Huawei/Honor has been rolling out EMUI 10.1/Magic UI 3.1 to its device for about three months since its announcement alongside P40 series in late March. Earlier this month, the company managed to seed out the update (beta/stable) to all the eligible 36 devices in China. Now, it is rolling out ‘Knuckle Gesture’ support to certain five handsets, which were promised to get this update at the Honor X10 launch.

The Knuckle gestures have been part of Huawei smartphone experience for years. It was mostly available on high-end devices in the earlier days. But soon, it made its way to mid-range phones and then disappeared for a short period of time on these handsets.

However, now with the release of EMUI 10.1/Magic UI 3.1, the Chinese tech giant is bringing this feature to most of its devices. It has been adding this to a number of devices since the past few months. Now, five more phones are receiving it in China as per a post by EMUI official Weibo account.

The Huawei/Honor handsets that are currently getting knuckle gestures in China are as listed below.

• Huawei Nova 5
• Huawei Nova 5z
• Huawei Nova 5i Pro
• Honor 20S
• Honor 20 Youth Edition (Lite)

Though none of the global version of these devices is eligible for EMUI 10.1/Magic UI 3.1 update, we can at least hope the company to bring knuckle gestures.

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Huawei‘s US ban is casting a veil over the Chinese company’s sleek smartphones but that has not deterred the tech giant from releasing more amazing ones. One of such is the new Honor 20 Lite. Don’t get it twisted, this is entirely different in terms of the design and hardware from the Huawei Honor 20 Lite that was launched in Europe a couple of months back.

The new Honor 20 Lite which is also translated as Honor 20 Youth Edition, presents with a triple camera and a waterdrop notch design at the front, two features it shares with the Honor 20 Lite for Europe. The Europe version has a rear fingerprint sensor but this China model packs an under-display fingerprint sensor, leaving the back panel bare.

The processor is upgraded from a Kirin 710 chipset for Europe to a Kirin 710F chipset on this new model. The rear panel also adopts a gradient glass design which adds to the beauty of the device. Since we are talking of an under-display fingerprint sensor, the Honor 20 Lite (China) presents with a 6.3-inch OLED display with fullHD+ resolution of 1080 x 2400 pixels.

We also came across a couple of camera samples captured by the Honor 20 Lite rear cameras. To recall, the camera setup includes a 48MP sensor with f1.8 aperture, as well as an 8 MP wide-angle. len and a 2MP depth sensor. The camera offers AI scene recognition of up to 22 scenes, AIS handheld super night scene mode 2.0, portrait mode and more. AI also enables real-time orientation optimization, faster map recognition, faster image processing, and can automatically recommend “Portrait”, “Night Scene”, “Wide Angle” and other photo modes.

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The camera samples are pretty impressive. I particularly find the shot of a green plant captured under wet conditions extremely awesome. No doubt the camera also performed incredibly under low light conditions with absolutely no noise.

Check out the photos of the Honor 20 Lite Icelandic Fantasy variant and some camera samples from below. Also, let us know what you think about the Honor 20 Lite in the comments section.

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In the recent past, Honor has released smartphones Honor 9X, Honor 9X Pro, Honor 20S and Honor Play 3 phones in China. A new Honor phone that has a model number of LRA-AL00 has received approval from China’s TENAA telecom authority. Yesterday, Honor President George Zhao had revealed to the Huawei fan club that the upcoming Honor 20 Youth Edition (Honor 20 Lite) is a beautiful device that is capable at taking good photos and is suitable for youth especially females. It appears that the LRA-AL00 smartphone could be the Honor 20 Lite smartphone.

Honor LRA-AL00 Specifications

The Honor LRA-AL00 smartphone measures 157.2 x 73.2 x 7.65mm and it weighs 172.5 grams. The device is equipped with a display that features a waterdrop notch to offer users with a high screen space. The 6.3-inch OLED screen offers full HD+ resolution and it is integrated with a fingerprint sensor.

An octa-core processor that clocks at 2.2GHz is present under the hood of the Honor LRA-AL00 smartphone. Its RAM variants are 4 GB, 6 GB and 8 GB. Its storage editions are 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB. The Android 9 Pie OS comes preloaded on the smartphone. For more storage, it offers users with a microSD card slot.

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The alleged Honor 20 Lite has a triple camera system on its back. The vertical module comprises of a 48-megapixel primary lens, an 8-megapixel secondary lens and a 2-megapixel sensor. For capturing selfies, it is fitted with a frontal shooter of 16-megapixel. The LRA-AL00 has a minimum capacity battery of 3,900mAh. Its typical capacity could be 4,000mAh. The 3C certification of the smartphone had revealed that it supports up to 20W fast charging. Black and Green are the two color editions of the smartphone. The handset could be arriving in more color variants at launch.

Honor is expected to hold a launch event by the end of this month to announce the Honor V30 series of smartphones in China. It is speculated that the Honor 20 Lite will be also made official at the same event. As of this writing, there is no information available on the pricing of the Honor 20 Lite.

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One confusing naming pattern that we usually encounter when writing on Lite versions is the reference to such versions as “Youth Edition”. That may be due to the translation so I guess we’ll just bear in mind that both names usually refer to the same phone.

That in mind, Honor’s president Zhao Ming has hinted that the Honor 20 Lite (a.k.a Youth Edition) will be launched in China soon. He said this on the Honor 20 series thread on Huawei’s Pollen club forum while responding to a female fan who craved for an affordable phone with a good camera and suitable for females. He also hinted that the smartphone will be affordable.

The Honor 20 Lite is expected to take over from the Honor 10 Lite which was launched around November last year.  The device provided high value for your money as well as an amazing camera setup. The phone was a popular one among the youths which it targets.

It may interest you to know that the Honor 20 Lite is already official in Europe where it is available for GBP 249 (~$325, ~300 Euros). However, the device is expected to retain the Honor 10 Lite’s price in China which started at around 1399 yuan (~$195).

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As for the specification, the Honor 20 Lite comes with a 6.21-inch waterdrop notch screen that offers full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels, an aspect ratio of 19.5:9 and a screen-to-body ratio of 90 per cent. The device is powered by a Kirin 710 chipset paired with 4GB of RAM while there is 128GB of expandable storage. The handset packs a 3,400mAh battery that offers a talk time of 22 hours.

On the camera end, the rear shell of the phone sports a triple camera module; a 24-megapixel main sensor with f/1.8 aperture, a 120-degree 8-megapixel ultrawide lens and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. The photography features available for the triple rear cameras include AI multi-scene recognition and super night scene mode. One of the main features of the Honor 20 Lite is the 32-megapixel selfie camera that comes with AI beautification features. The phone comes in Phantom Red, Phantom Blue and Midnight Blue colour variants.

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