Huawei is an early mover in foldable phone technology and it is experimenting with new form factors like the Pura X – the so-called wide foldable. It’s an intermediate size between flip and book-style foldables. But what if the X got bigger? Today the company answers that question.
Huawei Pura X Max
The Huawei Pura X Max features a 5.4” cover and 7.7” internal display. Below you can see how it compares with the original X in terms of size. The Max is a newer generation folding design that is much thinner.
Pura X
Pura X Max
Cover display
3.5”
5.4”
Main display
6.3”
7.7”
Height (folded)
91.7mm
120mm
Width (folded)
74.3mm
85mm
Thickness (folded)
15.1mm
11.2mm
Width (unfolded)
143.2mm
166.5mm
Height (unfolded)
91.7mm
120mm
Thickness (unfolded)
7.2mm
5.2mm
Weight
194g
229g
However, while the original Pura X had a media-friendly 16:10 display, the X Max is much more in line with a typical book-style foldable and has a fairly square inner display – the resolution of 2,584 x 1,828px works out to 14.1:10, which is just a bit wider than an old-school 4:3 ratio. The outer display (1,848 x 1,264px) has nearly the same aspect ratio. Both displays are 1-120Hz LTPO 2.0 panels with 1,440Hz high-frequency PWM dimming.
As was revealed in teasers, the Huawei Pura X Max supports a stylus, the Huawei M-Pen 3 Mini. It’s “mini” because it has to match the reduced height of this form factor. The stylus is paired with a specially-designed case. There’s also a case with a magnetic flip-out stand.
The Huawei Pura X Max is compatible with a stylus
The larger model has a larger battery too with 5,300mAh capacity, up from 4,720mAh on the X. The new phone supports 66W wired and 50W wireless SuperCharge.
The Huawei Pura X Max is powered by the Kirin 9030 Pro chipset. It promises a 30% performance uplift over the Kirin 9020 chip of the X. The chipset is cooled by a combination of a vapor chamber and a graphene sheet. As you probably know, Huawei no longer uses Android, instead you get HarmonyOS 6.1 out of the box.
Huawei Pura X Max
The frame of the X Max is made of an aluminum alloy. It also has more advanced dust and water resistance, going up from just IPX8 (no dust resistance) on the X to IP58/IP59 (dust protected, resistant against submersion and high temperature water jets). The outer screen is protected by second-gen Kunlun glass.
The main camera has a 50MP sensor with an OIS-enabled lens with a variable aperture (f/1.4-4.0). Then there is the 50MP periscope with an f/2.2 lens and OIS, plus a 12.5MP ultra-wide (f/2.2). All three of these cameras use RYYB sensors with a yellow sub-pixel instead of green. There are also two 8MP selfie cameras available, one on each display. Those will be primarily for video calls – you can do main camera selfies when you want the best quality.
The cameras use Huawei’s in-house XMAGE image processing, which is helped along with a second-generation color sensor.
This is an upgrade over the Pura X, which had a 50MP main with a fixed f/1.6 aperture, an 8MP telephoto and a 40MP ultra-wide. The extra resolution will help when zooming in.
Huawei Pura X Max color options
Unfortunately, we’re not sure whether we’ll see the Huawei Pura X Max outside of China. As for China, the phone is launching today in several colors, which you can see above. The prices are below plus a conversion to USD:
Storage
Price
in USD
12GB/256GB
CNY 11,000
USD 1,615
12GB/512GB
CNY 12,000
USD 1,760
16GB/512GB
CNY 13,000
USD 1,905
16GB/1TB
CNY 14,000
USD 2,055