour and facial features. At the same time, it still retains the characteristics of the face to meet the real and natural needs of users.

HUAWEI Nova 4e also relies on the new AI recognition scheme to collect and classify according to the user's face, gender and age. Through the 2D to 3D technology, comparing the user's 3D facial model with the golden proportional parameter model of the corresponding face, and perform a "stereo shaping" on a less perfect part. Finally, through 3D to 2D technology, turn back into a perfect selfie.

Rear: AI super wide-angle record beautiful moment
HUAWEI Nova 4e rear super wide-angle tripe cameras (24 million main camera + 8 million super wide angle + 2 million depth of field). The 24 million main camera (F/1.8 large aperture) not only allows the details to be fully displayed, but also supports other functions such as 22 categories, 500+ scene smart recognition, 480fps super slow motion and caller video show and so on.

The 8-megapixel super wide-angle (120-degree) lens is also very useful, not only has the double view of the ordinary lens, but also can make the wide-angle distortion become effective control due to the large curvature lens. With the 24-million-pixel main camera, it can also achieve a wide range of zooming capability from 0.6 to 6X.

And the combination of 24 million main camera + 8 million super wide angle + 2 million virtual tripe cameras not only clarifies their work, but also can switch shooting angles anytime and anywhere to capture the wonderful moments you want.

The camera interface is still HUAWEI 's style, very simple, stylish and efficient, it will be easy for new users to get started. The speed of AI scene recognition is also very fast. As shown in the figure, when switching to a wide-angle lens, the photo style is automatically switched to the blue sky mode, and the screen transition is very harmonious.


Left: Normal mode   Right: Wide angle mode

Then look at the photo sample, it is not difficult to find that the photos taken by HUAWEI Nova 4e are very sharp and natural, both color and white balance can be grasped accurately. When shooting backlit under the overpass, the details of the white wall were clearly recorded. When shooting on the lawn, the green leaves in the shadows have been accurately restored, and have not been over-smeared like other mobile phones, the overall color has not been treated very lightly, basically the color of the scene has been accurately restored. Even in low-light indoors, HUAWEI Nova 4e can make the picture body clear and transparent, and will not generate noise or smear due to insufficient light.


The default output of HUAWEI Nova 4e’s camera is 24 million pixels, and the addition of 8-megapixel wide-angle lens also makes the user's shooting selectivity more abundant. For example, at the same angle, you can shoot close-ups with the main camera, and you can shoot the distant view with the wide-angle, and the picture styles of the two modes are different. It is not a small temptation for friends who like to take pictures.



As a geek who loves to take pictures and love photography, super wide-angle shooting is of course indispensable. Because the super wide angle can give people a strong visual impact, the general wide-angle lens, standard lens and telephoto lens can’t bring such an effect.

The HUAWEI Nova 4e 's 120° super wide-angle lens is the perfect solution because it doubles the field of view and gives you a panoramic view. In addition, due to the versatile Kirin 710 processor, its own AI function makes the distortion of the photo very slight, almost negligible.


In addition, the main camera of HUAWEI Nova 4e also has AI scene recognition, so it is also very bright when taking photos such as food or plants. Since the main camera is a large aperture of F/1.8, the excellent extra-focus effect brought by the large aperture is also obvious when shooting close-up scenes such as food.


Nowadays, the portrait mode is popular in the mobile phone industry. whether can make people look beautiful when taking pictures is a problem that everyone is very concerned. In the self-timer, the AI beauty and background blur function of HUAWEI Nova 4e are enabled by default, so that the photos taken by ordinary mobile phone users have the visual sense of the blockbuster movie at any time and place.


System: Stable fashion EMUI
HUAWEI Nova 4e uses the latest EMUI 9.0.1 system, and the underlying system version has also been upgraded to Android 9.0.In the past two years, HUAWEI has become more and more active in updating the system, not only bringing more new features, but also updating the system patches to make the phone more secure.


Starting from this generation of EMUI 9.0, HUAWEI’s core design concept is just doing subtraction on the system, because the stacking function is a good thing, but sometimes it is always bloated, so a good operating system needs to know how to do subtraction at the system level, making the whole system look more organized. The latest EMUI 9.0 draws on the natural beauty and perfectly integrates the beauty of nature into the system experience of the mobile phone.

While providing traditional virtual buttons and floating buttons, EMUI9 also provides a new full-screen gesture, which is the gesture navigation in the following figure. The specific operation is as follows: Slide up at the bottom to return to the desktop, and sliding inward from the left and right edges returns to the previous level. Slide at the bottom and pause to enter the multitasking switching interface. In addition, you can also add other gestures in the settings, such as slide up at the left side to enter the voice assistant, slide up at the right side to turn on the smart vision, the operation is simple and convenient.


