HOLE LOTTA LOVE
Honor View 20
In a world where almost every smartphone is an expensive, superpowered rectangle, it’s becoming ever harder for the handsets that don’t unexpectedly explode in your hand (you know who you are) to make an impression.
That’s not the case with Honor’s hole-ier-than-thou View 20. Half the price of an iPhone XS, this is the first blower to sport a punch-hole on the front. After it became clear there are more people who think pineapple belongs on pizza than there are people who like notches, Honor came up with an alternative: a small cutout that houses the 25MP selfie camera, leaving you more of that 6.4in LCD to look at.
There’s also the 48MP main camera sensor borrowed from Sony, an AI Ultra Clarity mode that puts to work every one of those pixels, and a stonking 4000mAh battery. Oh, and there’s a headphone port. Find us a better-equipped £500 Android phone and we’ll hand over the keys to Stuff Towers. As hot as… a Hawaiian thin crust from £500 / hihonor.com
Plenty of pix up its sleeve
The View 20’s camera skills are not all down to that high megapixel count. Its 48MP sensor is aided by artificial image stabilisation and 4-in-1 ‘superpixels’ for night shots.