Huawei’s latest flagship-class smartphones continue the Chinese company’s track record of releasing devices with premium specs including some seriously impressive cameras and powerful processors. But the Huawei P50 and Huawei P50 Pro are noteworthy for a few other reasons as well. First, they have a new camera design consisting of two large circles on the back of […]
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Honor 50 series smartphones have 120 Hz displays and 100+ megapixels cameras (and Google Mobile Services in some countries)
Chinese smartphone maker started out as a sub-brand of Huawei, but the company recently spun off to become a standalone company. And now it’s launching a new line of smartphones that will have something you can’t find on any recent Huawei models – the new Honor 50 series phones will be available with the Google Play […]
Huawei’s 3 new MatePad tablets run HarmonyOS
Huawei is expanding the reach of its HarmonyOS software with the launch of three new tablets powered by the operating system. The Huawei MatePad 11, MatePad Pro (10.8 inch), and MatePad Pro (12.6 inch) will be available in China and Europe in the coming weeks. While there’s plenty of evidence that HarmonyOS is really just a fork […]
Lilbits: Linux phones and laptops, gaming on the Surface Duo, and is Netflix the Netflix for games?
Every time a company launches a game subscription service that lets you play a library of games for a monthly fee, it invariably gets referred to as a Netflix-for-games model. Now it looks like the real Netflix for games could be… Netflix. The company is reportedly looking to hire an executive to head up a […]
Huawei launches a Linux laptop with an ARM-based Kirin 990 processor
Over the last few years Chinese electronics company has been reducing its reliance on tech from other countries in response to trade restrictions imposed by the US. Now Huawei has launched its first laptop that doesn’t feature an Intel or AMD chip. The Huawei Qingyun L410 is powered by Huwaei’s own Kirin 990 processor, an ARM-based chip that was initially developed for smartphones and tablets.
Huawei Mate X2 has an 8 inch foldable display and a 6.45 inch cover display
Huawei’s latest foldable phone has an 8 inch, 2480 x 2200 pixel flexible display that allows you to use the device like a tablet or fold it in half and close it like a book. But when it is folded it’s also a perfectly usable smartphone thanks to a 6.45 inch, 2700 x 1160 pixel […]
IDC: Huawei smartphone shipments tank, but the market is up overall
Smartphone makers shipped 385.9 million devices in the fourth quarter of 2020 according to preliminary data from IDC, which is a 4.3 percent increase over the same period a year earlier. But while the global smartphone market ended the year on a high note, IDC’s report points out a few interesting trends that were largely […]
Lilbits: GPD Win 3, PinePhone, and will Huawei exit the phone business?
US trade restrictions have put Huawei in a difficult position over the past few years, with the Chinese electronics company prohibited from sourcing goods from US companies. That’s even led the company to pause manufacturing its own Kirin processors, since Huawei relies on software from US companies to design its chips. So the company spun […]
Lilbits: Color E Ink, Huawei’s new laptops, more trouble for Huawei, and Linux phones
The upcoming Astro Slide 5G from Planet Computers is a smartphone with a 6.5 inch touchscreen display and a slide-out keyboard that lets you use it like a little laptop. First announced last year, the phone has been available for pre-order through crowdfunding and we learned last week that it’s now expected to ship in June. […]
Huawei’s Harmony OS now runs on smartphones (who needs Android?)
Over the past few years, Huawei has risen to become one of the world’s top smartphone makers in terms of market share. But the Chinese electronics company faces something of an existential threat due to US trade restrictions which block hardware and software companies from working with Huawei. So the company is reducing its reliance […]
Lilbits: Porting apps to ARM
The list of companies jumping on the Apple Silicon bandwagon is growing. Google just released a version of Chrome for Apple’s new computers with M1 processors, and Mozilla is developing a version of Firefox that will support the new chips as well. Meanwhile, Adobe’s recent move to release a beta version of Photoshop for both […]
Lilbits: Chromebook explosion, Huawei’s respite, and PinePhone KDE Community Edition
The global pandemic has been hard on everyone… except maybe for PC makers. With more people working and schooling from home, a lot of people have been looking for laptops, tablets, and other devices capable of handling your daily Zoom quota. That’s been enough to reverse a trend in recent years that’s seen PC shipments […]