The Honor 20 Pro: A Quad-camera Hands-On Review
by Andrei Frumusanu on May 21, 2019 10:45 AM EST- Posted in
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- Honor 20
- Honor 20 Pro
Video Recording
Video recording of the Honor 20 Pro sees an upgrade thanks to the introduction of OIS, however it’s not all great.
Recording at 60fps at 1080 is very good on the main camera sensor and the OIS is immediately visible. However when switching over to the wide-angle module, things aren’t looking as great as we’re seeing severe detail degradation more apt of a 720p or lower recording, something which is backed up by the resulting bit-rate and file size of the video.
Recording in 4K30 doesn’t see nearly as a big detail hit on the wide-angle lens, however the exposure and saturation is quite different between the two modules, with the wide angle being a lot more washed out.
The most troublesome finding I had when video recording was the fact that the Honor 20 Pro wouldn’t properly change focus when panning between near and far objects, requiring me to manually tap to focus, which is a quite a large deal-breaker and hopefully something that’s will be fixed in the future.
Battery Life
Battery life on the Honor 20 Pro is great and in line with the Kirin 980 chipset and the 4000mAh battery. The LCD screen is efficient and the H20Pro almost equal to the View20 from earlier in the year.
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eastcoast_pete - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
Apart from the current brouhaha with Android and Google's app store, the key shortcoming of this Honor line remains the absence of a micro-SD slot. Why? It's not like these phones are especially well protected against water and dust. Not that even this requires leaving out removable storage, as a number of IP 67 or 68 certified phones that have it show.bubblyboo - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
Huawei is likely aiming to swap out all microSD to their proprietary NM card either ways.porcupineLTD - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
No jack also.freedy - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
Huawei also has a locked bootloader, so you can't install your own custom firmware. My Honor phone olny got updates for 6 months, now i'm stuck old android on a recent phone.evilpaul666 - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
They did the same on the Honor 8. Stayed on top of updates for 6 months and then randomly provided security updates a month or more late for about two years. Stopped that entirely now as of March. And if you didn't have the China/India model phone (like me) it was even worse with six month lag times in North America/Europe.lenghui - Thursday, May 23, 2019 - link
Hmm. I don't have this issue (in the US) with my Mate SE. I just received the May Android security patch a few days ago.BedfordTim - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
If you frequently use your phone as a satnav then an LCD screen won't suffer from burn in.Moizy - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
What's that amplifier board in the macro shots? I'm into audioAndrei Frumusanu - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
It's a 1KHz 127dB THD signal generator board.Psyside - Thursday, May 23, 2019 - link
Hi Andrei, is it just me, or the exynos S10 got better with updates? it looks like in some shots, the pics are equal or even better compared to the S version?