Practical and reliable is the image Huawei Technologies is trying to project with two new smartphones unveiled at the IFA trade show on Thursday.

The two phones are aimed squarely at the mid-market and feature tried and trusted technologies, according to Kevin Ho, president of Huawei’s handsets product line. So it’s strange that, for phones with so little novelty, Huawei has decided on the name Nova.

The Nova and Nova Plus are solid phones with rigid, confidence-inspiring aluminum cases. They run Android Marshmallow on eight-core Qualcomm processors with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of flash storage, expandable via a microSD slot. There’s a fingerprint sensor on the back of the case.

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