Which company is Huawei?

Huawei (Hoa Vi) is a multinational telecommunications equipment and service company based in Guangdong, China. This is the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, surpassing Ericsson in 2012. In 2018, Huawei ranked 72th on Fortune Magazine's Fortune Glabal 500 list.

Huawei was founded in 1987 by Ran Zhengfei, a former engineer at the Chinese People's Liberation Army. At the time of establishment, Huawei focused on producing storage program control system (SPC) but then expanded its business to build telecommunication network, also provided operation services and consulting for businesses. inside and outside China and manufacturing telecommunications equipment for the consumer market.

By 9/2015, Huawei has more than 170,000 employees, of which about 76,000 work in research and development. The company has 21 R&D institutes in many countries such as China, USA, England, France . and in 2014, they invested $ 6.4 billion for R&D.

In 2014, Huawei recorded a profit of 34.2 billion yen (5.5 billion USD). Their products and services are available in more than 170 countries and are currently ranked 45th in the top 50 largest telecom companies in the world.

In June 2016, Huawei is said to be designing its own mobile operating system. From July to September 2017, Huawei surpassed Apple to become the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, after Samsung.

In September 2017, Huawei created NB-IoT urban network using "one network, one platform, N application" model to deploy IoT, cloud computing, metadata and information and telecom technologies. New generation ICT (ICT), aiming to be one of the world's 5 largest cloud providers in the future.

Huawei phone history

In July 2003, Huawei established its first handheld device development department and in 2004, it launched its first phone, the C300. U626 is Huawei's first 3G phone launched in June 2005 and in 2006, Huawei released the first Vodafone 3G phone V710. U8220 is Huawei's first Android smartphone, introduced at MWC 2009.

At CES 2012, Huawei introduced the Ascend line starting with Ascend P1 S. At MWC 2012, Huawei launched Ascend D2. In September 2012, Huawei launched a 4G Ascend P1 LTE phone. At CES 2013, Huawei introduced Ascend D2 and Ascend Mate.

At MWC 2013, Ascend P2 was introduced as the first LTE Cat4 phone in the world. In June 2013, Huawei launched Ascend P6 and in December 2013 Honor - an independent brand in China alone.

At CES 2014, Huawei launched Ascend Mate2 4G in 2014 and at MWC 2014, Huawei launched the MediaPad X1 tablet and Ascend G6 4G phone.

Other products launched in 2014 also have Ascend P7 on May 5, 2014, Ascend Mate7 and Ascend G7 and Ascend P7 Sapphie Edition, being China's first 4G smartphone with a sapphire screen.

In January 2015, Huawei announced it would give up the name Ascend for future phones. The Ascend Mate series later became known as the Mate and the Ascend P series later known as P.

Huawei also partnered with Google to build Nexus 6P in 2015 and to 3/2018, they announced the high-end P20 Pro smartphone, also the first smartphone in the world to have 3 cameras in the back.

EMUI

Emotion User Interface (EMUI) is ROM / OS developed by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and based on Google's Android Open Source Project (AOSP) project. EMUI is preinstalled on most Huawei smartphones and Honor line.

Current EMUI versions

1. EMUI 1.x (based on Android "Ice Cream Sandwich" and "Jelly Bean" 4.0.x and 4.1.x - 4.3.x) (first release)
2. EMUI 2.x (based on Android "Ice Cream Sandwich", "Jelly Bean" and "KitKat" 4.0.x, 4.1.x - 4.3.x and 4.4.x) (with UI editing)
3. EMUI 3.x (based on Android "KitKat" and "Lollipop" 4.4.x and 5.0.x - 5.1.x) (with UI editing)
4. EMUI 4.x (based on Android "Marshmallow" 6.x)
5. EMUI 5.x (based on Android "Nougat" 7.x)
6. EMUI 8.x (based on Android "Oreo" 8.x)

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