Huawei Technologies USA and The Economist Assemble Technology Experts to Discuss Closing the Digital Divide - Tyler Morning Telegraph

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PLANO, Texas, June 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, June 15, Huawei Technologies USA, in partnership with The Economist, will bring together experts for a webinar titled: "Connecting the World: Closing the Digital Divide," to identify and debate critical issues surrounding the lack of broadband access around the world. Panelists include Joy Tan, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Huawei Technologies USA, Elizabeth Stuart, Executive Director of Digital Pathways at University of Oxford, Shamika Sirimanne, Technology and Logistics Director at UNCTAD and Kevin Brown, Principal at EY. The conversation will be moderated by Helen Joyce, Deputy Foreign Editor at The Economist, will begin at 12 p.m. ET on June 15, and can be registered for here.

From health care to manufacturing, and finance to fitness, digital technologies have advanced and transformed every facet of society. Yet roughly, 50% of the global population remains offline. Digital inequality reinforces existing social inequities, excluding disconnected groups and limiting opportunity. While closing this gap is an enormous challenge, both the public and private sectors must work together to accelerate widespread technological change, giving everyone access to affordable and reliable connectivity.

This webinar will discuss how software, hardware and telecommunications companies must collaborate to promote broadband access across the globe. What can stakeholders do to support and develop infrastructure, digital skills training and accelerate innovation? How should global and national level policies and regulations evolve? Which industries stand to benefit, and what must they do now to enable better connectivity? Tune in hear experts answer these questions while exploring how closing the digital divide will boost economic growth and social mobility.

For more information and to register for "Connecting the World: Closing the Digital Divide" visit: https://bit.ly/3c2Occ7

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

Huawei's end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, we create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home life, and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes.

At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have more than 188,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

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First official images of Honor 50 look weirdly like Huawei’s P50 - The Verge

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Honor has released a couple of official images for its upcoming 50 series smartphone via its Weibo page and Twitter. The images focus on the rear of the phone, showing an eye-catching pair of circular camera bumps. The Honor 50 series is currently due to be announced on June 16th.

Amidst a sea of square and rectangular camera bumps, the dual circle design is an interesting look for Honor’s next flagship. It’s also a style that Honor’s former parent company Huawei is planning to use for its next flagship, the similarly-named P50. It’s possible that the two companies finalized their designs before Huawei sold off Honor late last year, but it’ll be strange to see such similar looking devices released from two distinct manufacturers within such close proximity to one another.

From the images it appears as though Honor’s next handset will have four rear cameras in total. The upper camera circle has one large lens, and it’s joined by three more on the lower bump. In contrast, Huawei’s P50 appears to have three lenses on the upper circle, and a single camera paired with a flash on the bottom.

Beyond its design, Honor’s next flagship will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 778G processor, will feature 100W fast charging, and will also come with a “hypercurved screen.” It may also mark the return of Google’s apps and services to Honor’s devices (including the Google Play Store) if a now-deleted tweet from the company’s German Twitter account is to be believed. Honor was prevented from including Google’s software because of sanctions placed on its former parent company Huawei, but these are believed to not apply since it became independent.

A spokesperson from Honor previously declined to comment to The Verge as to whether or not Google’s software would be available on the upcoming 50 series. But with an official launch just round the corner, we won’t have long to wait to find out.

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Kagan: Will Huawei HarmonyOS win against Android? - RCR Wireless News

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Can Huawei HarmonyOS succeed in the marketplace against Android when other competitors like Microsoft and Samsung OS failed? Huawei is one of the largest and most successful wireless network builders in the world. Qualcomm is the other big competitor. Huawei used to use Google Android OS on their smartphones. However, the US Government blocked this. So, they developed their own called HarmonyOS. So, can Huawei succeed when Microsoft and Samsung tried and failed?

The two largest mobile operating systems are Google Andoid and Apple iPhone. Others like Microsoft, Samsung and Blackberry tried and failed to break into this sector. Motorola was the number one handset maker until they fell off their perch in the 1990’s.

That means Android and iPhone seem to have a lock on this area with 80 – 90 percent adoption between them.

In this reality, does HarmonyOS have a chance at success?

