Telecom giant Huawei has big expansion plans

[TaiShang]

Telecom giant Huawei has big expansion plans

Telecom giant Huawei has five percent of the global smartphone market, and wants to triple it. It's eyeing the United States, where it seeks to become one of the top three smartphone brands within the next five years. Problem is, many Americans haven't even heard of Huawei. The company is hoping that will change with the launch of its latest smartphone.

Tech tastemakers in New York were introduced to Huawei's new smartphone this week. The device is entering the highly competitive U.S. market, hoping to appeal to those searching for a low-cost option.

"The P8 Lite is a very nice phone at a very nice price," said Avi Greengart, research director of Current Analysis.

The unlocked phone has a price tag of 249 U.S. dollars.

"At 249, you're not getting high end, high end processing features that various phones have like a fingerprint reader and knock your socks off features like that, but you do get a good phone," said Pete Pachal, tech editor of Mashable.

The 4G LTE phone features a five-inch high-definition display screen, a 13-megapixel rear facing camera and 16 gigabytes of memory.

Most phones in the United States are subsidized by wireless carriers who insist on multi-year service agreements. Consumers end up with low upfront costs, but often pay more in the long run.

Demand for unlocked phones is growing. Apple's unlocked iPhone 6 starts at 650 dollars. Huawei's P8 Lite retails for less than half that price.

"I think it's a great model. You could go from carrier to carrier if you want to, theoretically. I don't know how many people are going to go through that trouble, but it's a fine concept," Pachal said.

The tech journalists and analysts I spoke to at the event all seem impressed by the phone and its price. It's lightweight, attractive and has a lot of interesting functions, but they said one of the biggest challenges for Huawei will be in educating Americans on who they are.

Avi Greengart, Research Director, Current Analysis, Full Sot: "Huawei is a name that U.S. consumers are not particularly familiar with. In my research many consumers aren't exactly sure how to pronounce it, who they are or what they do. So Huawei definitely has their work cut out for them on that front."

As a way to instill more confidence in the brand, Huawei has set up a U.S. call center for troubleshooting and is offering a two-year warranty on their phones.

Avi Greengart, Research Director, Current Analysis, Full Sot: "Nobody else offers a two-year warranty on a phone. So this is something that I think will alleviate some of the fears and concerns."

Two years after the U.S. Congress labeled Huawei a potential security threat, the biggest threat posed by the company may be pure business.

 

[chathrapathi]

Huawei on expansion mode! May make enterprise products at Chennai
Targeting more sales in a span of two years, Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei Technologies would manufactures its enterprise products at its Chennai plant. The company's India enterprise business revenue increased almost by 50% during the last financial year, thus it eyes a 10-fold jump in the revenue by March 2017.

"We expect revenues to reach $300 million in the next two years. Once we hit the $100-million mark, we would start manufacturing enterprise products in India itself," Kent Tang Kai, sales director-north region, Enterprise Business Department, Huawei, told the Economic Times.

Presently, the Chennai facility is being used to make telecom network equipment for the Indian market.

Kai said the company's business revenue grew 48% during the last financial year to $30 million in India. Its overall revenue from the South Asian nation stood at $1 billion, and the company expects to double its overall revenue to $2 billion by 2016-17.

Moreover, Huawei is targeting internet service providers/telcos, energy, transportation, media, BFSI, and education verticals for its enterprise solutions and services in India.

It has around 30 enterprise customers in India, including DEN Networks, Hathway, QTel, Adidas, Taj Hotel, BSE and Tata Sky, and competes with the likes of Cisco, Juniper, EMC and HP.

Huawei, through its enterprise division, is also targeting the country's 100 Smart Cities and Digital India projects, and is currently in talks with state and central governments along with private companies for tie-ups.

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei's TalkBand B2 may shine light on Jawbone's way forward
Huawei's latest activity tracker is the first product from its collaboration and integration with Jawbone, which arguably does software and data better than hardware.
June 3, 2015

• 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Huawei on Wednesday launched its TalkBand B2, a wearable device that tracks athletic activity and doubles as a Bluetooth headset. But the more important thing to note about the TalkBand is its integration with Jawbone's Up technology and apps.
  
