Huawei has been under the spotlight for the past couple of months, especially since the US government banned the company from conducting business with its companies. After the recent G20 summit, the ban was eased by the government, but Huawei still wasn’t removed completely from the Entity List. However, despite the ban, Huawei seems to have done pretty well in the first half of the year as the company’s chairman, Liang Hua revealed at a press conference today that Huawei increased its revenue in the first half of the year. He further confirmed the name of its upcoming operating system, Hongmeng OS at the press conference. 

Huawei posting increased revenues in H1 2019 isn’t entirely surprising given that the ban came into effect in May. So Huawei’s performance in the initial four months of the year could have been pretty strong to mitigate its effect. If you remember, Huawei had already managed to ship over 100 million smartphones before the ban came into effect. So, the real damage from the ban will probably be seen in the second half of the year. Note that initial estimates revealed that Huawei’s US trade ban was likely to wipe out $30 billion of the company’s revenue. 

Editor’s Pick: Huawei doesn’t want People to Buy its Products just because its Patriotic

At present, Washington’s stance is to allow US companies to sell their technology and products to Huawei as long as these products don’t pose a threat to national security. But Huawei’s chairman isn’t happy with the current situation. In the press conference today, Liang said that “adding Huawei to the Entity List was neither justified or fair,” and that Huawei “should be removed from the list entirely”.

He further said that the company’s Hongmeng OS was developed for IoT products and that Google’s Android was the preferred OS for smartphones. “We haven’t decided whether to develop HongMeng into a smartphone OS yet” he added. But this could change if Huawei is barred from using Android on its phones.  

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After the US banned Huawei from conducting business with any of its companies, many people in China became patriotic and started buying Huawei devices to support the company. This way, in the past few months, people often slapped a patriotic label on Huawei products. Essentially, it meant if you were patriotic, you would buy Huawei smartphones instead of something foreign such as Apple. However, Huawei’s Chen Lifang, Director and President of the Public Affairs and Communications Department has a different view in this regard.

Chen Lifang says that internally Huawei is quite clear on where it stands. She states that if Huawei doesn’t do a good job with its products, technologies, and services, it’s impossible to survive in the long term by just slapping a patriotic label on the company. So, Huawei doesn’t pay attention to what label people or media slap on them, it just focuses on making good quality products.  

Editor’s Pick: Analysts claim HongMeng OS very likely to threaten Android’s dominance

Back in May, even Huawei’s founder Ren had tried to cool down the growing wave of nationalist sentiment towards the company by saying that the iPhone has a pretty good ecosystem and that he still buys iPhone for his family when they are abroad. 

From these comments, it looks like Huawei doesn’t want users to buy its products just because it’s patriotic. Instead, it wants to keep focusing on making good quality products. Honestly, it makes sense why Huawei would want to stay away from a nationalist label. Despite its Chinese origin, Huawei smartphones are sold worldwide in millions. They need the support of its global users and the only way to ensure this is to make high-quality products at a competitive price tag. 

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Huawei unveiled one of the most interesting smartphones this year –the Huawei Honor Magic. While the company has given less importance on the specifications of the handset, it made sure that the overall experience that you get using the device is top notch. This, of course, starts with the phone’s design which features a unique eight curved design. Like it says, the phone is curved on all the eight sides, including the back, bringing perfect symmetry to the design.

The placement of the dual 12MP camera sensors at the back are also pretty unique, with a bit of a spacing between the two and placed flat on the back. So, there are no protruding parts on the back, which is something that the company is proud of. Even in the front, there is a special UV coating to ensure that the camera and sensors are hidden into the overall black design of the Honor Magic. So, Huawei seems to have focused on making the design as simple and elegant as possible.

The front features an infrared+ color camera while at the back, you have a monochrome + color 12MP dual cameras. The AMOLED screen is of 5.09-inches with 2K resolution. For hardware, there’s Kirin 950, 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage.

All the ports are located at the bottom, and yes, in case you are wondering, there is a traditional 3.5mm headphone jack.

Check out the images of the Huawei Honor Magic below, courtesy of IThome.

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People often think that buying a smartphone is a one-time large investment, and they are right usually. However, there are times when your large screen smartphone decides to just slip out of your hand and hit the ground. It’s not something anyone would want for their phones, but it happens sometimes and when your phone is brand new and costs nearly $600, things can’t get worse.

Recently, one of the Huawei Mate 9 users in China had such an unfortunate moment. A user recently revealed on social media that his Mate 9’s screen cracked when it fell on the ground. While this was bad, what was even worse was that he had bought this expensive 4499 Yuan ($655) flagship (6GB + 128GB) just 12 hours before this incident happened.

Now usually, you would have to shell out a few hundred dollars replacing the cracked screen on your brand new smartphone, but Huawei Mate 9 users in China need not fret. Huawei is offering Mate 9 users free screen replacement insurance for three months from the date of purchase. So, if you happen to drop your Mate 9 within three months accidentally, the company will offer you a free screen replacement, which sounds like a great deal.

