WhatsApp will stop working on these popular smartphones this week

WhatsApp has stop working on Windows smartphones on December 31, as well as several Android smartphones and iPhones in the coming months
smartphones on December 31.
You'll no longer be able to use all Windows Phone operating systems after December 31, 2019, and WhatsApp might not be available in the Microsoft Store after July 1, 2019.”
And the end of support doesn’t end there - WhatsApp will also stop working on
several Android smartphones and iPhones in the coming months.

From February 1, people using Android versions 2.3.7 and older will no longer be able to create new accounts, or reverify existing accounts.
due to this versions are old version and they can't meet up the new WhatsApp updrade.
It is advisable to buy new phone with the latest upgrade,
If you want to buy Android phone be sure the Os on the phone start from pie(9.0), if it is iPhone be sure it start from Apple Os 12.8,Harmony Os Android one.

Huawei comes closer to dethroning Samsung as world number 1 in smartphones

Chinese tech giant Huawei has managed to narrow the market share gap with its South Korean rival, Samsung, inching closer to becoming the world’s largest smartphone-maker, despite its hurdles with the US.

However, Huawei is closing in on the world’s top smartphone manufacturer. The Chinese major is set to supply 251 million units, accounting for up to 17.7 percent of the smartphone market this year – up sharply from 14.4 percent in 2018 – making the gap between the two majors 3.6 percent, down from last year’s 5.9 percent.

The Chinese tech behemoth managed to improve its performance despite Washington’s ban which has affected sales in the US and Europe. The company has managed to offset the losses with a strong performance at home, according to the report.

Apple also made the top three, holding on to third place, after losing the second spot to Huawei last year. The iPhone maker is expected to ship less units than it did in 2018, accounting for 13.6 percent market share with 193 million units.

Samsung is poised to secure the leadership in the smartphone market this year, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics data cited by Yonhap. The South Korean firm is projected to ship 323 million in 2019, grabbing the highest market share at 21.3 percent.

HUAWEI BECAME NUMBER ONE WITHOUT GOOGLE, FOUNDER

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei was clear. He believes Huawei could become the world’s best-selling smartphone brand even without Google

If you don’t know, reaching first place in smartphone sales was Huawei’s big goal for 2019. However, for alleged security reasons, The company has been banned from dealing with United States companies, which prevents it from using Google services and applications at its most recent devices.

Huawei aspires to dethrone Samsung

Although Huawei is already the leader in telecommunications equipment, in the mobile segment Samsung is still the leader. Leadership is harder without devices with the Play Store, Gmail, Maps, or Youtube, but Huawei is confident.

“I don’t think this is a problem,” says Ren Zhengfei about Google. However, The Chinese company has repeatedly said that it prefers to work together with Google if possible.

Please note that Microsoft has already received a special license to do business with the Chinese company (Huawei), provided this does not compromise US national security. According to Ren, Google has not yet had any license approved.

The truth is that Huawei continues to have good results in its sales, thanks to its domestic market. The company now waits patiently for Google to get its license to continue working with it or it will have to go its own way. Huawei Mate 30 still remain the best phone in the World.

Huawei Shoots Up 66% As Apple Plummets: China Has Given Its Blacklist Verdict

One of Huawei’s greatest defences in its ongoing battle against Washington and the blacklist imposed by the Trump administration has been its stronghold at home. The Shenzhen tech giant knows that the impact of the blacklist is limited by unwavering support at home, where the headline loss of full-fat Android, its biggest international issue, has no impact on smartphone sales—Google’s software and services are unavailable in China.



All that said, Huawei’s performance in pushing out smartphones in the third quarter was extraordinary. As reported by market researcher Canalys, “this is Huawei’s sixth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth amid a gloomy China market.” The company posted 66% annual growth, reaching a staggering 42% smartphone market share.

All Huawei’s rivals have now been left far behind, but it’s the impact on Apple’s iPhone sales that will steal headlines just ahead of its own results. Apple has been desperate to hold onto a sensible market share in China, but this latest drop of 28% on the same quarter a year before takes it down to its lowest quarterly level for five years.

