SpecEagle review · Honor

Honor 20 review: Quad-cam flagship with a pop-up-free punch-hole and Kirin 980.

SpecEagle Editorial·May 2019·$560
Overall
78/100
Class rank
#3 of 9
Tier
Flagship
Buy?
At the right price
The verdict, up front

Flagship Kirin, value price.

Honor 20 delivered Kirin 980 flagship performance, the IMX586 48 MP sensor and a tidy punch-hole design at $560 — though it launched into the storm of Huawei's US entity-list listing that clouded Honor's software future.

01Display

78/100

78/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2019.

TypeIPS LCD, punch hole
Size6.26 inches
Resolution1080 x 2340 px
FingerprintSide-mounted

02Camera

78/100

78/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2019.

Main48 MP Sony IMX586, f/1.8
Ultrawide16 MP, 117 deg
Macro2 MP
Depth2 MP
Selfie32 MP punch hole

03Performance

84/100

84/100 puts it above the 81-point average for flagship phones of 2019.

ChipsetKirin 980 (7nm)
GPUMali-G76 MP10

04Battery

74/100

74/100 trails the 76-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2019.

Capacity3750 mAh
ChargingSuperCharge 22.5W

05Build

80/100

80/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2019.

What works
  • Kirin 980 flagship power at $560
  • IMX586 48 MP quad cam
  • Compact punch-hole design + side fingerprint
What doesn't
  • IPS not OLED
  • Launched amid Huawei Google-ban uncertainty
  • 2 MP filler lenses
Cross-shop it against
Galaxy Note 10+
$1099 · score 90/100

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 9-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .