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honor reached out to us to do a sponsored showcase of their new flagship for 2019 the honor view 20 and this is a really flashy phone both on the outside and on the inside and with heat pipe cooling let's get into it first things first the screen and wow that's a dynamic wallpaper if I ever saw one anyway this is actually the first all screen display with a hole punch style selfie camera that we've had here in our studio and you know what I've got to say between the intrusiveness of a giant knotch and the more gimmicky solutions like sliding phones that have a lot of question marks still about their reliability this ended up looking like a far more reasonable compromise than I initially thought you've still got just about the entire status bar to fill up with notifications and meanwhile it has a self-reported 91.8% screen to body ratio another cool thing is that honor is still treating it like a notch so they're still giving you the ability to hide it and putting in virtual bezels when you're watching full screen content in landscape mode so bottom line until we start to get camera under screen tech over the next hopefully year or two this hole punch style is only going to grow in popularity and the way honor has done it on the Vue 20 is pretty cool because unlike punching a hole through all of the layers of the display except for the glass like Samsung does on there a eight owner says that this front camera only partially penetrates the screen which is apparently an advantage since not only does it make it a bit less of a weak point where your screen is susceptible to breaking but each layer that the camera intersects with has the potential to leak light onto the camera sensor not a bright idea now the camera itself is pretty small and unobtrusive it's four and a half millimeters or a little under three sixteenths of an inch for our friends in the US and day and they were able to get it this small using a technique where the liquid crystals in the LCDs neighboring pixels will allow light to pass through to the 25 megapixel front camera now some of you may have noticed that the view 20 already comes with a screen protector applied to it's six point four inch 19.2 five by nine screen but it also comes packaged with a basic flat the case which is clear so you can show off this crazy glass back now honor has done flashy iridescent backings in the past but this is the first time that they've used nano optical lithography to give it this really funky chevron pattern I think it looks freaking awesome taking it off though the sides of the phone are metal giving it a nice premium feeling and then around the rest of it you'll find a USB type-c a single down firing speaker so no stereo sound unfortunately but at least it's positioned so that it won't get covered by your hand in landscape mode it's got dual nano Sims with dual standby support and finally a headphone jack nice wrapping up our tour of the outside of the phone we've got the rear cameras so the view 20 is one of the first devices to use Sony's IMX 586 sensor which combines a big half-inch see most with tiny 0.8 micrometer pixels to deliver a 48 megapixel camera that's got a ton of zany features from 960 fps slow motion video to AI clarity mode which takes a bunch of pictures at once then uses all of the information to make a brighter more detailed composite - the ability to slim a person in video in real time so you can enhance your body to get the perfect look anytime anywhere James can we try this here's shaping level 5 now all of these AI Focus Features are of course enabled by the view 20s Chiron 980 processor which has two NP use or neural processing units as well as an 8 core CPU and making its first commercial appearance the Mallee G 76 GPU it also comes with 6 or 8 gigs of 21 33 megahertz RAM and 128 or 256 gigs of storage with each tier corresponding to different color options the coolest thing about this device though is what honor calls the 9 which is a cooling solution that was first showcased at the honor Note 10 conference in China back in December 2018 it's a nine layer thermal design including things like a copper alloy shield an s-shaped copper heat pipe and a graphene heatsink and it's not the only gamer focused feature in the view 20 it also sports three Wi-Fi antennas since the usual two antennas on a handset can be susceptible to being blocked by your hands when you're gaming in landscape mode like you think about it your hands are basically made of water RF does not like water so the extra antenna is on the back of the phone over by the volume button here where you're less likely to cover it and the phone will automatically switch between antennas according to which one has the strongest signal the aim here was to deliver a more consistent gaming experience and you should have lots of time to gain that xp with the view 20s 4,000 milliamp hour battery it's pretty generous actually like we've seen batteries this size on gaming phones but a lot of the time they end up being quite thick and the mainstream stuff like even the plus size tends to be around the 3500 milliamp hour range so that's pretty nice to see finally Honor's purple USB cable means that this phone supports super charging so the phone is rated for a full charge in 90 minutes or 55 percent in 30 minutes so thanks to honor for sponsoring this showcase video you can check out the view xx and it's neat accessories including their gaming grip at the link below and thanks to you guys for watching if you disliked this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we feature - 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