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https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/27/huawei-drone-charging-cell-towers/
Huawei is considering cell towers that wirelessly charge drones
Cell towers could power the drones that fly above them.

James Trew, @itstrew
6h ago in Robots
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Huawei's big news at MWC was, of course, the P10 handset and a new watch. The company does have its fingers in other pies, though, and one of those is the drone game. Far away from the exhibition halls where all the smartphones are on display is an area called "Innovation City" (it's more of a hamlet, but we'll go along with it). Here, Huawei is demoing a number of quirky ideas, one of which is a grand plan to help solve the short battery lives of drones -- and it's as curious as it is clever. In case you were worried, that's a scale model of a cell tower above. The plan isn't to have mega drones.

The concept is part of Huawei's X Labs project (in partnership with China Mobile). The team behind it identified what it thinks are the two main problems when it comes to using drones for cell site inspection: battery life, and GPS interference from buildings. A spokesperson suggested that GPS issue is also often a significant contributor to the battery life issue. The proposed solution is to have cell towers boost GPS data, passing it to the drone while also providing wireless charging.

In the future, the company hopes that wireless charging will be good enough that the drone won't need to land at all, but that seems a few years off, especially since we can barely charge a phone more than a few feet across the room right now. Still, if the technology develops fast enough, it could have useful implications that go broader than just cell tower inspection.

China Mobile (Huawei's partner on this project) already has real-world plans for its network that involve drones. Last summer it outlined a collaboration with Ericsson to have 5G-enabled quadcopters act as relay points between two cell towers to help ease handover problems. With a typical flight time for most drones being around 30 minutes, this is a temporary solution at best -- one that might provide some impetus to crack this power issue for good.

Click here to catch up on the latest news from MWC 2017.

 

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Huawei set to narrow gap with Apple
Shanghai Daily, February 28, 2017

Huawei Technologies is set to narrow its market share gap with Apple Inc to under 5 percentage points in the global smartphone market in 2017, research firms said yesterday.

Sales of global smartphones are seen at more than 1.44 billion units this year. Huawei is estimated to take a 11.7 percent share of the market to follow Apple’s 15.7 percent, representing a 4-percentage-point gap in market share this year, down from a 5.1-percentage-point gap last year, said TrendForce.

Chinese handset makers are gaining and consolidating market shares globally, especially in the middle and high-end segments, and becoming competitive rivals of Samsung and Apple, said Anthony Scarsella, analyst at International Data Corp.

Huawei, which released its flagship model P10 with Leica camera and a curved screen at the world’s biggest mobile fair Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, aims to become the world’s No. 1 vendor by 2020, the Shenzhen-based company said previously.

BOE, a Beijing-based display maker, was No. 1 for the first time in sales of large LCD (liquid crystal display) units in January with a 22.3 percent share, said IHS Markit.

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Huawei dazzles at global show
By MA SI | China Daily | Updated: 2017-02-28

Richard Yu, chief executive officer of Huawei's consumer business, holds up a new P10 device during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb 26, 2017. REUTERS

Chinese players steadily increase their presence in overseas markets

Chinese smartphone vendors Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp are stealing the limelight at this year's Mobile World Congress, as they step up efforts to grab a bigger share of the high-end segment.

The moves came as Chinese players steadily increase their presence in overseas markets and take advantage of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's exploding smartphone crisis to accelerate growth.

Huawei unveiled its latest flagship handset－the P10－in Barcelona on Sunday, right before the opening of the telecom industry's biggest conference. The new handset features front and back cameras developed with the German optics company Leica, which the firm hopes will replicate the success of the P9, its most popular premium device ever.

ZTE also made a big splash with its prototype handset, which can download data at 1Gbps, which is 10 times faster than most smartphones currently on the market. Dubbed the "Gigabit Phone", the device is expected to go into mass production early next year, in a move to prepare for the upcoming commercial application of 5G technology.

"Chinese smartphone vendors strengthened their position as competitive contenders against Samsung and Apple Inc," said James Yan, research director at Counterpoint Technology Market Research.

"It is Chinese players, not foreign firms, that are actively experimenting with new technologies," he said, adding that ZTE's latest phone shows that in the next 10 years, 5G-driven applications, such as augmented reality content and instant cloud storage, will become available on smartphones.

Though Samsung and Apple still hold the top two spots in the global smartphone market, they are losing ground to Chinese smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo Electronics Corp and vivo Mobile Communication Technology.

Huawei, Oppo and Vivo accounted for a combined market share of 21.6 percent last year, up from 13 percent in 2015, data from IDC show.

Samsung, whose reputation tumbled after its Galaxy Note 7's recall, did not showcase a new handset at the Barcelona event, and Apple, as usual, just skipped the gathering.

