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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Moizy - Thursday, May 23, 2019 - link
Interesting, using it for distortion testing? Cool stuff - thanks for your work on here Andrei, appreciate your testing and analysiswilsonkf - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
Page 2: Snapdragon S10Do you mean Samsung S10 with Snapdragon SoC?
Though I don't think this is a mistake, it is better to assume some readers don't care and are not informed about the SoC of smartphones, and mention the brand of the phone.
Yomama6776 - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
How much money is Intel paying you to keep quite about there new exploits?shabby - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
Can't badmouth a sponsor...Yomama6776 - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
inb4 HWsweartLord of the Bored - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link
Obviously more than AMD is paying them to talk about Intel's exploits.Or possibly they are waiting so they can publish a meaningful article instead of a storm of rumors, innuendos, retractions, and corrections.
ThoroSOE - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
I honestly cannot understand, how one can call this camera performance good. The processing is god awful! It looks like someone used a bad watercolor filter to destroy all traces of finer detail. Especially greenery looks not even remotely natural. The images might look good on a small screen. But they are bad as soon as one just wants to use a crop or just dares to view them in full resolution (which in the upcoming era of 4k screens is barely more than fullscreen on a monitor or TV).shabby - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
Makes you wonder how it got the highest dxo score https://www.dxomark.com/honor-20-pro-camera-review...s.yu - Saturday, May 25, 2019 - link
What's there to wonder about? It's DxO.Andrei Frumusanu - Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - link
It's not the best, but there's quite worse out there from other devices. Hence "good" instead of excellent.