Huawei is starting its fully Android-free era with the Pura X, a new foldable phone that runs the company's HarmonyOS 5 software and does not include the option for people to use Google's OS.The Pura X is also unique in a few other ways.

The Pura X is also the first phone to run the new Harmony Intelligence AI assistant.

Huawei released an AI phone that has emotions trained on Huawei's in-house Pangu large language model and also enhanced by DeepSeek.