Overview smartphone Honor View 20

Huawei after superuspeshnogo 2018 year continues to bomb powerful smartphone announcements. In January, the international market went flagship brand Honor - View 20, flaunting built right into the screen frontalkoy, the main camera on the 48 (!) Megapixels and the platform Kirin 980

Introduction

In the family tree of Huawei / Honor smartphone easy to get confused, pedigree than what some of the Habsburgs: alone smartphones, bearing the title of champions, you can count on two or three in each of the brands. In Honor under this title annually gets "numbered" model (at the time of publication of this Honor 10), which was then the gap shifts View smartphone series - with the most current and best practices platform, applied in the main smartphone Chinese company - Huawei Mate. But there are Honor Magic2, which in addition to the system-on-chip Kirin 980 It offers almost absolute frameless, caused by using a slider mechanism.

"Magic" smartphone, however, I never went beyond the Chinese market, so that's Honor View 20 It can be regarded as an official international flagship brand, which in getting rid of the hateful "monobrovi" their way - this is one of the first devices with the hole in the corner of the screen, which is inscribed frontalka. Officially, the first two smartphones with a similar decision became Huawei nova 4 и Samsung Galaxy A8s, but View 20 It is not that far behind.

It is not only the dignity of fresh gadget. It is based on the most powerful Huawei platform - HiSilicon Kirin 980 with a special cooling system, It equipped with dual rear camera with the main module, permit application which is already 48 megapixels, It has three Wi-Fi-antennas and dual-frequency GPS-module, as well as some superpowers, associated with the use of additional 3D-camera.

Specifications

Appearance, ergonomics and software

with the release of iPhone X - the first cut in the middle of the status bar appeared in the September 2017. It seems to be a little more than a year, but this method of increasing the useful area of ​​the screen, being copied by all, had very bored. no wonder, that manufacturers gradually began to look for different options to abandon the "monobrovi", wherein once trying to keep the ratio of the screen area and the area of ​​the front panel of the highest possible.

ways, basically, many: you can make different versions of the sliding smartphone (live NEX, OPPO Find X, Xiaomi Mi MIX 3, honor Magic2), insert a second screen on the rear panel (Vivo NEX Dual Display, nubia X) or move "frontalku" to cut into some other area. The latter option is used in Honor View 20. Lens, in fact, It is built right into the display - and he also eats off a small portion of the status bar, but it is not so much conspicuous, like on a smartphone with a cutout, even very small, as, eg, в Huawei Mate 20 or OnePlus 6T. At first glance, the black hole in the upper left corner of the screen can rezanut eye, but, First of all, get used to it quickly, and secondly, the decision in any case fresh cut podnadoevshego.

The display itself is the classic format for the modern smartphone high status: diagonal 6,4 inch, aspect ratio 19,5:9. Frames minimum as the side and top, and below. But the complete lack thereof, official "frameless" speak all the same it is not necessary. Besides, despite all the tricks, the screen itself does not become smaller - View 20 much larger Honor 10, this hefty smartphone, with which you can work with one hand only by using various software tricks like offset reduced desktop to one of the corners.

The rear panel is made of polished glass - all in the tradition of Honor (laid back almost three years ago, in the eighth version), the back of the smartphone can be used as a color mirror. Personality model emphasizes the special polish in the form of letter V - to no one forgot, that you do not just Honor, and the eldest of them. Identification brand, by the way, also spelled out the back - and have fresh type, past rebranding at the end of last year. Shimmers in the light of the smartphone is very beautiful - this time somehow in a special way. It should be said about the used gradient color again - also looks bad. View 20, can, and not the most beautiful smartphone in the world (thickish), but it is clearly in the list of applicants for this rank.

The back is curved outwards - to keep the smartphone is quite convenient. But all the typical glass gadgets with curved edges and claims are relevant here - the device is slippery, it is easy to drop out of wet hands, as it tries to crawl with insufficiently flat surface. Be careful and use case (simple transparent have complete).

Honor View 20 is available in two colors - blue and black. There is also a version of Honor View 20, issued in cooperation (or, it is now possible to speak, collaboration) with the fashion house Moschino, - it appears in red and blue colors and has a special wallpaper and themes, and increased memory (8/256 GB). It is this we had in our test, but without pre-installed wallpaper Moschino.

Facets are made of aluminum, mottled as the plastic inserts for the correct operation of multiple antennas, and sensors. With the functional elements are no surprises: there are mini-jack, and port USB Type-C and fingerprint scanner, located on the old rear panel.

