​February 6: Huawei Nova 2i introduced two exclusively tailor-made software upgrades for its consumers recently.

The company said in a statement that the two new software experiences were designed to bring more features, functionality and fun into this New Year.

“Introducing ‘Face unlock’ and a fun ‘AR lens’,” reads the statement.

The Huawei Nova 2i hit the Nepali market in mid-November 2017.

With this new face unlock feature, the Huawei Nova 2i is expected to stand out against competitor devices at the same price point, reads the statement.

Once the customer customizes the settings and lets the front camera detect the owner’s face, he/she can unlock the phone using advanced facial recognition software. This feature comes in handy, especially when the user’s hands are wet, the statement added.

The Huawei Nova 2i is user-friendly by offering two options - direct unlock or slide to unlock. The phone also offers intelligent notification display, which will automatically hide the information/content from any notifications, such as; SMS, WeChat, Whatsapp, Line, QQ etc if the phone identifies that the smartphone user is not the face ID owner.

The Huawei Nova 2i face ID recognition has three dimensions of protection:

1) The storage security: Consumers face information are stored in the Kirin chipset’s CPU TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) area, which achieves chip-level security.

2) The algorithm security: It means the algorithm collects more than 1000 points of face information to make the phone only recognize the owner’s face.

3) To prevent being unlocked when the owner closes eyes, the phone ensures that someone can’t unlock the phone while the owner is sleeping.

The upgraded version integrates a fun AR lens selfie feature. The Huawei Nova 2i is equipped with four cameras, two of which are front-facing cameras. This camera design helps the consumers to capture beautiful color and breathtaking ‘bokeh’ effect photographs.

Using this incredibly creative Augmented Reality experience, the customers can super-impose them into photos with idols or, take a picture standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, London’s Big Ben or even the Sydney Harbour Bridge, reads the statement.