At Huawei, the Mate 80 Pro Max appears as a juggernaut dedicated to photography

The series Mate 70 had stuck to a Pro version. But to close the year 2025, Huawei is seeing things big, since the brand presents the series of smartphones that succeeds it, namely the Mate 80, which it offers in several versions… including a Pro Max model. The Chinese firm is therefore always thinking bigger and assuming its ambition to bite into the apple, which in the third quarter of 2025 occupied third place in the market for smartphone sellers in its native country, and was close to Apple’s scores according to estimates from the IDC firm.

Huawei’s Mate 80 Pro Max, therefore, sees things in Max. First at the level of its screen which, like another Pro Max model whose name we will not mention, displays a diagonal of 6.9 inches and is based on Oled technology (promising brightness up to 8,000 cd/m², just that!), with of course the support of LTPO, to vary its refresh rate from 1 to 120 Hz. The smartphone retains a design quite similar to that of the Mate 70, with its circular back photo block ; on the other hand, it innovates in terms of image capture.

Four sensors, two telephoto lenses

Unlike the different versions of the Mate 70, which included three photo modules, the Mate 80 Pro Max has four. It thus offers a main module of 50 megapixels, with a wide-angle with variable aperture between f/1.4 and f/4, a characteristic that Huawei is one of the few to offer. Added to this is a 40 Mpx sensor flanked by an ultra wide-angle, like on the Mate 70, as well as two modules of 50 Mpx each, both accompanied by a telephoto lens. The first offers a focal length equivalent to 140 mm, or a x6.2 zoom (aperture f/3.2), while the second is a 91 mm equivalent (x4, f/2.1). The variable focal length telephoto lens, inaugurated on the Pura 80 Ultra made official in October 2025, it therefore remains exclusive, but the promise of two zoom lenses is of interest.

For the rest, the smartphone offers solid. We note the integration of a 5,870 mAh battery compatible with wired charging at 100 W and wireless charging at 80 W, that of 16 GB of RAM and at least 512 GB of storage, all complementing a Kirin 9030 chip. If Huawei does not say more on this chipsetwe note that it is both compatible with wifi 7, Bluetooth 6.0 and satellite communications, in China at least; the same goes for 5G, only available in the Middle Kingdom.

Three variations in total

The photo juggernaut that is the Mate 80 Pro Max is accompanied by two other models, the Mate 80 and Mate 80 Pro, which share a slightly more compact format, thanks to an Oled screen reduced to 6.75 inches. If the Mate 80 Pro is entitled to the Kirin 9030, but also to the battery and charging power of the Pro Max, the Mate 80 finds the Kirin 9020 from the Mate 70 series and obtains wired charging at 66 W as well as wireless charging at 50 W, still for a 5,750 mAh battery. The two devices justify their more affordable price positioning by a planed photo component: the two smartphones retain the 50 Mpx main module of the Pro Max as well as its ultra wide-angle, but make concessions on the telephoto side. The Mate 80 Pro thus obtains a single module with a 48 Mpx sensor accompanied by a lens equivalent to 92.5 mm (x4, f/2.1), while the Mate 80 prefers a 12 Mpx sensor, and an optic equivalent to 125 mm, i.e. a x5.5 zoom.

For now, the Mate 80 series is only announced in China, with no date – or certainty – for launch on the European market. We will therefore be content with the conversion of the prices applied by Huawei on its domestic market, excluding taxes and import fees: count on a minimum of 7,999 yuan for the Mate 80 Pro Max (€980), a starting price of 5,999 yuan for the Mate 80 Pro (€735) and a price of 4,699 yuan for the Mate 80 (€575).

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