Performance
Under the hood, the Huawei Nova 7 SE is powered by the Kirin 820 5G chipset, built on the 7nm process. The octa-core CPU setup boosts performance with configurations of 1x2.36 GHz Cortex-A76, 3x2.22 GHz Cortex-A76, and 4x1.84 GHz Cortex-A55, supported by a Mali-G57 GPU for graphics processing. It runs on Android 10 with EMUI 10.1, but notably lacks Google Play Services due to the ongoing restrictions between Huawei and the United States. The available memory configurations of up to 8GB of RAM and storage variants of 128GB and 256GB ensure smooth multitasking and adequate storage for apps and media. The internal memory can be expanded via the NM card slot, although this uses the shared SIM slot.