Honor V20: Not only the most affordable Kirin 980, but also a flagship phone with comprehensive quality

At the end of the year, when people all over the country are exhausted, Honor V20 comes with Kirin 980 processor and 48-megapixel camera. What is more worthy of joy is that this phone, which is hard to refuse from configuration to appearance, has a minimum price of only 2,999 yuan, making it the most affordable 980 flagship phone in history.

As one of the company's dual flagships, the Honor V series has always been on par with the Huawei Mate series. There is no need to worry about its quality. Everything is done to the highest standards. The Honor V20 is no exception. It is equipped with an under-screen camera and a Magic Eye full-view screen for the first time. Compared with the through-hole mode of the Samsung A8s' huge black pupil full-view screen, the V20's blind hole mode has an opening diameter of only 4.5 mm, and the visual effect is more pleasing to the eye.

V20: Beauty is more than just appearance

The extremely narrow frame wraps around an entire Meiyan full-view screen. Except for a small hole in the upper left corner, the entire A-side is screen, making the screen-to-body ratio of this 6.4-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 2310×1080 easily reach 91.82%.

It is reported that under this hole is a completely customized camera, because this camera needs to be placed under the display screen glass cover, LCD panel and backlight layer, which cannot be done without customization. Honor said that this 24.8-megapixel front camera uses a 5-axis linkage high-precision ring process, combined with the industry's rare 0.1 mm precision assembly process to achieve flatness. At the press conference, Honor's head Zhao Ming also laughed at Apple proudly, thinking that if Apple also had such an assembly process, it would not make the signal bar so ugly.

It is reported that the LCD screen of the V20 comes from Tianma and BOE. From the test results of the Device Info HW software, the information of the screen supplier is blocked in TouchScreen, and its specific source cannot be accurately determined. However, from the display effect, it is indeed as the saying in the LCD industry says, the screen is not important, the driver and tuning are king. On the Honor V20, the performance of this 480 DPI screen can be called gorgeous, and the delicacy and details of the dynamic screen saver are perfectly expressed. Whether it is brightness, light and dark contrast or color, the V20 is worthy of the name of a flagship, and its wonderfulness is just like its dazzling back design.

The V20 adopts a streamlined design, with diamond cutting technology and 3D four-curved glass, making the entire body curve extremely natural, and the hand feels like mutton-fat jade when holding it. As for the back of the V20, the reason why it looks so colorful is that when you look at it from a certain angle, it will show a series of V symbols. Honor said that this is because it uses a nano invisible laser coating process - "It's like the sunlight shining on the sea, the ripples left by a sailboat slowly passing by, the shadow moves with the light, and it is beautiful."

Design creates style, but details determine success or failure. Although it is just a small space, every time a new phone is released, the Honor team always comes up with something different in design. Such innovation is actually the most difficult, firstly because the space available is really limited, and secondly, it is easy to draw dragons and tigers, but difficult to draw cats and dogs. Dragons and tigers are rare, so you can say that your imagination is right, but cats and dogs are different. We are all too familiar with them. Once your details are wrong, no matter how big the innovation is, it will fail.

In this Honor V20, in addition to the blind hole screen that is much smaller than the competition, more innovations are reflected in places that we may not be able to see at a glance, such as THE NINE liquid cooling, AI dual-frequency GPS, Link Turbo full network aggregation communication, TOF stereo depth lens, 4000 mAh large battery, 24W fast charging. But it is precisely these invisible details that constitute the real competitiveness of the V20. Of course, the 48-megapixel camera on the back of the V20 using the Sony IMX586 sensor is the finishing touch.

In this sense, the V20 is beautiful in all aspects, not only in appearance, but also in its interior.

Running points are not the whole of strength, but just a way to show off your strength

The Honor V20 in my hand uses the Kirin 980 SOC. Its power is beyond words. You can experience it yourself or watch the experience of people around you. Although the 8G+128G combination is not a surprise to top the list, it is in line with the current trend.

Here, I will take the trouble to show you the configuration of Kirin 980 again. It has an octa-core design, consisting of 4 2.6GHz Cortex-A76 high-performance cores, 2 1.92GHz Cortex-A76 high-efficiency cores, 2 1.8GHz Cortex-A55 low-power cores, and an integrated Mali-G76 GPU.

In the famous entertainment rabbit, Honor V20 scored a high score of 290,000. It is worth mentioning that the phone was not set to the running mode. After all, mobile phones are tools to be used, and no one will adjust the phone to the highest performance every day to run the test.

Running points is just a form of showing off one's muscles, and its role is like the US aircraft carrier fleet. It does not necessarily need to launch rockets with a bang, and its existence itself is a powerful deterrent. Kirin 980 is such a thing. You can pretend to be high-end and ignore it, but once you start playing, in the actual gaming experience, with the help of the terrifying GPU Turbo technology, the gaming performance of Honor V20 is like an aircraft carrier fleet moving at full speed. Even if HDR high definition and high frame rate are turned on, crushing and killing can still be its synonyms.

Low latency, high frame rate, and perfect picture rendering all demonstrate the comprehensive strength of Honor V20. But the real strength still needs to be experienced by yourself.

Honor V20, the most powerful rear camera in history so far

On Weibo, a photo of Zhao Ming aroused the curiosity of the boss of Weibo, because the size limit of a single photo uploaded to Weibo is 12M, but the 48-megapixel V20 far exceeds this limit and has to be compressed when uploading.

The Honor V20's rear camera has a resolution of 48 megapixels and 8000 x 6000, which is the strongest rear camera in history so far. This was also confirmed in the test, and every shot was a blockbuster.

The details of the icing on the cheese bread are clearly discernible. The red and white colors collide, and the color transition is extremely natural. Without adding any filters, it perfectly interprets the original characteristics of things and expresses their characteristics 100%.

The warm winter sun, whether it is a distant view or a close view, is a scenery under the lens of V20. The light emitted by the air is like a little surprise that comes by chance. It has flaws, but it is the most unintentional kind of beauty in life.

As for the V20's selfies, in addition to its high-pixel resolution capabilities, its built-in AI beauty function is also just right.

In short, as the most powerful rear camera in history, the V20 has an extraordinary leading position in photography. Just as Ren Zhengfei wondered, "Why are our mobile phones so good at taking pictures?" The answer is that the entire Huawei Honor system not only has a heritage in photography, but also has industry-leading innovations. For example, the 48-megapixel camera on the V20 is an innovation with a strong pioneering nature in the industry. You must know that most social media cannot withstand such high-resolution photos. In this sense, the V20 has also played an invisible role in promoting the upgrade of the Internet, pushing social media photos towards ultra-high definition.

Honor V20 summary: a flagship phone

Flagship phones and flagship phones actually represent two completely different paths, but the Honor V20 organically unifies these two different development paths.

Flagship phones are high-end, but it should be pointed out that high-end does not mean piling up materials. There is a long way to go between purchasing a bunch of high-performance components and completing a true flagship phone. A true flagship phone should be fully optimized from appearance to internal structure, from performance to software. Bucket phones, on the other hand, strive for balance under limited resources, with highlights but also compromises.

Back to the V20, there is no need to say much about its flagship nature, but when it faced the contradiction between price and cost, it made decisive trade-offs. For example, it gave up the wide-angle and telephoto lenses on the secondary camera, and changed the dual-SIM dual-pass to dual-SIM single-pass. By giving up these functions that are not sensitive to ordinary users and do not affect daily use in exchange for an affordable price, this is the success of the Honor V20 - making a flagship phone that everyone can accept, and this is the true significance of the Honor V series in the market.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.