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Frustrated by Washington’s bans on exports of key components and software, the Chinese telecoms giant has built its own operating system; now, let the competition begin.
- The All India Mobile Retailers Association, representing over 150,000 bricks-and-mortar smartphone vendors, is considering a halt to OnePlus sales
- It said OnePlus has for years ‘neglected mainline retailers by failing to provide adequate stocks, offering poor margins and settling claims poorly’
OnePlus, a sub-brand of Oppo, is facing a slew of complaints related to low profit margins and warranty claims in India.
The US tech giant’s latest initiative shows that it remains committed to boosting capital spending in the world’s largest smartphone market, despite sluggish iPhone sales.
Apple’s China sales plunge by a quarter in first six weeks as Huawei achieves 64 per cent jump, as Chinese netizens gravitate towards AI features.
Oppo’s plan to bounce back in Europe comes a month after it signed a global patent cross-licensing agreement with Nokia, covering standard-essential patents in 5G.
CEO George Zhao said new Honor smartphones will have an ‘intent-based user interface’ that uses AI to anticipate user needs and create a seamless experience.
Mainland shipments of foldable smartphones reached 7.01 million units last year, up 114 per cent from 3.2 million in 2022, according to tech market research firm IDC.
Increased artificial intelligence integration in Chinese handsets shows how a new tech arms race in the smartphone industry is heating up, as the global market is poised for a recovery in 2024.
Huawei’s return to form in the world’s largest smartphone market was jump-started by the surprise release last August of its Mate 60 Pro 5G handset.
Some people have expressed concerns that the Baidu search features on the Galaxy S24 series are not as good as Google’s version.
Shenzhen-based OnePlus on Monday brought back six smartphone models to the world’s fourth-largest economy.
The collaboration between Samsung and Baidu comes as the race to integrate generative artificial intelligence features into handsets has intensified in the world’s largest smartphone market.
The two firms had been engaged in multiple patent lawsuits, including one that resulted in Oppo being banned from selling smartphones in Germany.
Samsung has shifted its focus to the high-end segment of mainland China’s smartphone market, particularly with its foldable handsets.
A price war in mainland China, the world’s largest smartphone market, has intensified amid widening discounts offered for iPhones by online marketplaces.
With two periscope zoom lenses – a world first – and a big Sony sensor, the Oppo Find X7 Ultra’s camera hardware blows rivals out of the water, producing better zoom photos than even the top iPhone.
Realme’s 12 Pro+ smartphone to launch at the end of January will focus on providing a better zoom lens at a budget price, as the Chinese firm caters to young overseas users.
Apple continued to lead the smartphone industry’s premium segment in 2023, but saw its global share decline mainly because of Huawei’s strong 5G handset market comeback with its Mate 60 series.
The Chinese smartphone brand has urged the Finnish electronics giant to comply with the court’s decision, as Beijing flexes its legal muscles in cross-border disputes.
The company says it reached the milestone in the second quarter, with most devices sold outside China.
Xiaomi returns to revenue growth in third quarter as it targets more AI enhancements to its smartphones.
Computers with chips that have built-in AI capabilities are expected to account for 86 per cent of laptops shipped in China in 2027, according to IDC.
China’s largest chip maker helped Huawei build the advanced processor for the new Mate 60 Pro-series 5G smartphones.
Rising sales in China drove US chip giant Qualcomm to better-than-expected earnings in the past quarter, prompting the company to make a target-beating revenue forecast for the current quarter.
Xiaomi has become the latest industry player to create a single system that works across smartphones, vehicles and IoT products, as Huawei works towards liberating its own integrated OS completely from Google’s Android.
Honor reclaimed the top smartphone vendor spot in the third quarter with an 18 per cent share and total shipments of 11.8 million units, as the mainland market posted a modest decline.
Chinese brand Oppo’s Find N3 foldable phone, selling globally as the OnePlus Open, has superior hardware to its Samsung and Google rivals, native Google app support and innovative multitasking software.
Oppo launches high-end foldable handsets globally as it seeks to tap growth in premium segments of smartphone market.
Oppo’s move comes as ChatGPT-like products are increasingly seen as potential game-changers in the highly-competitive smartphone market.
The arrests add to the legal troubles of the Chinese phone maker in India, and come amid rising tensions between Beijing and New Delhi.
