The Most Technically Advanced Cameraphone To Date ▀ Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max Collectors Edition Featuring 10X 1-Inch Periscope Module

Full-fledged cameraphone benchmarks are aimed on screens > 1280px width.
So almost any desktop or laptop should be fine. Smartphones are not supported, in favor of pixel-peeping convenience.

Current state of the article: awaiting teleconvertor for Xiaomi 15 Ultra, check back in a while to see the post in full-fledged glory.
Download section will be activated after i complete testing teleconverter for Xiaomi 15 Ultra.

Despite my earlier promise that [no more photography benchmarks] would appear on these pages,
it looks like I’ve broken that commitment again.

Oh, i did not mention the fact that couple of mouthes ago [BlackView] attempted to contacted me for “mutual cooperation and partnership”.
Just for your information, they specialize primarily in the rugged brick phones. After i’ve suggested them a fair comparison with other rugged phones i have they immediately disappeared.

Later, i’ve looked into their site to observe the model diversity and quickly find out that most of their devices are based around 2-3 configurations. So i do not miss anything at all, frankly speaking in the year of 2026 hefty part of companies are just boring to death, because they are directed by golden moma’s boys followed by shitty marketing principles, without any innovative engendering at all.
Frankly speaking, i do not understand for the very life of me, how all these useless marketing specialists are still not substituted by AI?

So what’s the catch you may ask?
I am gently hinting you that i am not a million sub pre-paid sellout blogger, pushing some kinda of sh#t to you.
Moreover, don’t forget that currently i’m out of a decent job and any donations will be very-very much appreciated.
Anyways, back to the subject of the review.

[Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max CE] can be equipped with impressive 1" 24-240mm snap-in module.
The main distinctive feature of the Collector Edition [CE] is an ability to attach external snap-in 1-inch 24-240mm
lens to support extreme periscope distances with unseen before in smartphone arena quality.
It is called [Ruiying Z10] and has following technicalities: f/2.0-f/4.5 PDAF, OIS, 10x continuous optical zoom.

In this review we will compare multiple devices to make overall picture more detailed and comprehensive:

• [Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max CE] + [Ruiying Z10] dedicated external 1" optical module
• [Xiaomi 15 Ultra] + [Neewer LS-79] teleconverter to match Huawei in focal distance.
• [Nokia PureView 808] the king of daylight resolution [even in the end of 2026]

There is a plethora of resolution related questions that we will cover here in this comparison.
I also point out that you can’t get such information anywhere on the good old interwebs.
So, I am maintaining the website’s reputation as a resource for exclusive content.

Anyways, here is a complete list of research investigations:

• how well perform 1/1.4" sensor of Xiaomi 15 Ultra against Huawei’s 1/1.28" in their native focal distances 100/90mm
• performance of Xiaomi 15 Ultra’s 1/1.4" periscope sensor paired with x2 teleconverter against
  Huawei’s 1/1.28" periscope sensor backed up by AI tricks
• compare above mentioned configurations against 1" optical module Ruiying Z10 in 90mm focal distance
• find out what maximum focal length of Ruiying Z10 can be used for commercial purposes
• how variable F-number affects Huawei’s resolution of main and periscope 1/1.28" sensors in comparison to Ruiying Z10
• find out the best main camera detail resolver among the following devices:
  Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max 1/1.28"
  Ruiying Z10 1"
  Xiaomi 15 Ultra 1"
  Nokia PureView 808 1/1.2"

As you can observe the king of resolution Nokia PureView 808 [2012] is also here.
It doesn’t have periscope of course, but we’ll pit it to the main sensor battle to see how well things turn out at this time.

Oh, and yeah, this review will not cover the quality of ultra-wide angle lens, because i simply not interested in it.

Glitchy modern browsers can easily alter image quality during page rendering or badly construe scaling factors,
so i suggest to download original images from my cloud storage and pixel peep them at 100% manually.

Conclusion: almost draw, similar level of detail

Conclusion: AI can’t compete with raw optical power of lens

Conclusion: internal x4 telephoto is good, but external optics is substantially better [see the trees]

Conclusion: Xiaomi was in a bit more difficult situation here because of the timing closer to the evening.
Then device had to use ISO 250 instead of lowest ISO 50, introducing a bit of more noise.
So you can add around ~10-15% in image quality to 15U, but no matter this smartphone can’t compete with dedicated optics.

Lens provides excellent resolution for 1" sensor and keep up with modern optical standards.
Detail and sharpness are very impressive across all focal ranges.

Here is a shot done in maximum x10 magnification [240mm], captured without a tripod, in a slightly overcasted weather.

Internal 1/1.28" lens:
Soft at F1.4 - F1.8 range. At F2 gets better. F3.2 peak resolution. F3.2-F4.0 safe to use too.

External 1" lens:
A bit soft at F2 gets better at F4. Maximum resolution is around F4.5-F5.
Around F8 diffraction starts taking place, so don’t go above that.

Conclusion: to pixel-peel original files scroll to the bottom to download all original files in the archive.

Conclusion: Huawei obliterates 1" Xiaomi with a style bringing much better resolution and dynamic range,
even despite carrying a bit smaller sensor [i’ve checked twice on different files, the same disposition]

Conclusion: internal main 1/1.28" lens is pretty good and almost on par with external solution, impressive

Conclusion: Huawei is doin’ stellar job here and surely touch the back of the head of the holy Nokia PureView 808.
It is worth of noticing that this is the closest rival i’ve been seen in all these years.
Like it or not, the 808 is still holding the crown as the king of camera resolution!
But in the end of the day, i am confirming that Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max is surely a worthy rival,
remember that although he losses a bit by a very tiny hair in resolution field,
it can offer exceptional dynamic range and color, things that are obviously not present in Nokia due to it’s age.

The only thing i am still interested in is internal periscope lens providing at least 8x magnification paired with 1/1.2" or better sensor.
According to AI such devices hit probably mainstream around 2029-2030 and they will surely provide less quality in comparison to dedicated external snap-in optics.

Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max CE is surely unique and innovative device, Chinese company demonstrates way
more sense than traditional boring manufactures like Xiaomi, Samsung and Apple.

Take a note that non-standard Android version derived from original Android around version 12 and absence of 100%
compatible Google ecosystem could be a deal breaker for some persons.

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