Huawei Pura 70 Ultra Review - Amazing Cameras But... 

With the ongoing restrictions, huawei does a phenomenal job. Sad we can't see the phone true potential

Amazing in depth review Chris. HUAWEI did an amazing job despite having so much restrictions, and Pura 70 is truly a competitive flagship series 👍🏻

i find that todays phone chips are so advanced that we don't even feel the diference. As a Huawei p50 pro user i can say i am verry happy with my phone, i run my anderoid apps trough APK Files and Gbox and until now never had a issue. it's sad to see so many verry good products from Huawei suffer still because of the ban. But I am a fan since their p20 line and i will stay with them.

*Those restrictions really held back the smartphones market, they were at the top*

Awesome review as always Chris Sir

Finally, you are able to review Huawei phone again😊

First view and like from me. Awesome content, Chris as always

Should have shown that cmaera retractable mechanism, great review!

camera looks fantastic. shame for all the restrictions. still have the p30 as my second phone and it has been a champ without any issues.

My Huawei mate 50 pro now has Android Auto. It had it for about 1 year but required cable. Now after updating to EMUI 14.2 I have AA wireless (Bluetooth ed). I am sure you will be OK with Huawei Pura.

I remember over 10 years ago a friend is mine had a budget Huawei phone and i was blown away at how smooth and fast it was. I'll never forget, such a bummer the US decided to wreck them specifically.

When will you review sony xperia phones?, do you like the mark vi?

Awesome review

I would say when it comes to Animations and fluidity its even Above Appel Level.

Will you review the xperia mark vi?

Still loving my p40 pro, great brand @Huawei

Huawei Pura 70 Ultra looks amazing, even for older chip the phone is still amazing for old Gen processor, does this phone do desktop mode?, Wopo? Where's Vera?

Could you please tell me if "hey Google" function on Google assistant works?

Thanks Chris ! Waiting for your review on the x100 ultra. Has it cleared customs yet? 😄

Awesome review as always! Great Job, Chris!

There's obvious wobbling in the video when recording from the front cam. it also over exposes. Noticeable shift in color tones when switching from main to UW. Also has micro jitters (though only visible when zoom into things).

The macro and low-light shots look really great. I don't think the lower performance is an issue as everything works fluently and you can still run all games very well. But the other drawbacks sadly make it a nogo for me. I don't want to risk something not working, or having to tinker around when it works with other phones out of the box.

awesome video and great phone

Thank you for your excellent job, is there an option to turn off the pop-out camera ?

Amazing phone bravo Huawie 👏👍

Android Auto I believe would work if you was to root and make Android Auto a system app , as I have done this before on other China ROM phones where Android Auto normally does not work , but of course that would open you up to other potential issues with banking apps etc

Can we install banking apps(uk), and does it work?

i would advice to use most of the native apps and gbox for that are not available. cause like petal maps works well

When will you give vivo x100 ultra camera video....❤

Huaweiblog, a german fansite apparently managed to get android auto on the pura 70 line running. to be honest I'm kinda tempted to switch from my vivo x100 pro to the pura 70 ultra in brown. The camera on the vivo is great but it kinda annoys me that I often have to set the fokus manually to get the results I want. I don't care about mobile gaming and you can even run native google services without gbox on it already.

9:57 They already delivered it afterwards with an update on some of their devices. Maybe that will be the case here too.

The Xperia 1 VI is a flagship and it does have a headphone jack.

Straight forward, No BS. Technical review!!! ❤

What about the speed test 🤔

How does the camera compare to Iphone ?....

Hey Chris, nice to see you with a Huawei phone review after a long time. It's great to see Huawei developing its own processors. Although it is not the most powerful in terms of performance, Huawei can produce devices that work very stable for many years. Nowadays, I see posts on some websites and social media such as: My Google account is blocked on my Huawei device, my WhatsApp number is blocked on my Huawei device. Do you know about this or have you encountered such a situation? On Emui 14.2 version, native Google applications can be installed through an application called micro g. I wonder if this Google and WhatsApp block happened after the micro g application.