  If you've followed the Fitbit initial public offering filing, you realize in a hurry that Jawbone's rival has a nice, profitable business. Jawbone has a long history, no IPO and off-and-on cash issues. For instance, I'm looking forward to any Jawbone IPO filing just to see the warranty costs.
  
  
  CNET Review: Huawei Talkband B2
  
  For what it's worth, I was a big fan of the Jawbone UP 24 design, but not so much of the new activity tracking band. And given that I've returned more than 4 Jawbone bands in the last two years I question the company's quality control. Why stick with Jawbone? The app and data.
  In March, Huawei and Jawbone announced a partnershipwhere the UP app will be the preferred health tracking system on the Chinese vendor's wearable devices.
  
  The TalkBand B2 is the first device that's a product of that Huawei-Jawbone collaboration. The hope is that Huawei can do hardware better than Jawbone, which may be better suited for software, apps and design.
  
  Should the TalkBand succeed---it goes for $179---it's likely Jawbone could forge other deals. Perhaps Jawbone's best strategy is to emulate Netflix. Netflix is everywhere, but it doesn't do hardware. Jawbone has the app strength to be everywhere.
  
  
  
  If the TalkBand B2 can automatically use its 6-axis motion sensor to determine whether someone is walking, running, cycling or hitting the hills it could save athletes some bookkeeping.
  
  It remains to be seen whether the TalkBand B2 is a keeper. CNET noted that the B2 is a nice improvement over the original Huawei effort.
  
  However, the Huawei TalkBand B2 could be the start of a better business model for Jawbone.
  
  

 

[pakdefender]

Huawei is gotten really big over the last 15 years.
Reason Nortel went bankrupt was primarily that it could no longer compete against Huawei.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

original article link Telecom giant Huawei has big expansion plans - China.org.cn

 

[Kyle Sun]

Go HUAWEI! Go HUAWEI!
Climb to the upstream of industrial chain, beat qualcomm.

 

[cirr]

China favors Huawei P8 over Samsung Galaxy S6

By Lee Ji-yoon and Kim Yu-ah

Published : 2015-06-07 18:52
Updated : 2015-06-07 18:52

Samsung Electronics’ brand awareness in the all-important Chinese smartphone market fell to second place behind China’s Huawei in May, a recent report found Sunday.

According to the report by ZDC, a Chinese market research firm, Huawei topped the list for the first time this year with 15.9 percent awareness, followed by Samsung’s 15.2 percent and Apple’s 12.4 percent.

Samsung, which had been running ahead of its rivals during the January-April period, failed to continue the momentum despite last month’s release of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6.

Samsung Galaxy S6 (left) and Huawei P8

In terms of product awareness, the Galaxy S6 ranked third, feeling the squeeze from Huawei’s more affordable P8 and the still hot-selling Apple iPhone 6, the report said.

In China, the Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6 were priced at the same 5,288 yuan ($850) as of April 31, while the P8 was at 3,588 yuan.

The Chinese debut of the Galaxy S6 and its Edge variant came after Samsung, once the market leader, was outpaced by Xiaomi, Huawei and Apple in the nation’s smartphone sales in the first quarter of this year.

The company pinned high hopes on the new phone in restoring its market share, beefing up marketing activities to lure customers especially from the iPhone 6 that debuted in September 2014.

Amid the strong sales of the iPhone 6, Huawei also pledged to take on the Korean rival by advancing the P8 launch to the same week of the Galaxy launch.

“Huawei elevated its brand awareness in May, launching six new models,” said the report. “The company is expected to continue the recent vigor in June.”

The ZDC report is one of the key indicators to gauge the marketability of new mobile devices in China.

China favors Huawei P8 over Samsung Galaxy S6

 

[cirr]

Huawei: shipments of mobile phones exceeded 10 mln in one single month

Posted: 11 Jun 2015, 09:24

The President of Huawei consumer business BG mobile phone device line He Gang said recently: "In May, the monthly global shipments of Huawei smartphones exceeded 10 million for the first time, which laid a good foundation for the shipments of 100 million devices in the annual target."

