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Huawei's Enjoy 100 Pro Max adds BeiDou satellite messaging and an 8,800mAh battery for CNY 1,999, but only the 512GB model gets the full Kirin 8020
Huawei's new China-only Enjoy 100 Pro Max keeps last year's 6.84-inch body and 8MP selfie camera, adds 300mAh, BeiDou satellite photo messages and HarmonyOS 7, and splits its chip by storage tier.
Huawei put the Enjoy 100 Pro Max on its China site alongside the cheaper Enjoy 100 Pro this week, and GSMArena has the prices: “Huawei Enjoy 100 Pro starts at CNY 1,799, while the Enjoy 100 Pro Max has a starting price of CNY 1,999.” Neither phone is sold in the US.
The headline feature on Huawei’s page is satellite. The Pro Max gets “一键北斗卫星消息,” one-press BeiDou satellite messaging, which Huawei says can send pictures and location information with no ground signal at all. A long press on the phone’s side X button opens it in the Changlian app.
The fine print under that feature on Huawei’s page is long. You need open sky. You have to activate the service on a regular cell or Wi-Fi network before your first use. Photos go out with lossy compression, text length is limited, and Huawei is explicit about where it works: “此功能仅限中国大陆地区（不含港澳台地区）,” mainland China only, not Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan. Neither Huawei’s feature page nor the spec page for the Enjoy 100 Pro mentions satellite messaging, so as far as Huawei’s own pages go, that’s the Pro Max’s to keep.
How the Pro Max compares
| Enjoy 100 Pro Max | Enjoy 100 Pro | Enjoy 90 Pro Max (last year) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | CNY 1,999 | CNY 1,799 | CNY 1,899 |
| Chip | Kirin 8020 (512GB) / Kirin 8020A (128GB, 256GB) | Kirin 8020A | Kirin 8 series (model not named on its pages) |
| Software | HarmonyOS 7.0 | HarmonyOS 7.0 | HarmonyOS 6.0 |
| Display | 6.84-inch, 2756 × 1272, 120Hz | 6.7-inch, 2412 × 1080, 120Hz | 6.84-inch, 2756 × 1272, 120Hz |
| Peak brightness (Huawei lab) | 8,000 nits at 1% APL | 1,300 nits full-screen | 4,000 nits at 20% APL |
| Battery (typical / rated) | 8,800 / 8,560mAh | 6,100 / 6,000mAh | 8,500 / 8,320mAh |
| Front camera | 8MP, f/2.0 | 32MP, f/2.2 | 8MP, f/2.0 |
| Rear main camera | 50MP RYYB, f/1.8 | 50MP RYYB, f/1.8 | 50MP RYYB, f/1.9 |
| NearLink (星闪) | E2.0 | E1.0 | E1.0 |
| Size | 163.3 × 78 × 7.98mm | 161.4 × 74.8 × 7.9mm | 163.3 × 78 × 7.98mm |
| Weight | about 228g | about 192g | about 232g |
| BeiDou satellite messaging | yes, mainland China only | not listed | not listed |
Every row comes from Huawei’s China spec pages for the Enjoy 100 Pro Max, the Enjoy 100 Pro and the Enjoy 90 Pro Max, plus the product pages for the Enjoy 100 Pro Max, the Enjoy 100 Pro and the Enjoy 90 Pro Max for prices, brightness and satellite. All three phones charge at up to 40W wired. The brightness figures are measured three different ways, so they don’t line up against each other. I left rival phones out because none of these is sold in the US.
What Huawei didn’t say. The Pro Max spec page lists two chips, “麒麟8020（512 GB ROM 版本）” and “麒麟8020A（128 GB & 256 GB ROM 版本）,” and the CNY 1,999 starting price is for one of the smaller models. Huawei doesn’t explain on these pages how the 8020A differs from the 8020. Its speed claims, “整机性能最高提升 62%” for the whole phone and up to 45% for games, come from a footnote that tested the 512GB Enjoy 100 Pro Max against the 512GB Enjoy 90 Pro Max. Nobody buying the starting model is getting the phone in that test.
What it means for the selfie camera. GSMArena noticed it right away, writing that the Pro Max “retains the same rear camera specifications as the Pro model but features a lower-resolution 8MP front-facing camera.” The cheaper phone has the 32MP front camera. The 8MP front camera itself isn’t new, though, since the Enjoy 90 Pro Max had the same one.
Why now. Put the Pro Max next to the phone it replaces and the body is a near copy. Same 163.3 × 78 × 7.98mm frame, same 6.84-inch 2756 × 1272 screen, same 8MP front camera. The battery grows from 8,500 to 8,800mAh, it loses 4 grams, it moves to HarmonyOS 7, and the brightness claim goes from 4,000 nits at 20% APL to 8,000 nits at 1% APL. The rest of the changes are the satellite messaging, NearLink E2.0 and the Kirin 8020 chips.
Everything about the Pro Max here comes from Huawei’s own pages, so every lab figure is Huawei’s. GSMArena’s write-up repeats the battery and brightness numbers: the Pro Max has “a claimed peak brightness of 8,000 nits” and “packs a larger 8,800mAh battery while offering the same 40W wired fast charging.”