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Considering you are shelling out nearly $600 for a smartphone, it’s good to see Huawei taking care of its customers after their purchase.

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We are sure Huawei must have thrown a party for its staff after this news was announced. The company’s Senior Vice President, Yu Chengdong Yu Chengdong announced on his Weibo page that  the company has shipped 60.56 million phones this year which is an increase of 25% from last year.

This is exciting news for the company as this figure is the annual target for quite a number of manufacturers seeing that we’ve just started the second half of the year.

The company’s smartphone revenue for the first half which increased by 41% from last year is about 77.4 billion Yuan ($11.59 bn). The company’s share of the global smartphone market is now at 11.4%, coming in at third place behind Samsung and Apple.

Worldwide Growth

The company has also posted details of their market in certain countries such as the UK where they have 3.9% of the market, 6.7% in France and 9.6% in Germany. The company has also recorded a 700% brand growth in Egypt, 200% in Chile and 134% in Peru.

Part of the company’s top products include the Mate 8, the P9 and P9 Plus, the MateBook and the Huawei Watch

READ MORE: Huawei H1 Revenue

Congratulations to Huawei.

Do you think part of Huawei’s success this year can be attributed to their Nexus 6P partnership with Google? Let’s see your opinions in the comment box below.

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We had reported that Huawei teased the release of the Huawei Maimang 5 flagship earlier in July. Now, the company has officially taken the wraps off the new device, giving fans yet another mid-range smartphone to choose from. However, unlike most other Huawei smartphones that have been announced this year, the Maimang 5 comes with a Snapdragon 625 processor. So, it will be one of the few mid-range options from Huawei not featuring its home grown Kirin chipset.

Going with the current trend, the Maimang 5 features a metal body with diamond cut edges and 2.5D glass up front. It’s pretty thin as well, measuring just 7.3mm in thickness and weighing 167 grams. The display is of 5.5-inches with 1080p FHD resolution. You also get a 3D fingerprint sensor located at the back of the device. The overall hardware of the new generation Maimang 5 is a big leap over the last generation model.

Under the hood, the new generation Maimang 5 comes with the Snapdragon 625 chipset clocked at 2GHz with 3GB + 32GB and 4GB + 64GB ROM versions. The phone also comes with a powerful camera at the back. It gets a 16MP Sony IMX298 sensor, the same one that’s found inside the OPPO R9 Plus with three axis OIS, dual tone flash, 6P lens, PDAF and Hybrid AF. And guess what, the rear camera can capture 4K videos at 30fps! Up front, you get an 8MP front facing shooter with f/2.0 aperture and beauty 2.0.

Up front, you get an 8MP front facing shooter with f/2.0 aperture and beauty 2.0.

The battery inside is also pretty large, measuring 3340mAh in capacity, which along with the 14nm Snapdragon 625 chip ensures battery life of about 15 hours of HD video playback, 18 hours of continuous 4G internet access and 82 hours of continuous music playback (claimed by the company).

The Maimang 5 will run on the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow with EMUI 4.1 on top. Other features of the phone include 4G+, dual SIM dual standby, and USB Type-C port.

The phone will go on sale at JD.com, Huawei mall, Lynx store and Suning for 2399 Yuan ~ $360 (3GB RAM version) and 2599 Yuan ~$389 (4GB RAM version).

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Back in July, we had spotted three new Huawei smartphones on the Chinese National Radio Certification website. Out of the three, the Huawei ATH-AL00 has just hit TENAA revealing a few more details about the device.

The design is one of the most interesting features of the ATH-AL00. While from the front, the phone looks pretty normal, the back of the device is unique. The rear camera is located on the top left corner, but it looks like the camera unit is designed to pop out of its location. You can see that the camera and the flash lies in a small rectangular box, that stands out from the body. Unlike the OPPO N1 which had a motorized rotating camera unit, this one could be a manual flip camera.

You will also find a dedicated button on the right, probably for the camera. It is also said that the button could incorporate a fingerprint sensor, but we are not sure of that at the moment. Unfortunately, the TENAA listing said nothing about the camera or other spec details.

Actually, there are two versions on TENAA of this model, including an ATH-AL00H variant, which could be the higher-end version. Its almost a tradition by Huawei to release two different versions of a model this year, one standard and the other high-end. So, we could see the same treatment to this ATH-AL00H model.

Anyways, what do you think about its camera design?

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Leaked photos of Huawei Honor 3 back in circulation on the internet. Through leaks this time, it appears there was a feature that makes it different from the mid-end smartphones in general.

One of the photos showed that the Honor 3 will has waterproof feature. Generally, devices that carry the waterproof feature is also capable of anti-dust. Also on the top there is Infrared like in Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC smartphone.

This is not the first rumors about the Huawei Honor 3, previously even been mentioned that the specification of Honor 3 has a quad-core processor 1.5 GHz (likely Huawei K3V2 or K3V2E), sports with 2GB of RAM, packs with 4.7-inch 720p display, coupled with 13 rearfacing  camera and 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, sports with 8GB of internal memory, a microSD slot, and runs Android 4.2.2 with Emotion 1.6 user interface.

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