Home 2
Mobiles
Huawei Nova 12s

Huawei Nova 12s

R8,500
SKU: 4572
Brand: Huawei
Category: Mobiles
Add to Compare

CPU: Octa-core (4x2.4 GHz Kryo 670 & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 670)
RAM: 8GB
Storage: 256GB
Display: OLED, 1B colors, HDR, 120Hz
Camera: 50MP
OS: EMUI 14, no Google Play Services

Our Rating

The overall rating is based on review by our experts

7.3

Display 7 / 10
Camera 7 / 10
Performance 7 / 10
Battery 8 / 10

PROS

OLED display, 120Hz refresh rate.
Qualcomm with EMUI 14.
8GB RAm and 256Gb stroage.
Dual primary camera, 4k video recording.
Under display optical fingerprint.

CONS

No Google Play Services.
FM is not supported.
5G network not support.
4500mAh battery only.

The Huawei Nova 12s serves as a stunning flagship-alternative within the mid-to-high-end smartphone market in South Africa. Perfectly balancing a striking, ultra-slim design profile with serious performance and highly advanced selfie capabilities, it is custom-built for social media power users, trendsetters, and mobile content creators.

Local Pricing & Smart Buying Factors

In South African retail channels, the Huawei Nova 12s holds a highly competitive position with cash prices starting from approximately ZAR 8,500.

When weighing your options for this stylish phone, keep these local market factors in mind:

Premium Base Storage: The baseline price secures a robust configuration—typically featuring a spacious 256 GB of internal storage paired with 8 GB of RAM—giving you plenty of room to shoot high-resolution video without hitting storage limits.
Regional Pricing Variances: Exact cash prices can vary slightly depending on your province and local storefront markups. Checking online flyers and nationwide tech catalogues can often reveal limited-time promotional discounts.
Contract Packages: For those who prefer spreading out the hardware cost, the Nova 12s is heavily supported by local cellular operators on 24-month or 36-month network contracts, which bundle the device with affordable monthly data and voice packages.

Where to Buy the Nova 12s in South Africa

Huawei has built an extensive commercial footprint for the Nova series, making it incredibly straightforward to find the Nova 12s cash or on contract across online storefronts, cellular operators, and major retail chains:

E-Commerce & Technology Retailers: Takealot, HiFi Corp, and Hi Online.
Mobile Network Providers & Cellular Specialists: Available on plans or contract upgrades through MTN, Chatz Connect, Cellucity, and 4U.
Major Hypermarkets & Department Stores: Makro, Game, and Foschini.
Everyday Convenience & Value Stores: Mr Price, PEP, and Ackermans.

Standout Features: Ultra-Slim Profile & Creative Power

The Nova 12s distinguishes itself from ordinary mid-rangers by packing flagship-level design elegance and vlogging hardware into an incredibly lightweight body.

Ultra-Thin “Petal Texture” Design: The phone is exceptionally sleek, measuring an astonishingly slim 6.88 mm thick and weighing a feather-light 168 grams. The back panel features an embossed, shimmering texture that gives it a luxurious, high-fashion hand feel while naturally resisting fingerprint smudges.
60 MP Ultra-Wide Selfie Camera: Built directly with vloggers and content creators in mind, the front array features a massive 60 MP high-resolution lens with a $100^\circ$ ultra-wide tracking viewing angle. It supports full 4K video recording, allowing you to capture cinematic, high-detail front-facing footage effortlessly.
Fluid 120 Hz OLED Display: Media viewing and scrolling feel incredibly premium on the crisp 6.7-inch flexible OLED screen. Supporting a fluid 120 Hz refresh rate and pushing over 1 billion colors, the display delivers deep blacks and punchy contrast for streaming video and mobile gaming.
50 MP Ultra Vision Main Camera: On the rear, the 50 MP main camera utilizes Huawei’s advanced RYYB color filter sensor layout, which pulls in up to 40% more light than traditional sensors. This translates into vibrant, razor-sharp imagery during daytime shooting and dramatically cleaner night photography.
66W Huawei SuperCharge Turbo: Powered by a solid battery built to handle a full day of heavy social media engagement, the device supports blazing-fast 66W fast charging, letting you juice up from empty to roughly 60% in a mere 15 minutes.

Note: Running on the highly optimized EMUI 14 software platform, the Nova 12s delivers smooth interface animations and smart multitasking layouts. It utilizes the secure Huawei AppGallery alongside the native GBox utility to ensure flawless operation of all major South African apps, including banking platforms, local streaming services, and social media networks.

Full Specifications

General

Brand	Huawei
Model	Huawei nova 12s
Announced	19 March, 2024
Released	13 April, 2024
Status	Available
Price	ZAR 8,500

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.	Bar
Dimensions	161.3 x 75 x 6.9 mm (6.35 x 2.95 x 0.27 in)
Weight	168 g (5.93 oz)
Colors	Black, Green, White, Gold

Network

2G Network
3G Network
4G Network
5G Network
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.	Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)	OLED, 1B colors, HDR, 120Hz
Size	6.7 inches, 108.3 cm2 (~89.5% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution	1084 x 2412 pixels, 20:9 ratio (~395 ppi density)

Media

Audio Playback
Video Playback
FM Radio	No
Ring Tones
Loudspeaker

Camera

Main Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.	50 MP, f/1.9, (wide), Laser AF, PDAF 8 MP, f/2.2, 112˚ (ultrawide)
Camera Features	HDR
Video	4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps, gyro-EIS
Selfie Camera	60 MP, f/2.4, 100˚ (ultrawide)
Camera Features	HDR
Video	4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps, gyro-EIS

Software

EMUI 14

Hardware

Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming.	Qualcomm SM7325 Snapdragon 778G 4G (6 nm)
CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone.	Octa-core (4x2.4 GHz Kryo 670 & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 670)
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.	Adreno 642L
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.	8GB
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.	256GB
Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.	No
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.	Fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, compass, color spectrum Virtual proximity sensing

Connectivity

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices.	5.2, A2DP, LE
Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-fi Hotspot
USB	USB Type-C 2.0, OTG
Positioning GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.	GPS (L1+L5), GLONASS, BDS (B1I+B1c+B2a), GALILEO (E1+E5a), QZSS (L1+L5), NavIC
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

Battery

Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium.	4500 mAh, non-removable
Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.	66W wired, 3-62% in 15 min, 3-100% in 30 min (advertised) Reverse wired

Reviews

Be the first to add a Review

Please post a user review only if you have / had this product.
Your Name *
Your Email *
Review Title *
Review Text *
Rate this Product
Display: Screen size, image quality (brightness, colors, contrast, etc), visibility in sun light, angles of view and touchscreen.

6
Camera: Usability of Camera interface, image and video quality in different light conditions and environment.

5
Performance: Is this device perform good while watching videos, playing games, taking snapshots, browsing internet and navigate through other applications?

5
Battery: What about battery life, while calling, listening music, watching videos, playing games and doing other tasks.

6
Average Rating 6 / 10 based on your selection