What next for Huawei in a post-pandemic 2021?
Cellphones
Huawei Mate Xs. PHOTO: Handout
Will it or will it not? That was the question on many Huawei phone users’ minds as news arrived last month of the Chinese telecom equipment maker being in talks to sell its smartphone business.
Then, last week, founder Ren Zhengfei said the company would continue making its smartphones, confident that the US sanctions that had crippled its smartphone business would be lifted or reduced.
The clampdown by the Trump administration from late 2019 has hurt Huawei significantly. The initial loss of access to Google’s suite of mobile apps was devastating but worse was the further sanctions on the chips that Huawei needed to make its phones and 5G network equipment.