NOKIA ADDS BROADCOM TO THE LIST OF CUSTOM-MADE 5G CHIPS SUPPLIERS

Nokia has just signed a contract with Broadcom that will bring custom-made 5G chipsets for the smartphone brand. It is the third major company to sign such a deal after Intel and Marvell back in March. Through this contract, the Finnish company will be able to expand its presence in the market and increase shipments. The brand expects 35% of all 5G products to be equipped with this custom-made 5G chip by the end of 2020. Broadcom will be busy in the coming months to ensure Nokia’s demand.

Xiaomi working on a phone with 16GB of RAM

There are only a couple of phones that can be configured with 16GB of RAM, This phones are Huawei, Samsung and Iphone. There isn’t a Xiaomi among them. Not yet anyway,Don't get me wrong I'm a fan of Xiaomi, I even wanted one of my son to buy Xiaomi last 2 weeks but He is in love with infinix. I guest he does not know much about phones.The leakster Digital Chat Station teases that (Xiaomi) the company is working on just such a model.

Earlier this year there were murmurs that the new Mi Mix model will have 16GB, but those quieted down. The Mix does make sense though, as that is Xiaomi’s halo series. Alternatively, the Mi 10 Pro was also rumored to have a 16GB option, but that never materialized.

12GB has become pretty common, it’s even available on some fairly affordable models. Samsung started manufacture of 12GB LPDDR5 in July last year, mass production of 16GB packages started in February 2020. However, Xiaomi partnered with rival Micron to source the LPDDR5 chips for the Mi 10 phones. Micron stated that it expects 16GB phones in the second half of this year.

Anyway, we haven’t heard any solid info on when the next Xiaomi Mix might launch, even the Mi Mix Alpha hasn’t launched yet or any other Xiaomi worthy of 16 GB RAM.

Huawei P40 Pro+ first sale ended in seconds

Huawei P40 Pro+ first sale ended in seconds


On June 6, Huawei P40 Pro+ first sale began in China and according to information, this new flagship sold out within seconds after its sale started at 10:08 (China time).

Huawei P40 Pro+ is priced at 7988 CNY (1127 USD) for 8+256GB version and 8888 CNY (1255 USD) for 8+512GB.  The phone comes in two color options of Ceramic White and Ceramic Black. Interestingly both of these variants ran out of stock instantly.

The number of devices sold in the first round remains unknown, while the next sale is scheduled for June 7.

Huawei P40 Pro+ features a 6.58-inch FHD+ OLED quad curve overflow display (2640×1200) with a pill-type punch-hole. It supports a 90Hz display refresh rate for smoother UI animation.

Huawei P40 Pro+ is the first Huawei smartphone with Penta camera setup including a 50MP Ultra Vision Camera (Wide Angle, f/1.9 aperture, OIS) + 40MP Cine Camera (Ultra-Wide Angle, f/1.8 aperture) + 8MP SuperZoom Camera (10X Optical Zoom, f/4.4 aperture, OIS) + 8MP Telephoto Camera (3X Optical Zoom, f/2.4 aperture, OIS) + 3D Depth Sensing Camera.

On the front side, Huawei P40 Pro+ brings 32 MP Selfie Camera (f/2.2 aperture) + Depth Camera + IR sensor. Both front and rear cameras have AI-supported features.


It is equipped with 7nm Kirin 990 5G chipset with NSA/SA dual-mode 5G architecture, 8GB RAM + 256/512GB storage options (expandable via NM card).

P40 Pro+ runs EMUI 10.1 and comes with a number of new features for better user experience. The battery of this has 4200mAh capacity that can recharge with 40W wired, 40W wireless charging, as well as wireless reverse charging.

Huawei P40 Pro+ launched with Wi-Fi 6+ that offers high-speed connectivity with 2,400Mbps (2.4Gbps) peak theoretical transmission speed.

Google and it's Featuristic Competitor

Google having Huawei as it's Featuristic Competitor, might result into Google losing some of it's renowned virtues to Huawei.
 

Huawei has suddenly unveiled a surprise alternative to Google’s search and Play Store, a defiant move against both the blacklist and Google, another targeted attempt to offer a viable full-fat Android and Play Store alternative.

Piece by piece, we have seen Huawei build an ecosystem that it sees as a third-way alternative to Google’s full-fat Android and iOS. Last year, hopes were pinned on the most radical possible option,

This action was a huge acceleration of Huawei mobile Service. 

Last year it was like the End of Huawei mobile phone as come. 

But the company proof me wrong by a trail of confirmations around replacements for Google apps—like maps, and a revamped AppGallery to replace the Play Store. We have even seen Huawei talk up app security. 

Back in March, just ahead of the P40 launch, I reported on pilot testing of two new Huawei apps, “Search” and “AppSearch,” both intended as replacements for Google functionality on Huawei phones. The first to replace core search itself—a major money-spinner for Google, the second to make it easy for users to search for and install popular apps, either from Huawei’s AppGallery or third-party stores.

