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Huawei Wins EISA’s “Best Smartphone of the Year” Award For Second Year RunningWith The P30 Pro
Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) today received an award from the European Image and Sound Association (EISA), a group comprising 55 of the world’s most respected consumer electronics magazines. HUAWEI’s P30 Pro was named “EISA Best Smartphone 2019-2020” by the Association, the second year in a row Huawei has won this category. This doesn’t surprise me at all, I am the very proud owner of a Huawei P30 Pro and the image quality is second to none. The EISA called out the Huawei P30 Pro’s low-light photographic capabilities as being “by far the best you can currently get from a smartphone.” It also praised the ultra-wide lens, portrait mode and…
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ARM Suspends All Business with Huawei
Chip designer, ARM – based in Cambridge, England but now owned by Japan’s Softbank, has decided to suspend all business with Huawei in accordance with US sanctions. “ARM is the foundation of Huawei’s smartphone chip designs, so this is an insurmountable obstacle for Huawei,” said Geoff Blaber, from CCS Insight. “That said, with an abundance of companies in Huawei’s supply chain already having taken action to comply with the US order, Huawei’s ability to operate was already severely affected.” ARM itself depends on some technology that underpins these powerful chips, that originate in the US. The US government has banned all American firms from doing any business at all with…
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Huawei Granted Temporary Reprieve…
Following on from our news story yesterday, The Department of Commerce has announced a 90 day reprieve to an import ban against Huawei. The company now has a Temporary General License to engage with U.S. vendors on a limited basis — in this case, Google will be allowed to provide software updates to Huawei for its Android phones while Huawei’s component suppliers will be able to finish deliveries for previously-made orders. It will also give telcos dependent on Huawei products time to potentially find alternative solutions. This period of grace allows Huawei time to source alternative sources for its US made components. Huawei spent $11 billion last year to procure…
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Huawei Announcement Regarding Google’s Blacklisting
I am looking forward to attending the global launch of the brand new HONOR 20 Series at Battersea Evolution, London, SW8 tomorrow afternoon. HONOR are Huawei’s sub-brand and I was saddened this morning to read, in conjunction with my press invitation, a notice from Google cutting Huawei’s access to key Android apps and services following the United States’ move to blacklist the tech company. Essentially, Google has ceased to provide software and support to Huawei as part of President Trump’s blacklisting of the company and affiliates. So, what does this mean if you own, at the least, one of the 59 million Huawei or Honor smartphones shipped in the first…
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Huawei Presents the First Ever AI Driven Fashion Collection
Huawei, the global technology leader, has today launched “Fashion Flair”, a new smartphone based approach to fashion design that combines the power of smartphone Artificial Intelligence (AI) with creative human flair to generate unique fashion designs of any style. To support the launch of “Fashion Flair”, Huawei partnered with Anna Yang, Creative Director and founder of fashion label ANNAKIKI, to undertake and complete the world’s first 20 piece fashion collection. The collection was unveiled at the iconic superStudio+ in Milan on 9th May 2019.
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Mobile Photography – Huawei P30 Pro Review
Huawei’s new Android smartphone is aimed at photography buffs and features a new tri-camera array, or quad-camera, if you include the separate ToF (Time of Flight) sensor that’s used to measure the subject/object distance for AF and the faux-bokeh effects. We were able to get a P30 Pro in for a closer look. The Huawei P30 Pro continues its association with the German high-end photo brand Leica, and it’s not just a licensing deal. It is according to Leica a synergistic effort, it’s been designed from scratch; it is not the same triple-camera array as found on the P20 Pro. Before delving into the camera spec’s, impressive as they are,…
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Huawei Announces 5G Folding Smartphone with New Folding Screen
This week, it is the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain, a four day showcase for the manufacturers of smartphones to announce and promote their new devices. Last week Samsung of course announced their new folding smartphone, the Galaxy Fold and yesterday, Huawei announced theirs. It is called the Mate X and I cannot wait to test this incredible device. Richard Yu, is the CEO of Huawei and having watched several of his live performances, I know it’s always very exciting. Yu, contemplated the question ““How can we bring the more big innovation to this smartphone industry?” and to be honest, I completely understand. Huawei products are really very good.…
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HUAWEI Tempts Us Again – The New P30 Series
I am very excited to be jetting off to Paris again soon for the very exciting announcement of the brand new Huawei P30 series. It promises to be better than ever. I’ll be reporting live from Paris at this event, so stayed tuned for more news to follow. Yesterday, Samsung announced their new smartphones (we’ll be posting on this shortly), but it is clear to see that their products are retailing at phenomenal prices, on a par with Apple and clearly the public are holding onto their handsets for longer. Huawei have a different approach and it is incredibly exciting – #REWRITETHERULES
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Mobile Photography – Huawei Announces Winners of £10,000 New Working Order
Huawei, the world’s second largest smartphone manufacturer, today announced the winners of its New Working Order Bursary campaign – a £10,000 cash injection prize fund to help three young professionals within Generation Z take their passion projects to the next level. Lewis Hornby, Uma Dassaye and Sam Marchant have been named the overall winners of the competition, receiving a £10,000 cash prize each. The ‘New Working Order’ Bursary was launched in conjunction with research from Dr. Chris Brauer at Goldsmiths, University of London, which revealed that Generation Z are more likely to be motivated by job satisfaction and working for the social good than by money. It also revealed that…
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Mobile Photo Story – Italian Press Trip with Huawei P20 Pro Smartphone
In October 2018, I was invited to test drive the Huawei P20 Pro smartphone with the Huawei UK team and a host of Instagrammers, YouTubers, model – Jasmin Brunner (@jazbrunner) and Photography Mastercraftsman, Alex Lambrechts (@alex_lambrechts). The trip commenced at Leica HQ in Wetzlar, Frankfurt and continued to Naples, Italy. We explored quaint towns on foot, beautiful views via helicopter, stunning shorelines by boat and so much more. These are just a small sample of the many images taken with the P20 Pro Huawei smartphone camera, it’s an incredible device. Huawei has created a genuine alternative to a DSLR with its industry-leading camera technology and its leadership in Artificial Intelligence.…
