Huawei Pura 70 Ultra: What you need to know
Finally, we have the biggest and most expensive of the bunch. The Huawei Pura 70 Ultra is again available for preorders in Europe from today and will be on full sale from 22 May for an eye-watering €1,499. For that tall order, you’re at least getting slightly more variety in the colour department – the standard black is joined by a dapper-looking brown and a classy green colourway.
Befitting the most luxurious model in the series, the Pura 70 Ultra gets a more refined design, with a vegan leather rear that’s criss-crossed with embossed “Star Pattern” lines. The forward symbol camera module is different here, too, with a colour-contrasting tag just beneath housing the flash and the Xmage logo.
The 50MP main camera is impressive enough by itself as well, with its massive 1in sensor and a variable aperture that can shift between f/1.6 and f/4.0, but what really stands out here, if you’ll excuse the pun, is that it’s set inside a retractable lens structure.
This housing pops out when you open the camera app and apparently allows the sensor to take in even more light, and therefore produce even more detailed images. The pop-out motion is accompanied by a mechanical sound and the ring around the housing itself is a starkly contrasting red, both of which are designed in homage to DSLR cameras. Huawei stated the mechanism has been tested over 300,000 times, which should give it plenty of longevity, and surprisingly it doesn’t compromise the phone’s IP68 rating.
Pop-out camera aside, the design of the Pura 70 Ultra is fairly close to the Pro, with identical dimensions, but a little extra heft at 226g. The display is the same, too, although the Kunlun glass is a more durable Crystal Armor variant, which offers “up to 300%” scratch protection and “100%” better drop resistance, compared to the first generation.
The selfie camera is the same as the other Pura 70 models, but the ultrawide and telephoto lenses on the rear both have higher pixel counts, at 40MP and 50MP, respectively. That telephoto camera can reach a 3.5x optical zoom by itself, as well as a hybrid digital zoom up to 100x, just as we saw with the Pro.
The mystery over CPU hardware continues here, but the RAM is a step up from the other models, with a hefty 16GB, and the ROM comes in at 512GB, with no microSD slot for expansion. The battery is a massive 5,200mAh, but charging support is the same as the Pro, up to 100W wired or 80W wireless.
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source: https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/mobile-phones/huawei-pura-70-series-announcement
