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Huawei Passes Apple as Chinese Consumers’ First Choice for Smartphones, Report Says

By Yang Ge

Some 31.4% of respondents to a poll last month in China said they intended to buy a Huawei model for their next smartphone, compared with 24.2% who said they wanted an iPhone. Photo: IC

Surging smartphone maker Huawei Technologies has for the first time surpassed Apple Inc. as the brand of choice for Chinese smartphone buyers, in the latest sign the U.S. giant is losing its luster in the world’s largest market, according to a new survey.

Some 31.4% of respondents to a September poll by FT Confidential Research, a unit of the Financial Times, said they intended to buy a Huawei model for their next smartphone. By comparison, only 24.2% of the 1,000 consumers surveyed said they would buy an iPhone for their next smartphone, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

The timing is significant because Apple unveiled its latest models, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X, in September and generally gets a boost from excitement around its new launches. The iPhone 8 went on sale in late September, but has failed to attract the usual buzz of previous launches.

The iPhone's 24.2% September showing in terms of consumer preference is down from 25.8% at the time of the iPhone 7 launch last year, the Financial Times said. Among people who said they planned to buy an iPhone in the latest survey, 65.1% said they wanted one of the latest three models. That was down sharply from the 75.7% who said they planned to buy the latest models from the iPhone 7 series around the time of the last product launches.

The survey results mirror a larger trend that has seen Apple steadily lose share in the world's largest smartphone market, as it comes under assault from Huawei and a group of other homegrown brands including Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi.

In this year’s second quarter, Apple’s China sales fell 7.6%, as its share of the market dipped 0.6 percentage points to 7.1%, making it the No. 5 player, according to data tracking firm IDC. At the same time, Huawei’s sales surged 22.6% to make it the clear market leader with 21% share, as Chinese consumers increasingly see the brand as offering similar quality to Apple at far lower prices.

I must say, I have always been HUGELY impressed with Huawei!

It is just a company at a different level!

It's R&D expenditure in 2016 was 12 billion dollars!

And it is still growing at an incredibly fast pace!

 

[TaiShang]

Urban management app nearly ready to go

By Zhuang Qiange | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-09-29

Chinese city residents are welcoming a new urban management system to redefine their identity as the owners of the city.

The system, with a design based on the internet of things, mass data and most importantly the involvement of citizens, was wheeled out by an R&D center co-established by the China Center for Urban Development, Huawei Technologies Co and iSoftStone Information Technology (Group) Co at an achievements exhibition for the last five years.

Aimed at handling problems in the blind corners of the city, the system, which will serve as a bridge between urban citizens and municipal management units, can help the government make swift and effective plans by better utilizing the monitoring system and the internet of things.

With the app already available on the mobile app stores, urban residents living in the covered cities can upload photos of the management flaws, such as illegal parking and emergencies, through the app. The system will then give the best order by analyzing factors like location and traffic conditions to related government units.

"The plan varies from city to city but the core of all plans is the same, which is the involvement of the citizens," said Li Tie, head of the China Center for Urban Development at the National Development and Reform Commission. "We drew the plans in accordance with the present infrastructure conditions of the cities in China, and some cities are ready to apply the system in the coming years."

According to the center, the system is now at the end of its test stage and ready to be put into practice.

Opening in Beijing on Monday, the achievements exhibition of the last five years presents many of the successes achieved in various fields in the last half-decade to welcome the opening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-09/29/content_32646177.htm

 

[TaiShang]

Launching ceremony of Huawei MateBook held in Bangladesh
Xinhua, October 6, 2017

China's telecommunication giant Huawei has introduced here its first Windows laptop, the Huawei MateBook, which is designed to meet mainly the evolving demands of business users.

Models present Huawei MateBooks at a launching ceremony in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Oct. 5, 2017. (Xinhua/Salim Reza)

"With a focus on the needs of the every-growing number of tech-savvy professionals around the world, and especially in booming economies such as Bangladesh, Huawei has always strived to bring innovative technologies within the reach of people," said Zhao Haofu, CEO of Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Ltd. at the launching ceremony in Dhaka on Thursday night.

