#GadgetWatch: Is the Honor View20 worth Rs 37,000?

Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com finds out.

Innovation is the name of the game in the mobile phone industry.

And Honor, the Huawei subsidiary, shows that it has religiously followed this mantra in its newest offering, the Honor View20.

The 3D camera

Honor has equipped the View20 with the Time Of Flight camera (TOF technology is used to give 3D vision to industrial robots and other devices).

The camera determines the 3D depth-in-view by a projecting a pulse of light onto the object it is targeting and calculating the speed at which the light reflected back.

The Honor View20 uses the TOF 3D for depth sensing, along with its 48MP f/1.8 primary camera to capture a portrait with better bokeh (background blur).

It can even determine the volume of the object. For example, when you point the camera at a cupcake, the phone can show you the number of calories it may contain with the help of AI and the TOF camera.

Is the notch mania over?

The View20 incorporates a punch hole camera -- also known as pinhole or in-display -- as a front camera to provide maximum viewable real estate for the FHD+ (2310 x 1080) LCD display.

However, Honor is not the first to do so. Samsung launched the A8s -- the first mobile phone with the punch hole display – in China last year, but the model is yet to be launched in India.

Which makes the Honor View20 the first punch hole phone -- with a 25MP f/2.0 camera supported by AI -- in India.

What else does the Honor View20 offer?

The heart and brain of any phone is its processor.

The View20 runs on the home-baked flagship 7nm Kirin 980 AI processor.

It is fueled by a 4000 mAh battery that is charged by the 5v 4A Honor Supercharger.

It also sports a 3.5mm audio port and an IR blaster.

The Honor View20 is packed with all the features one would expect from a mid-range premium phone.

It is available in two memory variants -- 6GB RAM /128 GB ROM and 8GB RAM /256 GB ROM, at Rs 37,000 and Rs 45,000 respectively.