Good
Great battery life
Intriguing, smart camera
Intelligent use of the punch hole display
Bad
No wide or zoomed rear lenses
That finish is an audience-divider
No official water resistance
The Honor View 20 was one of the first flagship phones of 2019 and it started the year off with quite a show. A 48MP camera, 256GB of storage and a punch hole display mean this isn’t the kind of phone we normally expect from Honor.
Its phones are often cast as lower-cost alternatives to those of Huawei, which already tends to undercut Samsung and Apple. The Honor View 20 lacks some of the features of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, but it looks, feels and behaves like a top-end mobile.
The Honor View 20’s price is now confirmed in the UK to start at £450 (about $575) for the 128GB storage and 6GB of RAM. The phone has also been launched in the UAE and comes with 256GB storage and 8GB of RAM.
The Honor View 20 is for people who want a high-end phone but aren’t keen on paying the kind of prices the top-end models go for which is good to see cheaper models that do all that higher end phones do.
Honor View 20 Specification
Weight: 180g
Dimensions: 156.9 x 75.4 x 8.1mm
OS: Android 9
Screen size: 6.4-inch
Resolution: 1080 x 2310
CPU: Kirin 980
RAM: 6/8GB
Storage: 128/256GB
Battery: 4,000mAh
Rear camera: 48MP + 3D cam
Front camera: 25MP
You might consider the Honor View 20 alongside something like the OnePlus 6T. Both come from Chinese companies. Both get you more for your money than Samsung would offer.
The Honor View 20 is more aggressive and unusual than a OnePlus phone, though. It has a light-reactive chevron finish we’ve not seen before. And in the UK and US it comes with 256GB of storage as standard.