CANALYS

For Huawei, a combination of keen pricing, technical innovation and patriotism has turned a strong domestic position into a dominant one. And given this is the world’s largest smartphone market, that dominance carries significant weight. The overall China market has shrunk slightly year-on-year, down 3%. But of the 97.8 million devices that did ship in the quarter, Huawei had its brand stamped on a staggering 41.5 million of them.

As Huawei sails away, Apple remains stuck below Vivo, Oppo and Xiaomi. And at just a 5.1% market share, it now risks dropping into the dreaded “others” zone. The three also-ran domestic brands all saw similarly material drops—Vivo down 23%, Oppo down 20%, Xiaomi down 33%—and now enter rethink territory with their failure to arrest Huawei’s dominance.

“Huawei is in a strong position to consolidate its dominance further amid 5G network rollout.” Canalys commented. “This puts significant pressure on Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi, which find it very hard to make any breakthrough.”

Clearly, Apple’s year-on-year quarter three drop has been a year in the making, But its challenge is that with a 5G offering a year away, it risks further China slippage as the market adopts smartphones capable of a generational shift in network speeds. Apple’s position would have been much worse without the launch of the iPhone 11 in the final few weeks of the quarter. Given its late entrance, a surprising 40% of Apple’s third quarter devices were the new models. The Chinese market has taken to camera improvements and tidier pricing—but that will not carry Apple through the next 12 months.

Canalys offered some hope for Apple’s China aspirations, commenting on the iPhone 11 improvements as reason for some optimism. But this need a reality check, the research team warns that Apple “faces a looming challenge, as Chinese vendors and operators drive heavy marketing and promotions around 5G in the next two quarters.” The close out of the year and the all important holiday fourth quarter will give more of an insight into the sustainability of iPhone 11 sales against competition from Huawei’s new devices.

Huawei is on something of a smartphone sales tear this year—it hit the 200 million device shipment milestone a full two months earlier than it managed last year, and expects to reach somewhere around 270 million units shipped by the year-end. This would put it within touching distance of Samsung’s outturn for last year, as it keeps its focus on closing the gap to the global top spot.

Most analysts still expect Huawei to start to take a hit as its newest devices reach the international markets absent core U.S. tech—read Google and full-fat Android. But no-one had expected the level of performance at home that Huawei has managed. It will also expect this growth to continue as the Mate 30 and Mate X sales take hold. This is a self-reinforcing model, the financial rewards can be ploughed back into its development budget as it looks to drive innovation to maintain its heady lead.

Stepping back from the detail, this will be welcome news in Shenzhen after a mixed few days for the company. Despite his government seeming to give Huawei something of a pass, Bruno Kahl, Germany’s foreign intelligence chief, has warned that Huawei should not be trusted as a core network supplier. Meanwhile, in the U.S. the FCC looks set to end what remains of Huawei’s network sales across the rural carriers. And the speculation that the U.K. is set to allow Huawei into its own networks remains unsubstantiated and, if true, will still need to survive an inevitable domestic and U.S. backlash and the uncertainties of an imminent election.

What we do know, though, is that Huawei remains well positioned to continue its battle against Washington. The company has acknowledged the hit it will take internationally, the need for a political compromise or a new non-Google ecosystem that will take years to develop. But what’s happening at home has ensured that none of this will be existential for the company and its consumer business any time soon. And the longer Huawei keeps something close to business as usual, the more the chance that a political compromise between Beijing and Washington is found.


Apple reported solid overall results for the quarter ended September 28, beating analyst estimates. Forbes coverage can be found here. Overall sales in China suggested a marginal decline, shored up by strong early iPhone 11 sales, as reported above, and other revenue streams. iPhone’s market share is sharply down, though, as reported here, with the lack of 5G likely to become an impediment to any recovery with its 5G devices still almost 12 months away.

Huewei Free from US With RISC-V and Ascend Chips

Huawei has launched its 7nm Ascend 910 artificial intelligence chip for data centers together with a new comprehensive AI framework MindSpore. The announcement comes at a time when Huawei is facing pressure from the US government, which Huawei is responding to by considering using the open-source RISC-V.

Ascend 910 and MindSpore


Huawei already talked about the Ascend 910 in October last year, but the present announcement marks the commercial availability of the chip, which Huawei claims is the world’s most powerful AI processor. Moreover, Huawei claims that the chip reaches its planned performance targets with lower power than anticipated: the Ascend 910 delivers 256 half-precision TFLOPS in a power envelope of 310W compared to the previously-announced 350W. Performance doubles to 512 TOPS for 8-bit integer calculations (INT8).

