Huawei Android ban: Time for Honor to rise to the challenge

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smartphone vendor behind Samsung.However the legal roller-coaster that preceded it has now transformed the event into something special.The
including the Google Play Store, Gmail, Search and Chrome - although this was followed a few hours later by the US Commerce Department
spying and collusion with the Chinese central government
Tensions have been simmering over the last 12 months before the Trump administration struck hard - and while Huawei has been developing its
impact of not having access to security updates and OS improvements can be mitigated and alleviated, having no access to Google's services
will be a deal breaker for most Huawei smartphone owners who are likely to be brand agnostic (as revealed by this startling fact).Huawei is
globally known for its smartphone brands (both its eponymous offering and its separate Honor line) but the current accusations are likely to
be related to its lesser known but equally critical enterprise business
premises, millions in the UK would be without 4G and broadband for a very long time.So the consumer arm of Huawei is - to some extent - a
victim of collateral damage
Hundreds of millions of smartphones have been sold by the company and none - to date and to our knowledge - has been caught in the wild,
transmitting data to Chinese servers
marketing clout and savvy product placement, become the only real alternative to Samsung globally
That is until President Trump intervened.So what could Huawei do Could spinning Honor, a brand that is not tainted by accusations, as a
separate company be the answer Or perhaps more importantly, will it be enough
Huawei never disclosed numbers separately but Honor is likely to account for less than 10 percent of the estimated 200 million smartphones
that the Chinese company sold in 2018
Honor is growing fast, but not fast enough.Spin-offs or splits in tech is a rare occurrence: HP split into HP Inc and HPE and eBay spinning
company given that Huawei smartphones accounted for around half of the company revenue in 2018 and were growing at 45 percent
In other words, smartphones keep Huawei buoy; cut it away and the remaining Huawei is likely to sink.The challengersOne word about the other
Expect Xiaomi, OPPO (and its Realplus subsidiary), Vivo, TCL (owners of Alcatel-TCL, Palm and BlackBerry) and OnePlus to vie for global
more of an iteration on the Honor 10 while the Honor 20 Pro aims to push visual boundaries even further under any light conditions with one
of the highest DXOMark to date
Better (and more) cameras, better hardware and the latest version of Android.For businesses though, this will mean little without support
for Android and Google Web Services
One small note though for the truly incredible camera performance in the dark, not far from night vision territory without
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