Honor has silently announced a new smartphone called the Honor Play 20 in China. The design of the smartphone suggests that it could be the KOZ-AL00 4G LTE phone, which was recently certified by the TENAA authority of China. The low-budget phone has arrived with a starting price of 899 Yuan (~$138) in the home market.

Honor Play 20 specifications and features

The Honor Play 20 has a 6.5-inch IPS LCD panel that supports an HD+ resolution of 720 x 1600 pixels. The waterdrop notch display delivers a screen-to-body ratio of 89.3 percent. The phone draws power from the 12bn Unisoc Tiger T610 chipset, which includes 2 x Cortex A75 cores clocking at 1.8GHz and 6 x Cortex A55 cores working at 1.8GHz along with Mali G52 GPU with 614.4MHz clocking speeds.

The Play 20 ships with up to 8 GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.  For additional storage, the device offers a microSD card slot. It comes preloaded with the older Android 10 OS, which is overlaid with Magic UI 4.0. The device draws power from a 5,000mAh battery.

Honor Play 20
Honor Play 20

Placed on the front is a selfie camera of 5-megapixel. The squarish camera module on the backside of the device has an LED flash, a 13-megapixel main camera, and a 2-megapixel depth.

Honor Play 20 pricing and availability

The Honor Play 20 is now up for pre-sale and it will be available for purchase through multiple online retailers of China from April 30. The Play 20 variants such as 4 GB RAM + 128 GB storage, 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage, and 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage are priced at 899 Yuan (~$138), 1,099 Yuan (~$169), and 1,399 Yuan (~$216).  The device comes in multiple colors like Magic Night Black, Iceland White, Aurora Blue, and Titanium Silver.

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