The Honor View 20 will go on sale in Europe tomorrow starting at £499 / €569 for the 128GB model, making one of the world’s first phones with a hole-punch display available to a wider audience. The View 20 is already on sale in China, but no availability has been announced for the US.

Hole-punch display smartphones are just starting to arrive, and they could be the antidote to notches. The View 20 has a 6.4-inch LCD display with a resolution of 2310 x 1080. Its selfie camera appears in a cutout at the very top, existing comfortably between the general viewing area and Android’s notification bar. When my colleague Vlad Savov saw the phone in person earlier this month, he called the tiny cutout “a revelation and a delight.”

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