HONOR V30 SURFACES IN GEEKBENCH WHILE THE COMPANY ADVERTISES 5G CAPABILITIES

The Honor V30 will go official in the next week November 26, as well as its sibling V30 Pro. Both devices have been a target of multiple leaks in the past weeks. Honor itself doesn’t seem very concerned with these leaks, as the company is putting great effort to advertise the 5G capabilities of the new smartphone duo. Today we’ve got new material from the promo campaign as well as a leaked photo that shows the handset downloading 1.6GB game update over 5G connectivity.

Huawei’s subsidiary also posted a couple of teaser images for the upcoming phones, which once again focus on the 5G powers. The Honor V30 5G will be fully compatible with China Telecom. But there are two other telecom firms in the country with support to the next-gen connectivity. Since it’s a new technology that will have grown in popularity over the next years, it’s natural to see Honor giving so much importance to it. Early adopters of the 5G technology can find in the Honor V30 Duo a great opportunity to dive in the new internet speeds.

Meanwhile, the Honor V30 was spotted in the GeekBench database. The rumored specs are confirmed as the phone will run Kirin 990 5G and this particular unit runs with 8GB of RAM. It runs MagicUI (The Honor’s branch of Huawei software) which is based on Google’s latest Android 10. The results are very comparable to the Huawei Mate 30 Pro since both smartphones boast the same chipset. For that reason, we can expect a flagship performance on the Honor handset.

Besides the Honor V30 and V30 Pro, Honor will also unveil the Honor Magic Watch 2 on November 26. So set a reminder for the date, if you’re an Honor enthusiast.

Honor V30 renders leak with dual selfie hole-punch and no headphone jack

Honor is going to announce its next flagship smartphone. The Honor V20 (“View 20” in Western markets) was the first Honor phone with a hole-punch selfie camera and among the first smartphones to have one.

We’ve seen an alleged case render of the V30 just last week and today’s leak from 91Mobiles shows the Honor V30 in official-looking renders. They also corroborate Honor’s recent teasers of the V30.

The V30 will bring dual-selfie cameras through a cutout in the display (presumably LCD). As seen in the renders, which offer the V30 from all angles, there is no longer a headphone jack – something rare for devices with the Honor brand.

There is a triple camera around the back which appears to protrude from the back of the phone quite a bit and the main module is rumored to be a 60MP camera. A rear-mounted fingerprint scanner is seemingly replaced by one mounted on the right side of the phone and the phone is said to launch with 5G support for the Chinese market. We can expect to see the Kirin 990 power the Honor flagship.

Honor is going to officially announce the V30 in China on November 26. Availability for Western markets is not yet known, but the handset may be called “Vera 30” outside of China.