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PANICKED Brits are selling their Huawei smartphones amid fears they'll stop working properly, a top trade-in site has warned.
MusicMagpie – which lets you swap your old phones for cash – says it's seen a huge spike in the number of people selling their Huawei smartphones today.
The news follows Huawei becoming the latest casualty in the ongoing trade war between the US and China.
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump has forced Google to "suspend" business with Huawei.
That means Huawei smartphones could miss out on software updates for Google's Android software – and even lose apps like Gmail or Google Maps.
Speaking to The Sun, a MusicMagpie spokesperson said revealed that this may be to blame for a sudden rise in Huawei trade-ins.
"With recent news that Huawei's use of Android is being restricted by Google, there has been a substantial 25% increase in the number of Huawei trade-ins at musicMagpie this morning compared with an average Monday morning at the tech site," MusicMagpie revealed.
"This shows that Huawei users are preparing for a potential device change in the event of further restrictions being put in place against the Chinese phone manufacturer."
MusicMagpie confirmed to The Sun that the number of Huawei customers trading in their devices today was in the hundreds.
It's bad news for Huawei, which is one of the top phone brands in the UK and around the world.
Globally, Huawei is the second-biggest smartphone vendor with a 19% share – behind Samsung (23.1%) but ahead of Apple (11.7%).
The firm is less dominant in the UK, holding a 12.3% share of the British market.
By contrast, Apple has a 41.1% share and Samsung has a 19.2% share, based on 2018 figures from Strategy Analytics.
It's not just Huawei being blacklisted that should worry phone owners, either.
According to MusicMagpie, the value of Huawei smartphones is very unstable – and falling fast.
"Looking at Huawei's depreciation rate, in general, Android devices depreciate faster than Apple handsets," MusicMagpie told The Sun.
"But in the space of a year, the P20 has depreciated by a huge 81%.
"Whilst the P30, which was only released last month, has depreciated by 46% already."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9115415/huawei-trade-in-price-sell-phone/
MusicMagpie – which lets you swap your old phones for cash – says it's seen a huge spike in the number of people selling their Huawei smartphones today.
The news follows Huawei becoming the latest casualty in the ongoing trade war between the US and China.
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump has forced Google to "suspend" business with Huawei.
That means Huawei smartphones could miss out on software updates for Google's Android software – and even lose apps like Gmail or Google Maps.
Speaking to The Sun, a MusicMagpie spokesperson said revealed that this may be to blame for a sudden rise in Huawei trade-ins.
"With recent news that Huawei's use of Android is being restricted by Google, there has been a substantial 25% increase in the number of Huawei trade-ins at musicMagpie this morning compared with an average Monday morning at the tech site," MusicMagpie revealed.
"This shows that Huawei users are preparing for a potential device change in the event of further restrictions being put in place against the Chinese phone manufacturer."
MusicMagpie confirmed to The Sun that the number of Huawei customers trading in their devices today was in the hundreds.
It's bad news for Huawei, which is one of the top phone brands in the UK and around the world.
Globally, Huawei is the second-biggest smartphone vendor with a 19% share – behind Samsung (23.1%) but ahead of Apple (11.7%).
The firm is less dominant in the UK, holding a 12.3% share of the British market.
By contrast, Apple has a 41.1% share and Samsung has a 19.2% share, based on 2018 figures from Strategy Analytics.
It's not just Huawei being blacklisted that should worry phone owners, either.
According to MusicMagpie, the value of Huawei smartphones is very unstable – and falling fast.
"Looking at Huawei's depreciation rate, in general, Android devices depreciate faster than Apple handsets," MusicMagpie told The Sun.
"But in the space of a year, the P20 has depreciated by a huge 81%.
"Whilst the P30, which was only released last month, has depreciated by 46% already."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9115415/huawei-trade-in-price-sell-phone/
