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HONOR 30s announced: HONOR's mid-range gets a speed boost
![HONOR 30s official The HONOR 30s.](https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Honor-30s-official.jpg)
We already heard murmurings of a Kirin 820 chipset earlier this month, and now HONOR has made it official by launching the Kirin 820-powered HONOR 30s in China.
The new chipset is a reasonably heavy lifter on the CPU front, delivering four Cortex-A76 cores (one at 2.36Ghz and three at 2.22Ghz) and four Cortex-A55 cores (1.84Ghz). This should translate into better multi-core performance in theory than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 700 series.
HiSilicon’s new processor also sports a Mali-G57 MP6 GPU rather than Mali-G77 graphics as previously rumored. Otherwise, you can also expect an upgraded NPU as well as 5G capabilities.
What else does HONOR 30s offer?
![honor 30s views The HONOR 30s, showing off the punch-hole cutout as well.](https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/honor-30s-views.jpg)
5G generally requires more juice than 4G, but the HONOR 30s features a 4,000mAh battery that’s not exactly large compared to other 5G phones. Fortunately, 40W wired charging means you can hit 100% capacity in just over an hour, and 70% in 30 minutes (there’s no wireless charging though).
The phone is pretty solid in the camera field though, delivering a 16MP selfie camera in a punch-hole and a quad rear camera arrangement. The quad system consists of a 64MP main camera, 8MP 3x telephoto shooter, 8MP ultra-wide camera, and 2MP macro sensor.
![HONOR View 30 in hand showing rear panel 2 HONOR View 30 in hand showing rear panel 2](https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Honor-View-30-in-hand-showing-rear-panel-2.jpg)
Other notable specs include a 6.5-inch FHD+ LCD screen with an unspecified refresh rate, a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, USB-C, 3.5mm port, and storage expansion (yay!) via NM card (boo!). Don’t expect an IR blaster or NFC though.
The HONOR 30s is listed at 2,399 yuan (~$338) for the 8GB/128GB model via Tmall, and 2,699 yuan (~$380) for the 8GB/256GB variant.