Made of high-quality aluminum unibody and weighs 640g, the MateBook series run on Windows 10 and are powered by 7th Generation Intel Core processors.

The devices offer up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM and up to 256GB solid-state drive with option to choose up to 1TB hard disk drive.

Additionally, the MateBook features a Wi-Fi mobile hotspot for users to stay connected when a traditional Internet connection is not available.

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei wins a victory in Samsung patent dispute

By Ma Si | China Daily | Updated: 2017-10-12

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has scored a point in its patent dispute in China with its rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which may weigh down on the South Korean company's business in the world's largest smartphone market, experts said.

The Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office said on its official website that some of the patents involved in Samsung's lawsuit against Huawei are invalid.

Among the eight patents, five are not valid, one is partially valid and only two are valid, the office said on Sept 30.

The decision came amid mounting competition between two of the world's largest smartphone vendors. Huawei and Samsung are involved in a slate of patent disputes in China, accusing each other of violating patents related to mobile technology and design.

Of the 16 patents Samsung accused Huawei of infringing in 2016, 10 were announced to be invalid, accounting for 62.5 percent. There is still one patent awaiting a review decision from the authority, according to data compiled by Securities Daily.

Huawei and Samsung declined to comment on the story.

Li Junhui, an intellectual property expert at China University of Political Science and Law, said Samsung cannot sue Huawei with invalid patents. Part of its lawsuits will likely be revoked.

"This is a blow for Samsung's plan to defend itself in the intellectual property battlefield," Li said.

According to Li, the five invalid patents involve technology related to smartphone cameras, screens and basic telecommunication services.

The review decision also came after a Chinese court ruled in April that Samsung's Chinese subsidiaries must pay 80 million yuan ($11.6 million) to Huawei for patent infringement.

In June 2016, Huawei filed a lawsuit against Samsung's units in China, claiming that more than 20 models of the latter's smartphones and tablet products, including the flagship Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge, had infringed its patents.

One month later, Samsung sued Huawei and other companies in Beijing on accusations of patent violation, demanding 161 million yuan in compensation.

Xiang Ligang, a smartphone expert and CEO of telecom industry website Cctime, said the chances are low for Samsung to win a legal battle in China.

"Samsung is losing ground in the local smartphone market. Patent defeats will have a further negative impact on its brand image," Xiang said.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/tech/2017-10/12/content_33146345.htm

 

[TaiShang]

Nov 06, 2017 05:53 PM

Huawei Holds On to China Smartphone Crown
By Yang Ge

While Huawei and Oppo topped the China smartphone sales list, it was Xiaomi who posted the biggest gains in the third quarter, expanding its sales by 56.6% as its fledgling comeback gains momentum. Photo: Visual China

Oppo gained ground on Huawei in the Chinese smartphone market during the third quarter, as the former tried to regain the title of top dog in the world’s largest market, according to new data released on Monday.

At the same time, U.S. giant Apple Inc. recaptured some ground, ending nearly two years of decline in a market that accounts for about a fifth of its global sales. And Xiaomi Inc. continued its own climb back up through the ranks of China’s top smartphone brands, posting the strongest gains of any major player in its fledgling turnaround story.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2017-11-06/101166554.html

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei, NTT Docomo achieve breakthrough in 5G field trial
chinadaily.com.cn, December 20, 2017

Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications giant, and NTT Docomo Inc, Japan's largest telecommunications company, have successfully completed a joint field trial for 5G mobile communications over a long distance with 39 GHz Millimeter Wave (mmWave) band in Yokohama, one of the largest commercial areas in Japan.

People pass by the Huawei stand during the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 15, 2016. [File photo/Xinhua]
In the trial, the downlink data transmissions were recorded at a maximum speed of over 2 Gbps on a testing vehicle equipped with a user equipment (UE), equivalent to a mobile phone, while driving at over 20 kilometers per hour.

This successful trial opens up a new door for applications and deployments of 5G mmWave.

