Huawei has been launching mobile accessories with some unique designs and continues to launch new products in the market at regular intervals. Now, the company has a new product coming to the market — Huawei Watch Buds.

The Chinese tech giant has officially confirmed that Huawei Watch Buds, its upcoming wearable product, will be launched in the Chinese market on 2nd December.

Richard Yu, Executive Director of Huawei and CEO of the company’s Terminal BG, describes the upcoming Huawei Watch Buds as a “revolutionary breakthrough in the shape and structural design of wearable products, allowing everyone to enjoy an unprecedented convenient experience.”

The teaser video related to the device shows that the Huawei Watch Buds will be similar to other smartwatches, but the dial area of the device can be opened. It is speculated that the area that opens up will house a pair of true wireless earbuds. It will be interesting to see how the company has managed to keep the thickness of the device in check.

As of now, not much is known about this upcoming product, but the design of the device teased in the video has got up excited about this unique concept. We will get to know more about it when the device goes official on 2nd December at 07:00 PM local time in China. The company will also be launching Huawei Nova 10 SE and Huawei Enjoy 50z at the event.

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Chinese smartphone brand Huawei has announced that the company has reshuffled the executives within the company. As a part of this, Richard Yu, President of Huawei, has been removed from the position of CEO of Huawei Cloud.

The company has now appointed Zhang Ping as the new CEO for Huawei Cloud. Richard Yu has now been appointed as the CEO of the new Smart Car Solution BU and he will continue to be the CEO of Consumer BG. Additionally, Wang Jun has been appointed as the President of the Smart Car Solution BU.

Huawei has been focusing too much on the reshuffle of the executives and has been regularly doing so. At the beginning of this year, Richard Yu added several new positions, mostly related to the Cloud business.

The company says that the purpose of the adjustment is to strengthen the synergy between mobile and cloud computing and to further integrate core capabilities, improve internal operational efficiency, strengthen Internet business layout, and promote ecological development.

Last month, Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of Huawei, was appointed as the Chairman of Huawei Cloud and at the time, Richard Yu was appointed as the CEO of Huawei Cloud. Now, in this new reshuffle, he has been replaced for the Huawei Cloud unit.

It is said that Richard Yu has completed the part of the resource integration and he now wants to focus on other businesses. Xu Zhijun will continue to be the Chairman of the Cloud BU and use group-level resources to promote and develop cloud business.

Richard Yu will now be focusing more on the Smart Car business along with the Consumer Business. The Chinese tech giant established its Smart Car Solution BU in May 2019 and provides incremental components for smart connected cars such as smart driving, smart dashboard, smart networking, etc.

Xu Zhijun also revealed that Huawei has invested around $1 billion in this business. He adds that even if the company does not engage in foreign markets, average annual revenue of 10,000 yuan per vehicle is sufficient for Huawei.

The company has announced two business strategies for the development of the smart car business. One is to become a supplier of parts and solutions and the other is to focus on creating an ecosystem — MDC Ecology.

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Huawei Technologies’ Consumer Business Group’s chief executive, Richard Yu, will be heading the company’s efforts into cloud services and artificial intelligence, as the firm expands to new and emerging markets.

According to an SCMP report, Richard Yu will take over as head of the two business units of the Chinese tech giant from the current lead Huo Jinlong. The news arrives via an internal memo being seen by SCMP. Furthermore, it was also reported that the senior executive will take on his new roles officially as of 7th February 2021. Furthermore, Huo will be transferred to the company’s digital power service, which is a unit under the telecom equipment maker’ carrier business group that deals in telecommunications network operators.

As per Kitty Fok, managing director of IDC China, “AI and cloud computing are the key growth areas in China over the next few years.Putting more focus and investments in AI and cloud computing is an important strategy for Huawei to capture future opportunities.” Unfortunately, Huawei has declined to comment on the matter of its internal management reshuffling at the moment. The report also arrives as the company is currently expanding and pushing towards newer growth market.

For those unaware, US sanctions have drastically impacts the Huawei’s primary business unit, its smartphone division, and has caused it to now focus on other core areas. A while back, the company’s Founder and CEO even called for decentralization as well, while Huawei also focuses more on its cloud computing services and other ventures, including cloud gaming, AI, virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. However, it remains to be seen what new hurdles awaits the company, especially now with the arrival of the new US president, Joe Biden.

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A few days ago, Huawei launched its much-awaited next-generation Mate lineup flagship smartphones — the Huawei Mate 40 series which includes three models — Mate 40, Mate 40 Pro, and Mate 40 Pro+.

