Huawei has us already used to its Lite versions, squires of its catalog leaders who usually reach the market with them despite the fact that there is sometimes a certain time lag.
As in the case of the Huawei Mate 20 Lite that we have been able to analyze and that has landed even before its older brothers, the future Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro.
As in previous generations, and also in other ranges, here we find a phone which inherits the design master lines of its catalog brothers, but cuts performance somewhat to compete in a lower price line.
Join us through your analysis, a comprehensive review of its performance and its main characteristics.
Let's get started.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ipjouVYAZU[/embed] Huawei Mate 20 Lite, the technical specifications Before getting into flour, and reviewing how the phone has performed in all the tests we have subjected it to, what better way to start than reviewing its characteristics.
Here you have the technical sheet of the new Huawei phone, its Mate 20 Lite.
Huawei Mate 20 Lite 6.3-inch IPS LCD screenFHD + 2340 x 1080 resolution Kirin 710GPU Mali G51-MP4 processor RAM 4GB Storage 64GB + miroSD up to 256GB Battery 3,750 mAh 18W fast charge (Charger included) Rear cameras 20 megapixels f / 1.82 megapixels Selective focus Cameras Front 24 megapixels f / 2.0 wide angle 2 megapixels Selective focus Software Android 8.1 Oreo EMUI 8.2 Dimensions and weight 158.3 x 75.3 x 7.6 millimeters 172 grams Others Dual SIM 4G, USB type C, rear fingerprint reader, GPS, NFC, FM radio Price 348.45 euros Design: the Mate 20 barely grow but go to glass Huawei had been subscribed to metal for some time with its Lite phones.
Among the most recent, the Huawei Mate 10 Lite from last year and the Huawei P20 Lite from the first half of this one.
But that's over, at least when it comes to Mate phones because the Mate 20 Lite has gone to glass.
Unfortunately, without taking advantage of the virtues of this material, we do not have wireless charging for the battery.
But it will be time to open that melon when we reach the autonomy of the phone.
At the moment, we have a slight increase in size in the phone between generations, although the screen has increased thanks to the 'notch'.
The new Mate 20 Lite grows 2 millimeters in height but remains practically identical in width and thickness.
Although glass versus metal has a price, and that is none other than the increase in weight.
From the 164 grams of the last generation, we jump to 172 grams of this one.
Let's look at the measurements in more detail.
Huawei Mate 20 Lite Huawei Mate 10 Lite Honor Play Pocophone F1 Honor 8X Screen 6.3 "19.5: 9 FullHD + 5.9" 18: 9 FullHD + 6.3 "19.5: 9 FullHD + 6.18" 18.7: 9 FullHD + 6.5 "18.5: 9 HD + Front Porc.
81.7% 76.5% 83.0% 82.2% 84.4% Measurements 158.3 x 75.3 x 7.6 mm 156.2 x 75.2 x 7.5 mm 157.9 x 74.3 x 7.5 mm 155.5 x 75.3 x 8.8 mm 160.4 x 76.6 x 7.8 mm Weight 172 grams 164 grams 176 grams 180 grams 175 grams In terms of design, the Huawei Mate 20 Lite is quite classic at this point in the market.
The front is devoid of physical buttons, Everything is controlled from the virtual buttons of Android and that makes it possible for its screen to stretch a lot in relation to the front.
According to Huawei, 81.7% of its front part is occupied by the screen, which also has a notch on the front.
The phone, however, has a small chin at the bottom.
The button layout is also quite classic.
Volume and power on the left frame, right frame reserved for the microSD and SIM tray, and the USB Type-C charging port and the headphone jack remain for the lower frame, next to a speaker.
On top, absolute cleanliness.
We do not forget the back, with the dual camera in the central part, located vertically and protruding from the case, and the fingerprint reader under it.
The rest of the rear is completely clean.
With the Huawei Mate 20 Lite we are faced with a comfortable phone in hand despite its 75.3 millimeters wide, and its weight gives a feeling of robustness.
The finishes are good, although you have to put a small fault in the assembly of the glasses, both the rear and the front, with the frame.
The fit is not quite fine and the jump is appreciated, which hurts the experience a bit.
For the rest, it is a fairly clean phone despite the rear glass, even having analyzed a model in black that usually highlights the traces.
The biggest drawbacks are the glass, for its fragility, and the camera that protrudes and drags from previous generations The Huawei Mate 20 Lite is not a waste of originality in design, but it offers sobriety and ergonomics, and perhaps the biggest problem we have with that camera that protrudes from the body and that makes us constantly think that it will scratch when in contact with tables and other rigid surfaces.
