Gadgetory

when I first saw the huawei honor view 20 and see yes I couldn't take my eyes off of that mesmerizing finish it's actually hypnotic the way that the light shifts and reflects off the back to form this chevron pattern it feels very liquid in fact but there's more to this phone than just that it's the hardware matched with the honor view twenties price that make it such a compelling better than mid-range phone let's start with the screen it's got a six point four inch LCD display with a 23 10 by 1080 pixel resolution that's pretty high and it helps keep words and images looking sharp on the screen but notice how the screen stretches from one end to the other with only a narrow bezel around the rim there's no notch along the phone face and what's this no sensors either instead the honor of u-20 uses the new punch hole design to place the camera within the screen almost like it's peeking out through the display and the sensors have moved up to the phone's top edge I'm happy to say that the punch hole design really works this is a 25 megapixel camera and I was able to take selfies smoothly the circular cutout never felt disruptive or covered anything crucial sometimes it just melts into the background when you open up an app other times it sort of floats on top now as far as photo quality goes that was pretty good too there's a beauty mode and dramatic lighting effects to spruce up photos but not all of those effects work some of them cut off half my hair a our lens which is Huawei's taking on apples and emojis it's kind of fun to completing the tour of the casing you've got a USBC charger port for that enormous 4000 milliamp battery and you have a headphone jack up top there's no support for external storage but you can go dual SIM on the back you have a 48 megapixel camera with a 3d depth sensor lens next door you can use these to take portrait shots with all the trimmings and there's a wacky mode on here that lets you digitally make someone thinner but the far more interesting tool is the AI ultra clarity mode that combines multiple photos into one optimized mega picture that you can crop in on it's much smoother than the regular 48 megapixel image but you lose some color in detail it also takes 5 seconds to shoot this way and it works best for landscape shots with ample lighting to take photos faster with AI you can tap the AI mode in the camera app if the phone recognizes a scene it will automatically apply settings to optimize that photo it works especially well with photos of people flowers and food battery life is impressive on this phone running 16 hours an hour continuous video loop test on airplane mode the four thousand milliamp battery that I mentioned is the same capacity is on the galaxy note 9 a phone that costs about twice the honor of u20s price anecdotally it lasted a full day and well into the night you've got 128 gigabytes of on-board storage to play with or you can pay a little bit more for the 256 gigabyte version like the one I have the honor view 20 runs on android 9 with the magic UI 2 interface it will sell in select markets around the world but if you do get your hands on it it's a strong value Android phone that's guaranteed to turn heads