Huawei Pura 70 Ultra hands-on review

02 May 2024


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  • 05 May 2024

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OP13 render has been exposed online.
Extremely similar to Xiaomi Crapmi K70.

    Anonymous, 05 May 2024Is it rootable? Can you unlock bootloader? No? Then it�... moreYou realise not everyone needs a phone that is easily rootable and has a lot of custom ROM support right?

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      • 05 May 2024

      Anonymous, 05 May 2024This is nuts. You cannot capture a moving vehicle, dog or c... moreSo, to deflect from one failed lie, you spin off to another completely unrelated?

      Instead of pointing out how you constantly fail to acknowledge when you're corrected, I'll bite on this one, too.

      I watch a lot of motorsports. Both day and night time racing. I fondly remember all the times broadcasters and journalists whips out their phones to deliver the broadcasts in UHD, all chanting, "this image processing from Huawei sure helped us a ton delivering live video of things we've never been able to do before!". Right? That's your perception of reality, isn't it?

      Back to reality, I have a very cheap system camera myself, as I don't do a lot of photography. There isn't even a smidgen of a doubt if that 500 buck camera with a 400 buck prime lens makes better videos or photos in _any_ environment compared to any smartphone I've ever owned. And the photos are honest representations of what comes through the lens. Not faked post processing butchering what I've seen.

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        • Anonymous
        • Ibx
        • 05 May 2024

        The Huawei Pura 70 looks like it might do okay in sales but does it have to be such an ugly little thing? I mean, that's a phone you'd want to leave home without. And that performance! It's like I'm looking at a chart of second-tier phones from the year 2017. Did Huawei have to go with such junky processors and ancient GPUs? I thought China was trying to become a high tech country, but this phone is using chips from the days of the Texas Instruments OMAP processor. I don't know why someone would buy this over something like a Samsung Galaxy S10. After all, neither the S10 nor the Huawei have 5G capability. Just buy the Galaxy S10 for $50 on eBay and save yourself $1,450. And that camera bulge. Isn't Huawei aware that we may at some time may want to set the phone down on a table? With the screen facing up? And did I mention just how ghastly this thing looks? Mom's gonna give it to someone for his birthday and he's gonna say "Mom, you shouldn't have.... I mean, you really shouldn't have..." 😭😭😭
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          • 05 May 2024

          DevNk, 02 May 2024The fact that we hear news of China stealing user data from... moreYou haven't heard of the Chinese stealing your data only because you haven't read, or cared to read, acting about it. Just Google somn like "history of Chinese IP theft" and there you'll be confronted with page after page of articles of the Chinese stealing all manner of corporate secrets and intellectual property. You're going to be in a state of shock and awe, turning to page six, and the articles still aren't letting up on the numbers of Chinese spies getting busted for industrial espionage from American companies.
          Chinese theft occurs so often that we don't even have to show proof, or even offer any evidence. The only thing we have to do is just say that China is stealing something from us and lol and behold we find out later that yep! They're stealing something from us...
          Again...

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            • 05 May 2024

            Zuzuz, 03 May 2024You know how big the "west" represent in the worl... moreThe "West," AKA the civilized world, represents far more than just 15% of the global population. Think the entirety of the European Union, and add the population of the entire Northern hemisphere to that. You're gonna end up with somn like:
            15% China
            15% India,
            7% ASEAN,
            7% middle East
            The remainder, or a little over 1/2 the world's population, makes up the civilized world, collectively known as the West.
            That would include:

            The United States
            Japan
            South Korea
            The entire European Union of 39 countries
            Great Britain
            Australia
            The entirety of Latin America
            (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil)
            + Canada
            _____________________________________
            = About 55% of the world's population

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              • Anonymous
              • Ibx
              • 05 May 2024

              Anonymous, 05 May 2024So does your favorite spy; Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, whatever... moreWe're only concerned about China spring on us through the Huawei phones because China is a dystopian, authoritarian dictatorship with a communist government structure, whereas the United States is a free and open liberal democracy where human rights are not just respected, but encouraged. Now would you trust your most intimate info to a dystopian, authoritarian dictatorship with a communist government structure? I didn't think so either...

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                • 05 May 2024

                Bodygard, 02 May 2024Nice try from Huawei but in the West, the average consumer ... moreThere are complains that the phone hangs and freezes , seen it on tiktok

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                  • 05 May 2024

                  Anonymous, 05 May 2024huawei have backdoors installed to the chinese goverment re... moreSo does your favorite spy; Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, whatever the brand you buy, they all spy on you and profit from it. Why are you not that judgemental when it comes to your country doing the same shit?

