Honor View 20 vs OnePlus 6T: Which mid range flagship is for you?

OnePlus is known for putting out smartphones with flagship grade specifications for half the flagship price with a price to performance ratio, which no one can match. OnePlus 6T gives smartphones that are twice its price heavy competition.

Huawei owned Honor recently launched their latest mid-segment flagship. What's interesting is that the OnePlus 6T and the Honor View 20 cost exactly the same, making it a complicated choice.

So let's find out with a quick comparison, which is the smartphone is for you?

Honor View 20 vs OnePlus 6T: Design & Display

Honor View 20 flaunts a unique design with a 6.4-inch LCD display with a resolution of 2310x1080 pixels with a display cutout for the selfie camera. OnePlus 6T on the other hand sports an almost similar 6.41-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 2310x1080 pixels and a waterdrop notch for the selfie camera.

Both the smartphones sport a metal glass sandwich design. The back of the View 20 sports a fingerprint sensor while the OnePlus 6T sports one under the display. The reflective paint job of the View 20 looks way better than the one on the 6T.

Overall, the look of the View 20 looks much fancier compared to the OnePlus 6T, which looks more classy. The design language on the OnePlus 6T is less simple with the View 20 opting for more of a crazy eye-catching design.

Honor View 20 vs OnePlus 6T: Software

Both the Honor View 20 and OnePlus 6T run Google's Android 9.0 Pie. The difference here is the UI skin these smartphones use. While the Honor View 20 is running Honor's Magic UI 2.0, the OnePlus runs Oxygen OS 9.

In terms of software, magic UI is a minor improvement over Huawei's EMUI with slight UI modifications and nothing more. The Magic UI offers various options like an inbuilt theming engine and aggressive battery management techniques.

OnePlus offers OxygenOS, which is basically stock Android with a couple of useful features sprinkled on top. It is, hands down, one of the best Android user interfaces according to me. The performance is flawless and animations are smoother than any other Android phone out in the market.

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While Honor's solution offers more customisability, OnePlus offers a much cleaner and faster solution.

Honor View 20 vs OnePlus 6T: Performance

While the Honor View 20 is powered by the company's own HiSilicon Kirin 980 octa-core chipset, the OnePlus 6T comes with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 processor. Both the smartphones chew through any tasks thrown at them with ease. When numbers come into considerations, the 6T scores higher than the View 20 at 2,92,774 on AnTuTu, where OnePlus 6T gets a score of just 2,78,304. whereas the View 20 scores more than the 6T in Geekbench clocking a single-core score of 3285 and a multi-core score of 9679 compared to 2346 in single core and 8702 in multi-core of the 6T. However, it is worth noting that our review unit of the 6T was an 8GB RAM variant while the View 20 had only 6GB of RAM.

OnePlus 6T does perform better while performing day to day tasks like opening and closing apps as it has better software optimisations with faster animations while the View 20 shows a significance speed drop which is mainly due to slower animations and more bloatware in the system.

During things like gaming, GPU Turbo 2.0 on the View 20 allows it to offer a better and cooler gaming experience that the 6T.

Honor View 20 vs OnePlus 6T: Camera

Honor View 20 sports a primary 48-megapixel, f/1.8 aperture sensor along with a 3D ToF secondary depth sensor at the back. For selfies, it sports a 25-megapixel f/2.0 aperture sensor. While on the other hand, the OnePlus 6T sports a 16-megapixel primary sensor with an f/1.7 aperture and a 20-megapixel secondary sensor with an f/1.7 aperture on the back. For selfies, there is a 16-megapixel selfie shooter.

The photos from both smartphones are almost indistinguishable. Photos from the View 20 offer a brighter and sharper output with more details due to the presence of a 3D Time of Flight (ToF) sensor at the back.

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While images from the OnePlus 6T offer a much more natural output with better contrast. The night mode on the OnePlus 6T is definitely better. The front camera of the 6T offers slightly better photos with more colour accuracy than the View 20.

Honor View 20 vs OnePlus 6T: Battery

Honor View 20 packs a 4,000mAh battery while the OnePlus 6T settles for a smaller 3,700mAh battery. In our daily usage, the battery life of both the smartphones was almost equal.

Both phones easily lasted one full working day without much hesitation. Also, the Super Charge on the View 20 charges the phone at the same speed as the OnePus 6T's Dash Charger.

Honor View 20 vs OnePlus 6T: Conclusion

OnePlus 6T and Honor View 20 start at Rs. 37,990.

OnePlus 6T offers great performance for the price and brings in a decent camera setup with great software. While the View 20 offers amazing gaming performance with a unique design that catches the eye.

So in the end, which smartphone is the perfect choice for you depends on your personal preferences.