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Honor View 20 India launch: Live stream, first impressions, specs, and more

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Honor , a smartphone brand owned by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei, is gearing up to launch the Honor View 20 in India on January 29. The smartphone will be the first one in India to boast a punch-hole screen, accommodating the front camera. This Amazon-exclusive smartphone also has Huawei’s flagship Kirin 980 system-on-chip, 48-megapixel primary camera, a glass gradient design and an Android Pie-based Magic user interface, which is an improvement to Huawei’s emotion UI (EMUI) seen in previous iterations of Honor devices. As noted in the first impressions, the phone seems to offer the best of both worlds – premium and midrange. Therefore, it would make a worthy package if launched in the mid-tier range of below Rs 40,000. The phone is expected to launch at 12 noon today, and the event would be livestreamed on Honor India’s official social media channels on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. As for the specifications, the Honor View 20 is powered by Huawei’s Kirin 980 SoC...

Huawei Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro launched: Better than iPhones? Let's find out

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Huawei , a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, on October 16 unveiled the Huawei Mate Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro smartphones. These smartphones are the first to use Huawei’s proprietary 7nm-based Kirin 980 system-on-chip. They also have a second-generation Leica-tuned triple camera module on the back, the first generation set-up was a part of the Huawei P20 Pro (review) that was launched in India earlier this year. Huawei Mate 20 Pro The Mate 20 Pro is the first Huawei offering to have a curved OLED screen. The phone sports a 6.39-inch screen of 1,440p (QHD) resolution with HDR support. The screen has a wide notch on the top that accommodates earpiece, sensors and front camera, along with a new hardware for 3D face recognition. The phone is also the first to incorporate a pressure sensitive in-display fingerprint sensor. Speaking of the firsts, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is the world’s first smartphone to support the 4.5G LTE Cat. Huawei Mate 20 It would be unfair to call t...