Honor View 20 Full Detailed Review in English

 hi guys Chris here with the honor view20 so this phone has only just come out in China it's due to be released in Europeshortly and it's getting a lot of hype behind it not because it has a hole inthe displays one of these first phones to have that there's a couple out nowbut because it has the Kirin 980 which is huawei's flagship chipset in amid-range phone and it also has the new Sony 48 megapixel sensor so the fullspecs of this phone are right up here if you're into your specs you can checkthat out there and also some time codes this is going to be a long review sothat's right up here I'm going to go into a lot of detail cover a lot ofthings so in the box you obviously get the phone now I just wanted to point outit comes with a pre-applied screen protector and it's also like thisprotector on the back that you will pull off and we're on the phone in just asecond we get of course a USB to type C cable and then our charger now this hasa maximum rating of 5 volts 4.5 amps now it's not the 40 watt super charger butin my testing

 it still charges the phone really quick four thousand milliamp hourbattery in just about 1 hour and 40 minutes just under one hour and 40 minto it which is really good to know I get some instruction leaflets there and in acemetery tool and we also do get a clear case for it they included TPU case isnot a premium one but it does offer all the protection you need for the phonestraight away which is better than nothing so it protects all of thebuttons on the side protects the cameras the fingerprint reader and even thescreen to if you place it facedown wait a certainly acceptable at the hundredand 85 grams so the rear of the phone has this glass finish to it that is veryslippery when your hands are cold especially now in winter but thecurvature of it is very nice in hand we have a middle frame around here that hasa matte coating the volume button it has a texture to it so you can distinguishwith that from the volume rocker and then this is packing Sony's new 48megapixel sensor so this has an aperture of f-18 and it's backed up by atime-of-flight sensor which is also used to get your backgrounds when you takethose portrait photos dual tone LED flash and then our rear fingerprintsensor which is blazing fastest thing unlocks and under half a second on thetop you will find a secondary mic here intransmitter and then an ambient light sensor yes it is located here becausethey didn't have room for it up front and then thankfully this one does have a3.5 millimeter headphone jack they did not lose it along the bottom you willfind two antenna lines either side of the type C port our loudspeaker and thenthe main microphone on the left you'll find the SIM tray which will take justtwo nano Sims there's no expandability of the storage here so whatever versionyou buy

 make sure that that's going to be enough for your needs so we now havethese little holes in the screen for the front-facing camera which is 25megapixels with an aperture of f11 galaxy a8 s that I'm looking at the holethere isn't quite as bad this one's smaller and the top bezel as well assmaller but what I'm seeing around the hole is a little bit of what I call likeshadowing you can see the darker patches they're the same things happening withthe view 20 right here as well but at least they're bezel and the black aroundat the border is a lot slimmer than Samsung's you're gonna spot this righthere on the bottom of the screen and that's a lot of shadowing right there soyou can see where it says skip you can see how there's that black that's justbleeding into it and it does not look very good it's in fact very poor on thescreen if I move it now where it says enable there you'll notice too aroundthat edge a very dark little look there so the screen looks a little bit washedout in terms of quality now the Samsung a 8's with a very similar style screenbut larger bezels here also does it but not as bad so it does have anotification LED but it's not one of those multicolored ones it's just in theair piece and you can see it's very hard to see I mean I'll probably have topoint it out for you so you can actually see where it is right there it's notthat bright and it seems almost like an afterthought and they win oh where wegonna put it oh we'll just put it in the earpiece and there's one thing I reallydo like with kwame with honor phones is they give you this so you can controlthe ticks size and you can also control the scaling which is really great now Ido like this because I often find that the default dpi they have are 480 s justa little bit too big for me so you can tweak that down as shown right here so