"Huawei is maximizing Samsung's unfortunate issues with its battery, and, if Huawei continues to invest in its brand-building strategies, it will become the No 2 smartphone brand," said Ben Little, co-founder of innovation consultancy Fearlessly Frank.

Huawei is already the world's third-largest smartphone maker. Last year, the Shenzhen-based company shipped 139 million smartphones worldwide, an increase of 29 percent year-on-year.

Huawei's market share in 33 countries exceeded 15 percent and in another 18 countries topped 20 percent in the first half of 2016, according to German research firm GfK.

Cecily Liu and Liu Zheng contributed to the story.

 

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https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/27/huawei-drone-charging-cell-towers/
Huawei is considering cell towers that wirelessly charge drones
Cell towers could power the drones that fly above them.

James Trew, @itstrew
6h ago in Robots
346Shares

Huawei's big news at MWC was, of course, the P10 handset and a new watch. The company does have its fingers in other pies, though, and one of those is the drone game. Far away from the exhibition halls where all the smartphones are on display is an area called "Innovation City" (it's more of a hamlet, but we'll go along with it). Here, Huawei is demoing a number of quirky ideas, one of which is a grand plan to help solve the short battery lives of drones -- and it's as curious as it is clever. In case you were worried, that's a scale model of a cell tower above. The plan isn't to have mega drones.

The concept is part of Huawei's X Labs project (in partnership with China Mobile). The team behind it identified what it thinks are the two main problems when it comes to using drones for cell site inspection: battery life, and GPS interference from buildings. A spokesperson suggested that GPS issue is also often a significant contributor to the battery life issue. The proposed solution is to have cell towers boost GPS data, passing it to the drone while also providing wireless charging.

In the future, the company hopes that wireless charging will be good enough that the drone won't need to land at all, but that seems a few years off, especially since we can barely charge a phone more than a few feet across the room right now. Still, if the technology develops fast enough, it could have useful implications that go broader than just cell tower inspection.

China Mobile (Huawei's partner on this project) already has real-world plans for its network that involve drones. Last summer it outlined a collaboration with Ericsson to have 5G-enabled quadcopters act as relay points between two cell towers to help ease handover problems. With a typical flight time for most drones being around 30 minutes, this is a temporary solution at best -- one that might provide some impetus to crack this power issue for good.

Click here to catch up on the latest news from MWC 2017.

Huawei is unstoppable. A global giant in the making.

 

[艹艹艹]

Huawei and LG Vie for the Spotlight at Mobile World Congress
by
Marie Mawad
Mon Feb 27 2017 00:02:00 GMT+0800 (中国标准时间)Mon Feb 27 2017 16:59:47 GMT+0800 (中国标准时间)

Huawei Technologies Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are angling to steal the show at this year’sMobile World Congress, ushering in new smartphones that each hopes will fill a void created by the absence of a new handset from the usually dominant Samsung Electronics Co.

A day before the industry’s biggest conference gets going in Barcelona, LG hosted an event to show off itsnew G6smartphone with and edge-to-edge display -- no plastic or metal bezel around it. Huawei updated its flagship line, introducing theP10phone with Leica camera technology and curved edges at its own event on Sunday.

With Apple Inc. skipping the gathering as it has in previous years and Samsung introducing new tablets instead of phones, Europe’s technology mecca is a prime stage for smaller handset makers striving to become household names. Both Huawei and LG over the past years have gone from low-cost, basic phones to products that rival the features of Samsung’s Galaxy or Apple’s iPhone atcheaper prices.

“As the two leading players continue to battle for the top spot, several Chinese vendors have solidified their position as valid contenders,”Anthony Scarsella, a research manager at IDC, said in areportthis month. “They will need to find growth beyond their home turf to eventually knock off either Samsung or Apple at the top.”

Nokiabrand for its devices, unveiled the Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 smartphones that will each sell for under 190 euros ($200), along with anew versionof its Nokia 3310 feature phone.Lenovo Group Ltd., which acquired the Motorola handset business three years ago, showed the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus premium devices.

On Monday,Sony Corp.and Line Corp., Japan’s most popular messaging service, said they are consideringjoining forcesto develop devices powered by artificial intelligence.

Losing Ground
While Samsung and Apple continued to dominate global smartphone sales last year -- with about 21 percent of shipments for the Korean company and almost 15 percent for its Cupertino, California-based rival -- they both lost ground to China’s Huawei, Oppo and Vivo,IDC’s reportshowed.

Samsung’sreputationamong U.S. consumers crumbled after the Galaxy Note 7’s recall and eventual abolition unearthed flaws in the Korean company’s product safeguards, according to areportpublished earlier this month. The South Korean giant has presented its newest flagship smartphone at or just ahead of the Barcelona event for several consecutive years, though not this time around.

Instead, the company on Sunday showed two new tablets and said its newest flagship willstart sellingon March 29.

