it's been a pretty crazy time for
smartphones and some of them that we
were really looking forward to actually
having here in the States actually don't
make it here or are at the very least
delayed but right now we're taking a
look at one particular phone that just
simply did not make it to the US shores
mainly because of some let's say current
events that are happening right now
which is a bit of a bummer because the
honor 20 is actually a very solid device
that could have provided some pretty
awesome features to a lot more people
out there a Java gara what's going on
everybody let's revisit the honor 20 for
a second it wasn't too long ago that
honor was one of the best-selling
smartphone companies on Amazon with the
honor 6x and other offerings of the like
since then honor was able to continue
the momentum with the honor of U 10 the
honor of U 20 which introduced some of
the tropes that we see in current
flagship smartphones but with all of the
halawi news that's been happening
recently honor our in unfortunate
casualty of all the craziness happening
between the US and China at the moment
and that is a shame because with the
latest smartphone line this is the honor
20 by the way not the under-20 Pro the
company was able to establish more of an
identity more of their own identity I
should say after all there are a few
things about this phone that are just a
bit different and that separate this
phone from many of the other flagship
smartphones in its same price range for
example you get a really good screen to
body ratio almost a full screen
experience with that little cutout at
the top this is a feature that honor
actually premiered with the honor of
u-20 and it's something that we're
seeing more of another phone of course
that tiny little cutout is so small that
it's nestled right in the notification
area and underneath that surface is a 32
megapixel selfie shooter that provides
some pretty great results if not totally
exceptional results moving around the
rest of the device this Icelandic blue
does shine really well and it does look
really great unfortunately it is very
fingerprint prone you can already see it
here I have a ton of smudges on this
thing and that's what happens when you
have a glossy device what's interesting
is that the honor 20 and the honor 20
Pro are actually very similar in size
and both of them are a little bit easier
to handle at six point two inches in
their screens
ergonomics are actually a little bit
rare when the flagship smartphones we
have right now are actually getting
bigger and bigger
an honor was trying to buck a few
different trends with this particular
device I already mentioned the cutouts
which is a continuing trend of theirs
but then the fingerprint reader that you
might expect to be on the rear of this
phone is actually embedded in the power
button that's actually a very welcome
thing it's just one of those intuitive
features that makes perfect sense you
don't even have to press the button in
order to unlock the device you just rest
your thumb on there or whatever finger
you have enrolled and you get right into
the interface but the other thing that
kind of ties Huawei and honor' together
is also the internals you still get the
ki-rin 980 with the Mali GPU and those
specifications can be boosted using
honors GPU boost 2.0 the only thing is
that the games that I play are not
supported by GPU boost which is kind of
a bummer obviously there is a focus on
fortnight here because there's a
fortnight installer pre-installed on
here and there's one more thing that
honor tried to do that is a little bit
radical and has to do with the camera
package so you have a four camera array
on here and you're seeing some examples
from the 48 megapixel Sony IMX sensor
which is already a great sensor we know
this from a bunch of different phones
that it appears in backing that sensor
up is an ultra wide and that allows you
to fit more into the frame Ultra whites
are always going to be a favorite of
mine then you also get a depth sensor
that allows for good portrait shots you
get a bunch of different modes inside of
the camera up including a night mode
that is fairly aggressive but it is nice
that the night mode is available and
then finally you have a macro mode but
it's actually using a dedicated macro
lens that's this 2 megapixel sensor
right here literally used to get really
close up to subjects in order to
maintain detail even when you're just
centimeters away from it it's kind of
fun to use it just to see how close and
how much detail you can get out of
something but honestly I'm not too sure
what a macro lens would really do for a
casual user and I think that's something
that has to be proven by putting this
phone in the hands of casual users and
therein lies the problem that owner was
actually trying to do something kind of
different dare I say kind of fun with
the honor 20 line and while the rest of
the phone is incredibly solid there's
really nothing to complain about when it
comes to the daily experience having
those few little details those few
little nuances that kind of
of the experience really gave this phone
a lot of character but unfortunately for
honor and honestly for huawei because
they're also a part of this whole
problem this phone is not able to get
into the hands of more people so that
those features could actually be enjoyed
by more users so where do we stand right
now with the honor 20 well we're pretty
much in the same place as when we first
started using this Oh Huawei and thus
honor by association are still unable to
do a whole lot here in the United States
and obviously the point of this video is
to show that that's kind of a shame
because of this phone's more affordable
price point compared to other flagships
you still get all of the things that are
essential to a daily experience with a
few little things that allow you to have
some extra fun but let me know what you
guys think do you have an honor 20 in
honor 20 Pro do you happen to be in
markets where those phones are actually
available if so let us know what your
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for watching this video on the honor 20
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