Huawei makes a mean smartphone. However, 2019 was an exceptionally tough year for the Chinese telecommunications company. US-led sanctions had barred it from accessing vital hardware and services vendors like Android, Intel and Broadcom. To add insult to injury, Huawei's headline-grabbing S$54 smartphone promotion last year in Singapore backfired spectacularly
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Despite Motorola's nostalgic #throwback Razr 2019, Samsung and Huawei still rule the roost when it comes to headlines about foldable phones. The three companies have interestingly adopted very different approaches with their foldables - Huawei screen-out, Samsung screen-in, and Motorola folding a regular-shaped phone screen-in to form a square. Neat.
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If you're looking for an Android phone with some budget constraints, there are two highly attractive yet contrasting options. The Huawei Nova 5T (SGD 598) and the Google Pixel 3a (SGD 659, but can be found as low as around SGD 599) dominate this price point around the mid to
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Huawei has made the headlines again - though briefly for the better, it quickly descended into chaos widely reported by CNA, The Straits Times, and other online publications in Singapore and the region. Image: Huawei Singapore Here are the facts: the company released a promotion targetted at the "Merdeka Generation"
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Things are looking up for Huawei again. Around the world, retailers are retaliating against the uncertainty with guarantees on Huawei phones. In Singapore, major electronics retailers Challenger and Courts have stepped forward with a 100% money back guarantee as part of a two-year assurance warranty program. As part of Trump's
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The media has been quick to jump on the catastrophic string of events that followed US President Donald Trump's inclusion of Chinese tech giant Huawei onto the "Entity List". First Google, with the looming threat of blockage of access to its vital Android and Google suite services; Intel, Qualcomm and
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It has been nothing short of terrible timing for Huawei sub-brand Honor. Just days ahead of the Honor 20 Launch in London, companies across the United States announced sanctions against the Chinese telecommunications giant. The Honor 20 series of smartphones includes the Honor 20, Honor 20 Pro and Honor 20
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Just in lieu of Google's high-profile compliance with US policy requiring interdiction of Huawei, fellow American tech companies have fallen in line with rulings regarding Huawei's status on the "Entity List". These have included major chipmakers Intel, Qualcomm and Broadcom, along with memory chip makers Micron Technology and Western Digital.
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With the P30 slogan, "Rewrite the Rules of Photography", emblazoned across the top of the Huawei Singapore campaign microsite, now taken down, the company appeared to be gearing up for their upcoming launch on the 26th of March in Paris. [caption id="attachment_135234" align="alignnone" width="212"] An image from the Huawei P30
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Huawei revealed its periscope camera technology to be implemented on smartphones at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. A strange, new contender to the world of smartphone features, many struggle with it despite a wild year in 2018, filled with notches big and small, motorised selfie cameras, and a
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Just yesterday, Huawei has announced the Balong 5000, a 5G multi-mode chipset, which is to be implemented in the brand's first commercial 5G device - the Huawei 5G CPE Pro. Aimed for a wide variety of users and usage applications, the Balong 5000 will benefit home broadband devices, vehicle-mounted devices,
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After several weeks of teases and leaks, the Huawei Nova 4 has been announced. Featuring its iconic ‘hole-punch’ cutout in the display to accommodate its single 25-megapixel front-facing camera, the Nova 4's iconic design has been seen on the Samsung Galaxy A8s earlier last week, and on Huawei sub-brand Honor
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This Thursday, Canada had arrested the CFO of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei at its Vancouver airport, pending the possibility of extradition to the United States. Meng Wanzhou is the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, who also happens to be a former People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer and elected member
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Launched in London yesterday, the Huawei Mate 20 series is the brand's most ambitious yet. It brings over the triple camera set-up found on its previous P20 line of smartphones but fits them in a package that is smarter and more powerful than ever. These phones will be available in
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Photography was what put Huawei up amongst the top global smartphone manufacturers. While previous iterations of its smartphones had good performance and great cameras, the Mate 10 was the first one to combine an incredible Leica-coproduced camera array with top-notch AI smarts and flagship-level processing. The Huawei P20 and P20
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Announced at IFA 2018 Berlin, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has just announced its first ever smart speaker, the AI Cube. With Amazon's Alexa voice assistant smarts on board, the AI Cube additionally sports an internet router within. Strangely enough, it comes in a form factor and design reminiscent of the
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Honor, a subsidiary of Huawei, breaks new ground with the launch of their latest Honor Play Series of gaming-oriented smartphones in key markets Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines at a launch event in KL today. Retailing at SGD429/RM1,249/PHP15,990, the newly-released series brings an unparalleled gaming experience to an extremely affordable
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Just after reports of Microsoft's rumoured (and doomed) Surface Phone, codenamed Project Andromeda, Samsung has been in the limelight with evidence surrounding an upcoming foldable smartphone. Suspected to be slated to launch in early 2019, Samsung's phone is rumoured to be launched either in its Note family of pen-enabled smartphones,
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It's that time in your phone's life when it starts to get considerably laggy and buggy, and you're trying to stretch your dollar. Fret not: you're not alone - smartphones can be quite a substantial investment, but they've fortunately grown more affordable and have become much better value propositions. This
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