Huawei 'Open' to Selling 5G Chips to Apple

[atomicjuiceboy]

Don't do it...

 

[JPack]

That's actually not how it works. Samsung is allowed to sell their chips to any willing buyers, so long as they take license with Qualcomm first (ie, no license, no chip). Under their contract, Samsung is liable for any rogue customers walking away with Samsung's modems, but not without licenses.

Meizu is known to have used Samsung's Exynos AP for years -- but they eventually signed licensing agreement with Qualcomm.

You may be correct from a legal perspective. From a practical perspective, if Apple could work out a license agreement with Qualcomm, they wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.

To sum it up, it's Intel, Huawei, or bust.

 

[mzs.112000]

I know it's not from Apple, but has anyone seen the Volk Fi phone?
Supposedly, VolkFi phones can communicate directly with each other and create a mesh network for internet. Over 915Mhz, 2.4GHz, and 5GHz bands, can transmit text over 4 miles, voice over 2 miles, and video over 0.8 miles. Maybe Apple could add something like that to a new iPhone, that would be a real innovation.

 

[sarge]

Uh, the largest mobile network operator in the UK has the Huawei P30 on its front page.

https://ee.co.uk/
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It's painfully obvious a lot of Americans lack a global perspective. They've convinced themselves a political ban resulting in less choice in their smartphone market is somehow an advantage for U.S. consumers. Without the opportunity to buy Huawei phones, they think the rest of the world is the same. North Korean citizens use the same mental techniques when they can't buy certain imported goods.

I'm laughing all the way to Brexit w/this comment. One hopes that the sun never sets on ones highly developed sense of snobbery. God save the Queens global perspective and all that.

 

[SK2019]

You know what? The Chinese media are expressing the words that apple had been in contact with Huawei with a few attempts to purchase their 5G chips, which in fact is Apple hasn’t shown any interest. The problem is, the Chinese media is intentionally and incorrectly misleading the audience, might or might not with political purposes.

The bottom line to me, I will stop purchasing iPhone it it ever uses a single chip from Huawei, for the sake of my data privacy and security.

 

[thelatinist]

Why?

Because I value my privacy and do not trust Huawei.

 

[Wando64]

Dear Apple,

I think I speak for every intelligent Apple user and insist you say NO!! To Huawei!
Giving China a free pipeline to data-mine our phones is NOT worth jumping on to a new network that is still YEARS away from functioning across the country!

Dear MadDawg2020,

please just speak for yourself next time.

Thanks.