Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record (engadget.com)

Huawei's 2018 was tumultuous, to put it mildly, but the company has at least a few reasons to brag. The Chinese mobile giant has revealed that it shipped over 200 million smartphones in the year, setting a new record. Last year, Huawei moved 153 million smartphones units. From a report: The Chinese phone maker said the numbers were largely driven by the success of products like its P20, Honor 10 and Mate 20 series. Huawei's smartphone shipments have grown from 3 million units in 2010, it added. Last year, it said it sold 153 million units. The company overtook Apple in the second quarter of 2018 to become the world's second largest phone vendor, according to researcher Canalys. "In the global smartphone market, Huawei has gone from being dismissed as a statistical 'other' to ranking among the Top 3 players in the world," Huawei said in its statement.

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the feds must be jealous..

[Anonymous Coward]

that's 200 million new listening posts in a single year, spread out across much of the world.

yes, this company is part of the chinese government spying juggernaut and citizen suppression machine. don't believe it? DYOFG doyourownfuckinggoogling

#1!!

[XB-70]

#1 on my list of "Do Not Buy" products.

Reasons (most of which you already know):

1. Huawei is a tool of the Chinese government. At any time, the government can ask for (demand) information from ANY Huawei phone ANYWHERE and Huawei is obliged, by law, to produce it.

2. Huawei's Meng Wanzhou has been charged in the United States with conspiracy to defraud international institutions.

3. A Huawei Technologies Co. engineer went to T-Mobile US Inc.'s laboratory in Bellevue, Washington to see "Tappy" - a tireless, computer-driven robot that taps on touch screens, simulating weeks of use in a day. The Huawei engineer was curious about Tappy’s fingertips. So he slipped one into a laptop bag and left with it, in an act T-Mobile branded theft.

4. The ruling Chinese Communist Party maintains a committee within Huawei. The company has failed to explain its relation to the government. Huawei has said the government plays no role in its business decisions or staffing.

5. In Europe, carriers and major customers from Orange SA to BT Group Plc and Deutsche Telekom AG have voiced their concerns about Huawei’s [5G] gear, on top of existing bans in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.

The reasons are mounting. Huawei is a bad corporate citizen. Do not buy any of their products.