The cameras on the back of smartphones tend to snap better photos than the front-facing cameras. But device makers are playing catchup by putting better lenses and higher resolution image sensors into front cameras for folks who snap a lot of selfies.

Sony‘s doing it. So is Microsoft. and now you can add Huawei to the mix.

The Chinese phone maker’s new Huawei Ascend G7 smartphone has decent all-around specs. But the company is really playing up the 5MP front camera in its promotional materials.

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The Huawei Ascend G7’s front camera has an 88 degree wide angle lens and the ability to shoot 720p video as well as snapping photos. There’s also a “groufie” feature” that lets you shoot panoramic photos with the front camera to get more people in the shot. Samsung introduced a similar feature when it unveiled the Galaxy Note 4 this week.

The phone’s rear camera still has better hardware than the one on the front. It has a 13MP Sony sensor, a 28mm wide angle lens, and support for 1080p HD video recording.

The Huawei Ascend G7 has a metal unibody case and features a 5.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display.

Other specs include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and Android 4.4 with the new Huawei Emotion UI 3.0 user interface.

The smartphone has a 3000mAh battery, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and support for 4G LTE. It has a metal unibody case.

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