The Huawei Nova 5T costs £400 (roughly $530), and because the phone launched in China before the U.S. blacklist went into force, it’s still permitted to use Google Mobile Services.

So, my review period with the Huawei Nova 5T is now fully under way. It’s a phone that I’ve commended for boasting a stellar cheat sheet, but specs don’t necessarily guarantee a good experience.

The Huawei Nova 5T may not be the flagship we were expecting, but it’s the flagship we got. Thanks to the Mate 30’s absence in South Africa, this is the Chinese company’s year-end range topper.

On paper, the Nova 5T looks like a great value proposition. It packs in a big screen in a wieldy profile, a quad-camera setup like Huawei’s P30 Pro, and Huawei’s top of the line Kirin 980 ...

The Huawei nova 5T is powered by HiSilicon Kirin 980 (7 nm) Processor. The smartphone is packed with 8 GB RAM and the internal storage is 128 GB and 256GB.

Like most Huawei phones the Nova 5T runs Android 9 Pie out of the box and its own EMUI 9.1 skin on top, which brings unique features like a simplified UI, a faster file system and modes like GPU ...