Long-distance mobility transmission over 5GmmWave is one of the enabling technologies to realize 5G enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and ubiquitous connectivity of massive data rate while fully leveraging the current macro-cellular sites investment by operators.

Takehiro Nakamura, the vice-president and managing director of 5G Laboratory at NTT DOCOMO said, long-distance transmission over 39GHzmmWave will enable 5G network deployments on a large scale.

"It opens up the new stage of the 39GHz mmWave technology and will deliver the ultra-fast experience with 5G high data speed," he said.

Wen Tong, Huawei fellow and CTO of Huawei Wireless Networks, said it's a technological challenge and opportunity to use the long-distance transmission of 5G mmWave Mobile Communications technology.

The wireless industry, he said will start using the new spectrum 100 times broader than current network to foster next wave of innovations.

"The 5G mmWave technology will help our customers to reuse the existing network infrastructure, especially for sites resource, to protect their investment. Huawei will continue to innovate to make 5G mmWave a success," Wen said.

Achieving wide area coverage and mobility performance on 5G mmWave is still a technological challenge for 5G industry. High propagation loss of mmWave signals limits its coverage, while narrow directional beam required to focus the transmission power makes the mmWave beam to track the mobile device, becoming more difficult.

The joint field trial conduced in November 2017 successfully demonstrated that 39GHz mmWave can be used for the long-distance transmission in both stationary and mobility scenarios even in urban complex deployment environments.

The partners recorded over 3 Gbps downlink throughput on the stationary user equipment (UE) at a distance of 1.5 km and over 2 Gbps at a distance of 1.8 km on 39GHz mmWave.

The trial has validated and proved the effectiveness of two companies' mmWave technologies to provide range of 5G services which require wide area coverage.

The test system was made up of one base station on Yokohama Media Tower that works on the 39GHz band and an UE on a testing vehicle.

This trial boasted the innovative materials based compact focal lens antenna with advanced beam forming (maximum gain of 31 dBi) technique to concentrate the radio waves in a certain direction to enable long-distance transmission.

The advanced beam tracking technique is employed to trackUE on a testing vehicle travelling at speeds of over 20 km per hour. This is the industry-first filed trial to verify the long-distance mmWave transmission for mobility application in macro-cell coverage scenarios.

The invented mmWave beam processing algorithms are used to allow the best beam selection, fast beam tracking, and fast beam switching for the best performance for mobile terminal. Moving at about 25 km per hour, the terminal user experienced the high-speed transmission and stable throughput.

Huawei and Docomo jointly worked on the 5G innovation and successfully conducted a series of large-scale field trials since December 2014. Currently, the developments of 5G have entered a new era, with the first version of 3GPP 5G standard of Release-15 expected to be completed in 2018. The industry is thus entering the 5G pre-commercial stage.

"Huawei will continue to work on research and development of mobile communications technologies in cooperation with partners around the world to offer new services that utilize 5G in diverse scenarios for 2020 and beyond," Wen said.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2017-12/20/content_50113619.htm

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei chief: Scuppered AT&T deal US consumers’ loss

By Fan Yixin

2018-01-10 20:47

Chinese phone maker Huawei was expected to announce a partnership with AT&T to bring its flagship phone Mate 10 Pro into the US market, but the US telecom carrier dropped the deal at the last minute on Monday.

During the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon, Huawei’s Richard Yu said the decision will not only hurt Huawei and carriers, but more importantly US customers.

“It’s a big loss for consumers, because they don’t have the best choice for devices,” Yu said.

The deal was scrapped over political pressure, reported tech news site The Information. On December 20, members of the US Senate and House intelligence committees sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission citing security concerns.

In 2012, the US House Intelligence Committee discouraged US companies from buying products from Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE, and the worries have followed Huawei for many years. Yu told South China Morning Post after AT&T blew the deal “We have been harmed again.”

Huawei is the world’s No.3 phone seller by volume after Samsung and Apple, but has a mere 0.5-percent share in the US cellphone market, compared with 39 percent for Apple and 18 percent for Samsung, according to industry tracker Canalys.