if I just adjust the slider you can see things are going smaller now if you havepoor eyesight you can increase that I want to see more manufacturergive us this option now when you take a look at the color modes and temperaturesand normal it's more correct the white balance but out of the box it comessetup with Vivid which is quite blue it's a more of a blue tent that it hason the white but you are able to tweak that to your own personal preferencethere now despite using a more natural setting here the gamma is quite off it's1.8 it should be 2.2 and that bleeding I was pointing out is more obvious whenyou're looking at just solid colors you can always see it just on that bottomand it does bug me this has a decent screen in it but it's certainly not ahigh quality premium display that who I always gone with and when you look atreal world images it's not too bothersome here and it kind of makessense that honor Huawei they had to cut some corners somewhere didn't hethey're using the flagship chipset and this is more of a mid-range price tag sothis is where they cut the corner and that's what the screen I feel so thephone is running Android 9 it does have the January the first security update sothis is great it's really up to date it's got latest security patches thereand it's running magic UI version 2.0 point 1 remember I do have the Chineseversion here so if you're impatient like me and you can't wait another two weeksfor the global version which is going to be out really soon in Europe then you'regoing to get this you can get Chinese bloatware now most of it you canuninstall but there's a ridiculous amount of apps on here they've crammedin like 20 or 21 junkie Chinese bloatware apps and of course we aremissing LTE band 20 if that's important to you then you must you have to waitfor that global version to demonstrate the face unlocking just how fast it iswatch

this boom it's really quick it only takes a second or so now I do havemy tripod underway and like other phones it's probably not that secure so youcould hold up a really detailed photo of yourself or maybe just put some glassesover it shade in your eyes and we'll probably unlock so if you're not happywith that of course you think print reader and don't use the face unlockingthe fingerprint reader as well very fast just touch it and it's under a secondthis is really quick I'll do it again so I'll touch it now and you can see thereabout one second even under one second this is really quick on to the generalperformance now off the phone so it is really good the touch input I findthere's no problem see no layer carrot seems to be running orfluid no stuttering that I can see when using it like this now when you gothrough different apps now I'm using a course of justice mode I have noticedthat what is going on lately when I first actually got it and startedinstalling everything is you will see even though we've had one firmwareupdate you will see some animation stutter and lag and mostly when you goback to home so if I go bring that back up and I just swipe up to go homeyou see that this animation it's not entirely smooth and it's a little bithard to pick up probably because I'm recording and 30 frames per second if Idid this in 4k 60 you'll probably see that better so bring that up again andyou see what's happening that it does a little bit of stutternow the multitasking I found to be pretty good it is a little bitaggressive at times that it will kill things off in the background now this isexpected a lot of manufacturers are doing this so if you don't want that tohappen then just make sure you lock the applications you use often and that iseasy enough to do so when you go into your task switcher here all you need todo is for example you want gallery all the time not to be killed off thenyou've got to swipe it and hold it down that locks it so then the task managerwill not start just killing things off randomly in the background now when youtake a look at Twitter performance this again is good remember it has a flagshipchipset in this this is the seven nanometer Karen 980 and they're way moreexpensive make 20 Pro and the mate 20 excellent I reviewed both of thosephones now the scrolling I find here that touch scrolling could be a littlebit faster perhaps but really the performance is very solid really goodthere and the way that Lowe's in now I know a lot of you'd like to see yoursynthetic benchmarks so I'll quickly go through some of those so of all theperformance to me is good it's just those animation stutters

