Nova

Introduction What are the requirements for a new model to constitute an upgrade over the previous one in the series? Normally, a chipset upgrade is on that list, perhaps some improvements in the camera department, some tweaks in the display, a bigger battery or faster charging - something along those lines. Well, the Huawei nova 11 Pro doesn't appear to bring any of those - so is there something that makes it better than the nova 10 Pro? Well, the rear design is different, for one. Huawei has toned…

Say hello to the Huawei nova 11 Pro a phone that's firmly seated in the upper midrange but looks like a full-on flagship. The premium feel starts off with the retail box, which is packed with a case, a USB cable, and a 100W charger. Huawei claims it will top the phone to 100% in just 20 minutes if you don't use it, or to 50% in 15 minutes if you do. Unboxing the Huawei nova 11 Pro Huawei's nova series has always been about design and the 11 Pro takes it to another level. We have the Black color…

Huawei Nova Y71 has been launched in global markets. The mid-range offering from the smartphone company features a 6.75-inch HD+ display. The phone is equipped with a 6,000mAh battery and runs on the company's EMUI 12 Android skin out-of-the-box. Huawei hasn't revealed the name of the processor on the handset that packs 8GB of RAM and 128GB of inbuilt storage. The Huawei Nova Y71 features comes with a triple rear camera setup comprising a 48-megapixel primary sensor, a 5-megapixel ultra-wide…

Hello from Worthy Farm, home of Glastonbury. As is now tradition, this week’s Guide comes from a small, dimly-lit cabin behind the Pyramid stage, where the Guardian will bring you its exhaustive coverage of the world’s greatest music festival. In fact, even ahead of Glasto opening, our writers have already been busy pumping out news and features: there’s the customary Glasto weather report, a lovely gallery of people arriving onsite, a round up of 30 acts to catch, Alexis Petridis’s ranking of the best ever sets at the…

The skilful and imaginative Canadian saxophonist and composer Michael Blake made himself something of an enigma to the straight-jazz crowd by devoting his early career to culture-hopping personal projects, and years with John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, the cult band on the borders of avant-jazz, rock, film-noir music and minimalism. In the 1990s, Blake’s talents could have put him alongside his gifted peers in the international jazz polls, but while many focused on updates of classic jazz traditions, he didn’t, and still…

Astrud Gilberto, whose dreamy interpretation of The Girl from Ipanema became the most popular version of the song, has died aged 83.Paul Ricci, a collaborator with Gilberto, confirmed the news on social media, writing that he had been asked to announce it by Gilberto’s son Marcelo. “She was an important part of ALL that is Brazilian music in the world and she changed many lives with her energy,” he added.Born in 1940 in the Brazilian state of Bahia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Astrud Weinert married musician João…

Huawei has just added another mid-ranger to its nova series of smartphones today, namely the nova Y91. Perhaps its most distinctive feature is the iPhone-like notch. The huge camera island on the back can't easily be ignored either. The Huawei nova Y91 comes with a big, 6.95-inch 1080x2376 LCD touchscreen with 90 Hz refresh rate and 270 Hz touch sampling rate, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 SoC at the helm, 8GB of RAM, 128 or 256GB of storage, and an absolutely humongous 7,000 mAh battery which charges at 22.5W with the…

Huawei Nova Y91 was silently launched in the global market on Monday. The phone is the latest in the Nova Y-series. Earlier this year, the company released the Huawei Nova Y61, which is powered by an unspecified octa-core chipset and runs on EMUI 12. The newly-launched Nova Y91 comes with Qualcomm's octa-core Snapdragon 680 SoC. The phone runs EMUI 13 out-of-the-box and sports a striking circular camera module on the back panel. It appears to be the global variant of the Huawei Enjoy 60x, which…

SteelSeries is launching the Arctis Nova 4, the latest addition to the company’s Nova range of gaming headsets. Considered to be an “heir” to the budget-friendly Arctis 1 Wireless headset, the new Arctis Nova 4 will be available on May 20th for $119.99.For that, you’re getting 360-degree spatial audio and a fully retractable microphone with AI-powered noise cancellation, which SteelSeries claims can reduce up to 25dB of ambient background noises while you chat, such as keyboard tapping or dogs barking. The headset weighs…

In 1959, Carlos Lyra’s musical partner and lyricist Ronaldo Bôscoli said that bossa nova is a state of mind. Lyra thought he was talking nonsense. “Today, I’m actually agreeing with him,” he reflects more than six decades later, while vividly narrating a flashback of the genre’s early days in 1950s Rio de Janeiro. “With our guitars and bottles of homemade drinks, we used to go to the beach at sunset and stay singing through the night. The next day, we would do it all over again. It was a joyous, carefree atmosphere.”Lyra,…