Huawei had problems in 2020 and 2019, for that matter. But somehow, well, thanks to sales in China, more phones are shipped than anyone. More than Apple, more than Samsung. That’s due to U.S. bans, its own conservative sales estimates, and all the lack of Android in its flagship smartphone … thing.
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Huawei’s sales declined just five percent to 55.8 million units, compared with a whopping 30 percent drop for Samusung, to 53.7 million smartphones shipped. While smartphone sales fell significantly in the US and elsewhere due to the coronavirus, sales in China suffered far less, and 70 percent of Huawei’s sales are now in its home country. It helps that devices like the P40 Pro are awesome phones if you ignore all the Android element / Google missing.
Huawei’s time at the top may be short: Samsung naturally believes sales will rebound in the next quarter.
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Apple confirms that its new iPhones will be delayed for a few ‘weeks’
The company’s chief financial officer was very candid about the delay in a conference call.
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New iPhones appear in September, usually weeks after an eye-catching press conference at Apple headquarters. Not so, this year. During the company’s post-earnings conference call, the company’s chief financial officer, Luca Maestri, confirmed that Apple’s new iPhones would arrive later than usual, something Qualcomm had hinted at earlier this week.
“As you know, last year, we started selling new iPhones in late September,” said Maestri. “This year, we project that the supply will be available a few weeks later.” In these times of COVID-19 related delays, a few weeks really isn’t that bad. Unless things change, it’s 2020.
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Google publishes its own Pixel 4a ‘leak’
Expect to see it revealed on August 3.
We’ve seen suggestions and renderings of Google’s next budget budget phone floating around for months, and now Google is getting into the conversation. The headlines on your social media pages and a dedicated website introduce placeholder text, and if you manipulate the colors to match the Google logo, the page reveals a release date for your “just what you’ve been waiting for by phone”.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover heads for Mars
It is slated to arrive in February 2021.
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The launch was successful, and the team announced that it received telemetry from the spacecraft and sent commands back to it. Some issues came up during launch but have been fixed. According to deputy project manager Matt Wallace, “with the knowledge of the causes of these problems, we are carrying out the operations necessary to move the spacecraft back from safe mode to normal cruise mode.”
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