Meanwhile,expectationsthat the next iPhone will drive a resurgence in sales have been boosting Apple shares this month. The latest available model, the iPhone 7, failed to persuade as many existing customers to upgrade as its predecessor did.

Huawei, whichhas vowedto displace Apple and Samsung from the top of the global smartphone rankings in five years, aiming for market share of 25 percent globally, reached double-digit share of smartphone shipments for the first time in the fourth quarter of last year, at 10.6 percent of a total of 428.5 million units, according to data by IDC.

For Asian manufacturers, Europe is a good place to start before targeting the U.S., and that may be increasingly true amid President Donald Trump’s “America First” rhetoric. Cheaper phones have done well in countries like Spain, where mobile subscriptions are sold without a handset subsidy. In Italy, subsidies are still a core part of carrier strategies, but there are also consumers who buy prepaid packages -- and with them phones that aren’t as expensive upfront.

 

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This is cool.

Now if Huawei can go a step further and wirelessly charge electric vehicles......

 

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First impressions: Huawei’s P10 retains Leica dual camera and ups the processor speed

Ben Sin
ben.sin@scmp.com

Watch: Released on the eve of the Mobile Phone Congress, Huawei’s new flagship product ticks all the boxes for a premium smartphone


PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 28 February, 2017, 11:14am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 28 February, 2017, 11:37am

Huawei’s launch event at MWC 2017 (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona for its new flagship phone was perhaps a good example of how high and fast the Chinese phone maker has risen in the global mobile landscape.

It was so packed that close to 100 media representatives were unable to catch a glimpse of the P10/P10+. I was one of the lucky ones who made it in, but that was after standing in a bottleneck by the entrance for 20 minutes. The scene felt more like a mosh pit than a phone launch.

A senior Huawei representative told me the large turnout was completely unexpected. “It wasn’t like this last year,” he said, apologising repeatedly. Chalk it up to lesson learned for a company relatively new to the big boy’s table.

So let’s get down to business. The Leica-branded dual camera set-up is back, and they still work the same way: one lens captures images in full colour, the other in black and white (which can absorb more light information).

The P10’s camera algorithm then combines the two images to form a more dynamic shot with better lighting. Matching what LG’s mobile chief said at its own phone launch event, Huawei’s head of consumer sales Jim Xu told me the company focused more on the software and algorithm side than pure specs this time. “This is our third collaboration with Leica, and together we have tweaked the algorithm for a better photography experience,” he said.


I haven’t had much time to test the P10 yet, but I can say the P9 and Mate 9 are among 2016’s best mobile shooters.

Processor-wise, the P10 runs the same Kirin 960 as the Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro, which in my opinion is the fastest chip on the market, even surpassing the Snapdragon 821 and Samsung’s Exynos 8890.

The P10 has a 3,200 mAH battery while the P10+’s is bumped up to 3,750. Huawei’s software has very aggressive battery saving features (not always a good thing) so rest assured both phones will be enough to last a full day.

The P10’s display is a 5.1-inch 1080P LCD panel, while the P10+ rocks a 5.5-in Quad HD AMOLED display for deeper blacks.

Both phones are easy to hold, as Huawei’s opted for an iPhone-like body with rounded corners instead of last year’s squarer P9. The company also moved the fingerprint sensor to the front of the phone, a departure from previous Huawei releases.


Currently, Huawei has the third largest market share in world, behind Apple and Samsung, and while the company has a strong hold on markets on the mainland and various parts of Europe, the US is one area the company hasn’t had much luck.

Xu told me the company is working on getting the P10 stateside. In the meantime, the P10 will launch in Asia and Europe in March, priced at (relatively pricey compared to other Chinese phones) US$685 and US$740 respectively for the standard and plus version.

http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/artic...0-retains-leica-dual-camera-and-ups-processor

 

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P10

手机周刊：华为P10正面指纹将至 小米6或仍抢不到

网曝华为P10渲染图（图片引自微博）

 

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P10

网曝华为P10渲染图（图片引自微博）

Huawei sent this guy a P10

 

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Huawei ranked #25 in USPTO patents for 2016 | IFI

According to IFI Claims Patent Services, China's telecom-giant Huawei was ranked #25 among all companies worldwide in the number of USPTO patents-granted.

Interestingly, Taiwan's TSMC was ranked at #9.
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Top 50 USPTO Patent Assignees in 2016 | IFI Claims Patent Services

 

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Huawei ranked #25 in USPTO patents for 2016 | IFI

According to IFI Claims Patent Services, China's telecom-giant Huawei was ranked #25 among all companies worldwide in the number of USPTO patents-granted.