Reactions on social media to the killing of the deal vary from those expressing low trust in Chinese brands to others backing Huawei products’ quality and functionality.

Huawei Mate 10 Pro /Huawei Photo

The Mate 10 Pro is known as Huawei’s challenge to the iPhone, featuring glossy glass construction and a 6-inch 18:9 edge-to-edge bezel-less OLED screen. Running on Android Oreo, the phone is powered by an AI-infused Kirin 970 processor developed by the company with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.

Customers in the US can still buy the unlocked version, priced at 799 US dollars, online this spring through Amazon, Best Buy, and other retailers.

A “Diamond Black” Porsche Design version of the Mate 10, priced at 1,225 US dollars, will also be available in the US.

Both phones are equipped with Leica-branded 12-megapixel dual camera setup, and will start shipping on February 18.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/794d444f77677a6333566d54/share_p.html

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei Defeats Samsung in Patent Battle in China

Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court ruled Thursday that Samsung should immediately stop manufacturing, selling and licensing certain telecom products that have infringed upon one of Huawei’s patents for wireless communication.

In 2016, Huawei sued Samsung in both Shenzhen and California for infringing on several patents. The Shenzhen court decided that Samsung had violated one of those patents and dismissed appeals regarding the others. The California case has yet to be decided.

Huawei extended its legal action later in Beijing and Quanzhou, eastern Fujian province. The Quanzhou Intermediate People’s Court ruled in favor of Huawei in 2017 and found Samsung liable for more than 80 million yuan ($12.27 million) in damages.

Samsung can countersue Huawei if it isn’t satisfied with the court rulings.

https://k.caixinglobal.com/#anchor1515647880000

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei set to help build e-government for Algeria
Xinhua, February 28, 2018

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is set to help Algeria build e-government by digitizing a large volume of official documents of various ministries, a senior manager from Huawei told Xinhua in a recent interview.

"Algeria has launched a performance improvement program of its administration, and Huawei hopes to participate in this project with local partners," said Gao Jie, the general manager of Huawei Telecoms Algeria.

The use of information and communications technology by government, commonly known as e-government, aims at making public services more accessible to customers and improving their internal operations.

Many Algerian ministries, such as the defense ministry, the interior ministry and foreign ministry, are working to these ends and some of them have made remarkable advances.

For Huawei Algeria, it is also interested in the ambitious projects of e-commerce and e-banking in the North African country.

"Such projects require the existence of a very high-speed internet hitting 20 megabits per second instead of the current 1 or 2 megabits that most Internet users in Algeria have," Gao noted.

"Once all platforms required for online commerce are deployed, Algerians will be able to do business transactions with a single click on their personal computers or smartphones," he added.

According to Gao, only some large state-run companies, such as Air Algeria, Algeria Telecom and Sonelgaz, are offering this service to their customers.

Another project on which Huawei Algeria is working is deployment of infrastructure networks in the country, he said.

Huawei Algeria, which employs 100 Chinese and 400 Algerians, entered the country in 2008, and has since been in close cooperation with local phone operators.

In addition to solutions and services, Huawei Algeria also provides high-level training programs to Algerian engineers and university teachers.

HuaWei trained more than 2,000 young Algerians in 2017 alone, Gao said, adding that his company also selects 10 local engineers every year for further training in China.

Citing multiple projects underway or under consideration, Gao revealed that Huawei is now studying the possibility of establishing a smartphone assembly plant in the North African country.

 

[TaiShang]

Chinese smart phone brands gain huge popularity worldwide
China Plus, May 1, 2018

Models present Huawei smartphones at an event in Malaysia, Dec 12, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]

Chinese smart phone brands like Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and Vivo have started to make it on to top sales list around the world, particularly in European and Asian countries, reports the People's Daily.

Huawei has released its latest P20 model in the French capital, Paris, to a group of 1,300 media outlets from all around the world.

The People's Daily is reporting that that among the top 11 most popular smart phones in Spain, 6 of them are Huawei models, while 2 are Xiaomi. Huawei made it to the 2nd spot on the sales list in Russia in February 2018.

