The Pura 70 series from Huawei is now out globally and I do have here the top model which is the pur
70 Ultra now this is a pure Flagship in terms of camera performance it is one of the best so far
that I've tested out and it's because they've got quite a bit of innovation with the camera
here it is a pop out camera or a retractable camera now this is using a 1-in type sensor
it's 50 megapixels and it does have Optical image stabilization with sensor shift there's a 4 map
Ultra wide and an impressive 3.5 times optical zoom periscopic camera that is 50 megapixels
there too the selfie camera that's 13 it also does have autofocus this phone here does have
100 wat wire charging 80 W wireless charging a 5,200 mAh battery and it is running the OS
that is EMUI14 the screen is 6.8 in it's OLED 120 HZ this is what is included from Huawei so
type c to type-c Cable our Huawei supercharger now this is up to 100 watts and note that it's
using a combo Port here for the output so we have the type C but also type A above that so that is
very handy and our case here which is included good to see that they've done this and it's a
nice looking case different with this pattern on the back of it and it does have the sides
there you can see empty so no protection directly on the side but the corners are
covered there so great that they do include that case and then you find here a symmetry
tool which we are going to need okay the first thing you notice when you hold the phone is it
feels very solid well put together a little on the heavy side so 226 G and 8.4 mm is the thickness of
it so here on our right side we've got the buttons and they're in a good location so very easy to get
to that power button now in screen fingerprint reader Optical I wish was a little bit higher
but it is working really well and I've not really had any problem so I unlock again okay so that is
very quick and back to the back of it so what about what about this module I'm I'm a little
bit um yeah I I I don't know really what to think about this camera module what bugs me a little bit
about it is that it's not symmetrical I really wish that this camera here this is the ultra
wide uh was the same sort of roundness as this one which is our 3.5 times optical zoom camera so that
50 megapixels this one is 40 Main camera here this is the pop out with the mechanism here
retractable camera and that one has a mechanical aperture and it also is 50 megapixels now it's
one 1-in type sensor it is the IMX 989 so very good sensor in this and great to see finally one
type sensor in the hands of someone like Huawei X Mage here you can see the badge there that's
the image processing that they do do and a dual tone LED flash so camera module that is certainly
unique I would definitely say that so up the top IR transmitter microphone antenna lines full
metal you can see how much that camera module does stick out there and then down the bottom
here we have our Sim trait takes two Nano Sims loudspeaker also loudspeaker in the air piece
and USB 3.1 so it does support video out which is very good to see and all up excellent build
very very solid the screen is a screen that I really don't have any complaints about it
all I think it is a fantastic screen so 2500 nits maximum brightness 120 HZ nice and smooth 13 megap
camera there the cut out and the bezels they're decent now they have a curvature to this glass so
it's very curved right at the edges here but it's a flat screen but it's just the curve right on the
edge and it's at the top as well and then the bottom and overall it makes it very comfortable
it's a screen that I like the fluidity of it and the UI which is emui with this International
Version here it is fluid right now it doesn't feel like it has a chipset in it that is 7 nanom and
half the performance of what we currently have with the latest say the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 you
don't notice it here in the UI but a little bit more on that display so you can see we've got a
few options in here smart resolution and the dynamic fresh rate is on by default and I've
just turned it on now to as well but before I was keeping it on high which I do prefer but in the UI
it's set to 120 anyway and it will save a little bit on a battery life now the resolution you can
go right up to the maximum which is the 1260p or you let it do its own thing you can save power
and keep it on the low if you wanted to do that but I think most of the time it's been running
the higher resolution I really have not noticed anything an indirect sunlight this display does
faar really well well no issues whatsoever now I don't see any banding you may see a little bit now
with this outdoor footage but in person indoors and when I use it even outdoors I don't see any
banding or flicker so all of the pura 70 series are running the Kirin 9010 so that's huawei's
home chipet and it's running the UI really good so this is em ui4 very fluid running at 120
frames per second and I've not noticed any lag or slowdown with this it's just so well up optimized
I could seriously and pretty much I could do this run a Snapdragon 8gm phone right next to this and
the uis will be identical you wouldn't be able to tell then if it had a chipset that's half the
power that's just how well optimized it is now Google Play you can see I do have it okay you
can run Google Play on this and it's very easy to do it's through app gallery you just need to type
in here and you can see I'm even running gboard you can run it run all of those apps that you
want and you get the notification so it is simply called that right there you can see on screen so