 that I'm seeingcan be a little bit annoying there now take a look at these storage speeds thisis really quick so over 900 sequential read I half-expected honor to put inthis one while way-hey emmc driving this for storage not using ufs 2.1 so they'regone with the more expensive much faster storage that is really good theperformance you're getting out of this and when you take a look at those randomreads and writes that's definitely not going to bottleneck the system so I didrun and - - this time on the performance modes you get a score over 300,000 ifthose scores are important for you if you run it in the non performance modewhich is just your normal mode that I always normally stick tothen it would be around 270,000 that score here is our Geekbench four scorethat's OpenCL so this is using the GPU very good score almost ten thousand andthen we have of course just the CPU scores there again very good this is ahigh performance phone so no issues with the signal strength with the wirelessrange as well that all seems to be good same goes with LTE signal all fine thereit's not a problem with that GPS performance of this does work well itgot a lock very quick and your accuracy hovers normally about three to fourmeters no problems tracking me around town and in my care as well also somegood news here does have Widevine level one security level so this meansNetflix yes so we'll run in full HD it's not gonna be stuck in standarddefinition other manufacturers like Xiaomi never bother with this they don'tget the proper suit and you can't even run Netflix in Full HD but with thisphone you get it with Full HD so that is great one thing to note too that if youdo go for the Chinese version that you can run your third-party launches likeNova Launcher here and you can see that that is running and it looks all finebut as soon as you go to swipe up to go home it becomes then kwame's defaultlauncher which is a little bit of a pain it will not need to override this sothis is just on the Chinese version this is another reason to go for the globalversion then you can set home to be Nova Launcher or whatever third-partylauncher so we have just the single loudspeaker down the bottom sadly I feelthat there's a missed opportunity here from Huawei that they could have made itdo loudspeakers and have the front facing speaker also just add a littlebit more but saying that this single loudspeaker the quality is actuallyquite good not bad allowed us as well I'll give you a sample of it in just asecond but the 3.5 millimeter

headphone jack quality also wanted to mention thisand just like voice calls voice calls are fine 3.5 millimeter headphone jack Ifind the quality to be good it's not the best I've heard but it's definitely fineperfectly acceptable it could be perhaps a little bit louder but I kind of saythat with every single phone that I've tested but here's that loudspeakersample Gaming performance this is as expectedit's very fluid it's very fast do you get the occasional little stutter butthat's something I see on literally every single Android device that I testwhat I bought is very smooth with the Kara 980 and this game here is Shadowgunlegions which is on the highest settings you probably ought to saw that littlestarted to spin when that exploded but it's just like caching or something it'sloading in data so to quickly show you now the stock camera app so by defaultthe AI vision as they call it which is their artificial intelligenceenhancement mode marketing rubbish really but what it does is over sharpenthe photos it brightens them up quite a bit it tends to boost the colors a lotof people will probably like that so for social media sharing and things likethat it might give you a better photo but I tend to actually just turn thatoff all the time it don't particularly like it now we've got your typicalportrait mode the stitching on the portrait mode is quite hit and miss asyou will see later on from some of my samples it's not the best when you havea look at the edges now video we get up to 4k there is no optical imagestabilization with this sensor so it's the new 48 megapixel sensor from Samsungwith an f2 point 1.8 aperture sorry F 2.0 on the front 25 megapixel camera sothat's all pretty straightforward I'll get onto those samples in just a secondyou even have of course your augmented reality lens mode they call it so youneed to look at the camera then you can see I've got that silly lizard thingfollowing my face a lot of people like this kind of thing it's good with youngchildren a lot of fun for them here's a sample now with the frontfacing camera so often will you will get that strange reverb effect comingthrough in the microphones this is something that was plaguing the may 20Pro and still is and the may 20 X and something that why we can't seem to fixbut we do get electronic image stabilization on this front-facingcamera and you can see it does a really good job there is a bit of a crop so youhave to hold it right back so you can get your whole face in so this is anideal camera I feel for vlogs if you're gonna be doing that but


