The Honor 20 Pro: A Quad-camera Hands-On Review
by Andrei Frumusanu on May 21, 2019 10:45 AM EST- Posted in
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- Honor 20 Pro
Video Recording
Video recording of the Honor 20 Pro sees an upgrade thanks to the introduction of OIS, however it’s not all great.
Recording at 60fps at 1080 is very good on the main camera sensor and the OIS is immediately visible. However when switching over to the wide-angle module, things aren’t looking as great as we’re seeing severe detail degradation more apt of a 720p or lower recording, something which is backed up by the resulting bit-rate and file size of the video.
Recording in 4K30 doesn’t see nearly as a big detail hit on the wide-angle lens, however the exposure and saturation is quite different between the two modules, with the wide angle being a lot more washed out.
The most troublesome finding I had when video recording was the fact that the Honor 20 Pro wouldn’t properly change focus when panning between near and far objects, requiring me to manually tap to focus, which is a quite a large deal-breaker and hopefully something that’s will be fixed in the future.
Battery Life
Battery life on the Honor 20 Pro is great and in line with the Kirin 980 chipset and the 4000mAh battery. The LCD screen is efficient and the H20Pro almost equal to the View20 from earlier in the year.
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danielfranklin - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
Yep.I sold my Mate 20 Pro and went back to the Pixel 3.
There was no comparison with the camera.
That said i have an iPhone XS Max as well and its camera is awful next to the Pixel too.
zamboni.palin - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
I agree it's heavy-handed processing. But by the same token I honestly cannot understand how one can call the S10 pictures good: ridiculous colors, shadows blown completely out of proportion in HDR - as if you're making photos to look for forensic evidence, not capture real-life environments. I much prefer the Pixels.Andrei Frumusanu - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
The S10's have the most accurate representations of the scenes and shadows; you don't clip shadows to near black at noon under full sunlight.zamboni.palin - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
I cannot judge that, not having seen the real thing, so I must defer to you. But I find the Samsung colors (based on your pics and experience with previous Samy phones) far too strident, cartoonish even. And while you don't render shadows dark at noon, neither do you shine a flashlight on them. Again, though, I might be wrong 'in light of' the real thing.Darcey R. Epperly - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
"Overall the Honor 20 Pro is quite the odd device", from the Conclusion site.Why is an odd device? And why "the". As non native speaker, I'm missing the
message. Can somebody help?
asfletch - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
It's just a turn of phrase - nothing to worry about. "Quite an odd device" would convey almost the same meaning.BushLin - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
Nothing to worry about... Except the Huawei ban, no access to Google Play or security updates!Peskarik - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
The cameras in ALL Asian phones are optimized with Asian market in mind.That means human faces look unnatural, "beautified", you look like an alien.
I prefer Pixel phones, the photos come out much more natural looking.
In the end, all phone cameras, 5 or 10 of them with godzillion pixels etc produce low quality photos, it is just the nature of the thing, you want a good photograph for more than just showing on phone screen or sending through Whatsup - you get a proper camera.
edsib1 - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
Do you run your battery life tests in performance mode? If not the performance is about 30% lower so not really a fair comparison to other flagship SOCs.Andrei Frumusanu - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
Yes it was in performance mode.