Huawei founder urges the company to switch to software
Ren Zhengfei, the founder and CEO of Huawei, reportedly urged the Chinese telecommunications equipment giant's staff to pivot to software in a major way, to deal with the impact of sanctions placed on it by the US. Ren believes that Huawei should focus on software production since the US will not b...
Huawei turns to the Internet of Things
A shift to IoT may help the company weather the storm of sanctions and trade wars hitting its 5G business.
U.S.-China trade tensions are driving the long-suffering Huawei to seek opportunities in other smart devices.This move, however, is also fraught with peril. In short, moving to such busines...
U.S. designates five Chinese companies as security threats
In return, China says the US has "zero credibility"
The Biden Administration has labeled five Chinese tech companies, including Huawei, as national security threats, according to Reuters. The agency designated the companies as posing a threat to national security under a 2019 law. The Trump-era ...
Smartphones hit by chip shortage, Qualcomm can’t meet demand
Chip developer Qualcomm is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the demand for its smartphone chips. With this, the prevailing chip shortages have claimed a new victim.
Suppliers of Samsung tell Reuters that the smartphone manufacturer is struggling with a shortage of processors from Qualco...
Huawei unveils first desktop PC to be sold outside China
The new PC offers an optional 'smart' keyboard.
Huawei has had its mobile and 5G business hurt by US sanctions. But there is one area of its business that has remained relatively undamaged by the US: its PC division. It's not surprising, then, that the company just introduced its first desktop P...
Oppo is the fastest-growing smartphone brand in China
Oppo has risen to the top in China, it has become the best-selling smartphone brand in China for the first time. Counterpoint’s report states that the company managed to get 21% of the world’s biggest smartphone market in January, beating Vivo and Huawei, which both got 20%.
Apple and Xiaomi...
Huawei reeling after sanctions, considers making EVs
Huawei plans to make electric vehicles under the Huawei brand name and could launch some of the EVs this year. Four sources spoke to Reuters about the story and said that the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker is suffering after US sanctions and has been forced to look at some strategic piv...
Huawei’s HarmonyOS will be here by April
After a less than savory 2020, Huawei announced that it is launching HarmonyOS, its operating system, which will be available on its smartphones from April. Huawei CEO Richard Yu, announced the OS on Monday, as the company launched its second foldable device, the Huawei Mate X2.
From April, Huaw...
Huawei releases its first business monitor
Huawei has taken its first step into the monitor market. The Huawei Display 23.8 is an understated monitor with which Huawei is aiming its sights on home workers.
As the name suggests, the Display 23.8 has a diagonal of just under 24 inches, 60.45 centimetres to be precise. It is an IPS panel wi...
Apple ranked number one in smartphone sales for 2020
This marks the first time since 2016 that the iOS devices reached the number one spot in worldwide smartphone sales.
Worldwide smartphone sales declined 5% in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to the latest Gartner smartphone sales report. But thanks to a relatively strong fourth quarter sa...
Huawei asks US to remove its designation as a security threat
Chinese telecom giant may be hoping that the Biden administration will be sympathetic to its case.
Well, that didn't take long. Huawei has already asked a US court to overturn a Federal Communications Commission ruling made against it during the Trump presidency.
The ruling found that the Chi...
Huawei’s founder hopes Biden will adopt an ‘open policy’
Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei, said on Tuesday that it would be extremely difficult for the US to end sanctions that have damaged its phone business. However, he hopes that the new US administration will have an open policy.
Ren, who was making his first appearance before media since March 202...