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Huawei Aims to Ship 200 Million Smartphones this Year
29Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments
Tech

Huawei Aims to Ship 200 Million Smartphones this Year

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is looking forward to ship 200 million smartphones globally this year which will be almost the same number as Apple's annual shipment of 200 to 210 million units. Huawei's consumer business group CEO Yu Chengdong stated that the overall shipment of Huawei’s smartphones is likely to surpass 200 million this year. The company shipped 153 million units in 2017. “We are not pursuing to rank first on the market scale. For us, to be the first in user experience and the ability to innovate are most important,” Yu Chengong said. Along with this, he also told that the company is stepping up developing folding smartphones, which will be launched in 2019. “Bigger smartphones are needed as the digitalized development poses a higher requirement of handsets, but meanwh...
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China’s Funcl Launches Wireless Earphones to Beat Apple, Huawei
21Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments
CHINA

China’s Funcl Launches Wireless Earphones to Beat Apple, Huawei

China’s Funcl announced the launch and unveiled its latest wireless earphones in Beijing on Thursday. This launch was a part of the young startup's ambition to give a tough fight to the major earphones in the market including AirPods from Apple Inc and FreeBuds from Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. The gadgets include an AI wireless headphone using Snapdragon technologies from Qualcomm, which will enable users to power AI voice assistant and real-time translation. "The smart earphone market will witness an explosive growth this year and we will tap into this rising market," said Miao Jingwei, product manager of Funcl, a headphone maker. Also, the company stated that the time delay rate of this latest earphone was only 60 milliseconds, which is the best not only in China but also across the...
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Xiaomi, Vivo to Launch Premium Devices to Surpass OnePlus
13Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments
Tech

Xiaomi, Vivo to Launch Premium Devices to Surpass OnePlus

A battle in the premium smartphone segment is brewing up for a long time now. A few days ago, it was announced that OnePlus is leading the premium smartphone market in India, however, Chinese players like  Xiaomi, Vivo and Huawei are now trying hard to beat the dominance of OnePlus, Samsung as well as Apple. Every smartphone maker is making valuable efforts to lead the premium space. Samsung this month will be launching the latest Note 9 smartphone, and further devices from OnePlus, Vivo, Huawei and Xiaomi, through the latter’s sub-brand Poco will also be introduced in the upcoming festive season. The festive season in India starts from October and accounts for at least a third to a handset maker’s annual revenue in the country. “The $500 premium segment has been traditionally split...
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Facebook Confirms Sharing Users Data with Chinese Companies
6Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
News

Facebook Confirms Sharing Users Data with Chinese Companies

Facebook has informed that it had data sharing agreements with four Chinese consumer makers including Huawei Technologies Co. that has sparked privacy concerns yet again where the social media company has repeatedly failed to explain how personal information flows beyond Facebook. The agreements were signed back in 2010 and the Huawei deal would end by a weekend, said Facebook. Other companies that had collaboration with Facebook over data sharing include Lenovo, Oppo and TCL. The agreement with Chinese companies allowed them to retrieve detailed information on both device users as well as that of friends-including religious and political leanings, education, work and relationship status, stated The New York Times yesterday. A leading financial daily said in its report, The dea...
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Apple Smartphone Sales Decline Sharply in China, says Analyst Report
2May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
CHINA

Apple Smartphone Sales Decline Sharply in China, says Analyst Report

Market Intelligence Company Canalys has demoted Apple Smartphone sales in China as a part of "Others category" sharply in contrast from the 2015 peak where its market share was somewhere between 40-50% range in Urban China. Many noted analysts have expressed concern over Apple's plunge in Chinese market including Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley predicting it as ‘continued weakness in China'. She predicts that the iPhone maker's market share in China might be as low as 18%. "Apple has always been limited to targeting customers in the so-called Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities- larger urban areas with a relatively well-off population.The Cupertino company’s problem in China is two-fold", says the analyst.     From a broader perspective, China's current population today st...
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China based Lenovo Will Manufacture Smart Wearables in India
25Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments
Tech

