Huawei’s Honor 20i looks pretty in the first impression with a gradient finish and modern beautiful design. It is the first-born product from the upcoming Honor 20 series. The latest Honor 20i smartphone promotes selfie-centric notch trend in the budget-friendly segment. Let’s see what it brought for buyers.
Note: The Chinese brand will unveil Honor 20 family on May 21, 2019.
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Design
It has an elegant design and Honor 20i keeps no difference from its predecessor. The front occupied a large 19.5:9 flat screen, where a U-shaped notch installed on top, and there is a small bottom chin. Camera setup inclined vertically, three lenses has equipped with an LED below. Fingerprint Sensor didn’t leave its home on the rear, but the same Oblong shape. All in one, the Honor 20i is tracking footsteps of the forerunner Honor 10i for mitosis.
Perfect Display from all viewing angles
The company continued its bigger display trend, that’s why 20i carried a 6.21inches IPS Display to give a wide text area for content reading. The device calculates 1080x2340 pixels dimension and 415 PPI Density giving a sharp, vibrant screen for Full HD Netflix movies whether stays at indoors or outdoors.
EMUI 9 and Android Pie OS
Huawei brings its popular custom user interface to Honor 20i smartphone. It is running EMUI 9, out of the box. The latest Android OS v9.0 (Pie) facilitates consumers with fresh security updates and optimized software performance.
Camera where you and your friends can fit into a wide-angle and ultrawide shots
Everyone desires exceptional photography, and that’s the Huawei 20i wants to deliver its clients. Powered by AI, there are triple round shiny eyes mounted at the back. The main photography lens is 24MP wide angle at a brilliant f/1.8 aperture, second is 8MP ultrawide optic of 120° field of view, and the third last is 2MP depth sensor for fully detailed images.
Pictures taken with Honor 20i are offering a clear sharp result, but AI makes its feel sometimes over-saturated for wide-angle shots. The secondary Ultrawide Camera performs on well bases and locks extra field of view for landscape images. Meanwhile, the third sensor also performs a good job for blurred-background photos. We can adjust blur after capturing shots and it’s a nice advancement to the camera interface. Camera allows FHD video streaming at 60fps.
32MP Selfie Master
We love Huawei 20i for splendid 32MP selfies like Samsung’s A60. The front-facing f/2.0 aperture camera supports High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode to facilitate a user with brilliant daylight images, low light, and well results on far away shots. The LED flash on display got missed, resulted that low-light pictures would not come on superb as that of the rear camera’s a fine night mode performance, but it remains excellent under the display brightness.
Face Unlock is too available, since not 3D recognition system, so anyone can fool it with a 2D image of your face. But, customers can get it On behalf of fast and reliable Fingerprint Sensor.
Performance and AnTuTu score
Huawei Honor 20i gives an almost equal performance to the Honor 10i as they having the same internal specs. HiSilicon Kirin 710 used to embed along with a 12nm Octa-core cortex-a7 processor of 2.2GHz frequency and 4/6 GB LRDDR4X RAM to play heavy games like PUBG for which the sufficient graphics are being produced by Mali-G51 MP4 GPU. The handset has 64/128 GB personal storage which goes up to 256GB according to the variant a user select, and a micro-SD slot capable of a 512GB card for massive records. AnTuTu gave 138,500 scores for 20i’s overall performance and it showed the Huawei smartphone is 80% better than other average budget phones.
Good Battery Endurance
A Non-removable Li-Po Battery of 3,400 mAh is there extracting more juice to beat clock’s pendulum for at least a single day of multimedia. It supports standard 10W Fast Charge. The Honor 20i takes 1 hour approximately to recharge fully. Unluckily, there is no USB Type C but a simple micro USB on-the-go.
Pros (+)
Camera you can’t neglect (Triple Back and 32MP front)
Kirin 710, fast chip performance
Best Low-end Price for a starter (only $200)
Cons (-)
Old EMUI 9, not EMUI 10
No USB C