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Huawei on January 29 disclosed a patent for a "watch" design similar to the Huawei TalkBand B6, according to data provider Qichacha.

The rendering in the patent shows that the watch body is curved and the dial uses a curved flexible screen.

The bottom of the watch has a sensor assembly with a small bump, but no charging electrode.

The front of the watch is narrow, with a button on the right side and two symmetrical buttons on the bottom, left and right.

The design is similar to that of the Huawei B6, with a narrower screen than the Huawei WATCH FIT.

The Huawei B6 has a detachable design that turns it into a Bluetooth earphone when you take it off,
and the symmetrical mechanical button below the shell can be used to remove the band itself.

There is no charging electrode on the bottom of the Huawei B6 as it uses the built-in Type-C connector for charging.

The patent, filed on May 22, describes "this product is primarily used for timing, pedometry, measurement of physical data, and communication."

Huawei says the TalkBand B6 can measure heart rate, blood oxygen, sleep status, and has heart health management to detect arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, and premature beat screening.

The Huawei TalkBand B6 was released on July 30, 2020, and priced at RMB 949 ($147).


Huawei discloses new smartwatch design patent, similar to its TalkBand B6-cnTechPost
 


Huawei disclosed on February 5 a patent for the invention of "silicon-carbon composite material, its preparation method and lithium-ion battery," which it says can extend the service life of the battery.

The patent, filed on July 31, 2019, relates to a silicon-carbon composite material, including a core and a carbon layer encapsulated on the surface of the core.

Among them, the core includes a graphite skeleton, amorphous carbon-filled in the graphite skeleton structure, and silicon material uniformly distributed in the amorphous carbon.

The silicon-carbon composite has only a pore structure with a pore size less than or equal to 50 nm inside, and there is no pore structure with a pore size greater than 50 nm.

The small pore size inside the silicon-carbon composite can effectively reduce the contact area between the silicon material and the electrolyte, reduce the occurrence of side reactions, and prolong the service life of the battery.

The silicon material is uniformly dispersed around the graphite skeleton without agglomeration, which enables the graphite skeleton to effectively mitigate the volume expansion and contraction of the silicon material and improve the structural stability and energy density of the composite material.


Embodiments of the invention also provide the preparation method of the silicon-carbon composite material and the lithium-ion battery comprising the silicon-carbon composite material.



Huawei's new patent extends life of lithium batteries-cnTechPost


Huawei's new patent extends life of lithium batteries-cnTechPost
 


Huawei on Friday pledged to partner with the Kenyan government in order to build advanced infrastructure that will bridge the digital divide in the country.

Will Meng, CEO of Huawei Kenya said in a commentary published in the Standard newspaper that the construction of digital infrastructure is a top priority when developing the digital economy and ecosystem.

"We will continue to work with governments and telecommunication companies to build more advanced infrastructure to bridge the digital divide," Meng said.

"Huawei will also work with the ministry of information, communication and technology (ICT) on the construction of the Konza Technopolis data center that aims at further digitizing Kenya's government operations," he noted.

Meng added the company also plans to collaborate with the ministry of tourism and mobile telecom firm, Safaricom on a digital tourism project to attract more international visitors, thus accelerating the recovery of the sector.

He observed that Huawei has been operating in Kenya for over two decades.

"During this period, the company has worked with telecommunication companies, and helped with the growth in mobile network coverage," he added.

The Chinese technology firm said that it has also worked with the ministry of ICT to build the national optical fiber backbone infrastructure that provides links to local government offices across the 47 counties countrywide.

Meng revealed that with regards to cybersecurity, Huawei has always held both cybersecurity and privacy protection to be of paramount importance by maintaining a comprehensive end-to-end cybersecurity assurance system.

"For decades, we have maintained a solid track record in security in Kenya and across the globe," he added.

He noted that Kenya is on the road to digital transformation as the country's third medium-term plan for the national development blueprint has regarded the ICT as a fast-growing industry.

"We are pleased with Kenya because under the president's leadership the country has established a working group on the digital economy and has already actualized several achievements,"he added.
 
Chinese telecom carriers are likely to build over 1 million new 5G base stations in 2021, as the cost of 5G base stations is expected to go down next year, according to Chinese press reports that cited a Chinese telecom expert.

According to estimates from Wu Hequan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the total number of 5G base stations in China could reach more than 1.7 million by the end of next year.


A: China plans to achieve full urban/rural coverage of the 5G network by 2025. It will build the world’s largest 5G SA network with the widest coverage and 3.7 million 5G base stations.

