Our quick take
Honor View 20 - 4.0 / 5
Honor V20: Design and Screen
- 6.4-inch, 2310 x 1080 resolution, IPS LCD display Rear-positioned fingerprint scanner 3.5mm headphone jack up top 157 x 75 x 8.1mm; 180g
Honor V20: Specification and Performance
- Kirin 980 chipset, (octa-core: 2x 2.6GHz, 2x 1.92GHz, 4x 1.8GHz) 8GB RAM, 256GB storage (no microSD expansion) Magic UI 2.0 software (it’s EMUI 9.0 software skinned over Android 9.0) 4000mAh battery capacity, USB-C fast-charging (5V)
Honor V20 cameras: Hole-punch front, dual rear
- Rear dual cameras: 48MP, f/1.8, (1/2in size, 0.8µm pixels); TOF (time of flight) for depth detection Front-facing camera: 25MP, f/2.0, 27mm (equivalent)
To recap
As the first phone outside of China with a ‘hole-punch’ front-facing camera - a largely successful, but sometimes distracting solution to the notch - it’s easy to judge this phone on this aspect alone. But the Honor V20 is so much more: with great design and build, a large edge-to-edge display, stacks of power and a battery that goes on and on, this is a flagship alternative that gets (ahem) a hole lot else right too.
