Huawei may be in a spot of bother at the moment but that doesn’t mean the company’s just going to fold up shop and go home. The pending launch of a new mid-range smartphone, the Huawei Y9 Prime (2019), is a testament to that. Stuff was present at a media event where the Chinese company showed off its first pop-up selfie camera smartphone to land in SA and it sure looks like Huawei’s here to stay.
In this week’s Light Start, Huawei’s OS has a new name, The Great Hack hits Netflix, Microsoft is closing some games, and Resident Evil 3 gets an upgrade.
Renders of the supposed Galaxy Note 10 has leaked via MySmartPrice and WinFuture, who say that they’ve obtained official press images.
In an interesting twist in the tech Cold War, Huawei claims its own operating system called Hongmeng OS will be faster than both Android and iOS.
Amidst the US/China trade tensions, South Africa has pledged its support towards Huawei. Especially with the imminent rollout of 5G in the country.
And then sanity prevailed. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump effectively lifted the ban on US firms dealing with Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. This follows a turbulent six weeks where the threat of not being able to buy from US firms sent the telecoms industry and its supply chain into chaos.
After placing Huawei on the US ‘Entity List’, president Donald Trump said this weekend that he’ll lift some restrictions on trading with the company.
We’ve all had questions, ever since it first was announced that Huawei is losing access to Google’s Android operating system. There was talk of a backup OS (which may or may not happen), a delayed notebook, and through it all Huawei has remained… remarkably calm.
The Huawei Mate X was set to launch this June, but has been delayed because the company wants to avoid the same mistakes its competitor made.
When things are going your way, it still helps to have a backup plan. That seem to be Huawei’s attitude to the ongoing China-America trade wars, which have wound up with the Chinese company on the so-called Entity List. And now that Plan B is looking more and more like a thing, the company has begun trademarking its Hongmeng mobile operating system around the world.