Interestingly, Taiwan's TSMC was ranked at #9.
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Top 50 USPTO Patent Assignees in 2016 | IFI Claims Patent Services

Three Taiwan firms are among Top 100 patent filers worldwide: Honghai Precision, TSMC, Inventec. See WIPO 2016 Report.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/un-w...global-ranking-of-171-countries.462744/page-3

 

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Huawei ranked #25 in USPTO patents for 2016 | IFI

According to IFI Claims Patent Services, China's telecom-giant Huawei was ranked #25 among all companies worldwide in the number of USPTO patents-granted.

Interestingly, Taiwan's TSMC was ranked at #9.
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Top 50 USPTO Patent Assignees in 2016 | IFI Claims Patent Services

Amazing. Greater China companies are moving up the value chain. Still tough competition up there.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Amazing. Greater China companies are moving up the value chain. Still tough competition up there.

Yes China has 23 among top 100 filers in WIPO 2016 report, see below ranked by nations. A pleasant increase from previous year's report, but still very tough road ahead, more large firms needed.

On topic, Huawei is among top 100, also note it's number one largest user of PCT facility provided by WIPO, i.e. Huawei is actively seeking patent protection overseas for techs, see page 60 on http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_941_2016.pdf

 

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Telecom Namibia, Huawei bring faster wireless network to coastal towns
(Xinhua) 09:33, March 17, 2017

WINDHOEK, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Telecom Namibia (TN) in conjunction with Chinese company Huawei Technologies has completed the first phase of a time-division duplex long-term evolution (TD-LTE) high-speed wireless network roll-out in Namibia.

TN Managing Director, Theo Klein on Thursday announced the developments and said Huawei's end-to-end 4G solution has been deployed at the coastal towns, where the roll-out began, as part of the first phase.

Klein said the coastal sites with active TD-LTE equipment are Henties Bay, Swakopmund and Walvis Bay as well as Langstrand.

According to him, TN first deployed a nationwide WiMAX 802.16d network in 2007, but to meet growing business customers demand for higher throughput, the company committed to a fixed network technology upgrade that offers a transition path to LTE.

Klein said that Huawei's 4G solution for a commercial broadband network enables TN to develop and provide new product offerings capacity for a growing base of small enterprises and residential users.

Meanwhile, Klein said TN plans to replace the existing WiMAX FDD base stations with TD-LTE base stations in high density urban areas to bring enhanced connectivity to customers.

"We believe that TD-LTE services will contribute to government's vision of broadband development and building Namibia's digital economy," he added.

 

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Chinese tech giant unveils massive R&D program in New Zealand
(Xinhua) 16:06, March 21, 2017

WELLINGTON, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei announced Tuesday it is making a massive investment in research and development in New Zealand.

The plans included the building of a cloud data center and establishment of innovation labs in Christchurch and Wellington, Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said in a statement.

The company would spend 400 million NZ dollars (281.8 million U.S. dollars) over five years on the investments, according to the New Zealand government.

Ren said he had met with New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English on Tuesday to discuss ICT (information and communications technology) infrastructure and digital transformation.

He also outlined the company's investment plan for New Zealand, including local procurement, research and development, and cloud computing infrastructure initiatives.

"New Zealand's open and fair trade environment, and its emphasis on developing new technology, facilitates our ongoing commitment," Ren said in the statement.

"New Zealand has rich tourism resources, and highly developed agricultural and trade sectors. Digital transformation empowered by advanced ICT technology can enable New Zealand to become better connected with the world, and transform its traditional strengths into driving forces of economic growth."

Huawei would work with local partners to build a New Zealand cloud data center, and would open an innovation lab at Victoria University of Wellington this year.

The lab will focus on the use of big data, and how to maximize the potential of the Internet of Things through future technology such as 5G.

Huawei would also seek new partnerships to establish an innovation lab in Christchurch.

It would also enable 100 New Zealand undergraduate students to travel to China over the next five years to study learn about cutting-edge technology and participate in cultural exchanges.

The company would open a regional office in Wellington, purchase more goods and services locally, and help local businesses integrate into its global supply chain network.

Huawei began its operations in New Zealand in 2005 and has provided much of the technology behind the New Zealand government's ultra-fast broadband initiative.

Economic Development Minister Simon Bridges said the depth of the investment would touch many areas of the economy and open up global opportunities for New Zealand.

"The initiatives that Huawei is committing to will also help strengthen our research and development activity and capability building in the digital and technological world," Bridges said in a statement.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Yes China has 23 among top 100 filers in WIPO 2016 report, see below ranked by nations. A pleasant increase from previous year's report, but still very tough road ahead, more large firms needed.

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On topic, Huawei is among top 100, also note it's number one largest user of PCT facility provided by WIPO, i.e. Huawei is actively seeking patent protection overseas for techs, see page 60 on http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_941_2016.pdf

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These are world wide patents, right?

That means patents filed in individual countries as well right?