China News Agency, Beijing, April 8 (Reporter Liu Yuying) Against the background of China's accelerated development of 5G, 5G mobile phones have entered an intense release period. Huawei held a new product launch in the Chinese market on the evening of the 8th. Affected by the "entity list", P40's supply chain has changed.
Under the epidemic, press conferences are mostly held online, but press conferences that support viewing of VR (virtual reality) glasses are still rare. VR is a typical 5G application. A reporter at the meeting said that watching with VR glasses, if you are immersive, this may be the future normal.
The new spring products released by Huawei include the Huawei P40 5G mobile phone series and the smart screen X65. The technical highlights of the P40 series are mainly camera, battery life, and wireless charging. In addition, AR (augmented reality) maps are based on Huawei River Map technology, breaking the boundaries between the digital world and the real world. Using this technology to tour Dunhuang presents a new visual experience.
In 2019, Huawei's consumer business sales revenue was 467.3 billion yuan, and smartphone shipments exceeded 240 million units. Xu Zhijun, Huawei ’s rotating chairman, previously said that due to the “entity list”, Huawei ’s smartphones could not use Google ’s GMS service since May last year, so overseas sales were affected by approximately US $ 10 billion.
In response to the challenges posed by the "Entity List", Huawei is building an "unused industrial chain." The P40 has been released globally before. Many institutions have disassembled the P40 and found that multiple chips such as processors and audio controls are independently developed by Huawei. In addition to Japanese and Korean suppliers, the degree of localization of core components has been further improved.
The ongoing epidemic is a challenge that mobile phone manufacturers, including Huawei, must face in 2020. According to the mobile phone shipment report released by market research agency Strategy Anaylytics, global smartphone shipments fell by 38% year-on-year in February. The agency predicts a 20% decline in the European market this year. (Finish)