For the rest, a good job from the Huawei team in the design section, where it has been performing at a good level for several generations.
Screen: eyebrow for an LCD that has a lot to say We get to the face of the phone, the first thing we see of it when we take it out of the box and what we use to communicate with it.
The screen, which in this generation of Mate Lite repeats with the technology of the last generation, maintaining an IPS LCD panel that nevertheless grows diagonally, and everything has to do with the eyebrow.
With the 'notch'.
In the Mate 10 Lite we had a fully rectangular 5.9-inch 18: 9 screen, now Huawei has decided to jump to cut-out screens with its Mate 20 Lite, and the diagonal stretches to 6.3 inches in a body practically identical, reducing the upper and lower frames.
In return, we also win in resolution.
The 2,160 x 1,080 pixels are converted to 2,340 x 1,080 pixels.
More height, more pixels, even if we win them on both sides of the eyebrow.
At 409 pixels per inch of density, the screen on this Mate 20 Lite looks pretty good.
It is not seen pixelated at any time, and the representation of colors is also quite good, and above all pleasant.
Slightly saturated, the feeling is warm, and the phone's good brightness level contributes to the mix, both indoors and outdoors.
We can even say that the automatic adjustment is somewhat high when we are in the dark, and we will appreciate reducing it manually using the scroll bar of the quick settings.
The great leap on the screen of the Mate 20 Lite is the 'notch', which allows to take the diagonal up to 6.3 inches with a 19.5: 9 aspect There are drawbacks to these settings, of course.
We cannot adjust the tone of the screen, something already quite common in the Android ecosystem, and we do not have a double tap to turn on the screen without touching the power button or the fingerprint reader.
Yes, we can, on the other hand, hide the 'notch' whenever we want.
A simple adjustment will allow us to turn the top bar into a permanent black strip that, even so, will continue to house the phone's activity icons.
We also have a reading mode to, in theory, let your eyes rest when night falls, a mode changes the colors to orange tones.
We can also adjust the size of the text and decide the resolution of the screen, with a Smart Resolution setting so that the phone manages it depending on the available battery.
For the rest, a good panel for the Huawei Mate 20 Lite, a large diagonal with its 6.3 inches, good viewing angles and, something important that we have not mentioned, a good oleophobic treatment.
The screen resists getting dirty and that's always good news.
Performance: a Kirin 710 that is going to present a tough battle We got to the brain of the phone, the tandem formed by the processor and by the memories, where Huawei has been promoting its own brand for years.
The Chinese manufacturer repeats with a home-made Kirin processor, this time the Kirin 710 that evolves from the Kirin 659 of the past generation.
The eight cores arrive here at 2.2GHz and the GPU is a Mali G51 MP4, doubling the rendering cores.
For memory, 4GB in RAM and 64GB in internal storage.
Huawei is betting on its own processors in most of its phones instead of, like other manufacturers, acquiring Qualcomm chips.
This time it is right again in terms of CPU as the Kirin 710 behaves quite well in almost all situations, having occasionally encountered some brief system freeze, or some drop in the frames.
But both the system itself and the menus, and multitasking, work at a good level.
This power is also reflected when we dive into somewhat more demanding games of the account, games that also maintain fluidity and where the weight of the GPU has been noticed more than in past generations.
One of the Achilles heels of the Kirin had to do with the choice of their graphics, and here the Mali G51 MP4 has behaved better than expected, offering a good experience and allowing us to play aggressive titles at full resolution, without noticing the effects of finding ourselves before a chip of midlines.
As in all our analyzes, here are the synthetic performance tests, or benchmarks, that we have applied to the Huawei Mate 20 Lite.
AnTuTu, GeekBench, 3D Mark and PC Mark with their corresponding comparison under the screenshots.
For those addicted to figures.
Mate 20 Lite P20 Lite Xiaomi Mi A2 BlackBerry Key2 ASUS Zenfone 5 Processor Kirin 710 Kirin 659 Snapdragon 660 Snapdragon 660 Snapdragon 636 RAM 4GB 4GB 4GB 6GB 4GB AnTuTu 132,007 80,986 127,610 126,375 125,353 GeekBench (Single / multi) 1,587 / 5,519 935 / 3,581 1,626 / 4,286 1,618 / 5,755 1,334 / 4,884 3D Mark (Icestorm Unlimited) 21,114 11,737 22,461 18,243 19,432 PCMark (Work 2.0) ...
