Notification log android huawei Continue Last night, Reuters broke the news that Google, in response to a government order, was cutting ties with Chinese technology conglomerate Huawei. While ordering live, future devices from the company will not have access to Google's proprietary software - like Maps, Google Play Store, and more. This news is, frankly, devastating for Huawei. The company is the second largest phone manufacturer in the world. This feat the company managed to achieve while avoiding the U.S. market. Huawei has made huge strides in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Through Honor, Huawei's sub-brand focused primarily on young people, the company is the best-selling phone manufacturer in Russia. It feels decidedly unfair that these customers should lose choice, all because of the economic cold war, that their countries are not a party - and perhaps not even want to. But it is interesting to talk about what will happen next. I think there are two possible directions for Huawei. First, it's the least likely given the Trump administration's intransigence, especially when it comes to foreign policy and trade issues. If Huawei can somehow satisfy the U.S. government that it is not a security threat, perhaps by giving it access to its code and NIODC data, it can convince the Commerce Department to remove it from the list of individuals that prohibits U.S. companies from doing business with it. In the case of THE, which ended up in similar hot water last year, it had to replace several senior staff and pay a $1 billion fine. There is another reason why I think this is unlikely: although this will solve Huawei's short-term issues, it will still leave the company at the mercy of its U.S. partners, and the whims of the U.S. government. For a company that has managed to cut out an impressive chunk of the European and Asian smartphone sectors, this is an unacceptable risk. No, it is more likely that Huawei will try to figure out how to keep its business independent from its U.S. suppliers. What does that mean? Well, in terms of software, it wouldn't surprise me to see Huawei run its own separately supported Android fork where it has absolute control. The company is already developing its own alternatives to Google Play in China, namely Huawei AppGallery. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to see the company develop and sell them to a European or Asian audience. Huawei is perhaps the only company other than perhaps Samsung, which is able to re-imagine and redesign Android from scratch. He got the money, and, importantly, he also got a small army of NIOCS workers who have the skills and vision to bring post-Google Android to life. That would be because it is almost certainly guaranteed to be successful. First, it would be a well-resourced effort, thanks to Huawei's deep deep Huawei is also likely to persuade other Chinese manufacturers - such as THE - to move the ship into the Android ecosystem, where they are controlled. And, anyway, there have been crashes that the company has been working on alternatives to Android and Windows for a long time. Statement from Huawei. The last point seems to hint at plans to release its own smartphone operating system, which has been in development for several years pic.twitter.com/IJ4Wlyp3HL - James Cook (@JamesLiamCook) May 20, 2019 there are some pretty serious drawbacks to this, however. The split in the Android ecosystem is likely to weaken the platform, stifling innovation and giving consumers on both sides of the fence a compromised experience. It would be interesting to see if this manifests itself in things like fixing a vulnerability and updating a software. And for Huawei, it will have to sacrifice most of its short-term growth as it tries to create a new Android ecosystem. It would be hard to fight slog, but perhaps one company is capable of winning. Of course, it's not just Google that is being banned from doing business with Huawei. That's it, and that includes big American chipmakers such as Intel, Broadcom and Kvalcomm. This presents a more complex problem for Huawei. Although the company makes its own SoCs under the HiSilicon line, there is some reliance on American suppliers. This is more acutely observed on their laptops rather than on phones. In the short term, the company has accumulated enough chips to work for three months. I think as the trade war between the U.S. and China reached its nadir, Huawei saw the writing on the wall. She knew it was going to be collateral damage. His holdings should give his business some continuity while he clears up alternatives. In the medium term though, that's where things get tricky. Supply chains are incredibly complex and are often planned months before. Replacing components often requires radical hardware redesigns and software modifications. I honestly have no idea what will happen when Huawei runs out of imported chips. I wouldn't be surprised if, at least briefly, the company scaled its hardware efforts dramatically. Fortunately for Huawei, the Chinese government is trying to move away from imported technology. Currently, the country is touting an initiative called Made in China 2025, which will see it turn away from inexpensive, substandard goods, to the production of complex, domestically produced products. These include things like robots, semiconductors and even passenger planes. The Chinese government is working hard to cut American companies out of its technology landscape. And given the current woes engulfing Huawei, you can't blame it for not Is it? For more gear, gadget, and hardware news and reviews, follow Connected on Twitter and Flipboard. Published May 20, May, - 09:51 UTC Back to school season is in full swing and Huawei is getting on with things with its own back-to-school campaign. In this promotion, Huawei aims to give three great options to students in need of a smart watch or fitness tracker. Huawei Fit, Watch 2 Sport and Watch 2 Classic are on sale. The first of these devices will be $60 s, while the last two $40 s. As for where you can find it? Best Buy promotionWhile a number of stores will offer up to three devices for sale, Best Buy's promotion with Huawei kicks in a little earlier than the rest, and even better, it has even steeper discounts of $60 for Huawei Fit and $50 for Watch 2 Sports and Watch 2 Classic. The only catch of steeper discount prices only lasts from the 19th to the 21st. From the 22nd to the 26th Best Buy discounts will be in line with other retailers. Other retailers in addition to Best Buy, Huawei also works with the following retailers: Target, Walmart, Amazon, NewEgg and B'H. Selling through these retailers kicks off 8/20 and ends 8/26.Huawei Fit for $69.99TargetAmazonNeweggWalmartB'H PhotoWatch 2 Sport for $299.99Watch 2 Classic for $379.79TargetBestbuy AmzonNewEWalmartmartB'Photo HtherO offers from HuaweiEven, While these products are not currently going for an advertising price, we thought back-to-school buyers might be interested in a few other products Huawei has available. MateBook X, for example, is an excellent lightweight backpack to explore on the go or busting out coursework over coffee. This well-reviewed laptop is 13 inches diagonally, has an Intel processor, and comes in either Space Gray or Prestige Gold. Check out the full deets here. The Huawei Mate 9 is a solid version of the smartphone - especially for photography lovers - as it has a pretty stellar Leica dual camera setup. At $449.99 it remains pretty competitive with more expensive flagships. If you are in the market for a phone that won't crash into your Ramen budget, we recommend checking out honor 8 or Honor 6X. Both very highly considered smartphones for their price range and sport some amazingly impressive features to download. We'll definitely update you with any other sales details from Huawei as they hit! The Huawei Mate S was officially unveiled at the IFA in Berlin and from our unpacking and the first look is clear that huawei's latest phone builds on many of the basics that made the Mate 7 such a great phone. And now in this in-depth review, we'll take a closer look at what this means for the Huawei Mate S! The Mate S design has a similar full metal body design in the past to Huawei's high-end devices, but comes with an updated build including a curved rear and a 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 4. Huawei says the curvature allowed it to thin the edges and while time to keep the overall profile of just 7.2 mm. Which is great to look at and surprisingly easy to hold. Looking around the device, the rocker's volume and power button are on the right side of the device. All buttons are very responsive, easy to press and offer a good amount of tactile feedback. Although the phone comes with a double-tapped Knuckle gesture to turn on the phone, it becomes redundant once you have a fingerprint scanner set up, but we'll talk about it more at the moment. At the top is a headphone jack and microphone, and at the bottom is a microUSB port surrounded by two grille bars, giving visibility to a dual speaker setup, even if it's actually just one speaker on the right side.