the problem isthat audio reverb that comes and goes at times can be really annoying and doeskind of wreck the audio so this is a video sample that is shot in 4k and ithas the electronic image stabilization enabled you can see it's pretty smoothit's not the best there's probably a little bit more shape than some othermanufacturers have now notice that the focus in general tends to be good butsometimes I have noticed that it is off a little and has a little bit of troublegetting a lock and it does also drop frames sometimes as well which is aslight annoyance and we do have access to the two times digital zoom so that'scropping in you can see looking at the castle towel right there and this iswhere the focus sometimes you'll see it pulse in and out and the quality itlooks definitely downgraded because it's not optical its software zooming and our4k in low-light as expected there's a lot more noise to the image have a lookat the sky for example right there and the electronic image stabilization isn'tworking quite as good neither is the focus and you can swap over and use ofcourse the digital zoom again and you can see that looks very poor now and weare also getting some dropped frames just like the make 20 Pro mate 20x frontcamera to in low-light as expected it's suffering quite a bit again theelectronic image stabilization is looking a little bit worse off here withthis lower light now just like the flagship phones from Huawei we also getdesktop mode so plug in the phone to an HDMI cable and you can output display toit run it like a desktop and I can even run it like a tablet here because thescreen I've got also supports touch as you can see so the scroll area that'sworking really good the performance is very good it's excellent really fastthis way I don't notice any stutters or legsthe touch support seems to also be working really well to hear if I justclick on that you can see it'll load up fine so this is a real added bonus tohave this in a mid-range phone this flagship feature alright guys so torecap here we've got a really good phone I feel for the price it is almost I feelthe pivot kind of phone for what they're charging for those because you aregetting a flagship chipset Theory fast chipset that if you put it in theperformance mode and you'll love your synthetic benchmarks goes over 300,000and and - - which is really quick but not only that the internal storage aswell now I thought for this price point they probably would have gone with emmc5.1 storage but no they use the faster ufs 2.1 which is really good so it'sblazing fast but that doesn't mean because the benchmarks are great thatwhen you use it the roms performance is flawless no it's not flawless


 I noticedthese stutters in the UI especially when you're using the full gesture mode whenyou even use the same app and then you don't go back to it for maybe 5 10minutes or you swipe up and go to recent apps and you change over you seeanimation stutters that should not be happening when you take a look at howpowerful does chipset is so obviously the software does need a little bit ofoptimization there the same goes with the camera video performance is notflagship live yet level no but it's not a flagship phone yes but it could bebetter with the chipset with the hardware the head on there have on thisI feel they could have done a little bit better with some things there like thecaramel front-facing camera a little bit too soft even though you disable thebeautifying modes it still comes out I feel too bright too soft maybe that'sthe way the Chinese liked it I don't know there the audio performance as wellfrom the mics and video could be better electronic image stabilization is notthe best in its class again room for improvement there now for me okay thebuild recovered it's good the loudspeaker on the bottom they couldhave gone with jewel but the single down speaker depending on what content you'rewatching is loud enough and I do find it to be fine 3.5 mm headphone jack qualitygood that is great the battery life also very good on this you're going to getaround 19 hours of continual on screen time you're going to easily get two daysfor you sort of medium heavy users super heavy use likegaming no it burns through the battery especially when using pub key for somereason I think with the GPU boost you get a very steady framerate it's supersmooth but you lose about 25 percent battery or 20% battery every hourdepending on your screen brightness oh really true through it charge is reallyreally fast so this isn't about an hour and 35 minutes or so it fully chargeswhich is great the con of this device I feel where they cut the corners as thescreen sure it's nice we've got the slim nice bezels on there that do look reallygood and the bezels around the camera and the screen itself are smaller thanthe samsung galaxy a8 s so they did a good job with that but the screenquality itself a little bit washed out at times and as I showed you and put itout in this video at the start that with the screen we get a lot of that darknessat the very bottom that creeps in and around the camera to me that's annoyingnow to the average Joe who's not really into their tech the screen is going tobe perfectly fine perfectly acceptable and the cameras well it does take areally good photo good low-light but you do notice that it tends to over

sharpensometimes the contrast sometimes the light balance isn't right especiallywhen using that AI vision mode it does get it wrong sometimes and it creates avery to meet artificial looking photos be sure when you move it onto acalibrated monitor and you crop in about 150 200% and you take a look at it youknow it's not an amazing photo but for social media things like that it's gonnabe a good photo it does take a very nice photono complaints really with that it's just I feel me personally it's a little bitoverdone at times and the front-facing camera is a little soft and it seems tohave beautiful aren't even though it's disabled but all in all the view 20 is avery good mobile phone I feel for the price wait for the global reviewreleased there and thank you so much for watching this video please like andsubscribe for more up and coming videos like this one here detailed reviews Iwill have the Samsung Galaxy a s i8 s sorry that I'm currently working on itreviewing so keep an eye out for that a similar phone but of course it has amuch weaker chipset in it thank you so much and I will hopefullycatch you back in the channel bye for now 

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