In the Asian market, Chinese smart phone brands are also said to be taking on a more dominant role.

Statistics show Chinese cellphone brands take about 50 percent of market share in India during the fourth quarter of 2017, with 9 of top ten most-sold cellphones from China.

The report also shows Chinese smart phone brand OPPO takes up around 17 percent of the market share in the whole of Southeast Asia.

OPPO is followed on that list by another Chinese brand, Vivo.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2018-05/01/content_51056663.htm

 

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HUAWEI’S REVOLUTIONARY TECH TO ARRIVE IN JUNE WITH AN HONOR PHONE

By Efe Udin -

May 23, 2018

Recently, we reported that Huawei is working on a new revolutionary tech which could change the course of the smartphone industry. Now, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business, announced today that the Honor new smartphone scheduled to drop in June will formally use this technology which he best described as “very scary technology”. Earlier this year, we saw Huawei P20 Pro with triple cameras score a perfect 100% mark on DxOmark, will this new tech be perfect?

With regard to technical details, Mr. Yu revealed that it is a major breakthrough in Huawei’s 2018 technology that is epoch-making. Specifically, it will significantly improve the product’s performance experience through the underlying technology. According to him, the difference between other smartphones and a phone with this tech will be like “running on the ground” and “flying in the sky”. This suggests that some sort of huge progress has been made by Huawei in this revolutionary tech.

In terms of progress, Yu Chengdong said that the technology is matured, commercially available, and will bring revolutionary contributions to the smartphone experience. Thus, Huawei must have worked on the phone’s software and hardware which has brought about a qualitative change in operating speed.

Earlier, it was reported that the Honor phone to use this revolutionary tech is codenamed “Berkeley” and it will succeed Huawei Magic’s full AI mobile phone. Of course, users’ guesses are also quite diverse, but generally, we expect Huawei’s self-developed AI operating system, ultra-smart voice assistants, etc. Well, this tech will not be limited to Honor smartphones. A couple of devices from Huawei’s flagship line will sport this feature too. Also, some Huawei and Honor devices will be upgraded to support this feature.

https://www.gizchina.com/2018/05/23...y-tech-to-arrive-in-june-with-an-honor-phone/

 

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It is said that Huawei would preswnt a new tech in June,looking forward to see the techs!

 

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Huawei becomes the second largest smart phone company.

Apple has lost its position as the second-biggest smartphone maker in the world
Edoardo Maggio Sep 7, 2017, 11:22 AM GMT

Huawei has overthrown Apple as the world's second largest smartphone maker behind Samsung, according to new research by analysis firm Counterpoint Research.

Last month's sales aren't out yet, but June and July numbers show Huawei surpassing the Cupertino, California giant, with August reportedly "looking strong" so far.

Huawei is a company that has long been in the network infrastructure business, but only started to push deeper into the consumer market over the past few years with smartphones.

Its astonishing growth, Counterpoint Research says, is largely due to "its consistent investment in R&D and manufacturing, coupled with aggressive marketing and sales channel expansion".

Chinese brands like Huawei largely rely on direct sales, where the consumer buys a handset with an upfront payment. That's why it has conventionally struggled in the US market, where the carrier-based model dominates.

But that stands in stark contrast to its performance in Europe, Latin America, and of course its homeland of China, where most of the growth is.

How has Huawei managed to overtake established rivals like HTC, LG, and Sony in all these markets? According to Counterpoint, Huawei and other Chinese brands like Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi have consistently managed to "outsmart and outspend" the competition.

The likes of HTC entered a downward spiral they still haven't recovered from, while Chinese companies have surged, and "become as equally important as Samsung or Apple to the global supply chain, application developers and distribution channels, as they continue to grow in scale more rapidly than the incumbent market share leaders".

Huawei is facing two main issues - one is short-term, and the other is a bigger problem encompassing its strategies and business model as a whole.

The first is with regard to Apple's imminent announcement of the new iPhone lineup, which is said to include a special, tenth-anniversary edition model that could entail a big change in design and functionality.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/huawei-second-biggest-smartphone-apple-counterpoint-research-2017-9