Bucket Tech: HUAWEI Nova 11i

HUAWEI’s nova Series has carved a niche for itself in the entry-level smartphone segment, with a focus on delivering premium features and eye-catching designs that cater to the tastes of the young. The latest addition to the lineup, the HUAWEI nova 11i, takes this to new heights, packing an impressive set of features into an elegant-looking device. With a massive display that rivals its more expensive counterparts, long battery life and a powerful camera setup, it is one of the best entry-level phones under R6 000, that you can find in 2023.

The Double Star Orbit Ring design

Continuing the tradition of the HUAWEI nova Series’ unique aesthetic, the HUAWEI nova 11i brings the captivating Double Star Orbit Rings, embodying the spirit of interstellar adventure. The iconic design is both aesthetically pleasing and symbolic of the Series’ focus on innovation. The phone boasts a sleek design, featuring ultra-narrow 1mm bezels that achieve an impressive 94.9% screen-to-body ratio. This results in an immersive viewing experience— whether you’re watching videos or playing games. Measuring only 8.55mm in thickness and weighing 193g, the HUAWEI nova 11i is designed for comfortable one-handed use.

The rear cover of the HUAWEI nova 11i employs the vibrant Starry Flash AG Craft, which features a fine-grained, smudge-proof matte surface that feels delightful to hold. The phone is available in two stunning colour options, both inspired by the natural world: Mint Green and Starry Black. These colour choices make the HUAWEI nova 11i stand out from the crowd and are sure to turn heads wherever you go.

An immersive 6.8-inch screen

The HUAWEI nova 11i’s expansive 6.8-inch display is one of the largest in its class. With ultra-narrow 1mm bezels surrounding the screen, it boasts an impressive 94.9% screen-to-body ratio, making it ideal for watching videos, playing games, or simply scrolling through your feed.

Besides, the HUAWEI nova 11i goes above and beyond to care for users’ eyes with several built-in features that make extended screen time more comfortable. The 10K-Level Smooth Light Adjustment feature allows the screen to automatically adjust the brightness based on real-time ambient lighting, ensuring optimal viewing conditions. Night Mode lowers screen brightness down to 1.8 nits, reducing eye strain in dim environments. For avid readers, eBook mode simulates a paper-like display, minimising eye fatigue during extended reading sessions.

Long battery life and fast charging

Another standout feature of the HUAWEI nova 11i is its impressive 5000 mAh battery. It can easily power you through daily activities without the need for constant charging or carrying around a power bank. The long battery life ensures that the phone can keep up with your busy life.

Complementing its large-capacity battery is the 40W HUAWEI SuperCharge Turbo technology, which enables incredibly fast charging speeds. It can take the battery from 0 to 60% in just half an hour, meaning even a quick top-up can provide significant usage time. Ten minutes of charging offers 12 hours of calling, 6 hours of video playback, 2 hours of gaming, or 23 hours of local music playback.

This significantly reduces the need to lug around bulky power banks or constantly hunt for outlets. The 22-layer battery charging protection system further ensures that users can charge their smartphones with confidence and peace of mind.

Outstanding photography

The HUAWEI nova 11i is no slouch in the camera department, either. Its 16 MP selfie camera supports portrait segmentation and background blurring, enabling you to stand out against any backdrop. AI Beauty 5.1 and AI beautification algorithms enhance facial features, smooth skin, and provide other beauty enhancements to ensure that selfies always showcase users at their best. It also comes with a 48 MP High-res rear camera, which delivers sharp, detailed images even in challenging conditions. The camera’s f/1.8 aperture ensures that low-light shots are well-lit.

It also excels at night photography, thanks to its Super Night Shot 2.0 technology. This feature allows you to capture stunning low-light shots. The AI Snapshot feature on the HUAWEI nova 11i uses a motion detection algorithm to track motion in real time and adjust the shutter speed to ensure that no movement is missed.

More files, more apps, more movies

The HUAWEI nova 11i offers 128 GB of internal storage, which is enough space to store an incredible 160 episodes, 10000 songs, or 70 ultra-HD movies. Downloading apps, games, and files is a sheer breeze, now that there’s enough room for all your stuff. Anybody who enjoys mobile gaming will also appreciate the extra space.

The HUAWEI nova 11i offers a compelling package of features that cater to the needs of a modern user. Its design, display, battery life, and camera capabilities make it an excellent choice for anyone who prioritises aesthetics, multimedia, and photography.