Now, the company is all set to launch these smartphones in its home country China on 30th October. Ahead of the launch, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business unit has revealed that the Chinese variants will come with a special feature that will be unveiled along with the smartphones.

Shedding more light on the journey of these newly launched Huawei Mate 40 series smartphones, he says that it took around three years for the company to make these Mate 40 series phones, which offers an impressive set of features.

This information was revealed in a video shared by the company on its official Weibo account, which shows Richard Yu answering some of the frequently asked questions by the users. He also talked about how much pressure the company is feeling because of the worsening business relations in the world, especially with the United States.

Recently, the devices were up for pre-order in China through JD.com and the e-commerce platform has officially announced that the Huawei Mate 40 series was sold out on the platform in just 28 seconds. It’s noteworthy that only the Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro were up for pre-order in China.

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Both the smartphones come with a 6.76-inch Flex OLED display with a 2722 x 1344 pixels screen resolution, DCI-P3 HDR, a 90Hz refresh rate, and a 240Hz touch sampling rate. The panels are curved (88°) but the company still offers physical volume rocker keys.

Under the hood, the devices are powered by the company’s own Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 9000, which is a 5nm chipset with a built-in 5G modem. The Chinese giant claims it to be the most powerful 5G processor in the world.

As for the camera, the Mate 40 Pro has a 50MP f/1.9 1/1.28” main camera along with a 20MP f/1.8 Cine Camera (ultrawide angle), and a 12MP f/3.4 telephoto camera. On the other hand, the Pro+ model has the same 50MP main camera and 20MP ultrawide Cine Camera but includes an 8MP f/4.4 periscope lens and a 12MP f/2.4 telephoto camera along with a ToF sensor for depth sensing.

The smartphones are running the Android 10 operating system with the company’s own EMUI 11 on top. The Mate 40 is powered by a 4200mAh battery with 40W fast charging while the Mate 40 Pro+ is powered b a 4400mAh battery having support for 66W wired SuperCharge and 50W wireless SuperCharge.

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HarmonyOS, the self-developed operating system by Huawei has been in development for 3 years. Last year, the company officially announced its first version at the HUAWEI DEVELOPER CONFERENCE (HDC) 2019.  At the 2020 edition of this conference, the firm is expected to unveil its second version. Rumors said that the Chinese telecom giant will release a smartphone running it by the end of this year. But now, Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group officially confirms that there will be no such smartphone from the company this year.

Yu Chengdong, commonly known as Richard Yu recently attended Yabuli Forum Qingdao Summit (via Sina). At this meeting, he was questioned regarding Huawei smartphone powered by HarmonyOS. 

To this, he replied that there are no plans to release such device this year. But that does not mean it will not release next year. In other words, the executive reiterated his HarmonyOS announcement speech from last year.

In that, he mentioned that Android is their choice of operating system on smartphones due to the ecosystem and partners. But they will continue to develop and release devices with HarmonyOS in order to be self-reliant in the long run.

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Vincent Yang, Senior Vice President at Huawei made a similar statement last year that they will maintain a single ecosystem with Android. But HarmonyOS will continue to exist as plan B in case of a worst-case scenario.

Also, since the CEO was interviewed in the hallway of the venue of the Summit, he did not respond properly to the chip problem. But he did say that they are still looking for a solution.

Currently, Huawei’s operating system can be only found on its smart TVs. But according to the roadmap shared by the company last year, HarmonyOS 2.0 will support PC, cars, and smart wearables. This version is expected to go official at HDC 2020, which is scheduled for September 10-12.

Though there will be no smartphone running HarmonyOS this year, we can still look forward to the rumored Mate Watch featuring it.

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Yesterday, Huawei launched the P40 series in China. Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu gave an online interview to the press earlier today. In that, he mentioned the company is barely making a profit from its high-end premium smartphones.

Huawei dethroned Apple to become the world’s second-largest smartphone brand in terms of shipments in 2019. But yet, it’s profit margin is less than that of the Cupertino-based tech giant. This is because the brand’s premium products feature high-end tech, which costs more but still the company sells the final product at a lesser price than its prime competitors.

Mr. Richard Yu said the camera components in the Huawei P40 series alone cost more than $100. He also revealed that the company has so far lost around $60 – $70 million dollars in selling the Mate Xs foldable smartphone, even though it is priced at 16,999 Yuan (~$2267). He further added that the company cannot make a profit unless the price of folding panels goes down. Till then, the retail price of the foldables will remain high.