Well now it’s back—the race against time is on. The renamed “Petal Search” combines both “Search” and “AppSearch” into a single install. “Petal Search puts the world in the palm of your hand,” Huawei says, confirming that users can “search for your favorite phone apps with our

state of the art technology.”

On the search front, Petal Search offers Huawei curated “daily weather forecasts and top news, live sports scores and schedules, video, image, and music searches,” as well as “financial news and stock market updates.”

All that plus the ability to search for and install apps. The biggest issue post-blacklist has been that app installation and Google workarounds have intimidated regular users. The new Petal Search is intended to make everything official and assured. Search for an app like “Instagram” or “Facebook,” and the results will come complete with an install option. If the app is available on the AppGallery, then that’s where it comes from. If not, a third-party app store will be used instead.

U.S. Agree to allow Huawei and U.S. firms to work together on 5G standards - sources

The Commerce Department placed Huawei on its "entity list" last May, citing national security concerns. The listing restricted sales of U.S. goods and technology to the company and raised questions about how U.S. firms could participate in organizations that establish industry standards.

After nearly a year of uncertainty, the department has drafted a new rule to address the issue, two sources told Reuters. The rule, which could still change, essentially allows U.S. companies to participate in standards bodies where Huawei is also a member, the sources said.

The draft is under final review at the Commerce Department and, if cleared, would go to other agencies for approval, the people said. It is unclear how long the full process will take or if another agency will object.

As we approach the year mark, it is very much past time that this be addressed and clarified," said Naomi Wilson, senior director of policy for Asia at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), which represents companies including Amazon.co Inc, Qualcomm Inc and Intel Corp.

The U.S. government wants U.S. companies to remain competitive with Huawei, Wilson said. "But their policies have inadvertently caused U.S. companies to lose their seat at the table to Huawei and others on the entity list."

The rule is only expected to address Huawei, the people familiar with the matter said, not other listed entities like Chinese video surveillance firm Hikvision.

Huawei P40 Pro and Pro+ draw in crowds, P40 barely gets noticed

Exp. release 2020, June
226g, 9mm thickness
Android 10.0; EMUI 10.1
256GB/512GB storage, NM.

6.58"

1200x2640 pixels

50MP

2160p

8GB RAM

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

4200mAh

Also known as Huawei P40 Pro Plus 5G

NETWORKTechnologyGSM / HSPA / LTE / 5GLAUNCHAnnounced2020, March 26StatusComing soon. Exp. release 2020, JuneBODYDimensions158.2 x 72.6 x 9 mm (6.23 x 2.86 x 0.35 in)Weight226 g (7.97 oz)BuildGlass front, cerramic back, cerramic frameSIMSingle SIM (Nano-SIM/eSIM) or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 mins)

DISPLAYTypeOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colorsSize6.58 inches, 105.2 cm2 (~91.6% screen-to-body ratio)Resolution1200 x 2640 pixels (~441 ppi density) DCI-P3

HDR10

90HzPLATFORMOSAndroid 10.0 (AOSP + HMS); EMUI 10.1ChipsetHiSilicon Kirin 990 5G (7 nm+)CPUOcta-core (2x2.86 GHz Cortex-A76 & 2x2.36 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4x1.95 GHz Cortex-A55)GPUMali-G76 MP16MEMORYCard slotNM (Nano Memory), up to 256GB (uses shared SIM slot)Internal256GB 8GB RAM, 512GB 8GB RAM UFS 3.0MAIN CAMERAFive50 MP, f/1.9, 23mm (wide), 1/1.28", 2.44µm, omnidirectional PDAF, OIS

Periscope 8 MP, f/4.4, 240mm (telephoto), PDAF, OIS, 10x optical zoom

8 MP, f/2.4, 80mm (telephoto), PDAF, OIS, 3x optical zoom

40 MP, f/1.8, 18mm (ultrawide), 1/1.54", PDAF

TOF 3D, (depth)FeaturesLeica optics, LED flash, panorama, HDRVideo2160p@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60fps, 720@7680fps, 1080p@960fps, HDR; gyro-EISSELFIE CAMERADual32 MP, f/2.2, 26mm (wide), 1/2.8", 0.8µm, AF

IR TOF 3D, (depth/biometrics sensor)FeaturesHDRVideo2160p@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60fpsSOUNDLoudspeakerYes3.5mm jackNo 32-bit/384kHz audioCOMMSWLANWi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspotBluetooth5.1, A2DP, LEGPSYes, with dual-band A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS, NavICNFCYesInfrared portYesRadioNoUSB3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-GoFEATURESSensorsInfrared face recognition, fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, color spectrumBATTERY Non-removable Li-Po 4200 mAh batteryChargingFast charging 40W

Fast wireless charging 40W

Fast reverse wireless charging 27WMISCColorsWhite Ceramic, Black CeramicPriceAbout 1400 EUR

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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