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Honor View 20 review

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.

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