Mr. Yu also revealed that Huawei’s investment in R&D will likely be the second-largest this year. He also added that some of the competitors merely spend a billion Yuan in R&D, however, his company is investing $20 billion. 

He believes innovation and products should go hand in hand to retain customers and maintain sales. This is why Huawei has been focusing more on research and development. In 2019, the company invested about $18.5 billion in R&D (third-largest), which accounted for 15.3% of its total revenue of 467.3 billion Yuan with 34% YoY growth.

Huawei holds 85,000 patents worldwide, out of which 90% are invention patents. Last year, Huawei was the top patent applier in the European Union with a total count of 3,524.

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Huawei, the Chinese giant which is the world’s leading telecom equipment manufacturer, is also one of the leading smartphone brands. It is dominating the Chinese smartphone market while globally, it is the second largest smartphone company, just behind South Korean giant Samsung.

While the company has seen good growth in the smartphone side of its business, it was aiming for the top position and dethroning Samsung, but is now seems like a distant dream given that the brand has been put on the Entity List by the United States, effectively banning the company.

However, there’s another segment where the company is witnessing a tremendous growth — Wearables. Huawei’s Richard Yu has recently revealed that the company’s wearable products continues to maintain growth of 100 percent for two consecutive years.

He claimed that the company’s growth in this product category for the year 2019 is more than 170 percent, which is believes is the result of customers around the world liking the experience Huawei’s wearable devices provide.

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Also, it must be noted that the wearable devices are also getting diversified and are not limited to smartwatches and fitness trackers. Currently, the true-wireless earbuds are getting a lot of traction in the market and Huawei recently launched its latest TWS earbuds, dubbed as Huawei FreeBuds 3.

Huawei has also development and launched its own chipset for wearable devices — Huawei HiSilicon Kirin A1, which the company is using in several of its products. The FreeBuds 3 are also powered by this same chipset and so is the Huawei Watch GT2.

The Chinese giant has also started investing more in the wearables given that they are an essential part of the larger smart living strategy. The company has also planned to use the Kirin A1 chipset in several different type of products, including variant of earphones, smart glasses, smartwatches, among others.

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At the just-concluded Huawei online presentation, Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei Technologies Consumer Business Group, revealed the launch date for its anticipated flagship series, the Huawei P40 series.

The top executive announced towards the end of his presentation that the Huawei P40 series will be unveiled in Paris on March 26. However, the venue and time were not mentioned.

Mr. Yu boasted that the P40 series will be the world’s most powerful 5G flagships.

The Huawei P40 series includes the standard Huawei P40, the Huawei P40 Pro, the Huawei P40 Pro Premium Edition, and a mid-range Huawei P40 Lite. The flagship phones are expected to launch with the Kirin 990/Kirin 990 5G chipsets that powered the Mate 30 series and also come with better cameras.

Leaked renders have shown that the P40 phones will have punch-hole displays. The holes will house dual front-facing cameras save for the P40 Lite that will have a single front-facing camera.

Just like the newly announced Mate Xs, the Huawei P40 series will definitely be available globally and should ship with Huawei’s AppGallery and Ecosystem.

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The Huawei P30 and P30 Pro launched yesterday in Paris. The phones are available in multiple configurations but there was no mention of a 5G version. If you are expecting one, sorry to dash your hopes, but Huawei says there won’t be a 5G variant of the phones.

The info was revealed by Huawei’s head of mobile business, Yu Chengdong (Richard Yu) in an interview with CNET. In the top executive’s words “the world is not yet prepared for Huawei’s 5G flagship phone”. That sounds ironical considering the foldable Mate X is a 5G device.

Mr. Yu did say they are considering making the next Mate series 5G ready. The next Mate series should be the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro and they are expected to launch in Autumn 2019.

Huawei’s VP of Global Product Marketing, Clement Wong, also revealed that they could have made the P30 and P30 Pro 5G devices but the timing isn’t right. He added that he believes 5G won’t be a big deal until 2020.

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Even without 5G, the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro are pretty impressive phones. Their main selling point is their cameras which boasts impressive zoom capabilities and low-light performance. Both phones are already available for purchase in Europe with a starting price of €799.

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Huawei has proclaimed to become the largest smartphone manufacturer in the year 2019. At an event in Beijing China, Richard Yu CEO of Huawei made a statement that they will be number one smartphone brand around the globe. In a statement made out of US ban on Huawei, Richard said, “Even without the U.S. market, we will be number one in the world. I believe at the earliest this year, and next year at the latest.”

