Chris here back with the honor view 20 thank you so much for your comments on
my review video yes I was missing the battery stats so that's something that is
actually very hard to get it's gonna take about 3 to 4 days because what
happens is every time I plug in this phone to remove a video or a photo you
ended up charging the phone so you're basically resetting the battery stats
it's like you're charging it again so I will show you them now the battery life
is actually come out to be excellent really good so better usage I have been
doing a bit of gaming a lot of YouTube streaming Chrome as well
Twitter Google Play services has come up here a little bit higher than I thought
I don't know why that is but I just guess it's because of the notifications
that comes through with your app updates and things like that it's constantly
checking so hardware you can see the screen here and look at this just over a
living hours of screen on time I still have 18 percent battery left now I have
had the brightness on a manual setting I calibrate it with all my phone's to 200
Lux and on this phone 200 Lux is just over 50% if you recall in my review
maximum brightness of the screen is 430 Lux so that's why it's just over 50%
there which is quite bright so if I was to run it down here dimmed a little bit
more then you could probably even extend this now this is not a continual on
screen time by the way because I was using this over the space of two days
and you'll see here with my battery usage sorry not my battery use but when
you go into the power consumption details you can see here that's not been
on the whole time it's been a couple of times I wasn't on the wireless and then
I had the screen on and off and you can see that no charging of course
whatsoever so better life is really good on this and what is also excellent is
the battery standby so when it's not in use it doesn't drain the battery like
some do die some phones for example the samsung galaxy a8 s that I just reviewed
as a very poor standby battery rate this one can go hours on end without even
using a single percent now that battery meter at the top is a little bit uh
necrotize it will set at 100% once you're first charged it and it will sit
there with 30 hours of screen on time and not even go off 100% and if you
leave the phone then plugged in just on idle so it's idle
battery consumption it is a seven nanometer chip so it's very efficient
but when you leave it it won't even use a single percent but as soon as you
connect it up it will drop down when you use it I mean turn the screen on it will
drop down a percent or two straight after that so there were a lot of
questions about the display quality to put it this way I've seen phones with a
hundred and fifty dollar price tag with better IPS panels than this one does
that mean it is a deal-breaker screen no by all means as I mentioned in my review
near the end I said that for the average Joe the average person this screen is
going to look perfectly fine but you will notice that it's just not uniform
the backlight we are getting that shadow coming in the bottom there and to me
it's quite annoying because I'm used to looking at a high-end display I have a
Samsung Galaxy S 9 plus and it doesn't have any of these kind of issues you
don't see what I'm showing right here and I've pointed out in my review if you
want more details on that check out the review you get a little bit of a light
leakage to on the sides just right on that corner you can probably make it out
now that I've zoomed in with my camera lens here you see that line there now
you only see that at an angle when you're looking at it face on you don't
tend to notice that it's just at certain angles you will see that light leakage
there so it's definitely not a high quality IPS panel and there to have
always gone with now as a few of you did point out that yes the notifications at
the top here that they've pushed it down there is a gap at the top so it's not
right at the top and it's for two reasons I think for the curvature of the
screen edges that over the top curve that they use now on most phones and
because of the height of the camera so the camera height is why they have
pushed this down just to line things up a little bit better you see it when you
swipe down and you get your notifications what they've done here so
they've lined that right up there with the bottom of it to the bottom of the
border of that front facing camera so having the front facing camera with the
cutout here the hole punched in the screen it's not actually bothering me as
much as I thought it would now the notches the wide not just especially on
the like so say these show me me eight that did bother me personally now I
prefer just to have a top bezel like this with the camera in it you've got
your other senses call me old-fashioned if you will but I prefer that then say
having the hole and four me the slider is not the solution okay
we've got no front-facing cameras at all but there's so many compromises when
manufacturers do go with the slider so having the camera head in a way is nice
so you swipe up of course if you haven't seen my review of this phone right here
it's Lenovo z5 pro it adds a lot of compromises you can't even make voice
calls with this particular model unless you swipe down the screen where you
slide it up sorry and then you get access then to the cameras and the
earpiece there it also has an added bulk it this weighs a lot more than most
other phones it's a lot thicker as well because of the slider so I don't think
that is the solution to the front-facing camera so the hole on the screen to me
so far is a lot better than of course a slider is it better than the pop-up ones
brawled long term it probably is because you're going to have reliability
problems the likes of the vivo NEX s that I reviewed they had to pop up
camera and that make atoms and will eventually wear out they claim 30,000
uses so they go up and down 30,000 times and then it'll work but this to me is
okay it's not so bothersome but I believe maybe even the teardrop knotch
