The View 20 launched in late 2018, but only in China. It's launching in the rest of Asia and Europe throughout 2019. But like all Huawei phones (fun fact: Honor is a sub-brand of Huawei!), the View 20 has no U.S. release date (yet).

I pressed Honor to see if I could nail down a release window, but was told they don't have anything to share. I wouldn't rule out a U.S. release, though, since the company does sell its predecessor, the View 10 in the states.

I first got to touch the View 20 and examine its "hole-punch" (we have to come up with a better name than this; I recommend "mole") display in all of its glory at CES 2019 and it immediately lured me in.

As one of the first phones with a "hole-punch" (Samsung's Galaxy S10 and countless other phones will make this display type a trend this year), I knew I had to try it out.

But it wasn't just the display that I wanted to put to the test. I wanted to find out if the Honor's many cutting-edge features — it's powered by Huawei's latest and fastest Kirin 980 chip and the camera has 48-megapixels — lived up to the hype.

After a month in my pocket, I can say the View 20 mostly does. There are a few things that I'm not in love with such as how Honor's reworked stock Android 9 Pie into its own custom "Magic UI 2." But for the most part, the View 20 is a sleeper all-star.