Manufactured on TSMC’s 7nm process, The Ascent 910 serves as a neural processing unit for training AI models (as opposed to inference) in the data center, but Huawei says it is also investing in silicon for other compute scenarios, such as edge computing, devices, and autonomous vehicles.

Huawei CEO addresses Mate 30’s limitations following event

Huawei’s Mate 30 Pro was announced with much fanfare. An innovative camera system, improved displays, and evolving charging technologies show Huawei is still at the top of its game.
               

It was even surprising to many that Huawei would hold a launch event at all since the US-Huawei ban has barred Huawei from shipping the new flagship with Google services.

That didn’t stop Huawei - it stuck to its guns and announced the phone with or without Google’s support. Interestingly, Huawei has not yet revealed European availability for the Mate devices but still revealed retail pricing in Euros

. Huawei will gradually release the Mate series on a market-by-market basis, but Yu doesn’t reveal any specific markets.

Huawei Mate 30

In an interview with the press, Richard Yu addressed some of the concerns about how the Mate 30 will launch without Google services. When asked about availability, Yu confirmed that Asia will be the first markets to get the phones. Yu explained that customers in Asian and Middle Eastern markets will still buy the phones without Google services because the device is so great. He also mentioned that carriers will still sell the devices, even with these limitations.



When asked about Google services, Yu replies that “There are also a lot of third-party apps and places where you can download any app”. Indirectly, he was saying that you could technically sideload Google services on the device, but for obvious reasons, Huawei can’t preinstall them.

Users will still be able to download apps, but they just won’t officially come from the Play Store, but rather, from Huawei’s alternative App Gallery. “That’s not good for Google,” explains Yu. “…we’ve contributed a lot to many US companies.”

In order to “encourage the developers to work with Huawei”, developers get to keep 85% of revenues when they published their apps on Huawei’s App Gallery. “We have no other choice… we were forced to do this… companies, partners, carriers also understand us.”

 the situation were to change overnight, Huawei could potentially bring back all Google services to affected markets as easily as sending an OTA update to devices but given the ongoing China-US trade war between governments, it remains uncertain when that may be.



Meanwhile, Huawei sales are doing well in China as phones made specifically for China don’t need Google service anyhow. Yu says everyone loves the phone with the best camera, best performance, best design, and best 5G.

Although 5G still isn’t widely available in many Western markets, China is well ahead of the race with 5G available throughout most of the country. Looking to next year, Huawei plans to launch midrange devices with 5G support so more consumers can benefit from the new technology.

Huawei proffers $1.5bn in bid to lure software developers

             

Chinese group ramps up recruiting and offers up 5G tech to counter US sanctions

Chinese technology group Huawei is spending $1.5bn to recruit software developers for its computing platforms and offering to share 5G technology, as it seeks new partners in the face of US sanctions that cut it off from suppliers including Google. 

Huawei’s search for more developers is made urgent by the fact that its new series of smartphones, to be launched later this week, will not have licensed access to Google’s apps.

As part of its outreach Huawei has also offered to sell its 5G technology to foreign companies — a move that rotating chief executive Ken Hu on Wednesday said was meant to “lessen people’s security concerns”.

The US government views Huawei as a potential spy on behalf of the Chinese government, an allegation the company denies. Washington has put Huawei on a blacklist that has largely blocked US suppliers from selling to the company, and has lobbied US allies to cut the company out of their 5G mobile networks.

Last week, in interviews with the New York Times and The Economist, Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei said the company had offered to license its 5G technology to foreign companies that could then manufacture 5G telecoms equipment and install it in networks outside of China, competing with Huawei abroad.

Such a proposal would “make the international 5G supply chain more competitive, and would certainly benefit consumers”, Mr Hu said at the telecoms company’s annual conference in Shanghai.

He said Huawei had won over 50 5G contracts globally, and that although the new ones did not feed through to increased sales this year, he expected a revenue bump next year when 5G is expected to roll out on a commercial scale in China.

