Huawei is preparing for a 40% to 60% drop in international smartphone shipments as the Trump administration’s blacklisting hammers one of the Chinese tech giant’s most important businesses.
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Huawei is to delay the launch of its first foldable smartphone, the Mate X, saying it wants to test the device further after rival Samsung suffered issues with its own foldable phone earlier this year.
Google has taken the surprise step of confirming that leaked images claiming to be of its next Pixel smartphone do in fact show the new device.
China’s Hisense is making strong headway in the entry-level and midrange smartphone segments in South Africa, and is eyeing at least 10% market share, in volume terms, by the end of the year.
Google is moving some production of Nest thermostats and server hardware out of China, avoiding punitive US tariffs and an increasingly hostile government in Beijing.
Apple has a backup plan if the US-China trade war gets out of hand.
Microsoft has confirmed its next Xbox console will launch at the end of next year, claiming it is the “most powerful and highest-performing console” the company has ever made.
Facebook has suspended Huawei’s ability to pre-install the social network’s apps on its smartphones.
On Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook used his keynote at WWDC by talking about developers for the first 79 seconds of his on-stage time. Apple then spent the next two hours and 16 minutes talking mostly about itself.
Apple’s growing interest in the videogame industry has been reiterated by the tech giant announcing its Apple TV is to begin supporting Xbox and PlayStation controllers.