Honor 20, the three Huawei mobiles that will avoid the Google and US veto

Honor, the second Huawei brand globally has announced three new phones in the Honor 20 range, one for each type of pocket according to its power.

Honor has presented today in London three new phones, Honor 20, Honor 20 Lite, and Honor 20 Pro, three phones of humble prices but with a great emphasis on high resolution cameras and design.

Its immediate predecessor would be the Honor View 20, which almost shares its name, but is part of another category and was announced last January.

They could not be announced at a worse time after the Google veto of Huawei, Honor's parent company; but the marketing machinery, the presentations and the launches of the world of technology sometimes do not understand politics. The show must go on.

The new Honor 20 will not have problems of compatibility either with Google services or with their updates or with their apps, because they advance for a short time at the beginning of the veto and because the phones that Huawei has managed to approve for its launch in the market they should suffer the punishment of the West.

George Zhao, president of Honor, has taken advantage of the press conference to reinforce his vision of the company and direct a message of gratitude "to fans and consumers", ignoring the elephant in the room.

It is something that managers and representatives of the company have imitated. "We must be very careful with the message we send", they assured in the presence of the Spanish media while pointing to Huawei's position as the one they were going to have to follow.

HONOR 20, HIGH RANGE AT A COMPETITIVE PRICE

For their prices, the Honor 20 is distributed as follows:

• Honor 20 Lite for 299 euros, with 4GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage
• Honor 20 for 499 euros, with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage
• Honor 20 Pro for 599 euros, with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.

As it characterizes Honor since its arrival in the western market, its mobiles have an updated design, very competitive prices and the components of Huawei's previous release. In this case, the P30 is the reference from which they start.

Honor has emphasized the Honor 20 Pro, as it is the most powerful of the group: Kirin 980 processor, battery that should last more than a day of use, a large OLED screen, fingerprint reader on the side of the phone, camera perforated frontal and a system of four rear cameras, that would be its great trick.

But except in the battery is almost the same as the Honor 20, which has a little less capacity, but the same screen size (6.26 inches) and a little less thick (for that the Pro has more battery).

The main the camera of the Honor 20 and the Honor 20 Pro has an IMX586 sensor of 48MP and focal length of F1.4 of Sony and includes improvements by artificial intelligence, as well as a night mode. If it works like the P30 Pro, it could be a great camera at a lower price than normal.

The other three lenses are more humble. In the Honor 20 Pro, you have to add a wide angle of 16 megapixels and 117 degrees of angle, an 8-megapixel telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom (and 5x hybrid) and a 2 megapixel macro lens for very close shots, up to 4 cm focal length. In Honor 20, the telephoto lens is replaced by a sensor only for blurring photos in portrait mode.

His 'younger' brother does not have such cutting-edge characteristics. The Honor 20 Lite will have three rear cameras, a slightly smaller screen, a traditional fingerprint reader on the back and front, the classic ' notch' in the shape of a drop of water.

Finally, the three mobiles have performance improvements for video games. According to Honor, its Turbo 3.0 GPU technology, "increases the gaming possibilities of the device by offering users an enhanced visual and tactile experience."

Honor makes a bet for the design with two very original colors for its backs, being the purple the most striking with a difference; but also to adapt the great characteristics of the P30 to public with less income and less concerned about certain details here absent, such as the fingerprint reader, water resistance or wireless charging.

They are elements that not everyone will miss and that they reduce the price of the product by almost half, keeping the camera, the most important element for the public along with the battery.

Failing to know how Huawei phones will be, the Honor 20 could be their last big releases in the West or the last ones with an Android version or the last ones that will have security updates and access to the apps that we all know. In the coming months, we will know.

ALLIANCE WITH MOSCHINO

As usual in Chinese brands, Honor has teamed up with a Western design brand of relative popularity to infect it's glamorous mobile phones.

In this case, it is still Moschino. The Honor 20 Moschino Edition will feature a user interface theme designed by Moschino, a phone case and a purse. In turn, the back of the Honor 20 Moschino has a special color in black and gold and will be on sale in stores of the brand from June.