Despite being cut off from US suppliers that provide the company with crucial chips for its smartphones and telecoms equipment, Huawei’s self-reported sales increased 23 per cent in the first half of the year. 

But pressure on the company to resolve the US sanctions issue is growing, because new smartphones — such as the Mate 30 series, due out later this week — will not have access to Google’s licensed apps under the current US Entity List restrictions.

Whether Huawei could continue to use Google’s apps has been up in the air since the Entity List came into effect in May.

Google is one of a large number of US suppliers that have been waiting months for a result on their applications for exemptions to the ban. President Donald Trump promised in July that the applications would be processed quickly, but none has yet been granted.

For Huawei, the worst-case scenario for its international customers already accustomed to the Google app ecosystem would be having to give up Google’s apps, such as the Play app store. Analysts expect the Mate 30 series to ship with an open-source version of Google’s Android operating system without Google apps pre-installed.

Huawei is also preparing its own version of Android, called HarmonyOS, although admits it will be difficult to build a new ecosystem and that it will need to convince developers to write apps for its new operating system.

The company will spend $1.5bn to expand its pool of 1.3m existing partners in its “Fertile Soil” developer program — launched in 2015 with a $1bn payout — to 5m, Mr Hu said.

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Huewei Free from US With RISC-V and Ascend Chips

Huawei has launched its 7nm Ascend 910 artificial intelligence chip for data centers together with a new comprehensive AI framework MindSpore. The announcement comes at a time when Huawei is facing pressure from the US government, which Huawei is responding to by considering using the open-source RISC-V.

Ascend 910 and MindSpore


Huawei already talked about the Ascend 910 in October last year, but the present announcement marks the commercial availability of the chip, which Huawei claims is the world’s most powerful AI processor. Moreover, Huawei claims that the chip reaches its planned performance targets with lower power than anticipated: the Ascend 910 delivers 256 half-precision TFLOPS in a power envelope of 310W compared to the previously-announced 350W. Performance doubles to 512 TOPS for 8-bit integer calculations (INT8).

Manufactured on TSMC’s 7nm process, The Ascent 910 serves as a neural processing unit for training AI models (as opposed to inference) in the data center, but Huawei says it is also investing in silicon for other compute scenarios, such as edge computing, devices, and autonomous vehicles.

In a similar vein, Huawei has launched MindSpore, a development framework for AI applications in all scenarios. The framework aims to help with three goals: easy development, efficient execution and adaptable to all scenarios. In other words, the framework should aid to train models at the lowest cost  and time, with the highest performance per watt, for all use cases.

Another key design point of MindSpore is privacy. The company says that MindSpore doesn’t process the data itself, but instead “deals with gradient and model information” that has already been processed. Huawei describes its framework as an “AI algorithm as code” design flow. As an example, Huawei claims that for natural language processing (NLP), MindSpore has 20% fewer lines of code and raises developers’ efficiency by 50% compared to the current leading frameworks. Huawei also claims that combination of MindSpore with the Ascend 910 achieves double the performance in ResNet-50 compared to “other mainstream training cards” (likely Nvidia’s V100) with TensorFlow.

MindSpore supports both its Ascend processor as well as CPUs, GPUs and “other types of processors.” Huawei also disclosed that it would open source MindSpore in the first quarter of 2020 in support of a robust AI ecosystem. Huawei’s Rotating Chairman, Xu, said: “We promised a full-stack, all-scenario AI portfolio. And today we delivered.”

MindSpore joins a sizeable collection of AI frameworks such as TensorFlow, Caffe, and Theano. Nvidia continues to reign supreme in the data center DL training market as other companies begin more focused development efforts. Intel recently described its 16nm Spring Crest NNP-T accelerator at HotChips to take on Nvidia (with initial availability later this year). Spring Crest does not have INT8, but it does support the young bfloat16 format, albeit at half the FLOPS as the Ascend’s FP16 performance. However, Intel spent a lot of work on the interconnect to scale up to hundreds of nodes, a capability that Huawei has not mentioned.

Seeking US Independence

Also on Friday, Huawei said that it would consider using RISC-V if the US government restrictions persist. Huawei’s launch schedule is currently not impacted by a US ban because the company already has obtained a license to the ARMv8 architecture. However, there is a possibility that Huawei won’t be able to use ARM’s new technologies in the future.

