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The device is considerably more expensive — assuming it even launches — than the Honor View 20 and comes remarkably close to the Huawei P30 price tag and features the same camera as the former and processor as the latter. I am going to come right out and say it.
Google has the best camera. Huawei and Honor have the best cameras. Compared to the Huawei P30 Pro, the Honor 20 Pro loses autofocus on its wide-angle sensor and instead has to use a 2MP dedicated macro sensor that delivers fine shots but is also not autofocusing — making shooting anything that moves in the slightest a chore.
The telephoto lens is also downgraded from the amazing 5X optical zoom to a true 3X optical zoom with an 8MP sensor and 5X hybrid zoom option. All together, the Honor 20 Pro is far more capable than the Honor View 20 but markedly less so than the larger and far more expensive Huawei P30 Pro which is likely exactly where Honor wants this device to fall.
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On the one hand, the tuning is very saturated and dynamic — a look I do not like. Also, the camera app lacks the automatic mode switching the Huawei P30 Pro offers where if you move close to a subject Super Macro will enable automatically, or if a face is seen Portrait mode is turned on. It is a small touch, but I did miss that small added functionality. So that wraps up my review of the Honor 20 Pro. The Honor 20 Pro will deliver the same excellent level of performance in gaming and day-to-day matters that the Honor View 20 or Huawei P30 will afford you and it does it at a price that strikes right between those two.
There is simply no getting around the situation that plagues Huawei and Honor now. While injunctions and legal workarounds are starting to be implemented, there is no denying that the brands are in serious trouble. Will the Honor 20 Pro ever make it to market?
That is a question Honor never likely thought they would have to face but that is exactly where we are now. Purchasing any Huawei or Honor device now comes with significant baggage and that is unfortunate. Honor and Huawei were, in my opinion, moving the market forward in camera features and versatility and market saturation of just downright good devices and the Honor 20 Pro continues this trend.

True, you may be able to get a better OLED display around the same cost or find something with dual speakers, an IP rating, or water resistance, but the truth is none of those things really matter much. Coming to a conclusion is one of the most difficult parts of a review but is made even harder by the reality that the outstanding device I got to review may never hit store shelves. Even if it does, it might do so with remarkably different software. Unfortunately though, reality is often disappointing. Therefore, the bootloaders of their devices cannot be unlocked, which means that users cannot root or install custom ROMs.
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The same issues don't really apply to gaming. Casual portrait games won't generally benefit from the extra centimeter of space afford by using the whole screen. And console-style landscape orientation games often make you rest a thumb over the punch hole area anyway. When playing a game, the one actual annoyance is something else. We're glad the View 20 has a headphone jack, but it would be much more conveniently placed over on the other side of the phone's top edge. It gets in the way when the phone is held on its side, again, for movies and games.
You can turn the phone around, of course, but then the punch hole is in a slightly more distracting position. Top-end games run very well on the Honor View Qualcomm's top chipsets simply have more powerful GPUs than the Kirin used here. The Pixel 3 XL scores around 4, points. However, you'll only notice the difference in a small handful of games, such as Ark: Survival Evolved.
Or when emulating more recent consoles with, for example, the Dolphin app. This is a per-game optimization technique that streamlines processor load, for genuine performance benefits. However, it requires a profile to be developed specifically for each title. That last one is probably the most important. However, we can say PUBG runs very well. It lets you use the High graphics setting, and we see almost zero performance blips.
This phone has a nicely rounded sound, with thicker-than average bass and mids. It helps the sound seem smooth and pleasant even at maximum volume, which is respectably loud.
It has eight cores but, unusually, splits them into three groups rather than the usual two. There are four Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1. This effectively gives the Honor View 20 more gears, which should theoretically help with power consumption. The Kirin is also a 7nm chipset, the most up-to-date architecture style for phones in early Current page: Anything else I should know? Home Reviews. Introduction, key features and design Battery life and camera Anything else I should know?
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Software Android 9. Movies and games Fairly rich-sounding mono speaker Punch hole: good for games Punch hole: less good for movies When you spend big money on a phone, it's worth considering why before you do so.