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Huawei sanctions generate heavy criticism from the Chinese tech giant

05/20/202005/19/2020 Sam Lambert

The company says this ruling will impact its own business as well as US firms and the electronics industry. The US has imposed new Huawei sanctions that would require American chip manufacturers to apply for licenses to sell to their products to the Chinese company. These new restrictions have been slammed by the tech giant as well as by the government of China. The Chinese company and government are calling the new rules a malicious act of suppression. The Huawei sanctions are being called an act of suppression from the…

Google Play Store to face direct competition by united Chinese smartphone giants

02/12/202002/11/2020 L. Green

Huawei, Xiaomi, and Vivo and Oppo from BBK are coming together for on an app store platform. Chinese smartphone makers including Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo and Vivo from BBK are working together to create a massive rival to the Google Play Store. All the smartphone makers will bring their app stores together onto one massive combined platform. The idea is to provide a place for app developers outside China to be able to upload their apps to a single platform that will reach each of the Chinese tech giants’ app…

China’s Huawei smartphones are now built without US parts

12/06/201912/05/2019 Jennifer Goula

The Chinese telecom giant has managed to source formerly American components from elsewhere. After having been blacklisted in the United States, Huawei smartphones – which used to be built with a number of U.S. made components, are now being manufactured with parts sourced elsewhere. The Chinese telecom giant has managed to replace its American made components in order to create its popular devices without anything made in the United States. A recent analysis has shown that the new devices are already being manufactured by the company. The analysis was conducted…

Huawei OS is faster than Android, says company founder

07/10/201907/10/2019 Stephanie Beck

Huawei OS - Huawei phone - Mate 10 model

Huawei is preparing to launch its own operating system (OS) as soon as this fall. The Huawei OS could reportedly be launched as early as this coming October, which would coincide with the launch of the company’s Mate 30 Pro flagship smartphone. The new operating system is based on Android. According to the founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, the new Huawei OS is based on Android and is even faster than Google’s mobile operating system. Moreover, he also confirmed in an interview that the new Huawei platform – which has…

Huawei blacklisting in the US hurts the company on a global scale

05/24/201905/24/2019 Jorge Gonzalez

Google has removed Huawei from the Android partner program. As part of the Huawei blacklisting order by the US government, Google was required to remove the Chinese tech company from the Android Partner program. Such a move implies that Huawei will no longer be privy to proprietary apps and services from Google. This restriction could hurt Huawei’s prominence in the market. For now, Google will continue to send software updates to Huawei phones until mid-August. On Tuesday, the US Commerce Department decided to grant mobile phone companies a 90-day license…