Highlights: Honor 20 series with new design, features and specs upgrade launched

Honor on Tuesday launched a new ‘Honor 20 series’ which features three smartphones, Honor 20, Honor 20 Pro, and Honor 20 Lite. Honor 20 and Honor 20 Pro are aimed at the premium and high-end mid-range segments whereas Honor 20 Lite is aimed at mid-range segment. Honor 20 is priced at EUR 499 (₹39,000 approximately) whereas Honor 20 Pro is priced at 599 (₹46,000 approximately). The cheaper Honor 10 Lite is priced at EUR 299 (₹23,000 approximately). Honor 20 Pro, which competes with OnePlus 7 Pro, comes with a quad-camera setup featuring 48-megapixel sensor, 16-megapixel wide-angle sensor, an 8-megapixel telephoto lens and a 2-megapixel macro lens. Honor 20 also has the same quad-camera setup but with a 2-megapixel depth sensor. Honor 20 Pro is powered by a 4,000mAh battery with 22.5W ‘Honor Super Charge’. Honor 20 has a smaller 3,700mAh battery. Honor 20 Lite comes with a full HD display with dewdrop notch on the front. Powered by Kirin 710 chipset, Honor 20 Lite comes with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It has a triple-camera setup of 24-megapixel, 8-megapixel and 2-megapixel sensors. The smartphone is powered by a 3,400mAh battery. Here are the highlights from the event.

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Honor 20 series officially launched (HT Photo)

21 May 2019, 07:36 IST

Honor 20 Lite launched

Honor has also launched a stripped down version of Honor 20. The Lite version comes with Kirin 710 processor with 4GB RAM and 128GB ROM. The phone is priced at 299 Euros

21 May 2019, 07:34 IST

Price

Honor 20 is priced at 499 Euro and Honor 20 Pro 8GB RAM model is priced at 599 Euros

21 May 2019, 07:24 IST

Performance

Honor 20 series is powered by in-house Kirin 980 processor with up to 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of ROM. It also comes with GPU Turbo 3.0 for better gaming experience. Honor 20 Pro is also Fortnite compatible. The phone comes with a 4,000mAh battery with 22.5W Honor SuperCharge technology

21 May 2019, 07:22 IST

DXOMark

Honor 20 Pro's camera scored 111 on DXOMark camera test. It's the same score that OnePlus 7 Pro had achieved.

21 May 2019, 07:20 IST

More on camera

Honor 20 and Honor 20 Pro are said to deliver smooth image stabilisation in low light video shooting. Honor 20 Pro comes with 32MP selfie camera

21 May 2019, 07:10 IST

Lowlight performance

Honor in a live demo shows lowlight capabilities of Honor 20 Pro's camera. The phone is pitted against Samsung's Galaxy S10 and Apple's iPhone XS. Another update, Honor 20 Pro's 48MP camera is Sony's IMX586 sensor. Honor 20 Pro also gets Huawei P30 Pro's moon shot feature.

21 May 2019, 07:04 IST

AI Camera

Honor 20 series is powered by in-house Kirin 980 processor. The chipset brings dual NPUs, dual channel and 4th generation ISP. Honor says Honor 20 Pro has f1/.4 aperture, bigger than the competition including Samsung Galaxy S10.

21 May 2019, 07:00 IST

Honor 20 Series: Camera

Honor 20 Pro comes with quad-camera setup featuring 48-megapixel main sensor, 16-megapixel wide-angle sensor, 8-megapixel telephoto lens and a 2-megapixel macro sensor. It also has dual 4-axis optical image stablisation.

21 May 2019, 06:55 IST

Honor 20 Pro Display

The Pro model comes with a 6.26-inch display with a punch-hole camera. It also comes with side-mounted fingerprint sensor. Zhao says side-mounted fingerprint sensor works better than in-screen fingerprint sensor. The dedicated sensor can also summon voice assistant on Honor 20 phones.

21 May 2019, 06:54 IST

Design

Honor 20 Pro's back panel comes with three layers - glass, colour, depth. Honor describes the new panel as 3D Triple Mesh design. Honor 20 Pro will be available in Phantom Blue and Phantom Black colour options. Honor 20 will be available in Midnight Black, Blue and Icelandic White colour options.

21 May 2019, 06:51 IST

Honor 20 series officially unveiled

Honor formally announces the launch of its Honor 20 series. The latest series features quad-camera setup, Kirin 980 processor and familiar gradient design.

21 May 2019, 06:50 IST

Evolution of Honor phones

Zhao highlights the evolution of Honor phones over last few years. Honor 8 featured dual camera while Honor 9 came with Hybrid zoom. Honor 10 was one of its phones with AI dual camera.

21 May 2019, 06:48 IST

Honor’s expansion

Honor says its Life campaign will be rolled out to more cities globally. It will also be available in Milano, Paris and Madrid/

21 May 2019, 06:42 IST

Youth oriented

George Zhao, President of Honor, says that the new brand in last five years has become a “tech brand loved by global youth.”

21 May 2019, 06:40 IST

Event begins

The event has officially begun. Honor will unveil at least two new phones at its global event.

21 May 2019, 06:35 IST

Better camera?

Honor's “Capture Wonder” tagline suggests the latest series will come with big improvements in the camera department. Another 48-megapixel camera phone?

21 May 2019, 06:29 IST

Pro model

Honor is expected to launch a Pro version of its Honor 20 phone as well. The smartphone will be competing with the likes of OnePlus 7 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S10e among other premium phones.

21 May 2019, 06:27 IST

Event to begin shortly

Honor's event will start soon. You can watch the livestream of the event on the company's official YouTube channel.

21 May 2019, 06:19 IST

More competition

Since Honor 10, a lot of smartphone brands have launched phones with similar design and features. Honor 20 is expected to be a big update over the predecessor but can it beat the competition?