The remarks made by Huawei’s CEO seems genuine as they have performed pretty well in the smartphone industry in the year 2017-18. They stood second after Samsung in the number of smartphone sales last year. Earlier, the second spot was with Apple but due to low demand, the Cupertino giant skipped to the third position in August. Since then, Huawei is doing pretty well in the smartphone market and has gained several gains over Apple and Samsung. In the year 2017-2018, Huawei shipments grew over by 35 percent.

Last year it was challenging for the Chinese giant, as their shipments were banned in the US and few other countries. Furthermore, countries like New Zealand and Australia banned the import of 5G equipment due to allegations of Chinese spying over using the Huawei equipment. Despite proper proofs, the company has gone through huge losses. In response to these feuds, Richard Yu said that “Our customers have trust and confidence in us, It’s only politics guys which are trying to put pressure on us.”

However, Huawei managed to perform very well despite these many hurdles last year.

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Huawei also announced some new goodies that will launch in the upcoming few months. Huawei’s CEO Yu confirmed the company’s first foldable smartphone launch at Mobile World Conference by the end of February. It will become available for purchase by April and with Balong 5000 chipset competing against snapdragon X50 modem.

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Huawei‘s Consumer Business division yesterday held a press conference which was sort of an appraisal of its performance for the first half of the year which just went by and also to unveil its plans for the second half of the year. During the media briefing, Huawei CEO Richard Yu announced sensationally that the company will stop producing low-end, budget smartphones and would instead focus on premium, high-end devices. Top among this transition is the Mate 10 which would be launched later this year with a premium design aimed to take on Apple’s upcoming iPhone 8 launching around the same time.

Huawei posted a record profit of 20.6% growth in shipment over last year’s H1 figures.  The increase in total shipments also resulted in an increase in the revenue posted for H1 2017 which stands at 105.4 billion Yuan. The Chinese tech leader is hoping to ship 140 million to 150 million units in total this year and with the figures already posted, they are well on the way to achieving a figure in that range. Last year, Huawei shipped 139 million units but that didn’t translate into a commensurate profit margin. This is traceable to the fact that a large chunk of the shipments were budget and mid-range models. Richard Yu gave this as the reason for ditching the very low-end market because of the extremely low-profit margin. The Huawei CEO also disclosed that the company’s priority is Europe, China and Japan where the economy is healthy and people are able to buy the premium models.

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This announcement raises some questions that we may not get an official answer soon and the most pertinent is the fate of the Honor brand. Huawei’s Honor brand is believed to focus on high-end phones but we could see the Honor brand revamped. Recently, Honor phones with budget specs were sported on TENAA which was seen as unusual. With this latest development, it is possible Honor will now incorporate budget and mid-range models while the Huawei brand focuses on only flagship models. We’ll get a clearer picture as the days roll by.

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In one of the biggest scandals of 2017, it was found that Huawei randomly used either eMMC or UFS 2.1 flash chips inside its new Huawei P10 flagship smartphone. Given that everyone expected the P10 to feature the best specs, including UFS 2.1 inside all of the P10 models sold worldwide, this scandal came as a surprise.

Initially, Huawei played the blame game, but later on, the company did apologize to its customers. Despite the apologies, the customers weren’t happy to be given a slower and older flash chipset inside their brand new and pricey Huawei phones. The company’s CEO and Director, Richard Yu has come out to explain the situation multiple times in the past and even in today’s Huawei Mobile Open Day held in Shenzhen, China (the first such event), Richard Yu tried to explain the situation to the media.

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At the event, he tried to open about Huawei’s supply struggle and even talked about the Huawei P10 flash scandal. He explained that the price difference between the eMMC memory chips and UFS 2.1 chips is very small. The company’s decision to go with older chips for some models was not in order to save money but to keep a steady supply of shipments and timely delivery of orders. He added that the company’s aim was not to deceive customers and if not for UFS 2.1 supply issues, Huawei would have used the same chip inside all the units.

He further said that Huawei has reflected on this issue and understands that the real consumers should be given importance and have to listen to their voice and understand their ideas.

Basically, the issue boils down to whether Huawei is justified using an older flash chipset inside its 2017 flagship just because of supply issues. What do you think Huawei should have done to tackle the supply problem?

Would you have bought the Huawei P10 if Huawei had clearly mentioned that some of their units had an older eMMC flash chip inside?

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