\tHonor took the wraps off the first device in its Honor 20 series of smartphones, Honor 20 Lite, with the entry level to the line offering solid technology at a competitive price point.<\/p>\n
The headline feature of the device is the triple-lens camera. It marries a 24MP main with 8MP wide angle and 2MP lenses for hardware-level bokeh effects, and as is the new norm includes AI-enhanced features including portrait segmentation and scene recognition.<\/p>\n
A front-facing selfie camera sports a 32MP sensor and includes AI beautification features.<\/p>\n
The smartphone offers a 6.2-inch screen with \u201cminimalist dewdrop notch\u201d and screen-to-body ratio of more than 90 per cent.<\/p>\n
Honor 20 Lite is powered by a Kirin 710 processor (not Huawei\u2019s top-tier silicon) with Honor\u2019s GPU Turbo technology, which optimises performance for certain games. It has 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, with microSD expansion.<\/p>\n
At launch, Honor 20 Lite will be priced at \u00a3249 in the UK through a number of retailers. This will put it in competition with devices including Oppo\u2019s RX17 Neo, Motorola G7 Plus and Xiaomi\u2019s Redmi Note 6 Pro.<\/p>\n
UK availability will be from 15 May and the company indicated wider European availability will be in the same timeframe.<\/p>\n
Series speculation
\nHonor has an event scheduled for 21 May 2019 when it will unveil more devices in the Honor 20 line, likely to be the mainstream Honor 20 and a higher-spec Honor 20 Pro. This will give the vendor a three-version line ranging from affordable to premium.<\/p>\n
Certainly the Pro device is expected to have a camera set-up similar to parent Huawei\u2019s recently-announced P30 Pro [1]: this includes a high-resolution main camera with secondary wide angle and telephoto lenses, as well as 3D Time of Flight (ToF) sensor.<\/p>\n
The standard Honor 20 will include triple cameras, omitting 3D ToF.<\/p>\n
Honor has been particularly keen to point out the potential of 3D ToF, also used in its View 20 smartphone [2], as an enabler for motion gaming.<\/p>\n
It has been mooted Honor 20 Pro will feature a 6.5-inch screen, while Honor 20 has been pegged at 6.1-inches. It is also likely to feature a punch-hole front camera, similar to that of View 20, as an alternative to the notch.<\/p>\n
Honor 20 and Honor 20 Pro are expected to be powered by Huawei\u2019s latest high-end processor, Kirin 980, which is used in View 20 as well as Huawei\u2019s P30 and Mate 20 lines [3].<\/p>\n
Both 6GB or 8GB of RAM and 128GB or 256GB of storage have been tipped and it is certainly possible multiple versions will be available using a mix of these.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/huawei-pitches-p30-with-sharp-focus-on-images\/
\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/honor-aims-high-with-flagship\/
\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/huawei-targets-smartphone-supremacy-with-mate-line\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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