Honor View 20 camera review: a 48MP imaging maestro

Honor's latest phone puts the camera front and centre – and offers a few more great surprises, too.

Digital Camera World Verdict

The Honor View 20 takes the camera phone into a megapixel territory that's never been seen before. This means the View 20 is a more than a solid camera performer. While it suffers a little from a lack of other lenses, the View 20 is packed with imaging smarts that are also a world's first, at a really enticing price point.

Pros

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    That 48MP sensor

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    Decent manual controls

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    All-View display

Cons

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    AR still a little gimmicky

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    No OIS on front-facing camera

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    Magic UI is just okay

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The most important thing on a smartphone is its camera. This is what every phone manufacturer will now have you believe. That’s because they are all in a race, a war, to bring the biggest and best specs to the small rectangular thing in your pocket. 

The latest is the Honor View 20, a phone that doesn’t wow with the amount of lenses it houses, but rather the megapixels. 

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Marc Chacksfield

A technology journalist who has been in the industry for 17 years, Marc is the former editor-in-chief of TechRadar and has also steered the ship for technology brands including T3, Tom's Hardware and Tom's Guide, and is currently the director of Shortlist Media and co-owner of Shortlist.com. 


An expert in the field of camera phones and mobile tech, Marc has been a long-time specialist when it comes to phone reviews, hands-on coverage, reviews and rumors. As a frequent visitor to big trade shows like CES, he has also had boots on the ground for the latest camera announcements and breaking developments in fields such as 8K video.