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China's smartphone market, the world's largest, where domestic brands like Huawei compete with Apple and others across price tiers and form factors.
Huawei is putting its consumer business behind phones on its own chips as deliveries of Huawei-powered cars slide, down 29% in September. Outside China it now sells only several million phones a year, the base from which Richard Yu wants to win back overseas share.
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Huawei's Mate 90 launch gives the Kirin 9050 Pro only to its top editions, with a Kirin 9035 in the Pro and a Kirin 9030 in the standard model. Richard Yu said smartphone chip capacity remains tight and is shared with Huawei's Ascend AI chips.
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Huawei is selling the Mate 90 RS Ultimate Design from 12,999 yuan, about $1,940, with the same core hardware as its Mate 90 Pro Max. Apart from a few hardware extras, the premium pays for a patterned glass back and titanium frame that a case would hide.
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Apple took 33% of China's phone sales in the iPhone 18 Pro's launch week, Counterpoint Research says, with the standard iPhone 18 held back. Counterpoint counts that delay as one of three reasons, so the week cannot show how far the stagger alone moved buyers up to the Pro.
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Huawei's Mate XT 2 is a third-generation tri-fold running a chip Washington's export controls were meant to prevent. Xiaomi has already published the yuan number Apple's first foldable will be measured against.
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Only Xiaomi undercuts the folding iPhone's reported price; Huawei's trifold sits well above it, and because Huawei ships without Google services the whole contest is priced in yuan inside one market.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman puts the launch event on or about September 9. His own framing of the device, a halo and a retail draw, is an argument against expecting volume.
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