Honor released two new products at a product launch in Beijing on Oct. 11. The popular brand under Huawei released a new budget smartphone — the Honor 8C as well as their newest tablet — the Honor pad 5.
In addition to black and blue, a red Honor 8X was officially launched at the Honor Fashion show on Sept. 25. Papi Jiang, China’s “No. 1 Internet celebrity”, attended as a special guest and showed off the new color in style.
Honor released two new budget smartphones in its popular X series at a product launch in the ancient Chinese city of Xi’an on Sept. 5. The popular brand under Huawei released the new Honor 8X and 8X Max equipped with amazing features, priced all below $300.
Bin Lin, co-founder and president at Xiaomi, posted a rendered photo through Weibo of the upcoming Mi Mix 3 smartphone on Aug. 30. Both the launch and sales of the new phone were announced to begin in October.
Toutiao, China’s leading news and information content platform, recently released a white paper on online public opinion and user reputation of mobile phone brands in the Chinese market in the first half of 2018.
Huawei confirmed it would participate in the CES show in Las Vegas on January 9, which is January 10 in Beijing time. Its slogan is “new start,” suggesting that Huawei will take this opportunity to bring its flagship Mate 10 to the US.
Huawei’s smartphone shipment target will be 200 million units in 2018, according to a source familiar with the company’s internal planning.
OnePlus and Disney released their cross-border product, a Star Wars branded version of the OnePlus 5T, in Mumbai, India on December 21. The phone, an 8 GB RAM and 128 GB ROM version, is priced 38,999 rupees (about 4,020 yuan).
Baidu and Huawei announced strategic cooperation in artificial intelligence on December 21. Baidu voice, visual recognition and other artificial intelligence technologies will be used in Huawei phones. In addition, Baidu’s content ecology will also conduct in-depth cooperation with Huawei mobile phones.
Huawei reached a deal with AT&T to sell Huawei phones through the US operator’s channels in the first half of 2018, Chinese media reported in August. Recently, Yu Chengdong has confirmed Huawei will formally enter the US market in 2018.
Huawei staff told Netease Technology that Honor changed the way it is motivating and assessing employees. The Honor department is relatively independent, with separate financial statements and control of overseas operations.
