Huawei Closing in on Apple, Aims to Become World's Largest Smartphone Maker Within Four Years

[fyun89]

China has bad reputation for espionage. Also, Apple and Samsung each has a very solid fan base... It's going to be tough battle.
Yes. Samsung really seem to have very strong fan base.. Almost no one around me in real life is led down by the battery incident and Samsung admiting their mistake even enhanced the reputation.

 

[Johnny907]

Make more low profit products! Top off the landfills!

Because people with limited income should take a back seat to your smugness and superiority complex? Got it.

 

[bozzykid]

If they want to make a dent in the US market, theyneed to drop their god awful UI and stick stock Android on their phones.

Motorola tried stock android and lost market share eventually getting bought by Lenovo. There is no proof that stock android helps sell phones. Samsung is doing just fine without stock android.

 

[mdelvecchio]

Looks like another iPhone-ripoff to me. call me when it happens

 

[FenixA2Z]

Do they work on US networks?

Yes

 

[admob71]

Make more low profit products! Top off the landfills!

So you prefer to buy high profit margin products? How strange...

 

[Mousse]

Motorola tried stock android and lost market share eventually getting bought by Lenovo. There is no proof that stock android helps sell phones. Samsung is doing just fine without stock android.

You haven't had to deal with their Emotion UI. Take it from a guy who had suffered an earful and sleep on a lumpy sofa for several weeks. Stock Android is way, WAY better than what Huawei's software.

One more thing, Huawei's hardware is superior to Moto's for at the same price range.

 

[newyorkone]

Sell more phones? Yeah, maybe, but any crap brand can do that (look at Samsung). Better smartphone? Never. And that name brand just rolls right off the tongue...smh

 

[Will.O.Bie]

They have to at least be in the US market to dominate and give Apple a run for their money. For the most part, this will make Apple keep on their toes and not lag, not remaking the same phone and just upgrading here and there then give it a new name.

Competition is always good for the industry.

 

[RedOrchestra]

Face it ... who really needs a $700 iPhone / $900 in Canada . PLUS tax?

 

[creediddy]

Just a reminder that biggest doesn't mean best.

I agree!

35 million Huawei handsets sold is equivalent to 10 million iPhone's sold. It's that simple.

Apple is content with selling 225-250 million iPhone's a year and still more profitable than all of Android combined.

 

[btrach144]

who?

 

[Michael Goff]

Face it ... who really needs a $700 iPhone / $900 in Canada . PLUS tax?

Face it. How many people really need a smartphone in general?

 

[admob71]

Sell more phones? Yeah, maybe, but any crap brand can do that (look at Samsung). Better smartphone? Never. And that name brand just rolls right off the tongue...smh

Why the Butt hurt? Feeling nervous?...

 

[RedOrchestra]

Apple is content with selling 225-250 million iPhone's a year and still more profitable than all of Android combined.

AGAIN ... you just need to be profitable. Who cares about Apple's sales number

 

[Gill Bates]

The P9 Lite is a damn good phone for very little money. And extremely popular
I can easily see Huawei skyrocket (even more) within short time.

Nokia could also become very interesting, depending on their choices/plan

 

[AppleScruff1]

So you prefer to buy high profit margin products? How strange...

You must be new here. Welcome to Macrumors where Apple lovers care more about Apple's money than they do their own.

 

[RedOrchestra]

You must be new here. Welcome to Macrumors where Apple lovers care more about Apple's money than they do their own.

TOO funny.

 

[mi7chy]

Maybe next time I go buy a new car I'll grab my ankles and proclaim how much more I paid over invoice. Still strange abnormal consumer behavior though.

 

[boto]

These phones boast incredible hardware, but none of them are compatible with a lot of U.S. antenna bands so you can think twice about getting 4G network.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

I can see no one can pull the wool over your eyes, no siree bob.

What wool. There's no wool. Things are clear to see.
Many U.S. products are built in China. To become a U.S. made product, certain criteria needs to be met, even when these come from China.
So... what's the problem?
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Thousands of low-priced Android phones are reportedly sending user data to China.


http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-software-android-phones-stealing-us-data-report-2016-11

What else is new, right?

 

[gixxerfool]

It's a shame about them sending info back to China. Otherwise, I'd consider it.

Oh my your screen name is fantastic.

 

[smacrumon]

Phone sales people are pushing non iPhones aggressively. A friend was persuaded at the point of sale to buy one of these. Not only that, they actually spent more than they would have getting an iPhone. Something is wrong.

 

[x1234]

I have a friend in the carrier business in China and in my opinion that Huawei should keep growing their carrier networking equipment business instead of low margin smartphones. BTW in RAN (Radio Access Network) equiptment, Huawei was first in the industry to do the SingleRAN concept and IP RAN backhaul. They also for a while had the HIGHEST GSM/UMTS network performance of any vendor on the planet beating the European vendors (Ericsson, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent) by about 10-15%. This was the basis of winning network contracts in A LOT of countries (e.g. Bell/TELUS in Canada, Telcel in Mexico, Vodafone in Europe, China Unicom, SoftBank Japan, etc, etc.)

 

[rippley5150]

Do they give trophies for selling the most phones? lol