Scanner capacitive, It is very fast - it surpasses all modern screen sensors. Among the shortcomings can be noted except that the inability to unlock the smartphone with one hand, when he is on the table. But you can look into the abyss of its front-facing camera - the abyss will look at you in the back and try to recognize your face. It does this quite successfully, but additional funds recognition like building a 3D-model or retinal scans are not used, that is, someone will have enough of your photos, to unlock your phone.

The operating system uses Android 9.0 Pie with a proprietary shell Magic UI 2.0.1. This version of the traditional shell for Huawei EMUI, designed specifically for smartphones Honor. I talked about it more in the review of Honor Magic2, But in the international version, it is almost indistinguishable from EMUI - except that the themes and wallpapers other, but instead of service applications Huawei Honor then installed applications. In China, it integrates very intelligent voice assistant YoYo, which is closely friendly with various Chinese services and is able at a very high level, to recognize the master's voice. When he appears in Russia and reveal the potential of Magic UI - unknown. Without it, it's pretty simple, nenazoylivaya, but overflowing with signature applications (in my opinion - with a surplus) shell, with a pre-search "Yandex" on the second screen, built-in notification bar "Alice" and the browser "Yandex" as the main. Almost "Yandeks.Telefon" (healthy person).

Someone may have questions about what, how to enter the same hole in the shell program, - Android just got used to the cut-outs, but now a new trend. I hasten to answer them and to dispel doubts - no problems, in applications it just fits in the status bar and does not interfere with the perception of information from the screen. Problems can be in games, but infrequently: due to the spread of the cutout interface is created with a pre-prescribed free zone at the edge of the screen, which falls as a possible "bangs", and a hole for the camera, like here.

⇡#Display and Sound

Creating a middle-class smartphone (okay, "Upper middle class"), which exceeds the capacity and functionality last year partially flag Huawei P20 Pro, the manufacturer had to sacrifice something - otherwise the result would be a full-fledged internal competitor for already leaving gradually with the gadget scene from last season, and for fresh Mate 20 / Mate 20 Pro, which is based on the same platform Kirin 980. That something was the display - instead of the already usual for all flagship OLED here has an LCD screen with IPS-matrix.

diagonal was 6,4 inch, resolution - 2310 × 1080 dots at a density of pixels 398 ppi. Detailing turns out not limit, that can be seen on 4K video. When reading from the screen and viewing photos no problem. quality matrix - the viewing angles are available, at a deviation angle view of the serious contrast is lost slightly, but it does not distort colors. Touch coating reacts to 10 simultaneous touches. But not very oleophobic coating - a sin usual for smartphones or Huawei Honor. On the default smartphone pasted protective film - it is better not to take as long as possible. Defenseless screen zalyapyvaetsya easy and pretty hard to scour.

The measured maximum brightness level is 447 cd / m2 - the average for an LCD matrix, count on perfect comfort when using a smartphone on a sunny day on the street can not be. The image will be seen, the display does not go blind, but save full color he can not.

contrast ratio - 1171:1. It is quite usual for IPS.

In the settings screen, you can view how to enable security (with the greatest warm colors mode), change the resolution or font size, and adjust the color reproduction - to choose between two profiles (conventional and bright) or to set the desired color temperature for you. I measured the color reproduction is in two preset profiles, without individual adjustment of temperature. Other display settings, note the opportunity to fill the status bar in black, which is typical for smartphones with a cutout, but not with frontalkoy-in-hole. But if you are annoyed black circle in the corner, you can get rid of it in such a simple way.

In normal mode, the color gamut is 2,05 - curves are stable in dark shades, gamma drops significantly in light. Curve color temperature stable, held in the area 7 700 TO. The average deviation on the expanded panel Color Checker (shades of gray + a wide range of colors) – 3,57 at the upper limit of normal at 3,00. However, and this result is better, than the average in hospital. The color gamut is almost equal to sRGB. The screen in this mode is very well set up, but it is possible to improve the situation, slightly podrihtovav manual color temperature.

In the bright mode Honor View 20 extends the color gamut - from sRGB to DCI-P3, enhances color temperature (line is already uneven, springs from 8 200 to 11 000 TO), the accuracy can not speak - the average deviation Delta E Scale Color Checker is 7,42. The picture was a cold, saturated, but very far from naturalness.

With sound in Honor View 20 all good, but without shine. From the pros to note the presence of a mini-jack - wired headphone holders do not need to use an adapter, and you can even listen to music with their help, while simultaneously charging your smartphone! Unprecedented luxury in these times. With audio quality on the wire will be all right - though not in the beyond, I did not have a bit of detail and power reserve. If in any case you are away from the wired world - there is support aptX HD. Speaker monofonycheskyy, Located on the lower face, its volume is enough, so you will not miss a call or hear, it broadcasts another blogger on Youtube. Listen to music or watch a movie, without resorting to headphones or external speakers features, not very nice.

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