The year 2021 marks the first year of “Five-year Plan”. Operators are expected to deploy nearly 1 million base stations in China in 2021, to continue to expand 5G SA coverage. China is in a leading position in the global 5G SA field. Its successful practice will provide valuable reference for the development of global 5G SA.

 
Chinese telecom carriers are likely to build over 1 million new 5G base stations in 2021, as the cost of 5G base stations is expected to go down next year, according to Chinese press reports that cited a Chinese telecom expert.

According to estimates from Wu Hequan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the total number of 5G base stations in China could reach more than 1.7 million by the end of next year.


A: China plans to achieve full urban/rural coverage of the 5G network by 2025. It will build the world’s largest 5G SA network with the widest coverage and 3.7 million 5G base stations.

The year 2021 marks the first year of “Five-year Plan”. Operators are expected to deploy nearly 1 million base stations in China in 2021, to continue to expand 5G SA coverage. China is in a leading position in the global 5G SA field. Its successful practice will provide valuable reference for the development of global 5G SA.


Enough market for Huawei to ward off US state attacks.
 

Huawei's total revenue in 2020 was $136.7 billion, up 11.2 percent, Yicai.com reported, adding that the Chinese technology giant's profit rose 10.4 percent to $9.9 billion last year.

"Huawei's global financial settlement system is real-time, and the above figures have not been approved by an accounting firm," the report said, citing people close to Huawei.

Huawei has two annual disclosure points for its financial data, one is an unapproved internal real-time tally at the beginning of January, which facilitates statistics on the performance of each division. The other is approved and then disclosed as required for listed companies, even though it is unlisted, according to the report.

In addition, Huawei last week set a stock dividend for 2020 of RMB 1.86 ($0.29) per share, compared with RMB 2.11 for 2019, according to Jiemian.com.

Huawei has an all-employee stock ownership system, with participants being company employees only. With 194,000 employees, Huawei's pay per employee is close to RMB 700,000.

And the total number of Huawei shares is now over 20 billion, which means that the amount of Huawei's dividend exceeds RMB 40 billion.


Huawei has deployed 5G demonstration applications in more than 20 industries and signed more than 1,000 5G industry application contracts, Huawei Managing Director and President of Branding BG said at MWCS 2021 on February 8, adding that 5G to B will enter the first year of commercial scale in 2021.

In the next phase, Huawei will make full use of its capabilities in ICT technologies such as AI, cloud, 5G, and computing to provide scenario-based solutions and develop industry applications in conjunction with partners.

Branding BG, Huawei's key business, achieved sales revenue of RMB 296.7 billion in 2019, and the business is seen as one of the drivers of Huawei's performance as the commercial value of 5G is fully rolled out.


Huawei's revenue grows 11.2% to $136.7 billion in 2020, report says-cnTechPost
 

Chinese telecoms company Huawei is taking HSBC bank to court in the UK as it tries to prevent the extradition of its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the U.S., UK media reported.

The telecoms giant is seeking an application to access records from inside HSBC in a bid to prove that Meng did not mislead the bank as claimed by the U.S.
 

Chinese technology giant Huawei disclosed a patent for "a powertrain and electric vehicle" on February 12, according to data provider Qichacha.

The patent enables the use of the heat exchanger's external cooling surface to improve the efficiency of the heat exchanger and save space by improving the heat dissipation of the motor controller while making it more compact.

Huawei discloses new EV-related patent-CnEVPost


Huawei's cell phone business suffered a setback in 2020 and subsequently set its sights more on the automotive sector. But Huawei's rotating chairman, Xu Zhijun, said in April 2019 that the company does not build cars, but will help car companies build better cars.

In November 2020, Huawei merged its enterprise-oriented automotive business with its consumer-oriented businesses such as cell phones, a document back then showed.

Instead of building whole cars, Huawei will help car companies build cars through Information and Communications Technology and become a provider of incremental components for smart connected cars, the document said.

In April last year, Huawei entered the in-car system space with the release of its HiCar system.


The system allows users to map cell phone content directly onto the car's screen, using cell phone computing power to provide users with an excellent in-car connected experience when the car's computing power has not yet reached a perfect level.

In addition, the system is also able to achieve navigation, in-car voice control, car phone key, and many other functions.

At the end of last year, Richard Yu, then president of Huawei's consumer business, said that Huawei has reached cooperation with more than 20 manufacturers on the HiCar system.

