Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max in for review

We brought you a hands-on with the Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max from the launch event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Now, it's time to bring the phone to our headquarters and start its review.

The phone ships with a USB cable, a clear hard case, and a 100W charger in the box. There may be variations of this, depending on the location, similar to the situation with the battery - European customers will get a 5,500mAh battery, while elsewhere, units will have a 6,000mAh power pack.

Unboxing the Pura 90s Pro Max

We already went into detail with the phone in our hands-on. It's very distinctive thanks to its unique camera island, its mirror-like reflective surfaces, and its premium build.

It's less unique from the front, as you'd expect. The screen is top-notch, however.

Huawei kept the variable aperture main camera lens for yet another year, but expanded on it. It's now an f/1.4 (vs the old f/1.6), or about a 0.4 stop of light (30% more light) difference. The bigger upgrade is the new 200MP 1/1.28-inch zoom camera with an 89mm f/2.6 lens. It's an impressive optic. You can find camera samples from it here.

A variable aperture main camera - left at f/4.0, right at f/1.4

Reader comments

thanks for the info from the beginning of android GMS is not essential part for android but for some reason google tried many times by force to make this happend nowadys i am happy to be free from google and thanks god that in my cou...

Google does provide Android without Google Mobile Services (GMS) for free. It's called AOSP. Examples of mobile OS using AOSP code: Amazon FireOS, Nokia X, earlier versions of HarmonyOS GMS are interconnected though, removing one ser...

its very simple go for honor if you want huawei ... same UI same everything with a bit of tweak here and here but as for huawei forget that idea ... seriouslly i am very happy we got rid of google bloat-trashware 🤮 i hope this campan...