Huawei’s sub-brand Honor launched its latest flagship smartphone Honor V20 earlier this week at a launch event in China. The phone will soon debut for the international markets as Honor View20. In fact, the company has already scheduled a launch event on 22nd January in Paris for the launch of Honor View20.

Now, ahead of the Honor View20 launch, Amazon India has started teasing the launch of the same phone in the Indian market. The phone’s landing page on the e-commerce platform also reveals that the phone will be sold exclusively through Amazon in India, similar to its predecessor Honor View10.

Just like the Honor V20, the View20 should come in three color options — Black, Red, and Blue. To know the phone’s pricing and availability information, we’ll have to wait for the launch event on 22nd January.

To remind you of the specifications, the Honor V20, the Chinese variant of the View20, comes with a 6.4-inch IPS LCD screen that supports 2310 x 1080 pixels Full HD+ screen resolution, offering a screen-to-body ratio of 91.82 percent and a pixel density of 382ppi.

The front-facing camera is placed under the display at the top-left corner. The in-display camera occupies only a fraction of space since the hole for the camera measures only 4.5mm in diameter. This enables the company to offer slimmer bezels around the display.

Under the hood, the device is powered by 7nmm Kirin 980 octa-core chipset, coupled with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. There is no microSD card slot on the device. It comes with a horizontal arrangement for dual camera setup that includes Sony IMX586 48-megapixel primary sensor and a 3D ToF (Time of Flight) stereo lens. At the front, there’s an AI-powered selfie camera of 25-megapixel.

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Connectivity options on the device include Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, dual-frequency GPS, NFC, and USB-C. It runs Android 9 Pie operating system with the company’s EMUI 9 on top. The phone is powered by a 4,000mAh battery with support for 4.5V/5A rapid charging.

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Honor has confirmed that it will be launching the Honor V20 in China on 26th December, making it the first smartphone from the Chinese manufacturer to feature an in-display front-facing camera.

Next month, on 22nd January, Honor has scheduled a launch event in Paris, France where it will unveil the Honor View 20, which is the global variant of the upcoming Honor V20.

In the latest development, a report suggests that the Honor View 20 will be launched in India next month, i.e. January 2019, soon after the phone is unveiled globally on 22nd January. Thus, it’s highly possible that the phone will be launched in India in the last week of January and could go on sale from early February.

Earlier this year, in July, Sony announced its new Sony IMX586 48-megapixel camera sensor and now Honor has already confirmed that the first phone to feature it will be the upcoming Honor View 20. The company has also shared the first camera samples to reveal the photography prowess of the 48-megapixel camera sensor in all kinds of lighting environments.

The Sony IMX587 CMOS sensor offers a large pixel size of 0.8micron. Moreover, the Quad Bayer technology that stacks four adjacent 2×2 pixels into the same color. It will users to capture photos without noise in dim light conditions. The first camera samples show that the Honor V20 will be capable of capturing DSLR like photos on a smartphone.

In terms of specifications, the upcoming flagship smartphone will come with a 6.4-inch display with an in-display camera hole of 4.5mm diameter for a 24-megapixel front-facing camera in the top-left corner. Rumors indicate that the phone will also be equipped with a ToF 3D sensor for creating accurate 3D models for Augmented Reality (AR).

It is powered by the company’s own HiSilicon Kirin 980 octa-core processor, manufactured using the 7nm process. The company has also confirmed that the phone will be equipped with Link Turbo technology which combines Wi-Fi and LTE to work together for faster and uninterrupted connectivity.

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While the phone’s battery capacity is not yet known, it has been confirmed that the phone will carry support for 22.5W fast charging technology. The Honor V20 is expected to arrive in China with a starting price of 2,799 Yuan, roughly $406. Chinese retailer JD.com has already started registrations ahead of the official launch.

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