Honor View 20 is now official. It was just announced in China as Honor V20,
with a global launch to follow at an event in Paris, France on January 22. The phone comes with an in-screen
punch-hole selfie camera, and a 48 MP Sony IMX586 rear shooter that's joined by
a 3D ToF sensor at the back. It will be the company's first flagship in 2019.
The Honor V20 is built around a 6.4” LCD of 1080p
resolution and an unusually tall ratio of 19.25:9. The chipset is Kirin 980,
which is coupled with either 6 GB RAM or 8 GB RAM, while the storage options
are two - 128 GB and 256 GB. Having an LCD panel means there is no UD
fingerprint scanner - there's a conventional one at the back instead.
The front panel has a hole for the 25 MP selfie
shooter, but only the LGP layer was cut, while the OCA, POL, color filter,
array are staying the same. Honor boasted about refining the whole process of
manufacturing, so the camera is not physically penetrating the display. If you
want to know more about the design and manufacturing process you should head
this way.
The Honor V20 comes with a cool gradient rear panel
with a V that changes colors as the viewing angle changes. The 48 MP snapper is
huge in size - 1/2-inch CMOS sensor (0.8 µm/pixel) with Quad-Bayer array that
allows pixel binning for HDR 12 MP night shots. The 3D ToF sensor along with the
Kirin 980 chipset enable 3D body shaping, so you can look perfect in your
full-height pictures.
Honor V20 (View 20) comes with EMUI and brings all
the neat well-known Huawei features like Super Night View mode - hand-held long
exposure shots. There is also EIS and GPU Turbo 2.0 comes out of the box. The Honor V20 supports Huawei's
desktop mode so it can also be used as a desktop PC replacements when connected
to a monitor, keyboard and a mouse. It supports dual-frequency GPS
positioning as well as a triple Wi-Fi antenna.
Battery is 4,000 mAh and comes with the 22.5W
SuperCharge support - 4.5V/5A. It should fill the power cell up to 55% in 30
minutes or to the top for an hour and a half since this is how the Huawei Mate
20 performed with the same power setup in our tests.
Honor View 20 is arriving in three colors - Red,
Blue, and Black. The 6/128 GB variant costs CNY 2,999 (US$ 435), while the 8/128 GB
option is CNY 3,499 (US$ 510). The Moschino version comes with 8 GB RAM and 256 GB
storage and costs CNY 3,999 (US$ 580), but it does not have the fancy black panel. Sales in China begin on December
28, while international availability and pricing will be revealed on January
22.
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