Considering that more and more people are beginning to indulge in mobile phones, HUAWEI has also added a new mobile phone time statistics function to the latest EMUI 9.0, which makes it easy for you to manage your screen usage time. And this function is very detailed, after entering the relevant settings, we can very clearly see the total time of the mobile phone used today or the past seven days, and also can see the using time of different types of application, which makes it easy to accurately judge the usage time of your mobile phone.


In fact, HUAWEI has not only done research on eye protection, but also spent a lot of time in other areas related to user security. For example, EMUI9 has added the SOS emergency help mode. Once turned on, simply press the power button 5 times to automatically send your current location and ask for help from your preset contacts. This feature allows users to get the fastest help when they are in danger.

Then there are other more useful features, such as AI Wisdom. AI Wisdom has always been a core function of EMUI. This new upgrade of EMUI9.0 has made a lot of effort in smart vision. The new HiVision recognizes over 210 varieties of cat and dog breeds, recognizes more than 20,000 varieties of flowers, and recognizes more than varieties of 3,000 car models. It can be said that with Huawei nova 4e, it is equivalent to having a portable encyclopedia. And this "encyclopedia" can also find the purchase link of the item with one click, and also make people have a lot of reverie about the future shopping method.

In addition, HiVision has a more practical function that is AR translation. Many people don't know the specific information after buying something, because some information is in English, some are in Japanese, but you will not have this kind of trouble if you have HUAWEI Nova 4e. Open the AR translation function of HUAWEI Nova 4e and just align with the place you don't understand. Simply wait for a while, and the familiar Chinese will come back. AR translation not only supports English translation, but also supports ten languages ​​such as Japanese, French, Russian, Korean, etc. With AR translation, HUAWEI Nova 4e can be your portable translator.

As a mobile phone that combines fashion and technology, face unlocking is also an essential feature. HUAWEI Nova 4e 's face unlocking is not only faster than other same price mobile phones, but also very prominent in terms of unlocking success rate (almost can be done in seconds). And HUAWEI Nova 4e 's face unlocking feature not only unlocks the phone, but also unlocks the app, allowing users to use the phone conveniently while maintaining privacy.

Hardware – With upgraded version of GPU Turbo2.0, playing games more fun without stress
Adding a turbocharger system to the game engine through the addition of BlackTech GPU Turbo2.0. HUAWEI has a long-term accumulation in the graphics field, so it has achieved a key technological breakthrough, so the revolutionary GPU Turbo technology was released before, and this time the HUAWEI Nova 4e with an upgraded version of GPU Turbo2.0 (graphic processing is more efficient than before, the game adaptation is also more comprehensive). In addition, with the all-round Kirin 710 processor to reduce efficiency, you can play games more durable.

In terms of storage combination, HUAWEI Nova 4e uses a memory combination of 4GB/6GB RAM+128GB ROM, so users can operate the phone smoothly and quickly, whether it is loading games, frequently switching apps, or audio and video entertainment in daily work and life. It is worth mentioning that the Kirin 710 processor on HUAWEI Nova 4e is a 12nm process eight-core chip developed by HUAWEI, with 4×Cortex A73 2.2GHz (large core) + 4×Cortex A53 1.7GHz (small core), regardless of Whether it is single-threaded or multi-threaded, it can bring users an enjoyable experience.

The 3340mAh large battery and 9V 2A safe fast charge are also the embodiment of the product strength, not only can greatly enhance the product battery life, but also reduce the charging time of the mobile phone, so that users do not have to worry about power consumption whether it is playing games or daily use.

For example, when running the 《Srike of Kings》，HUAWEI Nova 4e can not only keep the whole game running at full frame, at the same time it also can handle the details and shadows of the screen very well. This is also the change brought by GPU Trubo2.0. In addition, HUAWEI Nova 4e did not have any fever and stagnation during the game running. It can be said that it is smooth and “cool” running the whole game, which fully proves that HUAWEI 's hardware and software optimization capabilities have always been at the top level.


According to the frame number curve, it is not difficult to see that HUAWEI Nova 4e is quite smooth and stable when running the 《Srike of Kings》. The average frame rate is stable at 59 frames, and the only frame number drop only appears at the settlement interface after the ends of game, which means that HUAWEI Nova 4e is almost with full frames during the whole game, it can be said to be very excellent.


For young users who like mobile games, HUAWEI Nova 4e can meet the needs of self-timer and various games.

As a mobile phone that focuses on young people, HUAWEI Nova 4e has done a good job in terms of appearance, camera and performance. In today's highly competitive mobile phone industry, HUAWEI Nova series can still adhere to its own characteristics, it is really commendable.

For users who pay attention to the appearance and want to choose a versatile and balanced mobile phone, the existence of HUAWEI Nova 4e is tailor-made, and because of this, we believe that this HUAWEI Nova 4e with suitable price and comprehensive configuration will be a good choice.