Honor Launches The View20: A 48MP Camera Review
by Andrei Frumusanu on January 28, 2019 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Mobile
- Kirin 980
- Honor View20
Battery Life
Battery life of the View20 is something I knew would be good before I even had completed our battery suite run. The efficiency by the new Kirin 980 as shown in the Mate 20’s was just excellent, particularly in the LCD Mate 20. The View20 in this regard is very similar to the Mate 20: it sports a similar capacity 4000mAh battery, the same chipset, and also an LCD screen. The screen is probably the only differentiating factor between the two devices, as the RGBW panel of the Mate 20 might have a slight efficiency lead over the regular RGB panel of the View20.
In our web-browsing test, we confirm my suspicions as the View20 ends up with some excellent battery life results. Again as suggested, the Mate 20 still has a lead here in terms of absolute battery life, again likely due to its more efficient display panel.
In PCMark’s Work 2.0 battery life test with a more diverse APL and workloads, the View20 again scores absolutely excellently reaching top marks in battery life.
We have to remember that these results here are in fact performed with the performance mode enabled, and while I didn’t have time to repeat my tests for this review, running normal mode should see a slight improvement over this figures.
Overall, just excellent showings by the View20. Huawei & Honor’s absolute battery life has for the last few generations always been quite good, but sometimes it didn’t quite work out in performance. The new Kirin 980 is able to reach outstanding efficiency figures with both long battery life results all while being at the top of the performance charts. It’s rare for a device to be able to achieve this, and especially given that the View20 isn’t really priced at nearly as high as other high tier flagship phones.
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MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - link
While on a technical level the camera isn't that bad, the lack of consistency is a major detractor for me. Having to flip between all the different shooting modes and hoping one of them takes a good picture is not something I want to be dealing with on a day-to-day basis when I'm trying to pull of a quick photo.That said, to me the biggest revelation in the camera roundup is how badly tuned the Night Mode is on the OP6T. (I have a OP6 and have only played with the new mode a couple times and never really shot anything with it). Sure, it is *brighter* but the output just looks silly -- especially in the 1st and 2nd night shots. In the 3rd night shot, it just looks like someone dialed the noise reduction up and then nudged the brightness up a tad.
GreenMeters - Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - link
I wish Anandtech wouldn't support a criminal organization like Huawei with reviews of their products.jabber - Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - link
I'm still waiting for definitive proof on all these technical hi-jinks Huawei are supposedly into.Evidence of chips/firmware/code/telemetry etc.
At the end of the day the West doesnt like them getting so big. If they can't keep up...too bad.
GreenMeters - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
That's an either stupid or disingenuous take. Lenovo is the global #1 PC manufacturer; "The West" doesn't care about them getting so big. Tencent is a huge technology company; "The West" doesn't care about them getting so big. What "The West" (and "The East" outside of China) doesn't like is a known front for state-sponsored espionage deploying spyware in critical infrastructure and stealing property. Some "hi-jinks" huh?jabber - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
Sources with definite details?GreenMeters - Thursday, January 31, 2019 - link
So as you're just trolling at this point, I was going to point out that since the only thing you'll accept as "definitive proof" is written material from Huawei bigwigs saying "MUWAHAHA LET'S BE EVIL" so of course you in bad faith will never be satisfied. Except holy shit, from the indictment there ARE written material from Huaweu bigwigs saying "MUWAHAHA LET'S BE EVIL AND STEAL ALL THIS STUFF" so mea culpa.jabber - Sunday, February 3, 2019 - link
So once again...no real evidence.shompa - Friday, February 1, 2019 - link
according to who? Are you one of those that believes evil Russian hackers won the election to Trump with 100K dollar facebook ads (while Hillary spent 2 billion on ads)? And if you read all the evidence that USA has put forward: It all comes down to a DNS address that points to a Russian casino. The point is: where is the real evidence against Huawei and please be more critical to the stories that your government tells you. It's not real.tuxRoller - Saturday, February 2, 2019 - link
https://www.politico.eu/article/report-dutch-agenc...https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-04/russia-trie...
D1G1TE - Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - link
Honor View 20 beats Pixel 3 in resolved detail while using 48MP or 48MP Clear in some cases. Pixel 3 looks like water painting, with very artificial/unnatural HDR look full of edge halos when one compares photos from both phones at same zoom level. Pixel 3 and Mate 20 PRO still have slight edge at night with Mate 20 PRO heaving cleanest photos compared to resolved detail. Amazing work from Honor with new Sony sensor. Resolves even more detail than Mate 20 PRO sensor during day.