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Mate X Released in China, Uses BOE OLED Display
October 28, 2019
 
Huawei started taking orders in China for the 5G Mate X foldable smartphone at $2,074.  BOE officials confirmed that the flexible AMOLED display found on the Mate X is manufactured by them. BOE revealed that the company has shipped 10 million flexible OLED panels in the first half of 2019 , with a market share of 18% , ranking second in the world. Huawei also announced that it has shipped 200 million smartphones so far in 2019 — hitting the milestone 64 days faster than in 2018. After months of quite assertive posturing from Huawei — that it could survive the ban from the Trump administration, thank you very much, and that it also has a Plan B for losing access to Android — the world’s #2 smartphone manufacturer seems to be changing its tune. In a new interview with The Financial Times, a senior executive Joy Tan, vice president of public affairs in the US for Huawei, said that any viable replacement the company could use in place of the Android mobile OS won’t be ready for a while — perhaps years. “We have to find alternative solutions for (the Android) ecosystem,” she says in the interview, “but it’s going to take some time to build. There are so many Android users in Europe and Southeast Asia, and they’re so used to these Google applications on top of Android phones. The statement is a dramatic about-face for the company and flies in the face of remarks back in August from Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer division, who said Huawei could “immediately” switch to its proprietary HarmonyOS, the new smartphone operating system it unveiled around the same time, to replace Android whenever it needs to. From: ft.com