Honor View 20 is the first phone with an in-screen camera. The device is yet to
be launched to the wide audience, but we got an exclusive peek of the new
device. It will be the first smartphone with a 48 MP camera, implementing the
Sony IMX586 sensor.
Another breakthrough the Huawei subsidiary
introduced is Link Turbo - a technology allowing simultaneous Wi-Fi + 4G use,
so the connection is not choking over poor public networks. Honor skipped on revealing any
specs and the unit we held was in a pre-production body, hiding the design of
the phone. The company did say the screen of the View 20 will have a 4.5 mm
cutout for the camera, with the screen now called Full-View Display 3.0.
The chipset will be Kirin 980 with its dual-NPU to
bring 48 MP AI HDR mode that Honor claims can match single-lens reflex cameras. Speaking about the camera, the Sony IMX586 CMOS is
on a massive 1/2-inch sensor (0.8 µm/pixel) and has the Quad Bayer color array,
stacking adjacent 2x2 pixels in the same color. In theory, the View 20 should
shoot low-noise 12 MP pictures in low-light. Honor is going all-in with this
camera being the sole snapper of the main setup, instead of going for dual- or
triple-cam solutions like other flagships.
The phone will be officially announced on December
26 in China as Honor V20, while the global launch is taking place in Paris on
January 22.