Huawei has us already used to its Lite versions, squires of its catalog leaders who usually reach the market with them despite the fact that there is sometimes a certain time lag.
As in the case of the Huawei Mate 20 Lite that we have been able to analyze and that has landed even before its older brothers, the future Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro.
As in previous generations, and also in other ranges, here we find a phone which inherits the design master lines of its catalog brothers, but cuts performance somewhat to compete in a lower price line.
Join us through your analysis, a comprehensive review of its performance and its main characteristics.
Let's get started.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ipjouVYAZU[/embed] Huawei Mate 20 Lite, the technical specifications Before getting into flour, and reviewing how the phone has performed in all the tests we have subjected it to, what better way to start than reviewing its characteristics.
Here you have the technical sheet of the new Huawei phone, its Mate 20 Lite.
Huawei Mate 20 Lite 6.3-inch IPS LCD screenFHD + 2340 x 1080 resolution Kirin 710GPU Mali G51-MP4 processor RAM 4GB Storage 64GB + miroSD up to 256GB Battery 3,750 mAh 18W fast charge (Charger included) Rear cameras 20 megapixels f / 1.82 megapixels Selective focus Cameras Front 24 megapixels f / 2.0 wide angle 2 megapixels Selective focus Software Android 8.1 Oreo EMUI 8.2 Dimensions and weight 158.3 x 75.3 x 7.6 millimeters 172 grams Others Dual SIM 4G, USB type C, rear fingerprint reader, GPS, NFC, FM radio Price 348.45 euros Design: the Mate 20 barely grow but go to glass Huawei had been subscribed to metal for some time with its Lite phones.
Among the most recent, the Huawei Mate 10 Lite from last year and the Huawei P20 Lite from the first half of this one.
But that's over, at least when it comes to Mate phones because the Mate 20 Lite has gone to glass.
Unfortunately, without taking advantage of the virtues of this material, we do not have wireless charging for the battery.
But it will be time to open that melon when we reach the autonomy of the phone.
At the moment, we have a slight increase in size in the phone between generations, although the screen has increased thanks to the 'notch'.
The new Mate 20 Lite grows 2 millimeters in height but remains practically identical in width and thickness.
Although glass versus metal has a price, and that is none other than the increase in weight.
From the 164 grams of the last generation, we jump to 172 grams of this one.
Let's look at the measurements in more detail.
Huawei Mate 20 Lite Huawei Mate 10 Lite Honor Play Pocophone F1 Honor 8X Screen 6.3 "19.5: 9 FullHD + 5.9" 18: 9 FullHD + 6.3 "19.5: 9 FullHD + 6.18" 18.7: 9 FullHD + 6.5 "18.5: 9 HD + Front Porc.
81.7% 76.5% 83.0% 82.2% 84.4% Measurements 158.3 x 75.3 x 7.6 mm 156.2 x 75.2 x 7.5 mm 157.9 x 74.3 x 7.5 mm 155.5 x 75.3 x 8.8 mm 160.4 x 76.6 x 7.8 mm Weight 172 grams 164 grams 176 grams 180 grams 175 grams In terms of design, the Huawei Mate 20 Lite is quite classic at this point in the market.
The front is devoid of physical buttons, Everything is controlled from the virtual buttons of Android and that makes it possible for its screen to stretch a lot in relation to the front.
According to Huawei, 81.7% of its front part is occupied by the screen, which also has a notch on the front.
The phone, however, has a small chin at the bottom.
The button layout is also quite classic.
Volume and power on the left frame, right frame reserved for the microSD and SIM tray, and the USB Type-C charging port and the headphone jack remain for the lower frame, next to a speaker.
On top, absolute cleanliness.
We do not forget the back, with the dual camera in the central part, located vertically and protruding from the case, and the fingerprint reader under it.
The rest of the rear is completely clean.
With the Huawei Mate 20 Lite we are faced with a comfortable phone in hand despite its 75.3 millimeters wide, and its weight gives a feeling of robustness.
The finishes are good, although you have to put a small fault in the assembly of the glasses, both the rear and the front, with the frame.
The fit is not quite fine and the jump is appreciated, which hurts the experience a bit.
For the rest, it is a fairly clean phone despite the rear glass, even having analyzed a model in black that usually highlights the traces.
The biggest drawbacks are the glass, for its fragility, and the camera that protrudes and drags from previous generations The Huawei Mate 20 Lite is not a waste of originality in design, but it offers sobriety and ergonomics, and perhaps the biggest problem we have with that camera that protrudes from the body and that makes us constantly think that it will scratch when in contact with tables and other rigid surfaces.
