Posted on 05/23/2019 10:40:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Brittney Jones is something of a rarity among U.S. smartphone users. She prefers Huawei.
She is part of such a small group that the 27-year-old Olympia, Wash., resident says she has never met another Huawei owner, save for the man she bought the handset from for $800 in cash last year after seeing a listing on Craigslist.
Jones bought the device because of its superior front-facing camera, perfect for taking selfies, she said. “I didn’t really care what the name was,” said Jones, a student, who researched the phone online. “It’s not fair that we don’t have access to the best technologies in the U.S. I should be able to just go to the store and buy the best phone out there.”
Huawei — pronounced “hwa-way” — commands a measly 0.03 percent of the U.S. market for handset sales, according to Gartner, and is available primarily on Amazon. But abroad it is a giant and, until a kerfuffle with the Trump administration this month, was on a clear path to overtake Apple as the second-largest seller of mobile phones in the world for the year.
“They are as good or even better than Samsung, but for a lower price,” said Roger Entner, an analyst for Recon Analytics. Its phones — such as the P30 Pro, available to Americans for about $900 on Amazon — have won generally positive reviews. Like Samsung, Huawei phones run on Google’s Android operating software.
Huawei’s microscopic U.S. market share — far behind Apple, Samsung and LG — is due largely to a roughly decade-long spat with the U.S. government over a laundry list of allegations straight out of a James Bond film: espionage, trade violations and intellectual property theft.
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Isn’t Huawei where Pearl Harbor is?
Just what Americans need. A phone with Chinese chips that reports all activities to China.
“So why do so few Americans know about the smartphone giant?”
Because they don’t closely follow business or technology and national security news.
Should we believe them when they vehemently deny this?
Hong Kong and environs were backwards fishing village until it developed into a modern city by the British.
I was recently in Montreal and was surprised at how heavily Huawei was advertising. The company name was all over the place. Here in the states, it seems invisible unless you have a interest in tech security issues of the day.
SMDH..................
I bought a Huawei phone over a year ago. 6’ screen, battery lasts 3x as long as my samsung did, works great and best of all only cost me $200 NEW. Only idiots pay $800+ or whatever for a ridiculously overpriced iphone which is also manufactured in China.
Forgot to mention front and back cams 12 megapixal front.
Huawei uses chips manufactured in the US.
I worked in defense in a civilian firm. We were banned from buying from that company more than 10 years ago. Their products are infested.
RE: Their products are infested.
Has there ever been tests done on their products to confirm this?
Why do media people think they have to have some counterpoint or personal view on an issue? Sorry Brittney you CAN live without your phone.
Dear Brittany. No, you don’t get to buy products in the US made by companies who steal and reverse engineer other people’s intellectual property.
Actually there have to be thousands upon thousands who know the name because they made phones for lots of carriers and were sold in Walmarts, BestBuy and I’m sure many other outlets.
Maybe a 0.03% market share in the consumer market has something to do with it...
Why do so many _americans_ know so little about everything? The land of the lost...
I bought (and still have) a Huawei “phablet” I purchased through Consumer Cellular a few years ago and I loved it even though the extra-large smartphone didn’t fit into tight spaces sometimes. The only problem was that Huawei refused to upgrade the Android OS when more and more programs refused to work with the older OS. So, Consumer Cellular sold me a Motorola that is smaller and constantly screwing up.
The camera part of it was great and I cracked jokes about the rumors of Chinese spyware in it because I’m not involved in anything illegal or suspicious. The screen size and resolution were terrific.
I’d still be using it today if it had only let the phone upgrade to newer Andoid OS’s as the demands changed. It’s now just of very pricey brick.
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