Even though ARM is a UK company, some of its technologies are developed in the US, so it has to comply with the ban. “If ARM's new technologies are not available in the future, we can also use RISC-V, an architecture which is open to all companies. The challenge is not insurmountable,” Xu said. Huawei is already a member of the RISC-V Foundation. However, the company also said it had not started any efforts yet to migrate to RISC-V, preferring to continue using ARM.

RISC-V is not the only open instruction set architecture (ISA), as IBM recently made its POWER instruction set open source.

Trump has delayed its ban on trade with Huawei by another three months

According to the comments by the US commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross

The Chinese tech company had been granted a temporary license to allow US firms to continue to trade with the company, with the aim to allow them "a little more time to wean themselves off" Huawei products. It was due to expire today, however the expiration date has been pushed back to September.

 This temporary license enables companies such as Google to continue working with Huawei. Huawei depends on Google for access to its Android operating system, the software which powers its smartphones.

One of the reason the Huawei was given temporary license and the expiration date that has been pushed back to September is due to
ARM and Qualcomm in United States. Back in July, Qualcomm said its sales fell in the previous quarter partly as a result of not being allowed to sell to the Chinese firm.(Huawei),
Google will lose more than 150 million customers if Huawei and another Chinese players use a stripped down open source version of Android then securing users accessing Google services like Gmail, Google Drive and others from these devices would be difficult as Google will have little control.
 Huawei phone beat IPhone and every United States phones in Global market which make Donal Trump to be afraid of China taken over global trade.

Huawei phone has proof to be the best phone in the world but is a pity is not coming from United States.


       

Chinese state media hints at Huawei OS this year

Chinese state-owned media outlet Global Times reports Huawei is testing its smartphone armed with the self-developed Hongmeng operating system (OS).

According to the report, the phone could reach the market at the end of this year, targeting low- and medium-end markets and priced at around 2 000 yuan ($288) to attract software developers and users to join the ecosystem.

It adds Huawei is set to release the much-anticipated Hongmeng OS, an alternative to Google’s Android OS, at Huawei’s Developer Conference on 9 August in Dongguan, South China’s Guangdong province.

The report comes after Huawei last week announced revenue increase of 23.2% in the first half of 2019, despite the company getting caught up in the trade war between the world’s biggest economies – US and China.

As the trade war between the US and China rages on, the former, which put Huawei on an export blacklist citing national security issues, has been rallying its allies to cut Huawei out of planned 5G networks, citing “national security threats” due to the company’s close ties to the Chinese government.

The blacklist has seen companies, including Alphabet’s Google and British chip designer ARM, limit or cease their relationships with the Chinese company.

Huawei has denied installing any backdoors in its networking equipment for alleged government spying.

Google is still banned from doing business with Huawei, although some exemptions are allowed but must be applied for.

Google’s parent Alphabet announced it would suspend any business that “requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing”.

It also means Huawei technology would no longer receive software updates, be upgraded to new versions of Android, or have access to the Google Play Store and services as a result. This would lock Huawei devices out of the app store and mean popular services like Google Maps, Music, YouTube and Assistant will not work.

The Google ban would mean future Huawei phones and tablets would no longer have an Android licence.

“If the US government allows us to use Android, we will use Android. But if the US doesn’t allow us, then we will turn to alternatives. As for how ready our OS is, you’ll just have to see with your own eyes,” said Huawei chairman Liang Hua, announcing the company’s results last week.

Hongmeng is an OS under development by Huawei since 2012. To date and despite speculation, the company has not yet publicly designated an official name on the release of the OS.

The OS had originally been announced as a replacement for Android in response to financial sanctions imposed on Huawei by the US in 2019, but by July, Huawei executives had begun to describe Hongmeng as being an “industrial” embedded OS designed for Internet of things hardware, discarding the previous statements for it to be a smartphone mobile operating system.

However, according to Global Times, Huawei executives have now said if Google insists on cutting off supply of its OS to Huawei, the Hongmeng OS may expand to the smartphone business.

Citing sources familiar with the matter, the report says one of the tests Huawei is running on the Hongmeng OS is its compatibility with Android applications.

The system also has cryptographic functions that protect personal data better and prevent users’ privacy from being breached, it adds.

