Huawei Technologies, the Chinese giant which was once the leading smartphone brand in the world (in Q2 2020), is now practically out of the mobiles Occupational because of the trade limitations imposed by the United States.
To ensure that its
sub-brand Honor lives, the company sold it off to Zhixin New Info
Technology Co. Ltd. After its split, it retained almost all of its employees,
which are over 8,000, with some of the company’s executives.
The company is now in talks
with some companies to simplify its supply chain and production. Now, Honor CEO
George Zhao Ming has confirmed that it is in meetings with Google and
will soon have Google Mobile Services (GMS) support for its mobiles.
Given that Honor is no
longer a part of Huawei, the company will be able to get access to Google’s
software and service area. For those who are unaware, Huawei was banned from
using Google’s services because of the sanctions imposed by the United states
and since Honor was a sub-brand of Huawei, it too wasn’t allowed to
use Google‘s offerings.
Honor’s CEO has also retold
what he said when the company was becoming independent — to become a leader in
the market. Honor is looking to compete against its previous parent
company Huawei as well as Apple, as it is eying for the pole position
in the Chinese mobiles market.
Apart from Google, the
company is also in says with other companies for the needed
components, including Qualcomm for socs. It recently launched its own online
storage named Honor Mall and is in the process of setting up several new
offline stores
.