That is one impressive main camera. Does it beat the Vivo X100 Ultra?

Performance is below half of the competition. Price should be as well

How much does it costs

Why did you say 4k isn't flagship level. There are a lot of flagship smarphones with only 4k video recording

Nice review Chris,please we need camera comparison between: Pura 70 Ultra Xiaomi 14 Ultra S24 Ultra

You can't know if a phone worth it or not till you watch Chris's review 👍

Price cannot justify haha. Freaking expansive if you ask me.

The forthcoming Mate 70 Pro will apparently have an improved chip set compared to that in the Pura 70 Pro.

I agree, ultrawide looks really bad, especially for video. It's like cell-shaded. Zoom is lackluster, but I suppose it's necessary for zoom macro. Frontal video is surprisingly good, the background is well-lit, unlike some monotone apple that focuses on the crispness of the face. Main camera is of course, stellar. But what exactly does that pop-out do again? But.... at 1300 eur it's an no go. With a compensating processor, not particularly applesque zoom and even an ultrawide that you can't write home about - it's just not it. It's not a polished apple experience. It's not some "works as intended" magnificent Samsung with a stylus on top. It's basically a P30\40\50. With far too much put into the main camera. If the main Pura 70 at least had the same sensor... or at least the same zoom - I could understand a spiritual successor to the legendary P40 Pro. The 1000 eur phone "that could". But right now it's just sponsoring the underdog that may offer something for the value, but that is not at all consumer-oriented. Kind of like Sony.

don't use gbox, use microg, is native gms, android auto work, fast and natural

Vivo or huawei or samsung much better?

When you zoom in that video, it seems that your voice also gets boosted.

I just bought the F150 B2 PRO. Its a rugged phone. 6.8 inch with 12gb ram. 108mp camera. 10 000 mah battery. 200usd. Im gonna recive it this week or monday or so. Have you tried any rugged phone mr techtablets? My poco f3 got some microphone problems after the oxygen os and i even changed the microphone and didnt help so i just bought the f150 just to try it.

The build quality is just amazing

I wish u could explain microg rather than gbox.. gbox is old thing now

What do you prefer in camera... Huawei P70 Ultra or Vivo X100 Pro?

We have the 3.5 headphone jack coming on the Xperia 1 V1

is it worthy upgrade from Huawei mate 60 pro plus to Huawei Pura 70 ultra?

In Malaysia we got HarmonyOS not EMUI

the retracting part is pointless.. just something that will break faster... i had 2 zenfone flips i know 1st hand . camera is great no need for the extra stuff. i find it funny the actual LENS on the periscope is bigger than the main cam

Where can we buy this phone from

price in the Philippines is shockingly overpriced.

bro this brand did so many hard work to put this phone to premium category , we should appreciate them after getting restrictions of restrictions how good they delivers , even it's chipset performs better than snapdragon 7 gen 3 or dimensity 8200 integrated smartphones ......... ! glad to see them get in the action , just think about their 5nm-3nm chipsets performance and optimization in the near future

can install apk from internet or not?

With android auto, it needs to be a system app. There are methods of mounting it as system on boot but you need root.

Just imagine that cam tech with sd 8gen4

I love the front look

I swear I've yet to meet a person that doesn't praise Huawei devices.

I have Android Auto fully working in USA, on global addition

I used huawei phone to take surgical pictures of opened ribcage couple years ago.. The picture quality shocked the surgeons.. The pictures looked like they were taken by dslr with the right Lighting.. They immedietly considers buying huawei phones.. But after sometimes the pictures quality dropped a bit.. No idea why... When i compare old and new pictures i can notice the difference

still images monster!😳 The Panasonic full frame camera S9 just released- I reckon this Huawei could match it when it comes to photography. Personally, I'd want other vendors with this 1 inch sensor and I wouldn't mind a thicker phone and lens module to get rid of the retractable mechanism.

once again, the con's are pretty major. I will never understand Chinese companies for gimping their flagships.

