Huawei’s Mate 70 runs with the Chinese HarmonyOS Next and features improved photography, live transcription, and translation on phone calls.
Last week, Chinese smartphone giant Huawei released a new Mate 70 series, its artificial intelligence features developed to challenge Apple, which the latter has yet to release AI-related features in China.
The Chinese HarmonyOS Next powers the new device and will include features such as improved photography, live transcription, and phone call translation. Over three million people had also signed up on Huawei’s website to reserve it.
This comes after the previous release of the Mate 60 Pro, which catapulted Huawei to the top of China’s smartphone market. It had a tiny computer chip more advanced than any previously made by a Chinese company.
Huawei’s market share more than doubled, reaching half of the Chinese market this year. In 2022, three-quarters of the high-end smartphones sold in China were iPhones.
It further accentuates the struggle between China and the US for hegemony over advanced chip technology since policymakers in Washington have tried for years to prevent companies like those of China from being capable of making the kind of chip Huawei uses in its Mate phone.
The developments follow the return in 2021 of Meng Wanzhou, a top Huawei executive who became an unlikely hero in China despite serving close to three years under effective house arrest in Canada after facing fraud charges in the US.
