Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record (engadget.com) 26
Huawei's 2018 was tumultuous, to put it mildly, but the company has at least a few reasons to brag. The Chinese mobile giant has revealed that it shipped over 200 million smartphones in the year, setting a new record. Last year, Huawei moved 153 million smartphones units. From a report: The Chinese phone maker said the numbers were largely driven by the success of products like its P20, Honor 10 and Mate 20 series. Huawei's smartphone shipments have grown from 3 million units in 2010, it added. Last year, it said it sold 153 million units. The company overtook Apple in the second quarter of 2018 to become the world's second largest phone vendor, according to researcher Canalys. "In the global smartphone market, Huawei has gone from being dismissed as a statistical 'other' to ranking among the Top 3 players in the world," Huawei said in its statement.
Huwaie created by US outsourcing (Score:5, Insightful)
Years back many made comment on US companies in their short sighted greed, using outsourcing to inflate profits and break the backs of US unions, would create the competition that would end up destroying them. Ahh, the inevitable reward of greed, failure and collapse. What a pack of greedy American corporate morons, you reaped what you sowed, well done fuckers and a merry Xmas to you.
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Do you really believe that there isn't enough talent, resource and will in countries other than the US to form a large and successful telecommunications company?
Your conceit knows no bounds.
Having owned a huawei phone back in 2009... (Score:1)
I can tell you they were quite good hardware. It lasted me up until just a year or two ago, despite abuse which would have destroyed any other newer or bigger phone.
I still have it, but thanks to bloat in Android it can no longer fit any newer OS on it, nevermind the apps, without using an SD card to run the OS off of.
It will surge (Score:3, Interesting)
With the rest of the world trying to boycott or punish Huawei, China is really encouraging Chinese to buy Huawei. I see it on all Chinese news outlets these days. It's almost an insult to not have one. People are dumping their other phones in droves and switching to Huawei in the mainland. The arrest in Canada really caused this.
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Not really. Lived in China for over 10 years. Yes, there are nationalists here who will always buy Huawei or Xiaomi because it's Chinese. But the majority here don't give a shit about that. They buy Apple because it's an expensive status symbol, or buy anything else because they just want a phone. Most people here don't give a shit about Chinese news, because they know it's Chinese. Yeah, they don't do anything about it, but it doesn't mean they like it. You seem to be the typical clueless laowai: c
Re: It will surge (Score:1)
I noticed that there was no bail jumping
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"fail-safe insurance strategy"
Lol, that's adorable.
#1!! (Score:1, Troll)
Reasons (most of which you already know):
1. Huawei is a tool of the Chinese government. At any time, the government can ask for (demand) information from ANY Huawei phone ANYWHERE and Huawei is obliged, by law, to produce it.
2. Huawei's Meng Wanzhou has been charged in the United States with conspiracy to defraud international institutions.
3. A Huawei Technologies Co. engineer went to T-Mobile US Inc.'s laboratory in Bellevue, Washington to see "Tappy" - a tireless
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1. But Google and Facebook are tools of the US government; and you're at least as likely of having your personal info read by them.
2. The "conspiracy" is due to Huawei not respecting US sanctions against Iran. Or was it Russia? Yeah, they committed the terrible crime of planning to sell phones there and not telling US authorities about it. (Well, maybe.)
3. That is, indeed, underhanded. Do you need us to make a list of the underhanded, immoral and exploitative things other telecoms have done? It's fairly lon
Re: #1!! (Score:2)
What? Don't be ridiculous. Google and Facebook are beholden to nobody, and will sell you out to any other corporation or government without the slightest thought. Go capitalism!
Re: #1!! (Score:2)
Huawei's Meng Wanzhou has been charged in the United States with conspiracy to defraud international institutions.
Liar!!!
In Europe, carriers and major customers from Orange SA to BT Group Plc and Deutsche Telekom AG have voiced their concerns about Huaweiâ(TM)s [5G] gear, on top of existing bans in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.
Governments can institute all the bans they want. Put another way - They can "bark" all they want but the "caravan" marches on. They'll come to accept it one way or another.
Most of world open to other brands (Score:2, Interesting)
The US and Europe are brainwashed to reject brands outside their comfort zone of Apple, Samsung, Google as examples. But the rest of the world judges less on brand and more on value. Maybe that is the result of more having less income to spend so they are wiser about products. Having a fruit on a product doesn't impress them as much.
Secure? How? (Score:4, Informative)
Plus that âoefruitâ has a different OS and is generally more secure...
How can you assert this? Did you read the source code? (Either yourself, or - if you don't feel competent enoug - had independent experts review it ?)
Currently, the fruit's reputation is entirely based on speculations and deductions and current absence/lower amount of publicly reported security issue.
Guesses can be wrong, reports might be silenced.
Google isn't better yet:
Yes, the base android system itself is actually open-source (see AOSP), but most of the juicy bits live in the "optional" Google Play Services [wikipedia.org] ("optional" meaning that it's required by a horrifyingly large proportion of popular apps, so even if your smartphone can boot android without it, tons of applications will refuse to start) and that service is closed source and heavily controlled and licensed under stringent terms by Google.
You can inspect AOSP's source all you want, that won't prevent Google from raping your privacy as much they want from the closed services.
Though, at least, there are efforts to re-write an open-source alternative to these services [microg.org].
Currently there aren't that many good alternatives either:
At least Jolla (ex engineers of the Nokia Maemo/Meego team) have written Sailfish, whose base (mer project) is opensource and the interface is mostly written in QML, so even it some bits aren't technically "opensource" from the licensing point of view, at least it passes the "source code readable" part.
(They promised to eventually re-lisence and opensource those bits, but they aren't there yet).
Also, currently no *open-source* Android compatibility layer (and that one is NOT going to get relicensed), so it makes a very small limited choice of available apps.
Also worth mentionning is Purism who are working on their Librem 5 smartphone, supposedly 100% completely opensource (even open source drivers, no blobs) and a hardware switch controlling a separate cell modem (no modem-functions-as-northbridge craziness as in most Qualcomm chipsets).
But, well, we aren't there yet (still delays in getting the target FressScale iMX8 chipset working), and of course most of mainstream will complain that the chip is very outdated and under powered compared to other phone.
They might work some opensource AndBox-based compatibility layer, so together with AOSP (and optionnally microG) there might be possibilities to get some opensource auditable stack working there.
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Aren't you Curious? (Score:2)
What I'm curious about here is whether those of you who are critical of Huawei get a sense that the Chinese state is influencing the modding our comments here on Slashdot and modding the critical comments down. I note that almost all comments about my post are by Anonymous Coward.