Despite the recent ban placed on Huawei products in the US by the Trump administration, the Chinese company’s HONOR sub-brand has gone ahead with the planned launch of the HONOR 20 and HONOR 20 Pro in London. Both phones have the same 6.26-inch Full HD+ All-View Punch-hole display with 91.7% screen-to-body-ratio, side-mounted fingerprint sensor and based on the Kirin 980 7nm octa-core processor with Dual NPU and GPU Turbo 3.0.
The HONOR 20 Pro has quad camera system which includes a primary 48MP (f/1.4) shooter with 1/2″ Sony IMX586 sensor with Laser AF, 4-axis OIS, EIS and PDAF paired with 16MP (f/2/2) shooter with 117-degree ultra-wide-angle lens, 8MP (f/2.4) telephoto shooter with 4-axis OIS and 3x loss-less optical zoom. The final camera has a 2MP (f/2.4) shooter for 4cm macro. DxoMark scored the pro-grade camera 111 points – the same as the OnePlus 7 Pro.
The HONOR 20’s quad-camera system has a primary 48MP (f/1.8) shooter with 1/2″ Sony IMX586 sensor and AIS paired with the same 16MP (f/2/2) shooter with 117-degree ultra-wide-angle lens, 2MP (f/2.4) shooter for 4cm macro and 2MP (f/2.4) shooter for depth sensing. Both devices have a 32MP (f/2.0) selfie camera with 3D Portrait Lighting in the punch-hole notch.
The HONOR 20 packs 6GB RAM with 128GB (UFS 2.1) storage and depends on a 3,750mAh battery with 22.5W (4.5V-5A) HONOR SuperCharge fast charging while the Pro model packs 8GB RAM with 256GB (UFS 2.1) storage and power is supplied by a 4,000mAh battery with the same type of fast charging. The rest of the specs include USB Type-C, Virtual 9.1 Surround Sound, Huawei Histen 6.0, Bluetooth 5 LE and Magic UI 2.1 (based on Android 9.0 Pie).
The HONOR 20 is priced at EUR 499 and comes in Icelandic White, Midnight Black and Sapphire Blue colours while the HONOR 20 Pro is priced higher at EUR 599 and arrives in either Phantom Black or Phantom Blue colours. Both models will go on sale in various markets in Asia and Europe.
