Smartphone Honor 20i - advantages and disadvantages

The latest flagships from Honor: Honor 10 and Honor 10i (release date March 2019) delighted users with their perfect design and the latest functional technologies that smartphones are equipped with. A month later, Honor shocks its fans again. He presented to the consumer a new model of a powerful innovative mobile device - Honor 20i, which is actually a copy of the Honor 10i model.

The main debut of the new device, the manufacturers plan to hold in London, at the end of May 2019. It will be presented to the European buyer under the brand name Honor 20 Lite. However, it was possible to order a smartphone from AliExpress back in April 2019.

Company Honor

A gadget manufacturer with its own brand, but under the patronage of the Chinese concern Huawei, which is popular among Russians.

For almost the last six years, new gadgets from the Honor brand have literally flooded the Russian mobile technology market.

The first smartphone, which became the ancestor of subsequent releases of phones under the brand of this company, was presented to the general public in 2011.

Since that time, the line of phones of the Honor brand has been successfully adapted by the Russian user. All models produced under the Honor brand are mainly budget devices from the Chinese manufacturer, aimed at the younger generation of consumers.

Honor 20i

In April 2019, Honor held a presentation of a new low-cost smartphone with a triple camera and a large screen. The mobile device is equipped with artificial intelligence support and a more functional converter that allows you to get high-quality photographs.

The appearance and ergonomics of the smartphone

The glossy body of the device is made of glass with the addition of polycarbonate. The front side of the gadget is completely occupied by a spectacular display with a miniature notch for the front camera and proximity sensor.

Directly above the drop-shaped connector, there is a speaker, protected by a thin grille. Navigation buttons in the smartphone have become virtual.

A small protrusion, neat narrow bezels on the sides of the screen and rounded corners give the display a stylish and sophisticated look. The side oval walls contribute to a firm hold of the phone in the hands and convenient use.

The back cover of the smartphone is made of glassy material, on which the company's logo is located and a scanner in the form of a circle is located that recognizes the owner's finger.

The AI ​​Camera inscription, placed in the upper left corner, indicates the location of the triple camera and LED flash.

Functional connectors for headphones, micro USB, microphone and audio are located at the bottom, on the end of the device.

The other end of the device is designed for installing SIM cards and an SD microchip into special slots and is equipped with an additional microphone. The right side of the phone is equipped with volume control and mute buttons.

The Honor 20i comes in three gradient colors: black, red and blue. The fashionable design of the case will certainly be a success with today's youth.

Display

The Honor 20i is equipped with a 6.21-inch screen that occupies more than 82% of the entire front panel area, with 19.5 / 9 sides.

The IPS matrix installed in this model has a resolution of 2340 by 1080 pixels and a pixel density of 415 ppi.

Such software allows you to get perfect clear pictures with the ability to see the smallest details on them. Bright colors are striking in their saturation.

The facade of the device is protected by original and spectacular 2.5D glass. The presence of an average brightness level does not interfere with the quality use of the device on the street and at night.

There is a function of changing the color mode, which contributes to the protection of the consumer's eyesight in the case when the main blue color loses its intensity.

Performance and hardware

The internal equipment of the smartphone consists of an 8-core Kirin 710 chip. Four Cortex-A73 cores with a frequency of 2.2GHz and the same number of CortexA53 with a frequency of 1.7GHz.

All modifications of mid-range phones produced in the Celestial Empire over the past year are equipped with just such the most efficient and energy-saving (in comparison with the previous Kirin 659 chip) processor.

Kirin 710 is the world's first chip, which is manufactured using a 12 nm process and is responsible for the high-quality functioning of the interface, stable responses to touching the monitor.

Standalone ISP module and DSP digital processor provide fast and high-quality photo processing. The Mali-G51 MP4 GPU chip is responsible for the graphics.

The gadget has an Android 9.0 operating system plus EMUI 9. During the AnTuTu test, the smartphone showed over 13,000 points. For smartphones of this class, the result is considered excellent.

All gaming applications available on Google Play are easily supported by a smartphone and function quite quickly, as well as basic services and software.

You can play on this device with great comfort, but keep in mind that the most progressive entertainment programs, such as WoT Blitz or PUBG, in order to achieve a good FPS value, can only work at medium or low graphic settings.

Camera

An important and pleasant feature of equipping the new model is a triple rear camera, which contains a main module of 24 megapixels with aperture 1/8, an additional 8 megapixel with aperture 2/4 and a third converter - 2 megapixel, ensures the completeness of shooting.

Together, all these values ​​​​allow you to make high-quality pictures and videos, not only in daylight or artificial lighting, but also at night.

In addition, thanks to the modules, the pictures are panoramic with a large coverage of the territory. And when creating portrait photos, you can get a blurry background without seeing foreign objects.

The front selfie camera, with a module of 32 megapixels and aperture of 2.0 mm, is located at the top of the front panel and operates in automatic HDR mode.

Connection

The new smartphone supports almost all available types of communication: 2G, 3G, 4G and LTE. The latter type of communication is provided by the following frequencies - 1, 3, 5, 8, 34, 38, 39, 40 and 41.

The highest speed of the smartphone is presented in LTE and 4G networks, over 150 megabits / second.
The phone supports Wi-Fi connection and Bluetooth, it is possible to install A-GPS, GLONASS and BDS navigation systems.

Sound

Good sound and volume provides a multimedia speaker. It produces well-balanced high-frequency wireless sound, but when using headphones, there is a lack of rich bass.

The device is charged by means of a 3400 mAh battery built into the smartphone, via a 10-volt adapter.

You can use a fully charged smartphone for one day. The time it takes to charge the device is several hours.

Pros and cons, equipment, price

• Good display resolution;
• Powerful processor, backed by a modern OS;
• 4 variations that differ in the amount of RAM and ROM and price;
• Great camera.

• rather weak graphics chip;
• to install a memory card CD, you need to remove the SIM card, which causes some inconvenience;
• no NFC;
• no moisture protection.

The cost at the start of sales for the 6/64 GB modification was 15,500 rubles.

The smartphone is delivered to the retail network in the following configuration:

• power adapter;
• USB cable;
• case to protect the case;
• devices for extracting a SIM card;
• manufacturer's instructions.

Outcome

Honor 20i is a stylish and technological phone with an original design, a triple camera and a powerful CPU, good operating equipment and a high-quality display, which will surely be appreciated by both Russian and European users.