install this then you get Google Play Store but there's a couple of things that don't work so map
history doesn't work with Google Maps uh Chrome you have to use the beta version and Android auto
which I talk a little bit more about in detail too uh is not going to work unfortunately and this
just a couple of minor things but all your Google apps all that stuff you want to run you can do it
however going through Gbox makes things a little slower affects the performance sometimes it's
noticeable with some apps so try to run things natively not through Gbox and how you do that is
again app gallery so find your favorite apps and normally they'll be in gallery if they're not it
will find you the APK file that you can install to run those apps which is great so performance
really good I'm running here I like to have the drawer mode you can have just widgets it's very
very smooth no lag in the UI now like literally every single brand and there with their phones
there is a little bit of blow we on first Boot and even some category folders you can see there
so Snapchat and booking it takes about 5 minutes to clean it up and you I wish wish they would not
do this it's just something we have to live with fortunately there is of course a solution you can
just remove everything and that's good none of that is part of the system uh apps so you can't
remove it you can so that's good at least so on the topic again of Android auto I really did try
to get this running I had the app installed but we don't get the USB uh connection option there
for Android auto you'd normally see like transfer files or SL Android auto wirelessly connecting it
up it wouldn't work either this is the problem I had it really did try to run but I got this error
I hope that there are some genius out there that can fix this because having Android auto for me
is a bit of a major I really do like to run it with my car but um I'm sure maybe one day some
going to have a work around so that Kieran 910 the chipset you can see the performance of it uh
CPU wise isn't bad with its eight cores it is the GPU that's a little bit of a let down you can see
that performance compared to what we have now this is like a couple of generations old they're doing
all right considering it's their own chip it's 7 nanometers and with what they've been facing
but compare this score to that of a Snapdragon 88 gen 3 or the newer dimensity chips and they
getting around 2 million or over 2 million points here and this isn't quite a million so it's half
the performance of the latest and greatest unfortunately now battery life 11 hours with
the fixed test here but I did have resolution set to Dynamic uh and the refresh rate so that aided
this to go a little bit longer than really would be realistic you are looking about 8 hours of on
screen time it is a large battery well reasonably it's kind of normal sized now slightly over
5,2 100 Mah hours remember we have the 100 wat supercharging and 80 W wireless charging so that's
very fast for wireless charging and how long does it take well from 3% to 100 took 47 minutes I was
expecting a little bit better but anything that's under an hour for me it still gets a thumbs up I
mean it's quick but it isn't the fastest out there now the internal storage is ufs 3.1 because they
can't use ufs for spec because the chipset is not going to support it and not have that connection
speed to it um so the throughput it's still very good getting 2000 reads and almost 2000 wrs but it
is what it is there that it's not going to be the fastest as latest and greatest another possibly
major for some people is that if you're going to be running Netflix Amazon Amazon Prime video
it's sadly in yes standard definition I know that's bad because it's got a wide Vine level
Reser and I don't think huwe will be able to get a level one so that is it we're going to be
stuck watching standard definition video streaming that is which is unfortunate then the speakers on
this phone very good but before I give you that sample of them uh there is no 3.5 mm headphone
jack of course you don't get that with flagships voice calls sound good and it is a flagship and
Flagship level noise cancellation all of that is there even Wi-Fi calls we do have that now
what with the loudspeakers sound comes out of the air piece here down below and the sample I
will play you now is it at 100% volume and they're loudspeakers there's bass they're decent I do like
them can I be your [Music] superhero superer [Applause] [Music]
okay so gaming performance genin impact very demanding game I have it set to the maximum
settings that I always test for Flagship phones in all phones and yes it games fine okay the
performance this is to be expected is half of what current flagships offer and you do notice this you
notice that the frame rate you know it's just not as smooth at times in some areas of the maps as it
should be compared to the competition so if you're someone that does game a lot on their mobile phone
and you want the absolute best frame rate smooth fluid gameplay constantly this isn't the phone for
you when it does come to the gaming performance now I think it's still fine and acceptable I can
play all of these games out there and I'm not a mobile gamer when it comes to phone status
I don't game on a phone I game on a legion go that's something completely different and another
trade-off I think of them pushing this chipset so hard to get the maximum performance maybe because
it's 7 nanom probably not because of that is that it does get warm you feel the heat building up
in the frame around this area a little bit it gets quite warm they are certainly pushing it
when it comes to thermals if you game for long extended periods and over to the cameras now of
