Huawei Pura 70 Ultra review

21 May 2024


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  • Anonymous
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  • 22 May 2024

Useless device outside of China.

    As expected, Huawei's photos are more artificial than just artificially enhanced. Everything at night looks like it's out of an AI photo generator. Details in the day look like they were made up.

    Great cameraphone for people who want to click photos and not think about it anymore, fast shutter speed, reliable software for the most part and wow the selfie game is on point. But the artificial look is something I dislike in modern phones and Huawei has gone for it harder and harder ever since they released the Mate 50 Pro. This might net them higher dxomark scores but the photos just don't look nice. They look uncannily bad, like something's bad but it's hard to point it out.

    10x zoom shots are a joke for the most part, they should've stuck with 7x lossless crops and offered the 10x as well so that people can get the lossless one first. Anyways, good phone, not for me at all. The Find X7 Ultra's natural way of processing things and also Xiaomi's processing is just gonna be superior to me. Vivo is the perfect middle ground between Huawei type artificial and Oppo/Xiaomi type natural processing. Huawei thinks noise is bad and should be eradicated but noise is part of the image, let some of it stay there and provide the detail, it looks good when it is fairly untouched.

      Anonymous, 22 May 2024I think you need to look at better reviews of this device. ... moreYes, quite frankly speaking, the fact that the only moving subject GSMArena could find during the review period was a small pigeon is extremely questionable. The staff could've run around or waved their hands in an indoor backlight scene and compared them with flagships from other brands that claim to be good at handling moving objects (Xiaomi, Oppo, Apple, Google, Sony etc).

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        • Anonymous
        • IWP
        • 22 May 2024

        the review did not address the potential issue of dust and moisture ingress (which leads to smudges, dust spots and fungus growth) by the movable main camera and how it's mitigated. this was an issue with point and shoot of the past.

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          • Anonymous
          • PxV
          • 22 May 2024

          Anonymous, 22 May 2024Images are horrible overprocessed mess but somehow, they�... moredark and blurry ... and DXOMark blindly give it 163 score ... XD

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            • Anonymous
            • PxV
            • 22 May 2024

            Anonymous, 22 May 2024this should be on mid range price point soc so bad for $1500++performance of 400-500$ phone, slower than 8gen2. cam is ok, just like other flagship. $700 should be the right price tag

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              • Anonymous
              • U}}
              • 22 May 2024

              this should be on mid range price point

              soc so bad for $1500++

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                • Anonymous
                • r@i
                • 22 May 2024

                Anonymous, 21 May 2024It is imx989. Should be better Sharpening should not e... moreYou need to have some perspective on soft skills. This phone takes the best pictures on the market and blows away everyone else in terms of fast moving subjects. Period. Missing USB 3.1 or whatever does NOT take away from that.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • tZ4
                  • 22 May 2024

                  CamoGeko-XDA, 21 May 2024Believe whatever you want, but Huawei go founded out and go... moreNope, you are plain wrong. US never able to give concrete proofs that Huawei spy on American interests (their main reason to put Huawei in the Entity List, in case you dont know about this).

                  They only have circumstantial evidence like Huawei founder is a former PLA officer and Huawei supply equipments to PLA and other Chinese agencies. Samsung also supply equipments to US DoD and military, so we can also safely assume Samsung help USA to spy on other countries?

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                    • Anonymous
                    • r@i
                    • 22 May 2024

                    walkman8, 21 May 2024Plenty of folks, but the right question is: Is it worth buy... moreI think you need to look at better reviews of this device. Some youtubers have tested it with fast moving subjects. Kids, pets, cars, etc. It is hands down THE best camera phone for anyone who shoots those things. GSMArena didn't really cover it which is unfortunate. I've yet to see a phone that revolutionized photos since the P30 Pro with its night mode. I've a feeling others will copy the AI usage to handle motion going forward.

                    This will be the first Huawei I've bought since the P30 Pro. GBox and alternate apps will make GMS forgettable finally. I'm only giving up banking apps and Google pay. Oh well! Bye bye google!

                      Not bad at all. Well done, all things considered.

                        Anonymous, 22 May 2024Images are horrible overprocessed mess but somehow, they�... moreI wouldn't call it the worst - It excels in a few key aspects (2x crop zoom, capturing moving objects, etc), but it goes way too aggressive with tonemapping and flattens all the highlights/shadows which gives it a very weird "HDR look" to it. I don't see a lot of problem with the photos coming out of its 3.5x telephoto camera, but the main camera suffers from a fair number of issues which unfortunately puts it far behind Xiaomi and Oppo in terms of my personal preference. I still prefer the output from the ancient Mate 30 Pro over the Pura 70 Ultra as far as the straight-out-of-camera JPEG rendition goes.

                        Not having an option to reduce the sharpening in one way or another is also a minus - Huawei, Honor, Apple, Sony (and possibly Vivo too? I can't remember for sure) still don't have this option anywhere in their camera apps, which is disappointing for sure.

                          CamoGeko-XDA, 21 May 2024It's forbidden because Huawei stole and sold peoples d... moreSure buddy, believe in what others serve u.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • Yet
                            • 22 May 2024

                            Images are horrible overprocessed mess but somehow, they've managed to make video even worse. This has to be the worst flagship camera phone of the year.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 0p}
                              • 22 May 2024

                              Nick Tegrataker, 21 May 2024Hint: These nations are the allies of the US, who pressures... moreYeah, Mi6 would just read what CIA has to say and follow without doing own investigation.
                              🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

                              Fun fact, the governments that cared about Trump were all C's friends.

                              By the way, Germany has not removed their structure.

                                David 040882, 21 May 2024Don't see no artifacts or artificial sharpening in the... moreZoom in, brother, leaves definitely should have a white natural halo around them as well, and concrete should be full of white halos 😂

                                  Anonymous, 21 May 2024Funny how ppl here believe 9000s and 9010 are any different... more9000s and 9010 are manufactured by SMIC instead of TSMC, use a different CPU configuration (The Taishan cores support hyperthreading unlike the stock Arm X/A7xx series cores) from 9000 and feature entirely custom-designed Maloon GPUs.

                                  It would be beyond ridiculous to assume that it is somehow just a slightly modified version of 9000 when it has been shown numerous times that they are completely different, here you're the only one who believes in your own conspiracy theory.

                                    Anonymous, 21 May 2024Yeah, national.security agencies of many nations would sure... moreHint: These nations are the allies of the US, who pressures others that don't follow their "recommendations".

                                    https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-takes-credit-for-uk-huawei-ban-2020-7

                                      Upon further inspection, I realised why P70 Ultra's photos look a bit "off" in many situations. Sharpening isn't a problem (It looks fairly restrained to my eyes), but an aggressive HDR tonemapping and local contrast boost to emphasise details give these photos a very iPhone-esque look. I don't see any tint or colour shift caused by its RYYB CFA, but everything looks as if it has been imported to Lightroom and the clarity boost has been set to 50. These photos have a hard tonality which I'm simply not a fan of.

                                      I think the sheer amount of effort put into the development of motion compensation algorithms is impressive (Samples on X show it really can freeze movements without introducing a lot of unnatural artifacts), but what makes the cameras on Xiaomi and Oppo flagships so attractive is their colour mode - Leica Authentic and Hasselblad Master Mode really have a muted look that adds depth to a certain tones (mostly greens). Huawei's greens, in comparison, simply look dull and flat in most of these photos. Huawei just doesn't have any character to its colour rendition, and it's something they'll have to figure out sooner or later.

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                                        • AnonD-1153580
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                                        • 21 May 2024

                                        Disappointed... should have atleast priced it right, but the 10x telephoto quality seems good though

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