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Motorola Signature 27 in PANTONE Coal Smoke held with its rear cameras visible

November 10, 2026

Motorola Signature 27 · An action sensor joins the cameras

Motorola announced the Signature 27 on 5 November with a separate action sensor, a tandem OLED panel and planned GrapheneOS support. The camera hardware is ambitious, but this is no straightforward upgrade: RAM and refresh rate fall, while the European list price rises to €1,899. Worldwide sales are promised in the coming months, with no on-sale date yet.

OnePlus 16 in Dark Forest, Tomorrow's Starlight and Mars Masterpiece, standing side by side

October 13, 2026

OnePlus 16 · 185 Hz gaming, 9,000 mAh and a 200 MP camera

HONOR Magic9 Pro Max with the G200 teleconverter and grip, beside a mint Magic9 and the G500 teleconverter

October 1, 2026

HONOR Magic9 Pro Max · ARRI's cinema colour, two 200 MP cameras and 8,800 mAh

Xiaomi 18 Pro Max in white and blue, the rear screen beside the two camera lenses showing different widgets

September 23, 2026

Xiaomi 18 Pro Max and 18 Pro · A privacy screen, a rear screen and two 200 MP cameras

vivo X500 Pro Max fitted with the imaging grip and the 400 mm ZEISS teleconverter G2 Ultra, beside the phone in Earth Echo and Afterglow

September 22, 2026

vivo X500 Pro Max and X500 Pro · A 200 MP ZEISS zoom, 8,000 mAh and a 2 nm chip

OPPO Find X10 Pro Max in Warm Orange held out of a car window, showing the square camera module in the top corner of the back

September 22, 2026

OPPO Find X10 Pro Max and Find X10 · Three 200 MP cameras and 8,000 mAh

OPPO launched the Find X10 series in China on 22 September. The Find X10 Pro Max puts 200 MP sensors in all three of its rear cameras – main, ultrawide and 3× telephoto – and runs MediaTek's 2 nm Dimensity 9600 Pro; the smaller Find X10 gets a 200 MP main camera and a 200 MP periscope on the 3 nm MediaTek Dimensity 9600M. Both carry an 8,000 mAh battery, the largest OPPO has put in a Find, plus IP69 and 8K Log video. Prices start at ¥6,799 (≈ €885) for the Pro Max and ¥5,499 (≈ €715) for the Find X10, China only for now.

HUAWEI Mate XT 2 in Brocade Purple, partly open, showing the brocade rear panels, the octagonal XMAGE camera island and the cover display

September 11, 2026

HUAWEI Mate XT 2 · The tri-fold stops wearing its screen on the outside

iPhone 18 Pro in black, silver, glacier and burgundy, seen from the back

September 10, 2026

Apple iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max · The camera finally gets an aperture ring

Apple iPhone Duo being opened, showing the wide 7.6-inch inner display

September 10, 2026

Apple iPhone Duo · The first foldable iPhone is a wide fold

Xiaomi 18 Fold in Xiye Red, held closed in one hand beside the same phone opened into a landscape tablet

September 7, 2026

Xiaomi 18 Fold · The first foldable built around Xiaomi's own silicon

Huawei Pura X View in Shadow Red held in two hands, back with the full-width camera bar and the wide 16:9.5 front display side by side

August 20, 2026

Huawei Pura X View · The first phone built wide instead of tall, and it does not fold

Every phone you can buy is a tall, narrow rectangle. The Pura X View is not. Huawei took the wide screen its Pura X foldables open into, threw away the hinge and built it into an ordinary slab: a 16:9.5 OLED at 2232 × 1320 and 6500 nits, in a 6.68 mm body that weighs 201 g and still holds 7000 mAh. The full sheet is now official – Kirin 9030S, a 200 MP main camera, 66 W charging and the launch of HarmonyOS 7 – and it sells in China from ¥5,999, about €770. There is no global version.

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