Huawei News and Analyses

[xunzi]

To last long, it is all about creating an ecosystem of products and services. Huawei got it right when it vendor into the chip making. I also like Huawei logo. Simple, beautiful, and easy to memorize.

 

[TaiShang]

A friend of mine bought this yesterday at Myphone store in Taipei.

KIRIN 955, 2.5GHz (A72) x 4

Compatible with Beidou, GPS, AGPS, and Glonass.

Solid, elegant built.

 

[cirr]

Huawei's revenues are skewed to the 2nd half, so...looking good.

 

[xunzi]

A friend of mine bought this yesterday at Myphone store in Taipei.

KIRIN 955, 2.5GHz (A72) x 4

Compatible with Beidou, GPS, AGPS, and Glonass.

Solid, elegant built.

I really hope Huawei put the flower logo on the back or front, replacing the word "huawei". Better yet, make it bright led red when turn on. It adds to the aesthetics and make the phone look super premium and unique among the android crowd. When you have such a beautiful logo, you have to market it and take full advantage of it to imprint on your products.

 

[cirr]

Slowdown? What slowdown?

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei's H1 smartphone shipments rise 25 pct on-year

Saheli Roy Choudhury | @sahelirc

7 Hours AgoCNBC.com

Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images

Chinese tech giant Huawei said smartphone shipments rose 25 percent on-year in the first half of the year, as consumers snapped up high-end phones in Europe and Central Asia.

Huawei Consumer Business Group said smartphone shipments were at 60.56 million in the January-June period, a 25 percent on-year increase.

In comparison, research firm International Data Corporation said in a report in June that smartphone shipments worldwide are expected to grow a mere 3.1 percent in 2016, compared to the 10.5 percent growth registered in the previous year.

Sales revenue for Huawei Consumer Business Group for the January-June period came in at 77.4 billion yuan ($11.59 billion). Huawei Consumer Business Group's full-year sales revenue guidance is $28 billion.

"We are quite confident we will achieve that," Roland Sladek, vice president for international media affairs at Huawei, told CNBC by phone.

Huawei's overall sales revenue for H1 2016, announced Monday, which includes its enterprise and carrier businesses, was 245.5 billion yuan, a 40 percent on-year increase. The company's operating margin was 12 percent.

The new flagship P9 and P9 Plus smartphones, which are one of Huawei's latest high-end premium phones, sold 4.5 million units in the first half of the year.

Sales of the P9 and P9 Plus outside China increased by 120 percent, when compared with sales of the previous P8 model for the first half of 2015.

Producing increasingly sophisticated smartphones is part of Huawei's strategy to become a high-end smartphone player, which would put the company in a better position to compete with the likes of Samsung and Apple in advanced markets such as the U.S.

"Huawei wants to be seen as a premium smartphone maker, not a mass market player," said Sladek.

While Huawei does not break down its sales revenue by geography, the company said growth in markets outside China was 1.6 times faster than that in the mainland.

Sladek said the Shenzhen-based company made strides in increasing brand awareness and market share in Europe and the Middle East.

Citing a study from market research firm GFK, Huawei stated its smartphone market share in countries such as Spain, Italy, Poland, Finland and the Czech Republic exceeded 20 percent.

To aid brand awareness and gain market share, Huawei launched the P9 in London in April.

"The brand awareness and market share progressions are more spectacular in Europe and in the Middle East because we started from a low brand perception. We are making strong inroads," Sladek said.

Other geographies remain important to Huawei. In Asia, China is Huawei's home base while it already established presence in markets such as Singapore, Myanmar and Malaysia.

Stateside, Huawei had been attempting to make in-roads by rolling out products, including the hybrid laptop MateBook and the Google Nexus 6P.

Huawei's ambition to conquer the U.S. market took a dent in June due to legal probes from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

But Huawei's consumer business group chief executive, Richard Yu, told CNBC it would not stop the Chinese tech giant from investing in the country because "U.S. consumers...need better products and innovations."

Yu had said in June the company's aim was to hold 25 percent of the global smartphone market within the next five years.

"There's still a long way to go to be a significant player in the U.S. The products are already there, so now we have to increase brand awareness." Sladek said.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/26/chin...smartphone-shipments-rise-25-pct-on-year.html

 

[Mangus Ortus Novem]

Huawei. DJI and BYD should cooperate!
@cnleio

Adrew Jin, for this strategic advice you deserve to have life time supply of 5k Drones!

