At a special event in Paris, Huawei sub-brand Honor
took the wraps off the View 20 for international markets. The phone was
initially made official for China back in December. And now it's finally on its
way to other countries.
The View 20 comes with a 6.4-inch FHD+ LCD
touchscreen with a punch-hole selfie camera design and a great 85.7%
screen-to-body ratio, according to our calculations. It's powered by the
HiSilicon Kirin 980 chipset, currently Huawei's top of the line SoC, also found
inside the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro.
The Honor View 20 pairs it with 6/8GB of RAM and
128/256GB of storage that isn't expandable. On the rear you get a huge
1/2" 48 MP main camera sensor with f/1.8 aperture and 0.8µm pixel size,
alongside a TOF 3D stereo camera. The camera can do 4-in-1 pixel binning which
Honor calls "superpixels", and it has "Artificial Image
Stabilization" on board, features which work together to enable AIS Super
Night Shot, because a version of Night Mode is essential on a flagship
smartphone in this day and age.
The TOF 3D camera enables depth sensing, skeletal
tracking, as well as real-time motion capture. You can also play 3D motion
games "like never before". Additionally, real-time video retouching
is available, as the 3D cam separates the subject from the background with
multiple retouch levels to choose from.
In the punch-hole in the screen, which has a 4.5mm
diameter, is a 25 MP selfie camera with f/2.0 aperture. The Honor View 20 has a
4,000 mAh battery that charges at 5V/4.5A, going from 0 to 55% in just 30
minutes. The phone runs Android 9 Pie with Magic UI 2 on top. There's a 3.5mm
headphone jack on board, and the fingerprint sensor is on the back, because the
LCD technology used for the screen doesn't allow for an under-display scanner.
Speaking of the back, it comes with a unique
gradient rear glass panel that has a V that changes colors as you look at it
from different angles. The View 20 has dual-band GPS as well as triple Wi-Fi
antennas for better connectivity than most of its rivals.
The device become available starting January 23, in France, the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Poland, the Czech
Republic, Finland, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Portugal, the UAE, India,
Belgium, Malaysia, and the Netherlands. It may not launch in all these markets
at the same time, however.
You can buy one in red, blue, and black. In Europe
you'll pay €569 or £499 for the model with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. If
you want the special edition co-designed with fashion brand Moschino, which
comes with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, you'll need to part with €649 or
£579 of your hard earned cash.
