GadgetMatch | Alven Villavicencio

This phone ticks all the boxes I needed it to. Good cameras? Check! Great battery life? Yes, sir! Is it good for watching Netflix? You betcha!

Trusted Reviews | Jon Mundy

The Huawei Mate 20 offers lightning-fast performance and a comprehensive list of features, with a clever bill of compromises to help meet its price tag. It's a genuine OnePlus 6T rival.

Android Authority | Kevin Parrish

The Mate 20 is an awesome phone packing premium performance for a high price.

Neowin | Rich Woods

It's an awesome phone, but no one really notices it because it's overshadowed by a Pro version that's even more awesome.

TechRadar | Basil Kronfli

The Huawei Mate 20 distills much of what makes the Mate 20 Pro an excellent phone into something that's different, though not necessarily inferior. It costs less, offers more screen and has a headphone jack.

NotebookCheck | Manuel Masiero

The Huawei Mate 20 is a fantastic smartphone, but one which forgoes some of the Mate 20 Pro's premium features. The saving is worth it in our opinion though.

ZDNet | Matthew Miller

The Mate 20 is a pretty wide phone and offers a very large display for those who want a big phone. It's not very comfortable in my pants pocket though and is a bit bulky to hold in my hand.

Android Headlines | Nick Sutrich

While the Mate 20 Pro represents the most premium design and price tag of the two, the new speaker configuration on the Mate 20 Pro is a bit strange, and lack of stereo speakers on the less-expensive Mate 20 is terribly disappointing.

AnandTech | Andrei Frumusanu

The regular Mate 20 makes for a much more interesting buy [compared to the Mate 20 Pro], and the one aspect where the phone just outright dominates is battery life. I've really no real substantial negatives about the phone, other than I wished its cameras performed a bit better. Here I think most buyers will be extremely happy with their purchase, and I think Huawei offers an overall good package.

Digital Trends | Andy Boxall

The Huawei Mate 20 is a capable, high performance phone that proves less tech can sometimes mean a better user experience.

AndroidPit | Silvia Santos

I'm not going to beat around the bush: when I like something, I really like it. The Huawei Mate 20 has been an extension of my hand for several weeks now. The only problem I have with the Mate 20 is that it's difficult to handle with one hand.

phoneArena | Victor Hristov

Summing it all up, the Huawei Mate 20 is a big and powerful Android phone... Is it worth paying the full flagship cost for this one? If you value the incredible battery life, the answer to that is yes, certainly.

Stuff | Tom Morgan

The Mate 20 does a lot of what makes the Pro so great - but not enough. Unless you're unlucky enough to live somewhere Huawei has deemed the Mate 20 Pro to be off-limits, this isn't the version to buy.