honor reached out to us to do a sponsored showcase of their new flagship
for 2019 the honor vue 20. and this
is a really flashy phone both on the
outside and on the inside and with heat
pipe cooling let's get into it
first things first the screen and wow
that's a dynamic wallpaper if i ever saw one anyway this is actually the first
all-screen display with a hole punch style selfie camera that we've had here
in our studio and you know what i've got to say between the intrusiveness of a giant
notch and the more gimmicky solutions
like sliding phones that have a lot of question marks still about their
reliability this ended up looking like a far more
reasonable compromise than i initially thought you've still got just about the
entire status bar to fill up with notifications and meanwhile it has a
self-reported 91.8 screen to body ratio another cool thing
is that honor is still treating it like a notch so they're still giving you the
ability to hide it and putting in virtual bezels when you're watching full
screen content in landscape mode so
bottom line until we start to get camera under screen tech over the next
hopefully year or two this hole punch style is only going to grow in
popularity and the way honor has done it on the view 20 is pretty cool because
unlike punching a hole through all of the layers of the display except for the
glass like samsung does on their a8 honor says that this front camera only
partially penetrates the screen which is apparently an advantage since not only
does it make it a bit less of a weak point where your screen is susceptible
to breaking but each layer that the camera intersects with has the potential
to leak light onto the camera sensor not
a bright idea now the camera itself is pretty small
and unobtrusive it's four and a half millimeters or a little under 3 16 of an
inch for our friends in the us and a and they were able to get it this small
using a technique where the liquid crystals in the lcd's neighboring pixels
will allow light to pass through to the 25 megapixel front camera
now some of you may have noticed that the vue 20 already comes with a screen
protector applied to its 6.4 inch
19.25 by 9 screen but it also comes
packaged with a basic plastic case which is clear so you can show off this
crazy glass back now honor has done
flashy iridescent backings in the past but this is the first time that they've
used nano optical lithography to give it
this really funky chevron pattern i think it looks freaking awesome
taking it off though the sides of the phone are metal giving it a nice premium
feeling and then around the rest of it you'll find a usb type c a single down
firing speaker so no stereo sound unfortunately but at least it's
positioned so that it won't get covered by your hand in landscape mode it's got
dual nano sims with dual standby support and finally a headphone jack
nice wrapping up our tour of the outside of the phone we've got the rear cameras so
the vue 20 is one of the first devices to use sony's imx 586 sensor which
combines a big half inch cmos with tiny
0.8 micrometer pixels to deliver a 48
megapixel camera that's got a ton of zany features from 960fps slow motion
video to ai clarity mode which takes a bunch of pictures at once then uses all
of the information to make a brighter more detailed composite to the ability
to slim a person NVIDIA
in real time so you can enhance your
body to get the perfect look anytime anywhere
james can we try this here's shaping level five
now all of these ai focus features are of course enabled by the vue 20's chiron
980 processor which has two npus or
neural processing units as well as an 8-core CPU and making its first
commercial appearance the mali g76 GPU
it also comes with 6 or 8 gigs of 21 33 megahertz RAM and 128 or 256 gigs of
storage with each tier corresponding to different color options
the coolest thing about this device though is what honor calls the 9 which
is a cooling solution that was first showcased at the honor note 10
conference in china back in december 2018 it's a nine layer thermal design
including things like a copper alloy shield an f-shaped copper heat pipe and
a graphene heatsink and it's not the only gamer focused
feature in the view 20. it also sports
three wi-fi antennas since the usual two antennas on a handset can be susceptible
to being blocked by your hands when you're gaming in landscape mode like if
you think about it your hands are basically made of water rf does not like
water so the extra antenna is on the back of the phone over by the volume
button here where you're less likely to cover it and the phone will
automatically switch between antennas according to which one has the strongest
signal the aim here was to deliver a more consistent gaming experience and
you should have lots of time to gain that xp with the vue 20's 4 000 milliamp
hour battery it's pretty generous actually like we've seen batteries this
size on gaming phones but a lot of the time they end up being quite thick and
the mainstream stuff like even the plus size tends to be around the 3 500
milliamp hour range so that's pretty nice to see
finally honors purple usb cable means that this phone supports super charging
so the phone is rated for a full charge in 90 minutes or 55
in 30 minutes so thanks to honor for sponsoring this
showcase video you can check out the view 20 and its neat accessories
including their gaming grip at the link below and thanks to you guys for watching if
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