Huawei blocked from using Google Android

Huawei if fully aware of this new challenge and would have preferred to continue using Android. However, the US Government stands in the way and will not let Google provide Android to Huawei.

So, Huawei has no choice. They are backed into a corner. In order to stay in the smartphone marketplace, they have to come up with another mobile OS. That’s where HarmonyOS came from.

This was not their choice. They know the chances of success are against them as they were with Samsung, Microsoft and Blackberry. However, to be in the smartphone marketplace, this is a move they have to make.

HarmonyOS may succeed in China, but rest of world is a question

My guess is HarmonyOS will be successful in China, because of national pride. After all, Huawei is a Chinese company.

However, in the markets outside of China, the certainty of success is more obscure. We will just have to wait and see.

Huawei builds networks in many countries. This gives them a stronger chance of success with HarmonyOS than countries which use Qualcomm or other networks.

One important item to remember… heavy hitters like Microsoft, Samsung, Blackberry and more have tried and failed to build their own OS.

So, this is a big challenge.

Can Huawei HarmonyOS succeed where Microsoft, Samsung failed?

If a competitor to Android and iPhone could have been successful, you would think these large and powerful companies with massive customer bases would have been able to make it happen.

They didn’t.

Recently, I have even read stories where Huawei is considering leaving the smartphone marketplace.

Huawei operates in all segments of the wireless industry. They build networks and smartphone and tablets and other devices.

So, if they exit the smartphone, tablet sector, it would be a hit, but they will continue with the networks on a worldwide basis.

Solution to Huawei problem with US Government

I have been watching Huawei over the years and they are under the microscope when it comes to the US and similar markets. And this scrutiny is only intensifying because of the strained relationship between the USA and China.

Unless and until the US and China governments get on friendlier terms, I get the sense Huawei will continue to face more of this kind of pushback.

It’s difficult for them to make headway in the short term because of this.

All that being said, Huawei is not going anywhere. These issues do cut into their growth potential, but on a global scale, they are still one of the top two leader in the wireless networking space, and I see that continuing.

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Huawei's fall hits growth of Sony's chip business - Nikkei Asia

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TOKYO -- Growth of Sony Group's semiconductor business has slowed, reflecting a plunge in shipments of image sensors for smartphones to Huawei Technologies as a result of the U.S.-China trade war.

Although Sony has avoided a fall in the volume of shipments thanks to orders from other Chinese smartphone makers, the recovery of earnings appears likely to be delayed until fiscal 2022 through March 2023 because of weakened demand for sensors for high-end smartphones.

As Samsung Electronics of South Korea, which is strong in processing sensors for midrange smartphones, catches up, Sony is halfway toward recapturing the smartphone market.

"We cannot achieve an earnings recovery in the year through March 2022," said Terushi Shimizu, president and CEO of Sony Semiconductor Solutions, at a press briefing on June 3.

For fiscal 2021, the semiconductor arm of Sony Group expects its operating profit to decline for the second consecutive year to 140 billion yen ($1.26 billion). The projection reflects changes in the smartphone market structure resulting from the trade friction between the U.S. and China.

Huawei had a global market share at the 4% level in terms of shipments in the January-March period, according to U.S. research firm IDC. With the U.S. government banning the export of American technology to Huawei, the Chinese company saw its market share plunge some 14 percentage points from the same quarter of 2020, when it ranked second.

At the expense of Huawei, Samsung, Apple of the U.S. and three Chinese smartphone manufacturers -- Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo -- expanded their shares.

Sony commands half of the global market for image sensors in value. Growing demand for high-definition smartphone cameras, and the trend of using two or more cameras in a smartphone in recent years, have enabled Sony to expand shipments to Apple and Huawei on the back of its advanced technology of producing high-end sensors.

With Huawei losing its momentum, demand for cutting-edge sensors for high-end smartphones has weakened. Sony thus increased shipments to the three Chinese smartphone makers which primarily manufacture middle- and lower-end phones. While sensors for such phones are each priced low, the makers demand improvements in image quality to attract consumers.

Samsung has set an eye toward capitalizing on the "new normal" created by the trade friction between the world's two largest economies, in a bid to recover its lost ground.

