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Huawei shows with its new prestige phone Mate 70 that Chinese tech companies can do without Western cutting-edge technology, write media from the presentation in Shenzhen in southern China.
The 70 series is the first major product with the Harmony OS Next operating system. It is an epochal change because it completely breaks the ties of previous Chinese phones with Google’s global Android system.
In doing so, the Chinese company shows that it has built up its own capacity for the most advanced mobile technology. That ability has been questioned since the US and other Western countries banned many technology exports to China in 2019, on the grounds that Chinese components in, among other things, 5G networks pose a security threat.
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But with the Mate 60, Huawei showed last year that it could build semiconductors as good as the leading companies in the West. And by breaking with Android, you stand entirely on domestic footing.
– It is a milestone for China now that they leave their dependence on Western technology, says Gary Ng at the investment company Natixis to the AFP news agency.
Huawei’s new self-confidence was already shown in September when they released a “triple folding” phone, the Mate XT, which costs the equivalent of more than SEK 30,000.
The Mate 70 is intended more as a mass product, and has a starting price of roughly SEK 8,000 when it now goes on sale in China.
Source: www.nyteknik.se
