June 11, 2025 – Huawei has unveiled four new smartphones in its Pura 80 lineup: the Pura 80, Pura 80 Pro, Pura 80 Pro+, and the flagship Pura 80 Ultra. Among them, the Pura 80 Ultra clearly leads with its groundbreaking camera setup, signaling Huawei’s full return to the forefront of mobile photography.
The Pura 80 Ultra is the first smartphone to feature a 1/1.28-inch RYYB periscope telephoto sensor. With a novel “Dual-Eye” periscope design, it employs a moving prism to switch between two physical focal lengths—delivering a true variable telephoto solution within a single lens.
■ Key Camera Specs of the Pura 80 Ultra:
- Front Camera: 13MP, f/2.0, with autofocus
- Main Camera: 1-inch RYYB sensor, variable aperture f/1.6–f/4, OIS; supports real-time triple fusion (TCG) with 16EV dynamic range
- Ultra-Wide Camera: 40MP RYYB sensor, f/2.2
- Telephoto Camera: First-ever 1/1.28″ RYYB “Dual-Eye” periscope lens
- f/2.4 at 3.7x (equivalent to 83mm), macro focus at 8cm
- f/3.6 at 9.4x hybrid zoom (equivalent to 212mm, using ~1/2.5″ sensor area), macro focus at ~100cm
- Features sensor-shift OIS; a light-blocking shutter covers the 3.7x aperture when switched to 9.4x mode
- ISP: 8th-generation image signal processor with 200% faster data throughput, 113% improved AI noise reduction, 120% better AI color rendering, and 41% boost in real-time HDR
- Extras: Personalized color grading, and a 1.5MP multispectral “Maple Red Color Camera” for enhanced color fidelity
At 3.7x (83mm), the telephoto lens features a massive aperture of 10.05mm—breaking the previous record set by vivo’s HP9 1/1.4″ telephoto lens, which had a 9.9mm aperture. According to Huawei, this is the most light-sensitive telephoto lens in the company’s history and collects nine times more light than the iPhone 16 Pro’s main camera.
■ My Prediction: vivo X300 Ultra Could Set a New Benchmark
Back in March 2025, when vivo launched the X200 Ultra, I predicted that its next-generation flagship—likely called vivo X300 Ultra and expected to debut in 2026—could feature three Sony LYT-818 sensors. At the time, it was just an ambitious vision of mine. But Huawei’s launch of the first 1/1.28″ telephoto sensor has significantly strengthened my belief that such a setup is not only possible but likely.
If the X300 Ultra were to adopt triple LYT-818 sensors with focal lengths covering 14mm ultra-wide, 35mm standard, 83mm telephoto, and 212mm super-telephoto, it would easily become the most advanced mobile camera system ever built.
One more thing I personally hope for: that vivo expands the ultra-wide from the 14mm used in the X200 Ultra to 12mm in the X300 Ultra. If that happens, it would truly be the Ultra of Ultras.