Huawei also released an in-car smart screen at the end of last year priced at RMB 1,699 ($263), allowing car owners with older models to enjoy the convenience of intelligence.
 


Chinese tech giant Huawei said its 2020 operations are solid and largely meet expectations.

Huawei's rotating chairman Hu Houkun said at the MWC conference in Shanghai today that Huawei's revenue and profit grew slightly in 2020. The official 2020 financial report will be released on March 31, he added.

Huawei currently has more than 300 communication networks operating stably in 170 countries, Hu said.

Hu also showed several of Huawei's innovative technologies. For example, Huawei Cyberverse, which allows virtual and real worlds to merge. In the demonstration, animals such as elephants and giraffes appeared on the scene.

Huawei Cyberverse requires centimeter-level high-precision positioning, hundreds of millions of high-density acquisitions, and large 100Mbps broadband transmission, Hu said.


"This will be a new entry point into the Internet, with some great potential for content and application development, and business model innovation," Hu said, adding that the technology can be applied to virtual education, intelligent cultural tourism, intelligent navigation, and other scenarios.

In addition, Huawei's factory in Dongguan has automated production with the support of 5G, reducing the number of workers by 80 percent while increasing efficiency by 300 percent; intelligent quality inspection has shortened inspection from two minutes to six seconds, while significantly increasing the yield rate.
 
Chinese tech giant Huawei says its mobile system EMUI 11 has more than 100 million users, adding that the next system update will be for HarmonyOS.

EMUI 11 was released at the 2020 Huawei Developer Conference on September 10, 2020. In addition to improved system fluidity, EMUI 11 also adds new features such as multi-window, multi-screen collaboration, and restrictions on ads.

At that conference, Huawei announced that Huawei smartphones will be fully upgraded to HarmonyOS 2.0 in 2021, and users who upgrade EMUI 11 will be given priority to upgrade HarmonyOS 2.0.

This year, Huawei has started to develop HarmonyOS in full efforts, and has stopped upgrading EMUI major versions, so EMUI 11 will be the last major version, according to Weibo digital blogger "@长安数码君".

HarmonyOS is Huawei's distributed operating system for all scenarios, available for cell phones, watches, large screens, and other devices, launched at the Huawei Developer Conference in 2019, first landing on Huawei's smart screen products.


Huawei says EMUI 11’s user base exceeds 100 million-CnTechPost



 
It's been three years since the beginning of the trade war. Trump has already departed the White House. Is Huawei in trouble yet?

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Huawei has increased its market share in the global telecom network business in 2020 to 31 percent from 28 percent in 2019.

ZTE has increased its share in the global telecom network market to 10 percent in 2020 from 9 percent in 2019.

 
It's been three years since the beginning of the trade war. Trump has already departed the White House. Is Huawei in trouble yet?

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Huawei has increased its market share in the global telecom network business in 2020 to 31 percent from 28 percent in 2019.

ZTE has increased its share in the global telecom network market to 10 percent in 2020 from 9 percent in 2019.




I think the regime is happy because they managed to force Huawei to spin off its mid-segment Honor.

Big enough a victory, no?

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Chinese tech giant Huawei unveiled its HUAWEI Women Developers (HWD) program on International Women's Day, dedicated to helping female developers create applications and tools that can "change the world".

Huawei is also providing opportunities and platforms for female developers, including opportunities for career development and expertise, to inspire more women to join the field of technology innovation.

The program is open for applications from female developers around the world through the Huawei Developer Alliance website.

"We believe that women will lead technological innovation. We hope that the HUAWEI Women Developers program will help women better leverage their talents and unique value, and give them opportunities to demonstrate their leadership abilities. This will help make our world a better place," said Chen Lifang, senior vice president of Huawei.

The Women Developer Program will offer courses related to technology innovation and career development for female developers around the world, inviting experts in various fields to share cutting-edge technologies and tools, and providing hands-on experimentation and practice opportunities based on scenarios.


Huawei will also create an exclusive community for women developers on the Developer Alliance platform and organize a series of online and offline events.

Another Huawei program called the Shining-Star will also set up an exclusive incentive for female developers to support and encourage them to innovate and start their own businesses.

In addition, female developers of potential and high-quality applications will have the opportunity to participate in promoting f the program, as well as the invitations to official Huawei events.

Currently, Huawei has launched female digital technology empowerment programs in a number of countries, including Ireland, Argentina, Bangladesh, Kenya, and South Africa. The percentage of female participants in Huawei's ICT training programs, such as "Seeds of the Future", exceeds 30%.
 

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