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Huawei will launch Mate 30 series with or without Google services: Source
Huawei will be moving ahead with the launch of its Mate 30 series, with or without Google services, says a source related to the matter to CNBC.
According to the source, the company will unveil Mate 30 smartphones on September 19 in Munich, Germany. It’ll be powered by Kirin 990 processor (to be launched at IFA) and there will be a 5G variant.
A Google spokesman previously told Reuters that the Mate 30 cannot be sold with licensed Google apps and services due to the U.S. ban on sales to Huawei. A reprieve that the U.S. government announced last week does not apply to new products such as the Mate 30.
Under these restrictions, Huawei can only use the open-source version of the Android OS but cannot pre-load Google proprietary apps including Google Play, Google map, Gmail, and more for the global market.
Unlike the global market, Huawei smartphones don’t need Google services in China because the Chinese version of its smartphones comes pre-installed with modified apps and not Google apps.
The source also told that Huawei has no intentions to use the HarmonyOS because it will be too soon for its launching on smartphones, and it will also damage a long relationship and trust between Huawei and Googe.
Instead, if the company didn’t allow to get Google service license. It will use the open-source version of Android which will not have Google apps pre-installed on the smartphone said t but users can download them afterward, explained the source.
Huawei will launch the Mate 30 series in global markets as well as China despite being not able to use Google services, said the source, as the company will be hoping for some kind of the miracle until the launch originally takes place.
Earlier today, another source said the company can delay the rollout of Mate 30 series after the official unveiling next month and may delay the rollout for the global market as it starts initial sales in China.
However, the company still has not made any official announcement regarding this information and we’ll have to wait for IFA 2019 event to seek some clarification on this subject.
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
Turkey is underway a massive rescue operation and Huawei has raised a hand of help for the country to overcome the earthquake that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent people. During this time, Huawei has provided components, generators, and mobile base stations to help eliminate communication issues in earthquake-affected areas.
On Monday, Turkey is hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, destroying homes and leaving thousands wounded and homeless. As of today, over 17000 people had died in Turkey, surpassing the record of the last decade in the country. This earthquake has now made its place in the most deadly disasters of the century surpassing the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
