Huawei has launched the Enjoy 100 Pro Max in China, a budget phone built around an 8,800mAh battery (8,560mAh rated). Announced on October 28, it starts at $300 (CNY 1,999) for the 8GB + 128GB model, according to Huawei’s Enjoy 100 Pro Max product page.
The battery is the reason to look at this phone. In Huawei’s lab tests, it lasts up to 49 hours of continuous calls, 29 hours of online long video and 24 hours of online short video. Huawei ran those tests in its lab at 26°C, with screen brightness at 110 nits and system volume at 11 steps. The video and audiobook tests ran in airplane mode with Wi-Fi connected and GPS, Bluetooth and NFC turned off, so treat them as best-case figures rather than a daily promise. Charging tops out at 40W wired, and Huawei includes a 40W charger in the box.
Compared with the Enjoy 90 Pro Max from March, the changes are mostly inside. Battery capacity goes up by 300mAh (from 8,500mAh typical), yet the phone is about 4 grams lighter at roughly 228 g, with identical 163.3 x 78 x 7.98 mm dimensions.
The Kirin 8000 processor is replaced by two chips: the Kirin 8020 in the 512GB model and the Kirin 8020A in the 128GB and 256GB versions. Huawei has not explained how the two differ. The company claims up to 62% better overall performance and up to 45% better gaming performance than the Enjoy 90 Pro Max, based on its own tests of the 512GB models running their factory software (HarmonyOS 7 versus HarmonyOS 6), so the gains reflect the new OS as well as the new chip.
The 128GB and 256GB models, which use the Kirin 8020A, were not part of that comparison. The phone also ships with HarmonyOS 7 instead of HarmonyOS 6, and moves to NearLink E2.0.
The 6.84-inch OLED screen keeps the same FHD+ 2756×1272 resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. Huawei quotes an 8,000-nit peak, but that is a lab figure measured at 1% APL, meaning a very small bright area of the screen, not full-screen brightness. The previous model’s brightness claim was measured under different conditions, so the two numbers are not directly comparable.
The phone also supports BeiDou satellite messaging, which can send images and location without a terrestrial signal, while recipients reply with preset messages. It works in mainland China only (not Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan) and must be activated beforehand on a regular network.
Elsewhere, the trade-offs are typical of the price: a single 50MP rear camera with no ultrawide, 8GB of RAM on every configuration, USB-C at USB 2.0 speeds and no headphone jack. Huawei says the phone passed the China Quality Certification Centre’s (CQC) five-star whole-device drop test and earned SGS’s five-star gold label for drop resistance.
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