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We’re a few days away from completing the 2020 calendar year, and it’s been a quite a hectic year for everybody. In times of troubles, the smartphone industry had been under a two-prong attack from both an economic stand-point as well as the from a product maturity standpoint – trying hard to innovate with new features to convince users to upgrade their previous generation devices. This year, we’ve seen several new industry trends make breakthrough advances in terms of technology in smartphones, beyond the obvious elephant in the room, by which 2020 will be remembered by: Big camera sensors, 120Hz displays, several large SoC moves, 5G, and several other vendor product choices.
Huawei To Launch the Mate 20 with Kirin 980 on October 16th
Just a small note to detail one of Huawei’s announcements today: alongside the Kirin 980 announcement, Richard Yu, Huawei’s CEO, stated that their next generation flagship device, the Mate...
6 by Ian Cutress on 8/31/2018IFA 2018: Huawei Kirin 980 Keynote Live Blog
Our big keynote of the IFA 2018 show is from Huawei, with CEO Richard Yu set to take the stage and detail the newest Kirin 980 chipset for us...
1 by Ian Cutress on 8/31/2018Huawei To Announce Kirin 980 Today at IFA
In the smartphone wars, the chip inside powering the devices is becoming ever more important. Raw performance plus accelerators are pushing the boundaries of what we used to think...
11 by Ian Cutress on 8/31/2018Huawei Takes #2 Smartphone Manufacturer Spot in 1H18
Huawei has released its business results for the first half of 2018, and has posted new record sales figures of 95+ million units. Most importantly, the company has now surpassed...
20 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/3/2018The Huawei MateBook X Pro Review: Calling Out The Competition
Huawei has not been in the PC game very long, but in just a short couple of years they certainly raised the bar for the competition in the Ultrabook...
77 by Brett Howse on 6/27/2018The Huawei P20 & P20 Pro Review: Great Battery Life & Even Better Night Vision
Following the April launch of the new Huawei P20 Pro and P20, we have a look again at a detailed view of the how the device performs in terms...
81 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/15/2018Honor’s Thin-and-Light MagicBook with AMD Ryzen Mobile Listed
A Chinese retailer has started to list Honor’s MagicBook laptop based on AMD’s Ryzen Mobile processor. The thin-and-light notebook looks similar to the Intel-based MagicBook launched in April and...
15 by Anton Shilov on 6/4/2018Honor 10 Launch and Hands On: Kirin 970, More AI, More Notch
In a world filled with rectangular blocks with displays, it takes a large effort to differentiate. The new Honor 10, launched today at an event in London, follows the...
34 by Ian Cutress on 5/15/2018Goodix Ships Optical In-Display Fingerprint Sensor for Smartphones
Goodix this month introduced its first optical in-display fingerprint reader for smartphones featuring rigid or flexible AMOLED screens. The company claims that performance of the sensor is higher when...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/28/2018Your New $2220 Smartphone: The Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS
In a world where we were only just starting to see the emergence of $999 flagship phones, Huawei and Porsche Design go and break the barrier by marketing their...
38 by Ian Cutress on 3/27/2018Huawei P20 and P20 Pro Hands-On: Embrace the Notch
It’s time to have a serious discussion about the Notch. Love it or hate it, the Notch is going to be a defining element of major smartphones this year...
76 by Ian Cutress on 3/27/2018Live Blog: Huawei P20 & P20 Pro Announcement Event (3:00PM CEST)
We're here in Paris at the Grand Palace to cover Huawei's latest smartphone announcements: The P20 and P20 Pro.
14 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/27/2018China Copying China: Huawo's Mate 10 Pro-a-like
One of the many intricacies of China and the Chinese manufacturing industry is its ability to copy. Countless reports (and lawsuits) revolve around trademark infringement of the biggest consumer...
27 by Ian Cutress on 3/6/2018Matebook X Pro (2018): Huawei’s Flagship Laptop Upgrade
BARCELONA, ESP – The headline of Huawei’s launch program at Mobile World Congress is not a smartphone, but a laptop. Over the last two years Huawei has introduced itself...
16 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2018New High-End Android Tablets? Huawei MediaPad M5 gets Kirin 960
BARCELONA, ESP – One of the questions we get now and again as AnandTech editors is to suggest what high-end Android tablets a person should buy. The truth of...
19 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2018MWC 2018: Huawei Press Event Live Blog (1pm UTC, 8am ET)
In a surprising twist of events, Huawei has taken over one of the largest venues in Barcelona for its press event this year. The building we are in has...
8 by Andrei Frumusanu & Anton Shilov on 2/25/2018HiSilicon Kirin 970 - Android SoC Power & Performance Overview
The Kirin 970 is HiSilicon’s new SoC flagship for this year and powers the Huawei’s flagship devices for this generation. We’ll have a closer look at the SoC capabilities...
116 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/22/2018The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 43: CES 2018 Headlines and Highlights
The annual CES show is biggest of AnandTech’s main six shows of the year, and with it comes a wall-to-wall meeting schedule with press events starting two days before...
9 by Ian Cutress on 1/19/2018Huawei Pushes G.hn Powerline Networking with the WiFi Q2 Whole-Home Wi-Fi Solution
Mesh networking / whole-home Wi-Fi systems have seen rapid growth over the last couple of years. Almost all vendors in the consumer networking space have one or more offerings...
9 by Ganesh T S on 1/17/2018Hands-on & More With Huawei's Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro: Kirin 970 Meets Artificial Intelligence
This morning Huawei is taking the wraps off of their latest generation flagship smartphone, the Mate 10 series. Powered by subsidiary HiSilicon’s Kirin 970 SoC, the new phones are...
103 by Ian Cutress on 10/16/2017