Huawei P20 Lite review: A hugely popular mid-ranger with a glass design and notch display.
One of the best-selling mid-rangers of its era.
P20 Lite gave the flagship P20's notch-and-glass look to the mid-range at an affordable price — and sold in enormous numbers across Europe and Asia. The Kirin 659 kept it modest, but the design, cameras and (pre-ban) Google services made it a runaway hit.
01Display
64/10064/100 is one of the weaker display results among mid-range phones of 2018 — 8 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
58/10058/100 trails the 63-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2018.
03Performance
52/10052/100 is one of the weaker performance results among mid-range phones of 2018 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
60/10060/100 is one of the weaker battery results among mid-range phones of 2018 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
66/10066/100 trails the 71-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2018.
06Value
66/10066/100 puts it above the 64-point average for mid-range phones of 2018.
- Premium glass design at a mid price.
- Trendy notch FHD+ display.
- 16 MP front and rear cameras.
- microSD + jack — had Google services.
- Kirin 659 is modest.
- Mono speaker.
- 2 MP depth is filler.
- Wi-Fi 4 only.
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 85-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .