Last week, Huawei made the Pura 70 series of smartphones official, including the flagship Pura 70 Ultra. This is the next generation of the long-running P series, now with an actual name instead of a letter.
All Pura 70 models have a very distinctive camera island design, and the Ultra features a 1-inch retractable main camera with variable aperture. If you are wondering what the inside of the Pura 70 Ultra looks like, the Chinese YouTube channel WekiHome has answered you as usual, publishing a complete disassembly video of the device. Make sure you press the CC button and set the automatic translation to the language of your choice to get the subtitles.
As with almost all phones these days, entry is through the back, with the back plate coming off first, after a little heat is applied to make it less sticky… kolla. Huawei has traditionally applied more adhesive than other brands, it seems, and that’s still the case here.
Once inside, the retraction mechanism (including stepper motor) of the main camera is clearly visible and looks like a nice piece of engineering. The stepper motor also features damping foam. This phone is the first ever to integrate a retractable camera and also has IP68 dust and water resistance.
This is made possible by sealing the telescopic part of the lens cap. The point of all this is that the phone is thinner than its competitors with 1-inch cameras when not using the camera. But there is an additional advantage: when the camera is not in use and you shake the phone, it is much less noisy than its competitors with 1-inch type sensors.
Sensor-shift OIS is also on display, and all cameras have heat-dissipating materials on the back directly connected to the large vapor chamber. The Kirin chipset powering the phone is more or less comparable to the Snapdragon 888 and Dimensity 8200 in the AnTuTu benchmark.
The speakers used are identical to those of the Mate 60 Pro, while the vibration motor is slightly smaller. The maximum charging power of the battery is 88.3 W and charging from 0 to 100% takes 37 minutes.
The screen is made by BOE and covered in Kunlun glass. Manual brightness measurement yields 600 nits in Manual mode and 1,242 nits in High Brightness mode. The back of the screen is completely covered with a copper metal plate for heat dissipation.
The bottom line is that while the Pura 70 Ultra is still not on par, in terms of performance, with its competitors, it is better than the Mate 60 Pro, so Huawei is indeed progressing from one version to the next.
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