Battery anxiety usually ends with a charger in your pocket. Motorola has another solution: put a 7,100mAh battery inside the phone. The Edge 70 Max pairs that serious endurance with flagship Snapdragon power, a 144Hz Quad HD+ display, and Qi2 magnetic charging, without turning the handset into a pocket-size brick.
TECNO’s Lamborghini-branded concept has become a real phone, pairing black-and-red Italian drama with a 144Hz AMOLED display, dedicated graphics chip, and huge 6,500mAh battery. At 7.39 mm thin, the POVA 8 Pro also proves performance phones need not resemble power banks.
Skinny phones usually arrive with equally skinny batteries, but the TECNO CAMON Slim 5G refuses to cooperate. Its 6.39mm body holds a 6,000mAh battery, a 144Hz AMOLED display, and a 50MP Sony camera, then adds IP69K protection and MIL-STD-810 durability for good measure.
Xiaomi’s 18 Fold pairs an unusually wide folding design with uncompromised flagship hardware. Its 7.58-inch inner display is joined by Xiaomi’s XRING O3 processor, a 200MP Leica triple-camera system, and a 6,000mAh battery.
Huawei’s second-generation Mate XT 2 unfolds from a 6.5-inch phone into a 10.2-inch tablet. The tri-fold packs a Kirin 9050 Pro processor, three flagship rear cameras, ECG analysis, and a 5,600mAh battery.
After years of increasingly tall, narrow phones, Huawei is pushing in the other direction. Its partially revealed Pura X View pairs a broad 16:9.5 display with a 6.68 mm body and 7,000mAh battery ahead of a full September unveiling.
Most phones have long abandoned the microSD slot, headphone jack, and physical camera shutter. Sony’s latest mid-ranger preserves all three, making its recycled processor and oddly promoted payment shortcut even harder to understand.
Redmi’s new K100 Pro flagships combine 185 Hz OLED displays and 200 MP cameras with enormous batteries. The Pro Max goes further with 9,070 mAh, a 5x periscope camera, and a Bose-tuned 2.1-channel speaker system.
Previewed as a surreal concept at MWC 2026, the Honor Robot Phone is now an actual product with a motorized four-degree-of-freedom camera gimbal, ARRI imaging technology, and an AI that can track subjects—or dance to music.
Honor’s three-model 600 series ranges from a Pro with a 200 MP camera and periscope telephoto to a Super Edition carrying an enormous 8,600 mAh battery. Even the entry-level Vitality Edition packs 7,000 mAh.
The Minimal Phone 2 trades its predecessor’s E Ink display for a faster 3.92-inch OLED panel but retains the physical QWERTY keyboard, now with backlighting and remappable shortcuts. It starts at US$599 on Kickstarter.