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The Verge
3 days ago
- The Verge
Check out Huawei's extra-wide flip phone.
Posted Aug 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM UTC Check out Huawei's extra-wide flip phone. The Pura X arrived this week, and I'm ready to test this unique flip phone form factor, which opens to the side for a wider main display. And yes, those are Android apps on the post-Android HarmonyOS Next. What do you want to know ahead of my hands-on? 1/4 The Pura X looks like a flip phone turned on its side. Image: Dominic Preston / The Verge Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Dominic Preston Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Dominic Preston Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Foldable Phones Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Gadgets Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Huawei Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Mobile Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Phones Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
4 Stocks From the Tech Industry of China to Keep an Eye On in 2H25
An updated edition of the April 22, 2025 technology sector is likely to demonstrate remarkable resilience in the second half of 2025, transforming global trade pressure into catalysts for indigenous innovation. Despite facing 145% U.S. tariffs and export restrictions on advanced semiconductors, Chinese technology companies, including NetEase NTES, Alibaba BABA, Taiwan Semiconductor TSM and Tencent Holdings TCEHY, have strategically pivoted their investments toward AI infrastructure and emerging technologies that rival Western counterparts. Taiwan Semiconductor has confirmed that while tariffs create some impact, AI demand remains robust and consistently outpaces supply, demonstrating China's tech ecosystem emergence as a global AI leader exemplifies this transformation, with the Hangzhou-based startup's R1 and R2 models proving that world-class AI can be developed using cost-effective architectures. Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and recently showcased remarkable momentum during the 618 shopping festival, with electronics and home appliance sales surging 283% and 380% respectively, driven by government subsidy programs, demonstrating strong domestic consumption recovery. Huawei Technologies continues its impressive comeback with the upcoming Pura 80 smartphone series set for launch on June 11, featuring the advanced HarmonyOS Next operating system that operates independently from Google's Android platform. This represents a significant milestone in China's software sovereignty, while Huawei's Kirin chipsets demonstrate competitive performance against international standards. Industry analysis shows Huawei's Kirin 9020 chip offers 14% higher memory bandwidth compared to Apple's A18 processor, highlighting China's advancing semiconductor semiconductor industry has strategically dominated advanced packaging technologies, capturing over 25% of the global market share and more than 50% in advanced packaging segments. Technologies like 2.5D and 3D stacking enable enhanced chip capabilities at relatively low costs, demonstrating China's ability to leverage alternative technological approaches to achieve superior performance. The robotics sector showcases China's engineering excellence, with Unitree Robotics unveiling sophisticated humanoid robots featuring 43 joint motors. China's electric vehicle ecosystem has been strengthened by companies like Zeekr and Great Wall Motor, while suppliers like Hesai reduced lidar costs from $80,000 in 2017 to approximately $200 in 2025. Beijing-based augmented reality companies Xreal and Rokid have introduced sophisticated AR solutions with expansive field views and real-time multilingual translation capabilities. These comprehensive technological advances reflect China's successful strategy, establishing leadership across multiple high-tech sectors while maintaining competitive believe that rapid advancements in Chinese technology and huge spending on its development efforts offer significant growth opportunities for investors. Our China Tech Screen is an invaluable source for identifying stocks with massive growth prospects in the 30 cutting-edge investment themes with Zacks Thematic Screens and uncover your next big opportunity. NetEase presents a compelling investment opportunity for the second half of 2025, driven by exceptional financial momentum and a robust game pipeline. The company delivered outstanding first-quarter 2025 results with gaming revenues surging 12.1% year over year to RMB24.0 billion and net income jumping 35% to RMB10.3 billion, demonstrating strong operational leverage. NetEase's diverse portfolio continues to gain traction globally, with Marvel Rivals topping Steam charts, Where Winds Meet reaching 30 million players and multiple titles ranking among top sellers. The upcoming catalyst-rich pipeline includes Sword of Justice's global expansion (already achieving 40+ million players in China), MARVEL Mystic Mayhem to be launched on June 25 and innovative titles like Planet Party Time. NetEase's technological differentiation through AI-powered NPCs and NVIDIA ray tracing partnerships, combined with fair monetization models, positions the company to capture market share. With a strong balance sheet holding RMB137 billion in net cash and multiple high-potential launches scheduled for the second half of 2025, this Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) company offers attractive risk-adjusted returns for growth-oriented investors. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks fourth-quarter fiscal 2025 results demonstrate remarkable operational efficiency, with non-GAAP earnings surging 23% year over year to $1.73 per ADS, significantly beating estimates by 16.89%. Alibaba's strategic "user first, AI-driven" approach is yielding impressive results, particularly in its Cloud Intelligence segment, which posted 18% revenue growth while AI-related products maintained triple-digit growth for seven consecutive quarters. The company's robust financial position, highlighted by $50.5 billion in net cash and $16.5 billion returned to shareholders in fiscal 2025, underscores management's confidence and commitment to value creation. Trading at attractive valuations relative to peers despite its technological leadership and expanding AI capabilities across diverse industries, this Zacks Rank #3 company warrants close monitoring for optimal entry points as market sentiment potentially improves in the second half of Semiconductor continues to lead the global chip foundry market, and it's benefiting heavily from the AI revolution. Its manufacturing dominance and scale have made it the go-to partner for advanced chipmaking. Whether it's NVIDIA, Marvell Technology or Broadcom, many top chip designers rely on TSM for producing custom AI accelerators and graphics processing units (GPUs).The company kicked off 2025 with excellent first-quarter results. Revenues surged 35% year over year to $25.53 billion, and net income rose 53% to nearly $11 billion in the first quarter. This growth was powered by the booming demand for its advanced 3nm and 5nm nodes, which now account for 58% of total wafer Semiconductor plans to ramp up capital spending to between $38 and $42 billion in 2025 to further capitalize on the AI-driven growing demand for advanced chips. This is a sharp increase from the $29.8 billion spent in 2024, with around 70% earmarked for advanced manufacturing capabilities. Despite higher energy prices in Taiwan, softness in key markets like PCs and smartphones and escalating geopolitical tensions, this Zacks Rank #3 company is worth a watch in the second half of reported strong first-quarter results, delivering RMB180 billion in revenues (+13% year over year) with non-IFRS operating margins expanding to 39%, demonstrating operational excellence. Gaming division momentum has significantly accelerated with domestic games surging 24% year over year while Delta Force achieved remarkable success, reaching 12 million peak DAU and becoming the sixth most popular mobile game integration is progressing faster than anticipated, with Yuanbao now integrated as a Weixin contact and LLM-powered search driving user engagement, positioning Tencent ahead of competitors in the AI transformation. Marketing Services' robust 20% year-over-year growth reflects the platform's enhanced AI-driven advertising capabilities, while the expanding Weixin ecosystem (1.402 billion MAU) provides an unmatched foundation for future monetization. With a strong net cash position of RMB90.2 billion and continued shareholder-friendly capital allocation through HKD17.1 billion in first-quarter buybacks, this Zacks Rank #3 company demonstrates both growth and financial discipline. Investors should monitor any market volatility in the second half that could provide attractive entry points. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report NetEase, Inc. (NTES) : Free Stock Analysis Report Tencent Holding Ltd. (TCEHY) : Free Stock Analysis Report Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSM) : Free Stock Analysis Report Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Huawei launches first foldable smartphone running on home-grown HarmonyOS Next platform
Huawei Technologies on Thursday launched a new foldable smartphone running on its home-grown HarmonyOS operating system, as the tech giant builds on the revival of its lucrative handset business despite US sanctions. The Pura X, under its premium Pura brand, is a vertically-folded device that features a bigger 6.3-inch screen, with a 16:10 aspect ratio similar to a tablet. The device had a smaller 3.5-inch screen on the back, which supported features including phone calls and mobile payments, Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei's consumer business group, said at the launch in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The phone runs on Huawei's HarmonyOS Next operating system, the latest iteration of its mobile platform that is not compatible with Android. It is the second phone built on the updated system after the Huawei Mate 70 series, unveiled in November. Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. Huawei's comeback in the smartphone market is a sign of Chinese resilience under US technology restrictions. Huawei surprised many industry observers with an in-house 5G chip used in the Mate 60 in 2023, and the company impressed the world with the launch of the world's first trifold phone in 2024. The new Huawei Pura X foldable smartphone. Photo: Handout alt=The new Huawei Pura X foldable smartphone. Photo: Handout> While Huawei may not have access to the most advanced chips, Yu said HarmonyOS offered "a 40 per cent performance improvement" over Android. Yu said earlier this month that over 20,000 native apps and services had been made available on HarmonyOS Next, with 20 apps exceeding 2 million downloads. Huawei expects all of its smartphones and tablets to run the new operating system this year. The new Pura X, which is available in five colour options, has a starting price of 7,499 yuan (US$1,037). At that price level, it does not qualify for China's government subsidy scheme that provides a 15 per cent subsidy for purchasing smartphones, tablets and smartwatches that cost under 6,000 yuan, a sign that the company is committed to expanding its presence in the premium market. Last year, HarmonyOS saw increased adoption in the world's largest smartphone market. In the three months ended December 31, its market share reached 19 per cent, the fourth consecutive quarter that it was ahead of Apple's iOS. Android remained the dominant mobile operating system on the mainland with a fourth-quarter share of 64 per cent, while Apple's iOS held a share of 17 per cent last quarter, according to Counterpoint Research. Huawei led China's smartphone market in January, on the back of the government subsidy scheme that started on January 20. Total sales from January 20 to 26, the first week of the programme, jumped 65 per cent year on year to over 9.5 million units, according to Counterpoint data. Apple, whose latest iPhone 16 models do not qualify for the subsidies due to their premium positioning, last month introduced the budget-priced iPhone 16e, which can receive a 500-yuan discount in China if it is not the model with 512-gigabytes of storage. This article originally appeared in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the most authoritative voice reporting on China and Asia for more than a century. For more SCMP stories, please explore the SCMP app or visit the SCMP's Facebook and Twitter pages. Copyright © 2025 South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2025. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Huawei Targets iOS and Android With $1,000 Pura X Folding Phone Running HarmonyOS
Huawei launched its new foldable smartphone, the Pura X, on Thursday. This device is the first to run Huawei's own operating system, which it hopes will create an alternative to Google's Android and Apple's iOS. The Pura X has a 6.3-inch display when unfolded, with a new 16:10 aspect ratio that gives it a wider screen area than most other smartphones on the market. The device folds in half into a compact square and has a 3.5-inch display with a camera at the front. The Pura X starts at 7,499 Chinese yuan ($1,037). Huawei's market share in the fourth quarter of 2024 rose to 16.2% in China versus 13.7% a year before, according to the International Data Corporation. Apple's market share declined from 20% to 17.4% over the same period, as reported by CNBC. It was initially launched in November as HarmonyOS Next and reportedly no longer uses code from the open-source version of Google's Android operating system. This is a big step by Huawei to cut any ties to Google and Android. In 2019, US sanctions forced Google to stop working with Huawei. The Pura X is also equipped with Xiaoyi, Huawei's AI assistant which is underpinned by its own artificial intelligence models as well as those developed by DeepSeek.
South China Morning Post
20-03-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Huawei launches first foldable smartphone running on home-grown HarmonyOS Next platform
Huawei Technologies on Thursday launched a new foldable smartphone running on its home-grown HarmonyOS operating system, as the tech giant builds on the revival of its lucrative handset business despite US sanctions. Advertisement The Pura X, under its premium Pura brand, is a vertically-folded device that features a bigger 6.3-inch screen, with a 16:10 aspect ratio similar to a tablet. The device had a smaller 3.5-inch screen on the back, which supported features including phone calls and mobile payments, Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei's consumer business group, said at the launch in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The phone runs on Huawei's HarmonyOS Next operating system, the latest iteration of its mobile platform that is not compatible with Android. It is the second phone built on the updated system after the Huawei Mate 70 series, unveiled in November. Huawei's comeback in the smartphone market is a sign of Chinese resilience under US technology restrictions. Huawei surprised many industry observers with an in-house 5G chip used in the Mate 60 in 2023, and the company impressed the world with the launch of the world's first trifold phone in 2024. The new Huawei Pura X foldable smartphone. Photo: Handout While Huawei may not have access to the most advanced chips, Yu said HarmonyOS offered 'a 40 per cent performance improvement' over Android. Yu said earlier this month that over 20,000 native apps and services had been made available on HarmonyOS Next, with 20 apps exceeding 2 million downloads. Huawei expects all of its smartphones and tablets to run the new operating system this year.
