Articles tagged "Huawei"

Last year ended on a down note that smartphone sales were in decline and there is no light in the end of the tunnel. With January ending, two top analyst companies - IDC and Counterpoint, introduced their reports about sales in 2018 and the numbers...

Huawei’s P30 phones have fashion-themed names – Elle, Vogue and Marie Claire. The latter seems to be the Huawei P30 Lite as info of the MAR-LX1M has been trickling out. UA Profile: 1080p+ resolution • Android 9 Pie • Code name...

The smartphone market is past its peak, say analysts from Canalys. The two big players, Apple and Samsung, both slipped down. Apple was the top smartphone vendor in the final quarter of 2018, however it’s in second place for the full year. It...

Schubert wrote two movements of his Symphony No. 8 back in 1822, but left it unfinished. Huawei has decided that 197 years of waiting is long enough and has tapped into the AI powers of the Mate 20 Pro to deliver the final two movements. The dual...

While the broader smartphone market was in a slight decline (-2%), the premium smartphone market grew by 18%. Data from Counterpoint Research from December 2018 shows that phones in the above-$400 segment saw the fastest growth. And within that...

The fourth week of 2019 saw the Xiaomi Redmi Note lineup dominate our popularity chart. The Redmi Note 7 and it's upcoming Pro version hold onto the first two positions, while the aging Redmi Note 6 Pro takes fourth. Even the the two generations...

For a while there we thought the Huawei Mate 20 X will remain confined to China and we'll never get a chance to spend quality time with it. However, a surprising change of heart by the Chinese company saw it enter Europe and here we are with a unit...

First it was taller screens, then notches and now we have a new trend punch holes as the next stepping stone before all screen front panels become a reality. But how much of an improvement over waterdrop notches are they and is it worth holding your...

Huawei’s pre-MWC briefing on 5G focused on its new Balong 5000 5G modem and the company’s base station hardware. However, a curious bit of info was snuck in towards the end of the hour-long presentation – Huawei is bringing a 5G phone to the...

Huawei wants to be a one-stop shop for all things 5G. It unveiled the Balong 5000 chipset and the world’s first 5G core chip, the Tiangang. The Balong 5000 is a multi-mode modem supporting 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G and will be used in anything from...

Today Huawei has started sending out a new software update to the P10, its flagship smartphone from the first half of 2017. Additionally, the Honor 9 is getting the same software, namely EMUI 9.0.1. Currently the rollout is happening only in...

Huawei increased its R&D spending in preparation for the launch of 5G. Now the company wants to talk about what it has been working on with a “pre-MWC” briefing to be held on January 24 in Beijing (that’s tomorrow). The event will be...

Reports from people using engineering samples suggest that the Huawei P30 will feature a redesigned front. For starters, both phones will use OLED displays now, instead of keeping the non-Pro on LCD. This is made necessary by the move to optical...

A number of confused users buzzed on Reddit when they began to see strange behavior with the Twitter app on Huawei smartphones. The app was seemingly deleting photos immediately after the user saved them to the device using the Twitter app. After...

At a special event in Paris today, Huawei sub-brand Honor took the wraps off the View 20 for international markets. The phone was initially made official for China back in December. And now it's finally on its way to other countries. The View...

Huawei is pushing for a new memory card standard – NM – but is it any good? Benchmarks show that the cards perform on par with their microSD counterparts. They use the eMMC 4.5 protocol with an UHS-I U3 speed rating, promising peak read speeds of...

The third week of the new year saw the Redmi Note 7 vastly extend its lead at the top of our popularity chart, but also some interesting new additions to the top 10. It appears that you guys are already focusing your attention on the phones to...

DxOMark has published its evaluation of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, giving it an overall score of 109. It technically has the highest score that DxOMark ever gave to a smartphone, but it is tied with another Huawei phone, the P20 Pro. The breakdown...

Just last month, the Huawei P Smart (2019) became official last month and the device is already available at retailers in the UK and coming soon to other EU markets. The P Smart has been updated with a larger 6.2-inch display, newer generation Kirin...

Huawei's sub brand Honor posted strong growth in Q3 of 2018. Its shipments in Q3 of 2018 went up 27.1% that's despite a 3.1% global slowdown in smartphone shipments. However, that's lower than the 32.9% overall growth posted by Huawei, suggesting...