Samsung overtakes Huawei as world’s most popular smartphone brand

Samsung is once more the world’s top seller of smartphones, edging out Chinese firm Huawei, according to a report from Counterpoint Research.  The Korean tech company took the top spot in the global smartphone market in August, accounting for 22 per cent of the total market share.  Second-placed Huawei, meanwhile, took a global market share … Read more

Huawei FreeBuds Studio expected to be announced soon

Huawei is more popular for its premium flagship smartphones that rival Samsung’s flagship devices. Since last year, we can’t exactly say there are close rivals because the Chinese OEM has been denied access to Google, no thanks to the US trade ban. Technically and officially, Huawei can no longer ship phones running Android OS although … Read more

Huawei may sell off the Honor smartphone unit

Huawei may sell off an important part of its business according to sources. There is no formal or official announcement yet but the top Chinese OEM is believed to be discussing with several companies like Digital China Group Co Ltd to take over the Honor smartphone unit. Honor is Huawei’s sub-brand that is allowed to … Read more

Huawei Mate 40 Pro Geekbench listing reveals Kirin 9000 SoC, 8GB RAM

Despite all the odds brought upon by the US trade sanctions, Huawei is on the verge of launching its flagship Mate 40 Pro smartphone on October 22 alongside the vanilla Mate 40 and the Mate 40 Pro+. Before the final date is upon us, we have the handset specifications appearing on Geekbench. According to the … Read more

Huawei Mate X2 renders show inward folding screen, dual selfie camera

Huawei has been pushed back severely with its smartphone approach due to the US trade restrictions and the unescapable pandemic situation has not played in the company’s favor either. Yet, there’s nothing stopping Huawei from experimenting and making a comeback. After a couple of misadventures in the foldable phone arena, the Chinese smartphone giant is … Read more

Huawei begins incorporating certain Android 11 features in EMUI 11

Ongoing US trade restrictions have capped the growth of Huawei but the Chinese smartphone maker is not bogging down. An example of this is the launch of new Huawei earphones, smartwatches, and notebooks in the past week. Now we learn that Huawei will be incorporating some features of Android 11 in the company’s own EMUI … Read more