This smartphone is undoubtedly worth considering if you want a well-rounded and stylish smartphone for R5 999. You can buy the smartphone on the HUAWEI online store or at visit Vodacom, MTN, Telkom or Cell C network providers to get the new smartphone from R 329 for 24 months, T&Cs apply.

Defected Virtual Festival 4.0

With all public events and canceled worldwide, artists and record labels are coming together to provide some great online entertainment. One of them who initiated this great movement was Defected Records, hosting the first Virtual Festival 4 weeks ago, today see's the 4th instalment of this festival and features live sets from DJ's from their houses as well as some pre-recorded sets which were taken from previous events. Today's line-up includes Dom Dolla, DJ SPen, Ferreck Dawn, Gorgon City, Simon Dunmore b2b Dinmore Brothers and South Africa's very own Themba! That's Euphonik if anyone didn't know his deep house alias. The virtual festival also serves as a fundraiser as Defected are collecting money to donate to the various charities and orgnizations fighting the COVID19 pandemic. 

The festival starts at 3pm SA time so tune in, turn up the volume and enjoy!

The Fickle Few

It's always a case of not all but a few who are the rotten ones in a bunch, but this few is growing larger and larger.  Being a supporter of a football club isn't easy, especially now in the business end of the season. Liverpool find themselves in a strong position both in the league and Champions League, with the distraction of the FA Cup not there, it gives Jurgen and the team time to concentrate and really make this final push to the end of the season one that will bare some reward. At the moment, it's City in the driving seat for the league, while we do occupy top spot, they have a game in hand and if that translates into a win for them, it would change things immediately. It's not the first time Liverpool have been in this position, it's harsh but back in April 2014, we were strong contenders for the league title and we had a home game against Chelsea that weekend, it was the same game of "the slip" and while many put that down as the deciding factor in us falling short that season, I still say it was not. I could list over ten reasons why but that will just be dwelling in what could have been while we now can chat of what could happen. 

Which is why the team, more than ever needs every ounce of support from their fans, whether you're at the ground or at home watching them play. But while we are winning games and getting results, I've found a number of fans, especially online being highly critical of players and in other words, talking a lot of shit. This needs to be cut out, if you don't know what you're saying, don't say it at all. I've seen our captain, Jordan Henderson catch a lot of flack for merely just being on the starting line up. These fickle few want other players to start every game, like they have not heard of player management and fatigue. Also if the manager deems it good enough for a player to start, you go with it, if in the case like last week against Southampton, things are not working out, the manager and his coaching staff will change things to try and gain an advantage. After Jordan and James were brought on at St Mary's, the entire team dynamic changed, Jordan was playing in his preferred forward position, made life difficult for the opposition when they had the ball. Many cheered Salah's goal that broke the tie but not many realise that it was Henderson's header, that make the break happen in the first place. 

Then his goal, to seal the deal was the icing on the cake, you could see the emotion in him after he netted, what it meant for him, what it meant for the team and more importantly what it meant for the fans. The players go out there every week and give it there all, for the fans and this is how the fans return the favour? By slagging them at every opportunity online? Facebook groups, Twitter, comments on the clubs Instagram pictures?! When I see these comments I feel embarrassed being grouped with supporters like these. Those who only have negative comments, who see Salah missing one opportunity and want him subbed, those who see Jordan pass the ball back on more than one occasion and feel he isn't good enough, those who criticize Bobby for not scoring in more than one game, it's like they just started watching football recently and haven't a clue how this game works or how our team play. It's one of my biggest fears that we get glory hunting fans that only support the team because we're winning, the type of fans became synonymous with Manchester United, Chelsea and Man City. 

We don't need that crap at our club, we want fans that devote their passion of support to the team, those give of positive energy and not negative bile at every disappointment we see. Our club have achieved a points total that would be worth of winning the league 5 seasons ago, but yet here we are with still 5 games to and the league undecided. While Liverpool have the supposed "easier run in", every game from now on will be a final for the team and judging from the past few games, nothing is going to be handed to us. This weekend, we face Chelsea again, a battered giant, a team that started the season strong but found themselves coming up short after the turn of the year but the same team that provided a massive stumble in our challenge back in 2014. Some of their star players are looking to move away in the new season so they'll be here to perform till the end of the season. We already saw Hazard steal the show on Monday night and you can bet your bottom dollar he'll be ready to go again on Sunday. 

The team say a number of times, they're here to do their job not for themselves, not for the club but for us, the fans. The least we can do is show them support and not be a bunch of fickle idiots on the internet by moaning and groaning at any chance or slating players. Lets back them, as this is the time, more than ever they need us.