The Honor 20 Lite does have the night mode made famous by phones like the Huawei P20 Pro. This uses a barrage of exposures taken over 3-7 seconds (depending on light conditions) to take much brighter, clearer shots. The real reason to hesitate is one that affects all Honor and Huawei phones right now. Huawei’s dispute with the US government affects Honor phones too, and means we don’t know if it’ll operate properly in the future, or receive updates. Verdict

A CPU core is the processor unit, which executes software instructions. Presently, besides single-core processors, there are dual-core, quad-core, hexa-core and so on multi-core processors. They increase the performance of the device allowing the execution of multiple instructions in parallel. A few parts seem half-baked, though. Video features are surprisingly poor, and the continued use of microUSB charging is odd and dated. The display resolution shows the number of pixels on the horizontal and vertical side of the screen. The higher the resolution is, the greater the detail of the displayed content. Pixels are usually measured in microns (μm). Larger ones are capable of recording more light, hence, will offer better low light shooting and wider dynamic range compared to the smaller pixels. On the other hand, smaller pixels allow for increasing the resolution while preserving the same sensor size. This means it tends to last a full day with 30% or less charge by the time you go to bed, not two days. Its stamina is still perfectly acceptable.The battery takes around two hours and 5-10 minutes to recharge. Again, this is not notable, but not embarrassing either. MicroUSB charging is slightly embarrassing at this point, though. The Honor 20 Lite should really have a USB-C port instead. It’s not 2017. Should I buy the Honor 20 Lite? Along the edge, a dual nano-SIM card tray can be popped out. You can also use the secondary SIM card slot to fit a microSD card, adding up to 512GB of additional capacity to the phone’s already pretty generous 128GB of internal storage.

The Honor 20 Lite is one of the funkiest-looking phones in its class. It has a classic Honor gradient finish, a very modern front-on appearance. And the triple camera array will make people guess you spent more. Similar to the CPU, the GPU consists of processing units called cores. They handle the computation of graphics in various applications.The ISO rating or number is an indicator of how sensitive a camera's image sensor is to light. Image sensors operate within a specific ISO range. The higher the ISO rating is, the more sensitive to light the sensor is.

The Honor 20 Lite’s general performance is perfectly sound. But raw power is actually one reason to consider the competition. The price also pitches the Honor 20 against a range of higher-end phones that have been discounted in recent months, such as the Nokia 9 PureView and the Xiaomi Mi 9. Key features READ NEXT: Xiaomi Pocophone F1 review – mid-range mastery Honor 20 Lite review: Battery life and performance Most phones at the price have dual lens arrays with a normal camera and a depth one. This is still an upgrade, if not the one you might have hoped for.To that end you get a large, front-filling display with hardly any side bezels and only a modest notch. You also get a shiny rear surface, and a speedy fingerprint scanner embedded within. You will also want to avoid taking low-light images with the Honor 20 Lite’s wide camera. Such conditions show it uses a just-OK sensor. However, don’t undervalue the extra kinds of photos you can take with a wide. It is great for tight interiors or shooting up at big, old, grand-looking buildings. In this particular Honor 20 Lite, it looks best on the “standard” colour mode with default colour temperature. You can warm it up, but it’s already pretty warm as-is. Information about additional software and hardware features of the front camera which improve its overall performance.

The design of the Honor 20 Lite hasn’t changed much since last year’s Honor 10 Lite. It’s another attractive, shiny, well-proportioned phone with minimal bezels and a ‘teardrop’ notch. There’s a strong whiff of the Huawei P30 Lite to the phone, too. Information about the sensor type of the camera. Some of the most widely used types of image sensors on mobile devices are CMOS, BSI, ISOCELL, etc. Information about the number of pixels on the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the photos taken by the front camera, indicated in megapixels as well. One of the main characteristics of the display is its type/technology, on which depends its performance.

It’s a similar story with gaming performance: again, the Honor 20 Lite performs reasonably, but doesn’t stand out from the crowd. And it certainly can’t compete with Xiaomi’s Pocophone F1, which dominates the gaming field thanks to its Snapdragon 845 processor. Between the two phones, the Honor 20 Lite is a perfectly acceptable budget gaming phone, while the Honor 20 really struggles to deliver on the battery life and heat management.