China based Lenovo Will Manufacture Smart Wearables in India

Chinese Device Maker Lenovo Group Ltd is looking forward to making smart wearables in India and raise its local market by three folds, a plan that will help to push Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of making India an electronics manufacturing hub. Sebastian Peng, Head of Accessories Lenovo Mobile informed in an interview that the tech giant aims to corner 20 percent share of India's market for wearables such as fitness bands and watches. He added, We have launched our product range in India and have received a positive response. We are looking to expand our porfolio including premium products. The company has managed to secure 6-7 percent of the market share of smart wearables since last year when they had started. It now aims to set up a manufacturing unit in India, where the sm...
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Huawei’s China Smartphone Sales Chief Detained For Suspected Bribe-Taking
29Dec By reutersNo Comments
CHINA

Huawei’s China Smartphone Sales Chief Detained For Suspected Bribe-Taking

Huawei Technologies, the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, said on Wednesday that Chinese police are conducting an investigation, after the China sales head of its smartphone unit was detained on suspicion of accepting bribes. Huawei, which in recent years has overtaken Apple Inc and others to take the top share of China’s smartphone market but is now under pressure from fast-growing domestic rivals, declined to disclose details of the case. “The authorities are investigating the matter, and we defer to their discretion as to what can be disclosed,” the company said in e-mailed comments to Reuters when asked about the case. “We take our business ethics extremely seriously, and have zero tolerance for corrupt behavior.” It gave no further comment. In an internal memo to st...
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These 5 Companies Dominate China’s Smartphone Market, Samsung Is Not Among Them!
7Dec By RishabhNo Comments
CHINA, Tech

These 5 Companies Dominate China’s Smartphone Market, Samsung Is Not Among Them!

Chinese market is the most popular smartphone maker and market in the world. China is now the world’s largest smartphone market and continues surging forward as its economy and people ramp up their consumption of things to match their already vast production. Kantar Worldpanel shows that now China's top five phone vendors own the market accounting for 91 percent of the overall market. The top five brands are; Huawei Xiaomi Apple Vivo Oppo That’s up from 79 percent a year earlier, extending a lead that now sees companies like ZTE, Meizu, and Lenovo struggling to find a foothold in their home country. Global smartphone leader Samsung is now at a 2.2 percent share in China and deteriorating, according to Kantar’s Dominic Sunnebo. Each of these companies have selected...
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Forget 4G, Now 5G technology Adoption to Begin in India This year
1Mar By NitishNo Comments
News

Forget 4G, Now 5G technology Adoption to Begin in India This year

Indian telecom operators will start adopting 5G technology, which in present form can deliver up to 1000 mbps download speed, from this year, Huawei India CEO Jay Chen said today. "I can tell you massive MIMO (Multiple In Multiple Out) technology (part of 5G technology) will go to India this year. We have had discussions with leading telecom operators who are interested and right now it is only available with Huawei for commercial deployment," Chen told Pixr8 in an interview. He added that a wide-scale commercial deployment of 5G is expected to start in India in the next three years. "We even discussed 5G solution for business to business, business to consumer and business to home services with Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal. He was very impressed with it," Chen said. ...
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Infosys Finacle Partnered Huawei to Develop a Financial Cloud Solution
2Sep By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
BUSINESS

Infosys Finacle Partnered Huawei to Develop a Financial Cloud Solution

Infosys Finacle today said it has partnered Huawei to develop a financial cloud solution that will enable banks globally to accelerate digital transformation while keeping technology costs under control. Infosys Finacle is a part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys. The highly available platform will allow customers to run Finacle suite of applications on a private cloud network, delivering considerable performance, maintenance and total cost of ownership advantages, a statement said. No financial details of the partnership were disclosed. The solution will provide enhanced agility and quick service rollout, by enabling elastic, on-demand and secure computing resource pools, while supporting all-round management and service automation, it added. The so...
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