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 05 May 2024

                    Anonymous, 05 May 2024huawei have backdoors installed to the chinese goverment re... morehow do you know babe? and what about iPhone?

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                      • Sme
                      • 05 May 2024

                      huawei have backdoors installed to the chinese goverment remember that when using this.

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                        • 05 May 2024

                        no anroid and google play store

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 05 May 2024

                          i think the most simple approach, maybe, the phone taking let's say, 10 photo sample at 1/100 at 25600 ISO then using some AI processing to reduce those nasty noise, voila... night photography with high shutter speed without flash

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 05 May 2024

                            Is it rootable?
                            Can you unlock bootloader? No?
                            Then it's not worth buying!
                            Only buy rootable phones with custom ROM support

                              Nick Tegrataker, 02 May 2024This hands-on review misses out on one very, maybe even the... moreCouldn't agree more. Seeing the improvements in every new Huawei phone, it almost seemed like smartphones would finally beat ILCs due to a company like Huawei, instead of Apple, Samsung or Sony. The US ban soowed down things, especially with regard to the processor and image sensor. But Huawei has still improved, regardless of all these sanctions.

                              The only disappointment may be that when zoomed in, the image still needs to compensate for much smaller plastic lens with less space between them.

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                                • 05 May 2024

                                Anonymous, 04 May 2024dummy, the guy that i replied to is saying the outdated pho... moreAs I said, have a good day. 😁

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                                  Anonymous, 05 May 2024So, _if_ that false statement is true, why are brands like ... moreThis is nuts. You cannot capture a moving vehicle, dog or child by using a tripod and a xenon flash. A stationary fan in a room while being extremely close to the subject is the only thing you can do. Nokia's xenon flash was not implemented for taking pictures of moving subjects in the first place. Huawei's implementation is all about taking pictures of moving subjects and doesn't require a flash.

                                  I'm not going into your comment about all the phone makers using the same generic lens because simply it sounds even more absurd. Do lens companies i.e Canon, Nikon, Sony etc all release the same generic lens?

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                                    • 05 May 2024

                                    Nick Tegrataker, 04 May 2024By blasting a strong light against the subject and complete... moreIf you think _that_ is flash photography, then you should try googling, "advanced flash photography". Go ahead. Click around on a few random blogs, writeups and guides.
                                    flash photography is to fix lighting issues, not to create them. A good flash photo will not look like flash photography.

                                    You add light, because that is literally the only thing any camera can capture.

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 05 May 2024

                                      Nick Tegrataker, 04 May 2024That's because camera manufacturers have significantly... moreSo, _if_ that false statement is true, why are brands like Huawei sticking camera manufacturer stickers like Leica and Hasselblad on their phones? The lenses are made in Taiwan by a generic manufacturer, the sensors are made in Korea or Japan by other manufacturers. The sales pitch is, "we're using theses brands' refined processing to deliver pro level imagery", isn't it? Meanwhile, in the real world, the first thing any system camera buyer does with their new camera is disabling the image processing.

                                      You do not need image processing when your lens is bigger than an entire phone. That it the reality as to why a xenon flash or a tripod is all you need. Not what you wrote.

                                        Anonymous, 04 May 2024Maybe you should learn why real camera use flash photograph... moreThat's because camera manufacturers have significantly more limited R&D compared to phone manufacturers therefore they just can't afford to develop advanced algorithms like this, and can't use smartphone SoCs that are capable of running machine-learning-based image processing locally due to heat and power consumption concerns. So they can't even if they want to. Also, a flash allows you to get some creative shots that you just can't achieve without one, and a smartphone can't have it because of space constraints.

                                        "One is honest to the subject, the other is relying entirely on dishonest opinions"
                                        LMFAO, yeah, completely disregarding the existing lighting, overwriting the colours and mood of the scene, drowning the subject with a powerful artificial light and taking a risk of disturbing everyone around you are so inspiringly "honest".
                                        Digital photography, by your definition, is all "dishonest" due to the amount of manipulation involved after the actual "shooting" process to get a usable image. What Huawei is using isn't so-called generative image AI where an image is created out of pure noise using text prompts, but rather a continuation of machine-learning image processing development that has been going on in the industry for years.

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