Huawei Nova 5T review: Kirin 980 flagship power in an affordable Nova body.
Flagship chip, Nova price.
Nova 5T (a rebadged Honor 20) put flagship Kirin 980 power and the IMX586 48 MP sensor into a $430 phone that still shipped with Google services — one of the last great-value Huawei phones before the ban tightened.
01Display
76/10076/100 puts it above the 73-point average for mid-range phones of 2019.
02Camera
76/100At 76/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among mid-range phones of 2019 — 12 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
84/100At 84/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among mid-range phones of 2019 — 21 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
74/10074/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2019.
05Build
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among mid-range phones of 2019 — 7 points above the cohort average.
- Flagship Kirin 980 at $430
- 48 MP IMX586 quad cam + still had Google
- 32 MP selfie + side fingerprint
- IPS not OLED
- 2 MP filler lenses
- Mono speaker
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 101-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .