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Huawei's self-developed operating system for smartphones and other devices, built to replace Android after US sanctions cut Huawei off from Google services.
Huawei is putting its consumer business behind phones on its own chips as deliveries of Huawei-powered cars slide, down 29% in September. Outside China it now sells only several million phones a year, the base from which Richard Yu wants to win back overseas share.
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Huawei is selling the Mate 90 RS Ultimate Design from 12,999 yuan, about $1,940, with the same core hardware as its Mate 90 Pro Max. Apart from a few hardware extras, the premium pays for a patterned glass back and titanium frame that a case would hide.
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Huawei's Mate XT 2 is a third-generation tri-fold running a chip Washington's export controls were meant to prevent. Xiaomi has already published the yuan number Apple's first foldable will be measured against.
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Only Xiaomi undercuts the folding iPhone's reported price; Huawei's trifold sits well above it, and because Huawei ships without Google services the whole contest is priced in yuan inside one market.
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Huawei's own paper puts transistor density up 53.5%, and TrendForce's relay of it does check out, but the number with money attached is Bernstein's call that Nvidia's China share falls from about 40% to 8% next year.
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IDC now expects the steepest annual smartphone contraction on record in 2026, with revenue still growing. The memory bill has stopped being something vendors can absorb.
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