Honor View 20 Exposed in Hong Kong : in-display camera, 48MP main camera and Link Turbo


Honor View 20 Exposed in Hong Kong : in-display camera, 48MP main camera and Link Turbo

Three key technological breakthroughs to be featured in the imminent Honor View 20 have been exposed in Hong Kong yesterday. The Honor View 20 will feature the world’s first display hole camera – the similar thing we’re expecting to see on the Samsung Galaxy S10 next year – as well as a 48MP rear camera and what Honor is calling Link Turbo, which combines Wi-Fi and LTE signals to improvement download speeds.

The successor to the View 10 is predictable to be announced worldwide in Paris on January 22, but Honor is obviously eager to get in on the in-screen camera hype a little early.

Honor View 20 display hole camera


A 4.5mm diameter circular peephole sits in the higher left of the View 20 LCD display, permitting the front-facing camera to sit under and see through the screen. While this answer doesn’t afford much more usable screen space when compared to a minor dewdrop notch, it does provide a less visually invasive solution to the more common – and widely disliked – wedge-shaped notch. Of course, you won’t discover any extra sensors here, just the camera.

Honor privileges that by “using a superior design, it preserves the structure of the display while allowing the forward-facing camera to function properly,” emphasizing that “the hole is not an old-style hole.” The Huawei Nova 4, exposed below, features the identical kind of screen, so check out the video for an indication of how it will look. As soon as we get a chance to go hands-on with the View 20’s display we’ll be sure to carry you more details.


In typical one-upmanship fashion, Honor makes sure to note that the peephole accepted by “other industry players” measures 6mm in diameter, pointing out that its peephole decreases the overall area by 42 percent. For those of your possession track of the size of your peephole notches: be advised.

Honor View 20 48MP Sony IMX586 sensor


The Honor View 20 will also enter the world’s first 48MP camera on a smartphone, pretentious Xiaomi doesn’t get there first. The Sony IMX586 is a half-inch loaded CMOS sensor with 48 MP resolution and 0.8-micron pixel size. The Quad Bayer array uses a process called pixel binning to the association the light data from four adjacent pixels in low light circumstances, allowing the Honor View 20 to create brighter 12MP images with less noise.

The Sony IMX586 is a half-inch stacked CMOS sensor with 48 MP determination and 0.8-micron pixel size.

The Kirin 980‘s dual-NPU and dual-ISP means the Honor View 20 gets an image dispensation bump as well. According to Honor, the View 20’s image processing has enhanced 134 percent – seemingly since the View 10 – and camera processing has better by 46 percent. Honor is also spruiking the profits of 48MP AI HDR on the View 20. You can see some example shots taken with the IMX586 under and added one here. Full-size versions can be found here.


Honor View 20 Sony IMX586



Honor View 20 Link Turbo


Finally, Link Turbo combines Wi-Fi and LTE signals to deliver even faster download speeds. It’s basically the identical thing Samsung was doing way back on the Galaxy S5 with Download Booster. Link Turbo leverages AI and large data to analyze network situations and figure out the best way to bring an optimal result. Switching from one signal to the other will a unified operation so gamers won’t agonize any headaches while streaming.

The Huawei Nova 4, which also features a peephole camera in the display, is also probable to arrive in the not-too-distant future. With Huawei, Honor, and Samsung previously attached to announce devices with in-screen cameras in the first months of 2019, the notched present we’ve been begrudgingly dealing with for the last year or so now appears to be ending. Considering some display hole fingerprint scanners from Goodix previously use a camera that peeps through a hole in the display deprived of the requirement for a notch, it’s only a matter of period until front cameras get there too.

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