the purus 70 Ultra here in Paris is something a little different luckily it's just stopped
raining so we get 40 frames per second with the front-facing 13 megap camera and I think the
looks pretty good not bad at all audio yes there's a lot of background noise so that's a good test
of just how it handles that with all the noisy motorbikes cars and everything else so this is the
rear camera footage first up is the ultra wide and what I like about this Ultra wide is especially
for photos it's nice and wide I've been using my Vivo X100 Pro and I'll be testing out the vi X100
Ultra soon but that Ultra wide isn't wide enough but this one is here with the Pura 70 Ultra Main
camera now which does have both electronic and Optical image stabilization the ultra wide is
only electronic so this is two times digital Zoom now nraam Cathedral unfortunately of course
they had that fire so they're in the process of restoring it all a lot of work to be done this is
now 10 times digital I'll go back to one really do like this 1-in type sensor the pop out camera from
Huawei I think they've done a really good job with it so it's 4K 30 4K 60 we don't get 8K I don't
think this Karen chipset would be able to handle on the flying coating of 8K even at 30 frames per
second 10 times video sample now focusing on my cat here called wo now I'm holding it as steady
as possible the viewfinder is a little bit misleading because the viewfinder shows that
the footage is shaking around a little bit but it does some postprocessing to make sure it is
quite steady now I'm is going to move a little bit now to the left and you can see it's quite
usable even at 10 times which of course is mostly digital because the optical zoom Max is 3.5 times
and if you do like macro video well you can shoot it at 4K and the quality is very good just like
these macro still so using that 3.5 times Optical camera you can get in really close and even fast
moving subjects like this an I managed to get a really good shot of what tra it's using that
same 3.5 mm Zoom look really good good background blur main camera here with two subjects comes out
very nice pleasant portrait shots and selfies the ultra wide shots are nice and wide compared to my
Vivo X100 Pro they are a lot wider but a little disappointing I didn't find the video quality
good with the ultra wide and the ultra wide photos I have to say are probably the worst out of the
three cameras we have on the rear main camera shots with the 1-in sensor do not disappoint
they're very sharp they are detailed not over sharpened color accuracy is good and it is the
best sensor of all of the cameras Zoom shots they don't disappoint either this is the nraam
in France I then just zoomed in a little more and this is 10 times and I don't think the quality is
bad at all considering how much of that is digital zoom and with better lighting of course it does
fair well this is a shot of my cat wo that you can see look at all the details with this whiskers
individual strands of fur the different shades of his gray his really nice cool ice blue eye
all of that comes through even at 10 times which is just 3.5 times Optical all the rest is digital
the zoom camera does have its limits however this is over I think it was around 25 times zoom and
you can see it starts to break down the image a little bit now there's a bit of pixelation
there too much digital Zoom here and it was a difficult shot of the top of the Eiffel Tower
here with a very bright background it did struggle low light photos the one type sensors do really
well and here with Huawei because of that sensorship technology the pop out camera
it does particularly well and even the 3.5 times zoom camera optical zoom there does well in low
light where most Zoom cameras do not now after using this phone for 2 weeks I find it to be an
excellent phone I am so impressed with those cameras I mean those macro shots and even the
zoom shots some of the best I have seen the main camera stabilization low light performance and
just general photos with it absolutely fantastic and the pop out camera I love that little noise
it makes the little whine of that motor in there makes it feel a little bit more like it's more
camera than smartphone um then the screen the UI performance fantastic very fluid well optimized
there are workarounds for all your Google Apps as I showed you so you can install that application
run pretty much everything notifications are working there's just minor things like
Maps you don't get the history and of course we don't have 5G with this particular chipset
gaming performance is half that of current 2024 flagships which is a shame but I think factoring
in the restrictions that Huawei does have they've done a phenomenal job with this phone and I would
happily keep and use this phone myself because I'm not a gamer Android auto missing that is probably
the biggest for me and I hope that someone figures out how to get that to work because I think I was
very close it's just that era that popped up that I talked about in the video so I couldn't get it
working but there we go that is the Huawei Pur 70 Ultra a fantastic Flagship from them and I would
love to see Huawei in the future unrestricted because just imagine this phone if it had the
chipset say that they wanted maybe the Snapdragon 8G 3 and this then I wouldn't be talking about
those cons they would not exist and I would be picking there but let me know in the comments
would you love to see Huawei back to what they used to be back in their well the P30 Pro days
was when they really were top of the game and they would be now without those restrictions