Honor 20i smartphone - advantages and disadvantages

The latest flagships of the company Honor: Honor 10 and Honor 10i (release date March 2019) delighted users with perfect design and the latest functional technologies that smartphones have equipped. A month later, Honor will shock 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 Honor 20 Lite brand. However, it was possible to order a smartphone from AliExpress back in April 2019.

Honor

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

For almost 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 adopted by a 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 presented a new model of an inexpensive 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 photos.

Smartphone look and ergonomics

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 the proximity sensor.

Directly above the drop-shaped connector is the earpiece, protected by a thin grille. The 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. Side oval walls, contribute to a firm hold of the phone in the hands and comfortable use.

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

The AI ​​Camera caption located in the upper left corner denotes the location of the triple camera and LED flash.

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

The other end part of the device is designed for installing SIM cards and an SD microchip into special connectors and is equipped with an additional microphone. The right side of the phone is equipped with keys for adjusting the volume and turning off the gadget.

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

Display

Honor 20i is equipped with a 6.21-inch screen, which 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 provision 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 level of brightness does not interfere with high-quality use of the device outdoors and at night.

There is a function of changing the color mode, which helps to protect the consumer's eyes in the event that 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 2.2 GHz and the same CortexA53 with a frequency of 1.7 GHz.

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

Kirin 710 is the first chip in the world that is manufactured using 12 nm technological process and is responsible for the high-quality operation of the interface, stable reactions to touching the monitor.

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

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

All game applications available in 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 it must be borne in mind that the most progressive entertainment programs, such as WoT Blitz or PUBG, in order to achieve a good FPS value, can work only at medium or small graphic settings.

Camera

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

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

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

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

Communication

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

Sound

Good sounding and volume is provided by the multimedia speaker. It produces well-balanced high-frequency wireless sound, but with headphones it feels like it lacks juicy 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, differing in the amount of RAM and ROM and the price;
• Great camera.

• rather weak graphics chip;
• to install the memoricard CD, you need to remove the SIM card, which causes certain inconveniences;
• no NFC;
• no protection against moisture penetration.

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

In the retail network, the smartphone comes with 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 central processor, good operating equipment and a high-quality display. It will certainly be appreciated by both Russian and European users.