Honor Launches First Post-Huawei Phone (cnbc.com) 16
Honor, the Chinese smartphone brand formerly owned by Huawei, launched the V40, its first device since being sold off. CNBC reports: Huawei sold Honor, its budget smartphone brand, in November to a consortium of buyers in China, as a way to help the unit survive in the face of U.S. sanctions. In 2019, Huawei was put on a U.S. export blacklist called the Entity List which restricted American firms from selling certain components to the Chinese technology giant. This included both semiconductors and software.
Honor's new smartphone is called the V40. It boasts a 6.72-inch display and comes in three colors: silver, black and rose gold. Honor talked up the phone's graphics processing and touchscreen capabilities, features that enhance gaming on the device, a popular use of smartphones in China. It has the ability to connect to next-generation 5G mobile networks, a key requirement in China which is the world's largest market for 5G phones. The V40 uses a key 5G chip from Taiwan's MediaTek, a company which became China's number one smartphone semiconductor supplier in 2020. Honor's V40 starts at 3,599 yuan ($556) for the 128GB storage option and 3,999 yuan for the 256GB version. It will be released in China but it is unclear if it will be launched internationally.
Honor's new smartphone is called the V40. It boasts a 6.72-inch display and comes in three colors: silver, black and rose gold. Honor talked up the phone's graphics processing and touchscreen capabilities, features that enhance gaming on the device, a popular use of smartphones in China. It has the ability to connect to next-generation 5G mobile networks, a key requirement in China which is the world's largest market for 5G phones. The V40 uses a key 5G chip from Taiwan's MediaTek, a company which became China's number one smartphone semiconductor supplier in 2020. Honor's V40 starts at 3,599 yuan ($556) for the 128GB storage option and 3,999 yuan for the 256GB version. It will be released in China but it is unclear if it will be launched internationally.
Hold up. (Score:2, Interesting)
Have they stopped being GPL violators? Oh, well fuck 'em.
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The Chinese don't care one iota about intellectual property. Expect them to care about adhering to toothless open source licenses? In the words of Joe Biden, "C'mon, man! Gimme a break."
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The Chinese don't care one iota about intellectual property.
You're not wrong but some actually do comply with the GPL. I asked for the source to my MP3 player and they gave me a link. It's the big companies that ignore all requests.
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China loves IP, look at how Huawei used it to become dominant in 5G. It worked so well that the US government had to step in to save US companies.
China is very big on open source licences too now, e.g. Gitee is seen as vital infrastructure because Github is vulnerable to US government interference.
Specs Here (Score:2)
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I thought the point of being spun-off was that they wouldn't be bound by Huawei's sanctioning.
Google Play missing then still suggests something awry and that they're not planning on marketing it anywhere that matters outside PRC.
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That page contains a link to a news story on the same site:
The Honor V40 will reportedly be the first to arrive with Google Play Services since Huawei ban [gsmarena.com].
So possibly the summary is incorrect on that point.
Re: Specs Here (Score:2)
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The summary may be entirely irrelevant. This is a phone primarily for the Chinese market (It isn't even listed on Honor's english website), most Chinese Android phones don't have the Google Play Store.
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No Google play.
You'll find a very large chunk of Android phones on the market have no Google Play. That is in fact the norm for a company who doesn't list the V40 on their english website. https://www.hihonor.com/cn/pro... [hihonor.com]
It's a Chinese phone for the chinese market. They have several Google Play alternatives, and Google services alternatives in general.
Also no one said this was a budget phone. Honour *was* a budget brand, but over time that morphed into having similar devices as Huawei just missing the flagship. There's n
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Have they stopped being GPL violators? Oh, well fuck 'em.
Have open source companies stopped doing it too? Large USA companies? Fuck them too. GPL violators are literally all around you. Sadly there's very little choice left for you if that's a red line you won't cross.
That said I fully agree with you it's a shitty thing to do, but do try to apply your anger equally.
Unlockable Bootloaders (Score:1)
Honor?? (Score:2)
No, show me the other Honor! [oglaf.com]
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