Chinese smartphone maker Honor, a spin-off from Huawei Technologies, is counting on artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionise how users interact with its smartphones and help it gain more ground amid intensifying global competition. Honor CEO George Zhao Ming laid out the company’s new AI strategy at a launch event in Barcelona on Sunday, which involves … Read more
Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 is home to countless smartphone announcements, including a couple from Honor. At the event, we learned that both the Honor Magic 6 Pro and Magic V2 RSR (Porsche Edition) are going global. While the company is pushing AI capabilities of the former, the special edition … Read more
Foldable phone shipments in mainland China more than doubled last year in spite of overall weakness in the world’s largest smartphone market, with Huawei Technologies remaining the country’s top vendor in this growing handset segment. Mainland shipments of foldable smartphones reached 7.01 million units last year, up 114 per cent from 3.2 million in 2022, … Read more
Huawei Technologies climbed back to the No 1 spot of China’s smartphone market in the initial two weeks of this year, according to a report by research firm Counterpoint, putting more pressure on 2023 industry leader Apple and major mainland rivals in the world’s largest handset market. This marks the first time Huawei reclaimed the … Read more
Honor X9b durability teased HTech says the Honor X9b is the first in the industry to receive a five-star overall drop resistance certification from Switzerland’s SGS. The handset is confirmed to sport a 6.78-inch 1.5K display with 429PPI, 1.07 billion colours, a 100 percent DCI-P3, 120Hz and 1920Hz PWM Dimming. The Ultra-Bounce Anti-drop Display technology … Read more
Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends Honor took its sweet time to bring the Magic V2 out of China – six months, to be precise. Given the amazing hardware, it’s been a long wait. I’ve had a test unit since July 2023, which didn’t have the software and cameras ready until earlier this month. After using … Read more
Under a strategic partnership between Samsung’s China arm and Baidu AI Cloud, the recently unveiled Galaxy S24 series will deploy the Ernie LLM to perform the handset’s new “Circle to Search” feature that enables users on the mainland to search texts, images or videos via hand gestures, with results provided by the Chinese online search … Read more
When we reviewed the Honor Magic V2 last summer, we told you that the biggest problem with the Chinese vendor’s paper-thin foldable was the limited availability. Priced at around $1,248.99 in China, the thinnest foldable phone in the world would not be available internationally — at least, not initially. Fast-forward to late January, Honor has finally … Read more
Domestic smartphone shipments totalled 289 million units last year, compared with 272 million in 2022, according to the latest report published on Monday by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a scientific research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. That increase was in stark contrast with the 22.6 per … Read more
Apple’s atypical discount drive on the mainland shows the US tech giant’s focus to gain ground in the world’s second-biggest economy amid sluggish global iPhone sales, which has seen the company hit by two ratings downgrades in the first week of this year. Huawei Technologies’ Mate 60 Pro smartphones are seen on display at its … Read more