15:00 to me this looks way over sharpened... they need lower megapixel sensors, those phone lenses cant resolve anything above 8MP.. if even that. It had an aperture? Maybe stop it down to f/4 and turn off all sharpening and shoot at around 8MP.

Nice phone.

Thats strange regarding WideVine. Perhaps its your version of the phone. But I watched another reviewer TechNick and he shows that it has L1 WideVine Security. Not L3

1,499€ is really too much for the drawbacks this phone has. If 4K recording isn't on par with flagship phones, I believe it's a huge issue for most of the people. OK the chipset, OK the GPU under par, but the camera module should work as good as the other flagships, otherwise, if only photos work great, at least fot me, it isn't worth it. Thanks for the review, Chris!

I love this phone factor, it's not as tall as those other Chinese flagship phones

Leica : i will go to Xiaomi Huawei: Ok go then

I'm happy to see Huawei making their way back, but... these camera results really aren't impressive. Videos look washed out, most of the pictures too. Night mode seems a bit off. I mean, for device marketed mainly because of it's cameras, it could/should be much better.

No 5G?

Overpriced, no Google services and 7nm processor. Performance score is about 300k lower than SD8gen2. Also limited to UFS3.1 and only Widevine L3.

Only problem i have with this and any other Huawei phone (apart from price ofc), is that there isnt workaround for viber....Only (important) aplication, at least for me, where notifications dont work...

Always saddens me to see a huawei review. It could be such an amazing competition.

I got the Pura 70 Pro and it offers a hit and miss experience oftentimes delivering poor photos with lots of ghosting, artifacts, noise and even the blurring out of people's faces when they're part of a complex cityscape.

EMUI 14.2 base on Android 12, information

Camera lens is small, but the frame is size of my plate

Good to see a review of Huawei from you Chris. I miss Huawei's precense on the European mobile market. Since they left, prices from Apple and Samsung have gone up, and Samsung have stopped any real innnovation camera wise But the price of this device is just too crazy. The outdated SOC and the the fact that it is running Android 12 behind EMUI is just bot worth the asking price. Also, besides Android Auto not working, some apps still require GMS to work, and as far as I know, there is no workaround for this.

this should be atleast 400$ cheaper because of the cpu/gpu.

Android Auto, Google Wallet and Viber notifications are all deal breakers to me. Luckily we have Honor, which is the next best thing after Huawei (even got better than them in battery department).

Was waiting for this. Thank you. 🫡

I wish Huawei all the best and I'm sure they'll make a comeback in Europe one day, but this is not it. I have mad respect for their ability to basically build a smartphone using only local Chinese components BUT asking 1500 euros for a midrange chip and Android 12?!

❤1

even who needs google, I don't know why, petal maps are much better, e-mails work, and I always install You Tube, why would I pay for a stupid application 10e a month, and if I need to, I won't even start RU-vid, there are always alternatives for Android, like revanced ,poor thing are those who have an iPhone, there is nothing free there ie's performance is also nonsense, which shows how many generations behind it is if everything works well and smoothly, and it has the best cameras of almost all newer phones with better processors,,, and I don't believe that people do computer tasks that need everything to fly somewhere. people use common networking and messaging applications

Google supported???😮

It is too expensive in my country for what they are offering. Only die hard fans would buy.

Great device completely fucked over by the restrictions, what a shame.

Why should I pay over 1k for that phone?

Is funny how Huwei get advantage by the war and sell more phones than ever with a midiocre CPU without google assistance at very high price. Cameras looks outstanding but when you are ready to pay 1500 euros you need a really monster phone all around which vivo and honor doing the job atm. Great video. Thx. Waiting vivo 100x ultra comparisons!

Huawei in the middle of 2024 STILL doesn't make any breakthrough on Video Shoots 😂

The secure 3-D facial/iris scan is gone!

hi buddy i istall microG is top i leave Gbox

Is it just me or is that display *very* round at the corners

It is necessary to call things by their proper names. These are not “restrictions”; these are not legal, not market American sanctions. Don't be shy about telling the truth.

I will buy this in the future when the price drops. I support China, they are resilient and despite all US sanctions they have won.