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The second generation of the technology — called GPU Turbo 2.
GPU Turbo 2. File safe is another great security feature on devices running EMUI. It lets you lock up images, videos, audio files, and various documents, which can then be viewed in a folder that can be opened with the help of the fingerprint scanner. Once added, the files will be transferred from their original location the gallery, for example into the File safe folder. You can revert the process by removing files from File safe at any time.
Samsung phones come pre-loaded with Samsung Secure Folder , which works in a similar way. A few other manufacturers have also come up with their own solutions. It supports gestures, like drawing a letter on the screen with your knuckle to open an app. It has a Highlights tool that automatically creates short movies from your photos and videos.
The Mini screen view shrinks the content on the display so you can easily reach everything with your thumb. The list goes on.
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So what you get is top-level performance at a mid-range price, which puts the likes of the similarly priced Google Pixel 3a XL to shame. Huawei, and therefore Honor, phones are the current battery life kings. The Honor 20 is no exception.
With medium to heavy usage the phone lasted about 32 hours between charges, meaning it would make it all the way from 7am on day one until 3pm on day two. That was while using the Honor 20 as my primary device with lots of email, messages and push notifications, a couple of hours browsing in Chrome, five hours of Spotify via Bluetooth headphones, 90 minutes of Futurama from Google Play, a minute phone call and about 20 photos.
The Honor 20 runs the latest of Magic UI 2. Magic UI 2. Overall Magic UI 2.
The trouble is the updates have been fairly slow in the past, but Honor said it will be keeping to a bi-monthly security update schedule Google releases an Android security patch once a month and expects a major update in mid-August with Android Q. However, given the complexities of US export law , it may not be up to Honor and Huawei as to whether it can legally honour that commitment. The Honor 20 has an evolved version of the excellent camera from the View The phone technically has four cameras on the back: one 48MP standard camera, a 16MP super-wide angle camera, a 2MP fixed focus macro camera and a 2MP depth assist camera.
However, the depth camera is just that, an assistant helping produce bokeh effects in portrait mode, not a camera in its own right. And while the macro camera sounds like a fun idea, the images produced are poor.
Low-light performance is pretty good too. It even produces better macro shots than the dedicated macro camera. The ultra-wide angle camera is also a lot of fun to use, turning those short-range landscape photos into large, expansive shots.

It has noticeably worse middling-to-low light performance than the main camera, though, so best left for outdoor shots in good light. The one thing missing is an optical zoom; instead you get up to 10x digital zoom, which is pretty good but no match for anything with a 2 or 3x telephoto camera. Video capture is limited to 30FPS at 4K too. The front-facing 32MP camera pokes through a hole in the screen and is really very good, capturing detail-rich selfies even in fairly challenging lighting conditions.
Call quality was good, but the speaker is fairly small needing a bit of attention to get the correct alignment with your ear. The Honor 20 is another cracking, well specified, solid performing, well made phone from Huawei.
The camera is also pretty good, if you ignore the quad-camera hype and concentrate on the main and wide-angle cameras on the back. The Magic UI 2.