SpecEagle review · Honor

Honor 20 Pro review: The last Honor before the Huawei ban — Kirin 980 quad cam.

SpecEagle Editorial·Jul 2019·€599
Overall
72/100
Class rank
#120 of 167
Tier
Flagship
Buy?
At the right price
The verdict, up front

Honor's finest pre-ban flagship.

Honor 20 Pro paired the wide-aperture IMX586 with Kirin 980 and a quad camera at €599. A complete 2019 flagship overshadowed by the Huawei ban.

01Display

68/100

68/100 is one of the weaker display results among flagship phones of 2019 — 14 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

TypeIPS LCD
Size6.26 inches
Resolution2,340 × 1,080 px

02Camera

76/100

76/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2019.

Main48 MP Sony IMX586, f/1.4
Ultrawide16 MP
Telephoto8 MP, 3×
Macro2 MP
Selfie32 MP

03Performance

74/100

74/100 trails the 79-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2019.

ChipsetKirin 980 (7 nm)
RAM8 GB
Storage256 GB

04Battery

70/100

70/100 trails the 75-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2019.

Capacity4,000 mAh
Wired22.5 W

05Build

74/100

74/100 is one of the weaker build results among flagship phones of 2019 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.

06Value

70/100

70/100 puts it above the 68-point average for flagship phones of 2019.

What works
  • f/1.4 aperture main sensor.
  • 48+16+8 MP quad cam.
  • Kirin 980 powerful.
  • 256 GB storage.
What doesn't
  • LCD only.
  • Mono speaker.
  • Support ended.
  • Post-ban no Google.
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 167-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .