MANILA -- Huawei launched Tuesday the Nova 7i, the latest generation of its smartphone line that crams as many features at a third of the price of premium offerings.

The Nova 7i was unveiled with an emphasis on Huawei's App Gallery, its answer to Google's Play Store and Apple's iOS App Store. The device runs an open-source version of Android 10 with EMUI 10.

The camera module on the back of the Nova 7i looks like an evolution of the iPhone 11 Pro cameras, with 4 lenses instead of 3. It has a 48-megapixel wide angle lens, an 8-megapixel ultra wide angle lens, a 2-megapixel macro lens and a 2-megapixel bokeh lens for background blur.

The 16-megapixel selfie camera is housed in a hole-shaped cutout on the top right corner of the 6.4-inch screen. The panel has a resolution of 2310 x 1080 with 398 pixels per inch.

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The Nova 7i is powered by a 4,200 mAh cell and runs on Huawei's own Kirin 810 processor. It has 8GB of RAM with 128GB of internal storage.

Available in pink, black and green pre-orders for the Nova 7i will run from March 10 to 20. It will retail for P13,990.