I approve this!!!

 

[TaiShang]

Adrew Jin, for this strategic advice you deserve to have life time supply of 5k Drones!

I approve this!!!

@AndrewJin has an eye on @GS Zhou 's DJI.

 

[Max Pain]

A friend of mine bought this yesterday at Myphone store in Taipei.

KIRIN 955, 2.5GHz (A72) x 4

Compatible with Beidou, GPS, AGPS, and Glonass.

Solid, elegant built.

Ive also been a user of Huawei Phones for quite a while but now recently ive been using LG G3 with Snapdragon 801,

one Issue that I came across is the fact that I dont get to read much information on how HiSilicon Kirin processors (that are totally made in China) perform as compared to Snapdragon series and the benchmark information.

I believe more Chinese companies like ZTE Xiaomi should also start using Kirin Processors, that will give it a huge boost,
Nowadays its Only Huawei I think that uses this series.

 

[TaiShang]

Ive also been a user of Huawei Phones for quite a while but now recently ive been using LG G3 with Snapdragon 801,

one Issue that I came across is the fact that I dont get to read much information on how HiSilicon Kirin processors (that are totally made in China) perform as compared to Snapdragon series and the benchmark information.

I believe more Chinese companies like ZTE Xiaomi should also start using Kirin Processors, that will give it a huge boost,
Nowadays its Only Huawei I think that uses this series.

There is fierce competition among domestic makers. Hence, without government's involvement, Huawei's competitors would hardly use its own processors.

I had read a while ago that the government might push Xiaomi and the likes to use domestic processors, but I am not sure any concrete step has been taken on this or not.

Huawei P9, which I have seen and tested my self, is pretty sturdy and perform well. It comes with KIRIN processor.

 

[Max Pain]

There is fierce competition among domestic makers. Hence, without government's involvement, Huawei's competitors would hardly use its own processors.

I had read a while ago that the government might push Xiaomi and the likes to use domestic processors, but I am not sure any concrete step has been taken on this or not.

Huawei P9, which I have seen and tested my self, is pretty sturdy and perform well. It comes with KIRIN processor.

my Last phone was Honor 3c, Huawei has come a long way since then, they're innovating on yoy basis.

I agree the competition is tough and the Government has to step in because almost all the Smartphone makers depend in Qualcomm for the Snapdragon series for their Flagship devices with exception of Apple ofcourse,
but judging by the amount of investment in R&D and innovation in domestic Chinese Industry id expect the Chinese processors to surpass the likes of Qualcomm,
this will only accelerate when other Chinese companies either invest in HiSilicon or use them in their devices since There has been huge surge in shipments of Smartphones from CHina to the rest of the World.

 

[xunzi]

my Last phone was Honor 3c, Huawei has come a long way since then, they're innovating on yoy basis.

I agree the competition is tough and the Government has to step in because almost all the Smartphone makers depend in Qualcomm for the Snapdragon series for their Flagship devices with exception of Apple ofcourse,
but judging by the amount of investment in R&D and innovation in domestic Chinese Industry id expect the Chinese processors to surpass the likes of Qualcomm,
this will only accelerate when other Chinese companies either invest in HiSilicon or use them in their devices since There has been huge surge in shipments of Smartphones from CHina to the rest of the World.

I work with Qualcomm before. Let me tell you. Qualcomm is not in good shape right now.

 

[Max Pain]

I work with Qualcomm before. Let me tell you. Qualcomm is not in good shape right now.

I believe you but still almost all High end devices are still ordering Snapdragon Processors.
Id like to see the Chinese ones surpass them.
that will sure shake a lot of heads

 

[艹艹艹]

Huawei Honor 8

Xiaomi Air Notebook

 

[Providence]

Since copying the design and offering it at dirt cheap prices is not working, let's copy the brand name itself

 

[GS Zhou]

@AndrewJin has an eye on @GS Zhou 's DJI.

I just ordered a pocket-size drone, dobby drone, made by the Chinese company Zerotech (零度智控). I'll update you guys once I get it and test it!

Introduction video to the Dobby drone