Huawei unveils Pura X View wide-screen slab phone

On August 20, Huawei unveiled a phone at Stelato’s automotive event with no hinge and no separate inner and outer screens: the Pura X View. It fits a 6.39-inch OLED wide flat display into a conventional slab phone, with a resolution of 2232×1320. Rather than resembling the mainstream tall phones approaching a 20:9 aspect ratio, it looks more like a somewhat narrow pocket book.

The diagonal is shorter, but the display area has not shrunk. Huawei compared it with a conventional 6.9-inch tall-screen flagship: the Pura X View has a display area of 114.27 square centimeters, versus 111.55 square centimeters for the other phone, giving it an advantage of about 2.4%. The reason is that the screen is suddenly wider: when watching videos horizontally, the image is closer to the common 16:9 aspect ratio; when viewing documents, comics, and web pages vertically, each line can fit more text, and images can appear larger.

The hardware specifications have also been disclosed: the phone is 6.68 millimeters thick, weighs 201 grams, and has a 7000mAh battery. Its bezels measure 1.05 millimeters on all four sides, producing a 96.1% screen-to-body ratio. But a wide screen does not bring only benefits. One-handed use and tapping across the screen may be more difficult, and it is not yet possible to determine from dimensions alone whether vertically scrolling feeds such as short videos and chat histories will display more content as a result.

Huawei is not experimenting with this layout from scratch. The Pura X, released in March 2025, was the first to use a 6.3-inch, 16:10 screen. Huawei then launched the 7.7-inch Pura X Max in April this year. Apps including Bilibili, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Huawei Reading, and WPS have already been adapted for wide-screen interfaces. HarmonyOS’s responsive layout also switches the number of content columns, margins, and toolbar positions based on window width and aspect ratio, while some foldable- and slab-phone layouts can be reused directly.

In practical terms, the Pura X View brings an area better suited to reading, comics, and horizontal video to users who do not need to unfold their phones, but whether more people will accept a wider handset will depend on whether commonly used apps genuinely take advantage of the extra space. Huawei opened reservations on August 20, and in-store experiences are expected to begin on August 28. Pricing has still not been announced, and real-world handling and app performance await subsequent hands-on testing.