Huawei claimed that its global smartphone shipments was 75 million in last year, while the target was 100 million in this year, in the first quarter of 2015, shipments of Huawei devices have reached 17.5 million.

In this regard, He Gang said that the monthly shipments of over 10 million devices have never happened before in Huawei, and it’s possible that shipments would exceed 10 million in the following months. At the same time, he also stressed that the breakthrough means that recognition for Huawei brand continues to increase among the consumers, but also that Huawei has improved obviously in the production, supply chain and other aspects.

As we all know, the mate 7 has become the best-selling ever since it was launched in last year, but it also exposed Huawei’s weakness in the shortage of supply. He recalled the situation and said, the original shipment plan for the first two generations of mate family was 100 million, so the initial plan for mate 7 was between 150 to 200 million, but the actual demand was far greater than this, which also caused the short supply of mate 7.

According to He Gang, the monthly shipments of Huawei high-end devices were around 500,000 in the Chinese market and 700,000 to 800,000 in the oversea markets, so the market demand is still strong.

Huawei: shipments of mobile phones exceeded 10 mln in one single month - OFweek News

 

[TaiShang]

According to He Gang, the monthly shipments of Huawei high-end devices were around 500,000 in the Chinese market and 700,000 to 800,000 in the oversea markets, so the market demand is still strong.

Then the target will be probably met and will be met easily, at around 120.000 shipments for the year.

 

[cirr]

Then the target will be probably met and will be met easily, at around 120.000 shipments for the year.

Huawei aims to sell 300-350 million smartphones annually by 2020.

250m in 5 years is good enough for me。

 

[AndrewJin]

Huawei aims to sell 300-350 million smartphones annually by 2020.

250m in 5 years is good enough for me。

Chinese are changing phones now, from 2/3G to smart phones compatible to 4G, although the growth rate of smartphone users slows.
By the end of April, China Mobile has 150 million 4G users with an increase of 10 million new 4G users in April.

Anyone returns back home will see Ads like this, people are tempted to but new 4G smartphone.
@cirr

 

[DaiViet]

I like to see what is in progess or what is already done, not these tyle of article promote company' image. Not sure how Huawai can conquer U.S, it cant even do well in Vietnam where cheap low price phone consider an advantage.

 

[AndrewJin]

Huawei aims to sell 300-350 million smartphones annually by 2020.

250m in 5 years is good enough for me。

Do you have any news for the upcoming Xiaomi5?

 

[TaiShang]

Do you have any news for the upcoming Xiaomi5?

Mostly speculation.

Xiaomi Mi5 coming in November with Snapdragon 820 and Quad HD display?


May 27, 2015


Its that time of the year where Xiaomi will unveil a new flagship smartphone in its Mi series. Earlier reports suggested that the phone will be launched sometime in the months of June-July, however according to a new leak from Weibo, courtesy of Leaksfly, the company has reportedly shifted the launch deadline to November 2015.



The main reason for doing so was to incorporate the brand new Snapdragon 820 chipset inside its latest flagship. The chip would be unveiled by the end of the year, which meant that if Xiaomi wanted the Snapdragon 820 inside the Xiaomi Mi5, then it would have to wait till the very end.

The leakster also revealed a few more specs of the upcoming handset, which includes a 5.5-inch Quad HD display, 4GB LPDDR4 RAM memory, fingerprint recognition, USB type-C port and a thickness of just 5.1mm. There will be two storage variants, namely 16GB and 64GB.

With the new Snapdragon 820 chipset, its also possible that Xiaomi may incorporate Qualcomm’s ultrasound fingerprint recognition system. This unique system does not need any physical buttons or areas for fingerprint recognition like other fingerprint modules in the market. In fact, it can be incorporated under any type of material such as glass or metal and is not even affected by external factors such as dirt, water etc.

While we may see the Xiaomi Mi5 only in November, the company is also reportedly working on a upgrade to last year’s Xiaomi Mi4 which will feature Snapdragon 810 chipset. This should keep the company and its fans busy for a few months, until the monster Snapdragon 820 powered Xiaomi Mi5 makes it to the market.