Huawei working on smartphone with a display hole for the camera instead of a notch19 July 2018According to a Korean media outlet, Huawei is working on a strange smartphone design that could potentially mean the end of a notch era. The design features a display cutout for the camera, only this time it's smaller and surrounded by screen on all sides. Instead of placing the front-facing snapper on the notch, the engineers want to put it away from the top bezel so they can squeeze a bit more display on the front and get rid of the notch. Also, we can't get over the notion that Huawei might be doing this for marketing purposes only - to brag about screen-to-body ratio. Then again, we'd be glad to be proven wrong and there to be an actual practical use case to this.
Huawei claims to be on track to overtake Apple in smartphone sales by next year
Huawei, which calculates its global mobile shipments by combining both Huawei and Honor-branded phones, has maintained fast growth momentum despite headwinds for industry shipments this year. Huawei has been seeing particularly strong growth in India, a market Apple has so far not yet cracked. The company recently saw three senior departures as it sold fewer than 1M iPhones in India so far this year. It recently started making the iPhone 6s locally, supplementing existing production of Made In India iPhone SE models, to avoid taxes on imported stock. The Chinese brand did briefly overtake Apple one quarter last year, but that was in the quiet second quarter leading up to the launch of the iPhone X and iPhone 8/Plus.
Huawei trying to beat Apple's iPhone shipments to become second-biggest smartphone company
as mentioned in As of July 18, Huawei has shipped 100 million smartphones, mobile arm chief Richard Yu Chengdong told the South China Morning Post. The continuing increase in shipments for Huawei means it is gaining ground on Apple, and if sustained, could outpace the iPhone producer. According to an IDC report in May, Apple shipped 52.2 million iPhones in the March quarter of 2018, an increase of 3 percent year-on-year, while Samsung shipped 78.2 million units. In the same quarter, Huawei reportedly increased its shipments to 39.3 million units, a 13.8-percent year-on-year increase. For the full year 2017, IDC data claims Huawei shipped 153.1 million smartphones, while Apple shipped 215.8 million iPhones.Huawei says that it's on pace to overtake Apple in smartphone sales by 2019
After holding on to second place in global smartphone market share for years, Apple might have a worthy challenger. To put that number into perspective, South China Morning Post reports that Huawei shipped 153.1 million handsets in 2017. That wasn't nearly enough to top Apple's 215.8 million shipments, but if Huawei really can hit 200 million sales just a year later, it stands to reason that Apple could be in third place by the end of 2019. "Previously [we] reached the 100 million shipments mark on December 22, 2015, October 14, 2016 and September 12, 2017," said Richard Yu Chengdong. Nevertheless, it's an impressive achievement on Huawei's part, as will overtaking Apple as the second biggest brand on the planet.
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