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The HUAWEI Nova 2S goes official with a 6-inch 18:9 display and four cameras
June 01, 2025
Hot on the heels of a successful launch of theHONOR V10,Huaweiis taking wraps off another device. The HUAWEI Nova 2S has justlaunchedin China and sports a 6-inch 18:9 display and a 20 MP front-facing camera. The Nova lineup of phones straddles the line between mid-tier the value flagship territory.
The Nova 2S follows up last year’sNova and Nova Plus. Those phones featured 5-inch and 5.5-inch displays, respectively. Both had 32 GB of storage, 3 GB of RAM, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processors. The Nova 2S bumped those internals to 64 or 128 GB of storage, 4 or 6 GB of RAM, and a HUAWEI-madeKirin 960 processor.

Customers will find a dual camera on the back of the phone that houses a 16 MP RGB sensor and a 20 MP monochrome sensor with an f/1.8 aperture. The show-stealer here may be the 20 MP front-facing camera. It has an f/2.0 aperture, an LED flash, and a secondary 2 MP sensor. That’s right, dual front-facing cameras.
The rest of the specs include a 3,340 mAh battery that supports fast charging, hybrid dual-SIM card support (two SIM cards or one SIM card + onemicroSD card), and a3.5 mm headphone jack. It’s also runningAndroid 8.0 Oreo. The HUAWEI Nova 2s comes in Black, Gray, Red, Rose Gold, and Blue and will run customers 2699 yuan (~$400) for the base 4/64 version.

HUAWEI will also release a special edition of the device called the Yixing Zhang Special Edition. The device named after the Chinese entertainer and comes with 6 GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage, an album, ringtones, and more. It’ll run 3399 yuan (~$500) and hits store shelves at the end of the month.
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