Samsung ships nearly 300 million smartphones per year, most of which contain image sensors it produces on its own. While having stable demand, the company is strong at producing high pixel sensors used in midrange smartphones and is enjoying growing demand.

In the global image sensor market, Samsung, with a share of 20%, is trailing Sony, with its 50% share. With Samsung boasting microfabricating technology needed for high pixel sensors, Shimizu said, "We are actually falling behind as far as high pixels are concerned."

But, he added, "we will add new value using technology cultivated in the field of high image quality."

Terushi Shimizu, president and CEO of Sony Semiconductor Solutions, speaks at a press briefing on June 3. (Photo by Masaharu Ban)

Samsung has a large number of manufacturing facilities, including those for memory chips and central processing units. Sony will spend 700 billion yen on production facilities in its semiconductor business under a three-year plan through fiscal 2023, up 20% from the preceding plan. But if the importance of microfabrication technology increases, Samsung may gain an advantage because of its greater leeway for investment, according to a research company.

Sony is also expected to take time before reducing its reliance on the volatile smartphone market. Although the company positions image sensors for automobiles as a growth market and keeps boosting annual sales by 50%, the business is still small in scale. Collaborating with its "Vision S" prototype electric vehicle project, Sony plans to develop a high-performance sensor capable of detecting objects even in the dark and sell it to American and European automakers.

Sony will also challenge for a new business model. While Sony has engaged in the sale of image sensors, it is attempting to establish a recurring model of collecting fees on a continuous basis. Specifically, it will use a sensor equipped with data-processing functions of artificial intelligence it has developed. Data, therefore, can be processed both in the cloud and in the sensor so that the volume of communication can be reduced.

For example, the sensor can be used in a camera at a cashless payment retailer with no cash register and improve the performance of street monitoring cameras.

Sony's AI image sensor has found its way into smart monitoring cameras the city of Rome will put into use in June to optimize the operation of buses by sensing congestion at bus stops or emit light to pedestrians walking through a red light.

Image sensors with data-processing functions of artificial intelligence, developed by Sony, are promoting the rise of new core semiconductors for smartphones. (Photo courtesy of the company)

The semiconductor business centered on image sensors was positioned as an engine of growth when Sony was rehabilitating itself. In fiscal 2019, it contributed to Sony's earnings, logging more than 1 trillion yen in sales and an operating profit ratio of 22% to sales.

Sony Semiconductor has propped up the revival drive despite such difficulties such as damage inflicted on its local plant by a series of earthquakes in Kumamoto Prefecture in 2016.

While striving to address radical changes in the smartphone market, Sony Semiconductor is being tested for whether it can develop new growth sectors such as image sensors for automobiles and AI image sensors.

Cutting-edge semiconductors are also drawing attention from the viewpoint of national security as the government has drafted a policy of courting overseas manufacturers.

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I finally 'get' Huawei's HarmonyOS - but it's definitely not for everyone - TechRadar

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 When Huawei’s HarmonyOS was being shown off at its launch event on June 2, I was getting a live demo of the new jack of all trades operating system in a fancy 5-star hotel where prices for one night start at over £200 and go up to nearly £1,000.

I was shown HarmonyOS running on a tablet, on a smartwatch, on earbuds and more. One demonstration showed a YouTube video on a laptop pausing when the connected smartphone received a call, which was then sent to some paired headphones via the smartwatch. Another use case was a picture being taken of the nearby St Pancras station, which was seamlessly dropped onto a nearby PC for easy editing.

My favorite showcase was when a smartphone was paired with an action camera to record 4K footage, which had the heart rate from a worn smartwatch imposed over the top. This both looked cool, and is probably super useful for adventurers who love to record action footage.

Up until this demonstration, I hadn’t totally understood HarmonyOS - it didn’t seem like Huawei had much to gain in building its own Android rival, because it didn’t solve Huawei phones’ one major problem. 

HarmonyOS on the Huawei Watch 3 (Image credit: Future)

Ever since the Huawei ban, the company’s phones haven’t been allowed to use Google Mobile Services apps, including the Play Store and the massive library it provides access to.