For the rest, a good job from the Huawei team in the design section, where it has been performing at a good level for several generations.
Screen: eyebrow for an LCD that has a lot to say We get to the face of the phone, the first thing we see of it when we take it out of the box and what we use to communicate with it.
The screen, which in this generation of Mate Lite repeats with the technology of the last generation, maintaining an IPS LCD panel that nevertheless grows diagonally, and everything has to do with the eyebrow.
With the 'notch'.
In the Mate 10 Lite we had a fully rectangular 5.9-inch 18: 9 screen, now Huawei has decided to jump to cut-out screens with its Mate 20 Lite, and the diagonal stretches to 6.3 inches in a body practically identical, reducing the upper and lower frames.
In return, we also win in resolution.
The 2,160 x 1,080 pixels are converted to 2,340 x 1,080 pixels.
More height, more pixels, even if we win them on both sides of the eyebrow.
At 409 pixels per inch of density, the screen on this Mate 20 Lite looks pretty good.
It is not seen pixelated at any time, and the representation of colors is also quite good, and above all pleasant.
Slightly saturated, the feeling is warm, and the phone's good brightness level contributes to the mix, both indoors and outdoors.
We can even say that the automatic adjustment is somewhat high when we are in the dark, and we will appreciate reducing it manually using the scroll bar of the quick settings.
The great leap on the screen of the Mate 20 Lite is the 'notch', which allows to take the diagonal up to 6.3 inches with a 19.5: 9 aspect There are drawbacks to these settings, of course.
We cannot adjust the tone of the screen, something already quite common in the Android ecosystem, and we do not have a double tap to turn on the screen without touching the power button or the fingerprint reader.
Yes, we can, on the other hand, hide the 'notch' whenever we want.
A simple adjustment will allow us to turn the top bar into a permanent black strip that, even so, will continue to house the phone's activity icons.
We also have a reading mode to, in theory, let your eyes rest when night falls, a mode changes the colors to orange tones.
We can also adjust the size of the text and decide the resolution of the screen, with a Smart Resolution setting so that the phone manages it depending on the available battery.
For the rest, a good panel for the Huawei Mate 20 Lite, a large diagonal with its 6.3 inches, good viewing angles and, something important that we have not mentioned, a good oleophobic treatment.
The screen resists getting dirty and that's always good news.
Performance: a Kirin 710 that is going to present a tough battle We got to the brain of the phone, the tandem formed by the processor and by the memories, where Huawei has been promoting its own brand for years.
The Chinese manufacturer repeats with a home-made Kirin processor, this time the Kirin 710 that evolves from the Kirin 659 of the past generation.
The eight cores arrive here at 2.2GHz and the GPU is a Mali G51 MP4, doubling the rendering cores.
For memory, 4GB in RAM and 64GB in internal storage.
Huawei is betting on its own processors in most of its phones instead of, like other manufacturers, acquiring Qualcomm chips.
This time it is right again in terms of CPU as the Kirin 710 behaves quite well in almost all situations, having occasionally encountered some brief system freeze, or some drop in the frames.
But both the system itself and the menus, and multitasking, work at a good level.
This power is also reflected when we dive into somewhat more demanding games of the account, games that also maintain fluidity and where the weight of the GPU has been noticed more than in past generations.
One of the Achilles heels of the Kirin had to do with the choice of their graphics, and here the Mali G51 MP4 has behaved better than expected, offering a good experience and allowing us to play aggressive titles at full resolution, without noticing the effects of finding ourselves before a chip of midlines.
As in all our analyzes, here are the synthetic performance tests, or benchmarks, that we have applied to the Huawei Mate 20 Lite.
AnTuTu, GeekBench, 3D Mark and PC Mark with their corresponding comparison under the screenshots.
For those addicted to figures.
Mate 20 Lite P20 Lite Xiaomi Mi A2 BlackBerry Key2 ASUS Zenfone 5 Processor Kirin 710 Kirin 659 Snapdragon 660 Snapdragon 660 Snapdragon 636 RAM 4GB 4GB 4GB 6GB 4GB AnTuTu 132,007 80,986 127,610 126,375 125,353 GeekBench (Single / multi) 1,587 / 5,519 935 / 3,581 1,626 / 4,286 1,618 / 5,755 1,334 / 4,884 3D Mark (Icestorm Unlimited) 21,114 11,737 22,461 18,243 19,432 PCMark (Work 2.0) ...