HUAWEI STABILIZES ITS SECOND POSITION IN THE GLOBAL SMARTPHONE MARKET

Chinese manufacturing giant, Huawei, is going against all odds to post a strong statement to the world. Irrespective of the US ban which many believe will comatose the company, Huawei’s 2019 shipments have been amazing. The company is still the largest OEM in China and its Q2 2019 shipment in China increased by 38% YoY. Recently, Strategy Analytics released the global smartphone market shipments report for Q2 2019. According to the report, the global smartphone shipments fell by 3% year-on-year to 341 million units (for Q2 2019).
             

Samsung retains its first position with 22.3% of the global smartphone market share. Huawei ranks second with 17.2% while Apple is third with 11.1% market share. Xiaomi and Oppo are fourth and fifth with 9.4% and 8.7% market share respectively.

Samsung’s global smartphone shipments were 76.3 million units in Q2 this year, up 7% YoY. It’s market share increased from 20% to 22%. Entry-level smartphones were vital to Samsung’s performance but the profit margin is low due to fierce competition. As for Huawei, its global smartphone shipments grew 8% year-on-year, from 54.2 million in Q2 in 2018 to 58.7 million in Q2 in 2019. Huawei’s global smartphone market share was 17% (Q2 2019), up from 15% a year ago. Huawei is flying high in China as it seeks to compensate for regulatory uncertainty in other major regions such as North America and Western Europe.

Apple iPhone shipments were 38 million units for the quarter under consideration. Its global smartphone market share was 11%, down 1% from 12% a year ago. Apple iPhone shipments fell 8% year-on-year, the worst performer among the top five smartphone players in the world. Looking at Xiaomi, its global smartphone market share of 9% is basically the same as last year. Xiaomi is still very strong in India, but in China it is trying to catch up with Huawei. Like Xiaomi, Oppo’s 9% market share is not much different from last year. It is reported that OPPO is entering the Western European market through new models such as Reno 5G, but it still faces competitive pressure from Huawei in China.

The Apple logo is seen at the entrance to the Fifth Avenue Apple store in New York. Photo: AFP

Apple in talks to buy Intel smartphone chip unit
                     

Apple is in talks to buy Intel’s smartphone modem chip unit, a move that would help the iPhone maker control a key component, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The Journal cited unnamed people familiar with the matter as saying the deal would cover Intel patents and staff valued at a billion dollars, but that it might not come together.

Apple has been investing in its own mobile chips to ramp up performance and features in its devices and reduce its dependence on Qualcomm.

Intel earlier this year announced it was abandoning efforts to compete with modem chips for smartphones synched to new-generation “5G” networks.

Intel made the revelation a day after Apple and Southern-California based Qualcomm said they agreed to “dismiss all litigation” against each other worldwide in what had been a sprawling battle over royalty payments.

The last-minute settlement cut short a courtroom clash between the tech giants just as it was getting underway in California.

For two years, the companies had fought a multi-front brawl that could have required Qualcomm to pay billions.

At the heart of the battle were the royalties Qualcomm charges for its patented chips, which enable smartphones to connect to mobile networks.

Apple accused Qualcomm, which holds the most patents for chips, of taking advantage of its dominant position to charge exorbitant amounts for its chips or access to its patents.

Qualcomm denied the allegations and accused Apple of abusing its position and of taking legal action to negotiate prices down.

Several hours after the deal was announced, Intel said it was withdrawing from the 5G smartphone modem business, without indicating whether its decision was a cause or consequence of the agreement its rival signed with Apple.

Android Q isn’t even out of beta, but Huawei is ready to show off EMUI 10 next month

                             

We’re still a few months away from Android Q getting a dessert nickname and a final release. Android Q Beta 5 was released earlier this week as the first of 2 release candidate builds. OEMs are assuredly already working on Android Q and Huawei is ready to show off their work with EMUI 10 next month.

For those unfamiliar with Huawei’s EMUI software, EMUI 10 is based on Android Q. We published the first look at this software on the Huawei P30 Pro last month, so we’ve known it’s in the works. Huawei has shared the schedule for its annual Developer Conference, which is taking place on August 9th. On the schedule of events is a talk titled “Linking the future of the world – Huawei EMUI 10.0 released.”