Now, I think I get it. Huawei’s focus isn’t in building killer new software, but it’s providing you with a reason to buy into its ecosystem of gadgets. Huawei wants you to buy more than just a smartphone.

HarmonyOS isn’t an Android copy

I was under the impression HarmonyOS was an attempt by Huawei to make its own software because of the restrictions imposed by the Huawei ban. Maybe it was, but what I was shown at the HarmonyOS demo gave me a different idea of  its purpose.

HarmonyOS’ whole schtick is that the same operating system works between gadgets. Your smartphone will run the same software, and therefore apps and systems, as your watch or tablet or headphones. It lets all your gadgets work synchronized.

Sure, this is comparable to Apple’s ecosystem of devices, or even Google’s various softwares, plus the Bluetooth connectivity standard makes it easy for most kinds of device to work together. But different Apple products, or Google gadgets, all run varying operating systems, and since HarmonyOS devices all run literally the same operating system, it should make it easier for developers to design apps that work in tandem between platforms.

Take, for example, the demonstration I described of a smartphone pulling video from an action cam, stats from a smartwatch and recording it all in 4K - that seems like something Apple or Android devices would struggle with. For HarmonyOS, that was seamless.

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro ran Android with EMUI (Image credit: Future)

Huawei is one of many companies to have a 1+X+N strategy, where the ‘1’ is your smartphone which controls ‘X’ number of close products like smartwatches and headphones (in Huawei’s case it’s 8), then ‘N’ represents a wide ecosystem of other smart products like printers, games consoles and so forth. 

What does that really mean? It means your smartphone is the center of a big web of connected devices.

Having used Android phones along with Wear OS, Google Chromecast and more, which often have connection problems and issues which make them frustrating to use, I really appreciate the seamless form of connectivity that HarmonyOS offers.

Huawei clearly pictures you using all its products - having a Huawei Watch 3 on your wrist, Mate 40 Pro in your pocket, MatePad Pro 12.6 in your bag, Vision 4K TV on your wall, MateBook X Pro on your desk and FreeBuds 4 in your ears. The list of its products goes on, and once all are on HarmonyOS, they should work in beautiful… well, harmony.

But while this Huawei-centric future sounds lovely, it’s also too exclusive.

Harmony on your phone, chaos at the bank

If HarmonyOS is the ‘strength-in-numbers’ type of operating system, which becomes truly useful when you’ve got loads of gadgets, then it logically follows that you’ll only make the most of it when you’ve spent loads of money on Huawei’s tech.

Huawei Matebook X Pro 2021 (Image credit: Future)

But when you look at the price tags on lots of Huawei’s output - bear in mind that it’s generally a premium-priced company - you’ll soon realize the problem with this. HarmonyOS is only accessible if you’ve got plenty of money, especially since it banks on you owning not just a few core smart gadgets, but a wide web of peripheral ones.

In the UK, where I live, we’re less than a year on from a recession, and because of Covid-19 the vast majority of people globally have had their finances hit hard. The number of people who can afford Huawei’s (or any other company’s) expensive phones, tablets, TVs, monitors, smartwatches and more is pretty low.

This echoes a general problem with internet of things gadgets, which are smart connected homes and gadgets that all talk to each other. It only really works if you can afford home hubs for every room, intelligent kitchen appliances, wrist-mounted powerhouses, color-changing lighting and so on, and each of those gadgets comes with a high price compared to their non-smart counterparts (or just not owning them at all).

Standing in that London hotel, marveling at the displays and demonstrations, the thought of ‘wow, this is cool’ jostled elbows with the knowledge that this kind of tech will forever be out of reach for people like me.

I won’t ever own a smart home, and I’m okay with that. My TV will never ‘speak’ to my computer, mainly because I don’t own either of those things. Tech isn’t for everyone - lots of companies thrive by putting out high-priced gadgets that few can afford - but some of us have to settle for cheaper tools. 

That’s HarmonyOS, then - like the hotel I was standing in when I saw it, it’s not for everyone. It’s undoubtedly cool, and flashy, with loads of uses if you’re really invested. But the sheer cost of entry makes it unattainable for lots of people out there, myself included.

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