Huawei running down Apple with latest phones

 Reading some of the comments by tech geeks, this Huawei phone is putting the USA in an uncomfortable state of mind, indicating the failure of the sanctions imposed by the USA and its allies on Huawei. I am not tech savy, so please bear with me if I am wrong on points.

The launch of this phone was strangely without fanfare or prior announcement, which is a big surprise, so much so that even so, demand outstripped availability by a wide margin, with millions queuing with orders. It certainly took the visiting USA Commerce Secretary by surprise and some measure of trepidation, by seeing this phone launched during her visit. Co-incidence?

Three outstanding features of this phone were highlighted. First was that this phone could have direct linkage to satellite communications without a ground base station, which was already a feature in the previous Mate 50. How advance was that?

The second most important feature, to have been incorporatated in the phone was the use of Huawei's own Kirin 9000 7 nm chipset, which some even suggested was more like a suspected 5nm chipset. This may still be a little behind Apple's and Samsung's new release, but in a test for speed, it still beat the competition.

This stunning revelation indicates that Huawei, in co-operation with SMIC suspectingly, had already been able to develop, for commercial application, its 7nm chipsets. So, those Western doomsayers cannot say Huawei is just bluffing in its development of higher end chips.

Experts are of the opinion that those Kirin chips used could not have come about with TSMC's help or co-operation, knowing TSMC is snugly in bed with the USA and had already been warned by the USA against supplying or producing high end Kirin chips for Huawei. The other possibility of Samsung having links to its development is even more remote, and is practically highly unlikely as well, with Samsung itself a competitor in the mobile phone sector against Apple and Huawei. Moreover, Samsung itself had been warned earlier against filling the void left by TSMC and Micron in China. Therefore those chips could only have been developed and made by Chinese companies themselves, which signifies the rapid progress of Chinese chip makers.

The other point worthy of highlight was the outstanding performance of the four cameras on the phone, which I am not capable of talking about.

Another equally important aspect of the Huawei Mate 60 phone was that it will come pre-installed with Huawei's self developed software, Harmony 4.0, an operating system totally its own, with all Android codes being discarded. It is also interesting to note that since Huawei's divorce from the Android, the Android system had been stagnating with no new developments, which in the past had all come from Huawei's valuable input.

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