Honor V20 (Honor View 20) Launched With ‘Hole-Punch’ Selfie Camera Design, 48-Megapixel Rear Camera: Price, Specifications and More

Honor V20 (Honor View 20) launched in China yesterday, after much hype created by the Huawei sub-brand. Honor revealed all details about the smartphone, including price and availability details. It takes on Samsung’s Galaxy A8s, which is arguably the first phone launched with a display hole for selfie camera. The Honor V20 comes with a ‘hole-punch’ selfie camera design, similar to that of the Huawei Nova 4, apart from a dual rear camera setup at the back.

Price, Availability

Honor V20 (Honor View 20) priced at Rs. 30,400 for the 6GB RAM + 128GB storage options and goes up to CNY 3,499 (roughly Rs. 35,500) for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage option. It is available in Charm Blue, Red, and Midnight Black color option. Pre-orders of the smartphone has already begun on Tmall, Vmall, Jingdong, Sunning.com, and more options, with shipping beginning from December 28.

Also See: Huawei Nova 4 vs Huawei Nova 3

Specifications

The dual-SIM Honor V20 (Honor View 20) runs on Android 9.0 Pie out-of-the-box based on MagicUI 2.0.1. It sports a 6.4-inch full-HD+ (1080×2310 pixels) TFT LCD display with 19.5:9 aspect ratio, 16.7 million colours, 91.82 percent screen-to-body ratio, and 398ppi pixel density. It is powered by the latest 7nm octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 980 SoC (2 Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.6GHz + 2 Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 1.92GHz + 4 Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.8GHz ) paired with 6GB and 8GB RAM options. Inbuilt storage is offered at 128GB and 256GB options. It does not support microSD card slot for storage expansion.

Design

Honor V20 (Honor View 20) is seen to sport a ‘hole-punch’ selfie camera design with the sensor placed on the top left edge of the smartphone. The cutout is just 4.5mm in size, and is very non-invasive, the company claims. At the back, the smartphone sports a dual rear camera setup aligned horizontally and a rear fingerprint sensor as well. The back panel is seen to sport a glossy gradient finish and tapered edges for better gripping.

Honor V20 camera

The Honor V20 (Honor View 20) sports a 48-megapixel Sony IMX586 sensor with f/1.8 aperture, 960fps slow-motion video recording support, autofocus, AI HDR, and LED flash support. There’s a secondary 3D Time of Flight (ToF) sensor to capture the depth of an image, and can be used for such features as slimming subjects in photos as well as creating 3D avatars of users. At the front, there is a 25-megapixel front sensor with f/2.0 aperture and fixed focus support. Camera features include AI photo, night scene, portrait, fun AR, time-lapse photography, slow-motion, and more. It also ships with the Yoyo virtual assistant.

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