is slightly better because it's more aligned well of course it's centered so
aesthetically having a centered front-facing camera just looks a little
bit better than having this off to the corner if you ask me and then of course
while we have done a much better job at this cutout hole versus the infinity o
screen it's called from Samsung this one has a much larger top bezel they could
have almost put a front-facing camera in there if you ask me a small sensor
perhaps and a much larger border around the camera at least with quite ways
design it's a lot slimmer and a little bit less intrusive now my original plan
was to do a comparison between these two phones here that is Samsung's a 8s and
then the on o V 20 of course which this video is about but there's no point in
doing that at all because this phone apart from the build quality the Samsung
has much superior the builders way superior it's a lot better than the
likes of the b20 huge just got a bit of feel to it because it's thinner but they
have the larger bezels they do have a slightly higher quality screen but
that's really where it ends there because the honor the V 20 is just so
much better of course sell for the same price but we have a
snapdragon 17 on this one so it's not as powerful and the other thing to note is
the optimization of this ROM is absolutely terrible what a disaster of a
phone I never knew that Samsung's mid-range phones because I've always
focused on their flagship phones their high-end was so poor really bad and the
same thing goes there for the cameras too that the owner cameras are much
better the only area that the Samsung is better is the microphone quality in
video video does look better as well but it doesn't have any electronic image
stabilization at all on the Samsung so it's not really usable footage unless
you use one of those handheld gimble's so the honor v20 really beats it with
cameras just hands-down there's no point in doing my originally planned camera
comparison another frequent question that did pop up in my review in the
comment section was what about notifications now they are all coming
through I'm not having any problems with them remember I am on the Chinese
version of this phone here so the global ROM the International release you
probably won't have to do this but just make sure that for example if you're
gonna be using whatsapp that you go into your apps here and make sure you've got
it first to sit as app launch that should automatically already be on
anyway and then you want to go through to the permissions and I just give
whatsapp absolutely everything and then you're not going to have any problems
with that coming through because by default when you install it the the UI
the system doesn't give it any permissions whatsoever so all of these
none of these will actually be on now a couple of these you probably need for
example app inept installations and create home screen shortcuts you can
probably do without but the rest of them I would leave on you've got to give it
permission of course to just use everything and then no problems with
notifications the same goes for Twitter I'm seeing Twitter notifications they
are also showing up there so all up the honor v20 does get a thumbs up from me
this is a great phone and it has a lot of power packed into this a lot of
features really good battery life good standby better life as I pointed out in
this video which is really nice now the new trend okay the hole in the screen
and the punched hole it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be to me
personally I find that it's not as irritating definitely not like the wide
knotch phones is it the best solution
guess it is okay I think the teardrop is probably the better solution there with
the front-facing cameras trying to get the all screen experience that
manufacturers are pushing for now but I just love to have a small slim top bezel
that would be even better for me anyway so the phone is selling for around about
450 us at the moment mine's a Chinese version so don't get the Chinese version
go for the international version the global release which is coming out in a
matter of a week or two in Europe that'll be one to go for so if you want
a phone that's packing a lot of performance it has decent cameras the
video quality will disappoint some people now see my review for that
because the audio quality is still suffering from that bug that Huawei have
its on their flagship phones as well you get this horrible reverb echo a thing
that happens on the microphones that it's just irritates me a lot that they
still have not fixed this no uh no other manufacturer out there has that issue
but they seem to have that problem so compared to the other hole in the screen
phone which is the aid s yeah it just completely kills it this one has really
bad performance and there b20 just flies compared to it and of course the better
life is a lot better you can give up 10 hours on screen time it's a 2 day maybe
even three day phone for most people and the IPS panel is really the only thing
that lets it down it's just not a high quality IPS panel so if you demand a
really good screen and if you see that inconsistent backlighting the shadow at
the bottom you can even see it now along here if you're really fussy about those
kind of things then this is probably a phone that you'd want to avoid if you
want the highest quality panel you're gonna be disappointed with this one
unless Huawei can turn this around and really improve the quality of this IPS
panel for the second batch of these which is probably gonna be the global
version hopefully they can correct that and you've got yourself a very good
phone now there are other alternatives so do factor in phones like the oneplus
60 it has a great UI on that one as mentioned it's really good I do like the
oxygen OS it's probably one of the best it's a factor that in and also cheaper
phones that are still very powerful like the poco phone if one that is selling
for a crazy low 288 us thank you so much for watching
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