Inside the United States, Huawei's finally brought their Huawei Watch GT to market with a two-hundred-dollar price tag. This device is not like previous Huawei wearable devices - it's not running a Google-made software. It does not have Wear OS or Android Wear or anything like that. Instead, it runs LiteOS, a software made by Huawei specifically for wearable devices such as this.
Huawei might be waiting for MWC 2019 to pass before making its own big splash, but some accessory makers are already getting ahead of themselves. It's not that uncommon for this or that lesser known brand to claim some insider scoop, but when a relatively major one like Spigen publishes cases for unreleased phones, it's a different matter. The case maker has just published some products for the Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro, confirming their designs, both the good and the bad.
If you were expecting Huawei to unveil its latest flagship later this month, you might be disappointed. Yes, the beleaguered Chinese company is expected to show off a prototype of its folding 5G smartphone at MWC 2019 in Barcelona, but those who prefer to see a finished and polished product will have to wait for another month. In a completely unrelated press release, Huawei accidentally revealed that the announcement of the Huawei P30 will take place not in Barcelona but in Paris and not in February but in March.
It looks like February 2019 will be the month of the foldable phone. Not only is Samsung widely expected to fully reveal its foldable smartphone at its next Unpacked event, but now Huawei has published a new teaser that doesn't leave a whole lot to imagination. Huawei has announced a reveal event that will be held at the end of February, and the teaser that accompanied that announcement certainly seems to suggest that Huawei's foldable phone will be the topic of the day.
Another day, another foldable phone patent made real thanks to some fancy 3D renders. Samsung is hardly the only one interested in this new phone form factor and MWC 2019 in a few weeks might see a good number of similar prototypes. Huawei has long boasted that it, too, has a foldable phone in development though it has so far failed to show even a shadow of it. But if its words last week were true, we could see the first foldable 5G phone soon and this is how it might look like.
The tech market is no stranger to controversy, scandal, and criticism. From the IBM days to the recent US elections, the industry has been rocked by one scandal or another. Recently, however, there has been non-stop news on this or that problem with a company, this or that terrible bug, or this or that lawsuit.
Over the years, these have all been chipping away at the trust and confidence that tech companies have built. With all that’s happening around us, it’s only natural to wonder who we can trust and, more importantly, what has to be done to keep our technology-centric world from collapsing under the weight of all these problems.
Huawei's in a little bit of trouble right now with the United States justice department - today we're looking at how this affects the everyday consumer. The devices that've been on the market over the past few years and those on sale right now aren't likely a threat to you, the SlashGear reader, the smartphone user. If you're the sort of person who watches the news and gets concerned about businesses disobeying international trade laws - OR if you're using your Huawei phone with a T-Mobile USA sim card, you might need to take additional action.
The Department of Justice has announced a 13-count indictment against Chinese company Huawei, as well as Huawei Device USA, its Iranian subsidiary Skycom Tech, and Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng. According to Homeland Department Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Huawei and Meng "have engaged in a fraudulent financial scheme that is detrimental to the security of the United States."
Manufacturer TSMC sent a statement that outlined a chemical issue which will have an impact on production this quarter. TSMC suggested that they'd "discovered a shipment of chemical material used in the manufacturing process that deviated from the specification and will impact wafer yield." The report does not name Apple as a key partner in the site at which the chemical issue took place. Manufacturing at the specified plant currently generally focus on NVIDIA, MediaTek, and Huawei hardware components.
With MWC 2019 closing in, it’s not at all unexpected to hear smartphone makers starting to drum up the hype around their upcoming smartphones. Also unsurprising, a lot of them are buzzing around 5G. LG has already officially confirmed it will be announcing one next month and Vivo’s new “waterdrop” APEX 2019 Concept will also be its first 5G phone. Naturally, Huawei is also chiming in, but the 5G phone it will show off at MWC will have more than just one talent to show off.
Huawei seems to be the favorite target of conspiracy theories in the tech industry these days. Especially when you consider recent news about arrested executives and government bans against Huawei happening not just in the US but worldwide as well. So when something out of the ordinary happens on users’ Huawei and Honor phones, like, say, vanishing photos downloaded from Twitter, the Interwebs unsurprisingly goes crazy over what almost seems like a vendor’s unauthorized backdoor access to phones.
This afternoon the Honor View 20 was revealed in full, officially, with details that let us know the Honor brand means serious business. This device looks a lot like the front facade of several phones coming in 2019 - but it's done quite well right here and now. The back side - well - the back side is something altogether new - it's dazzling.