Higher margins and lots of Chinese work

Telecoms equipment supplier Ericsson is doing better than the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street predicted thanks to higher margins and China’s 5G rollout.

Gustavus Adolphus spins in grave 

Swedish regulators have buckled to US pressure and banned the use of telecom equipment from China's Huawei and ZTE in its 5G network ahead of the spectrum auction scheduled for next month.

After move to ignore Huawei

Dutch Telecoms outfit KPN is using Ericsson to build core elements of its new 5G mobile network following a decision last year not to use China’s Huawei.

Budget phones are probably not worth the limited chips we have 

Huawei is in talks with Digital China Group and other suitors to sell parts of its Honor smartphone unit in a deal that could fetch up to 25 billion yuan ($3.7 billion).

Huawei Kirin 9000 might be a rival

Eagle eyed hacks at mysmartprice have noticed that the Huawei Mate 40 Pro (Kirin 9000) has appeared on  AnTuTu with scores similar to that of Exynos 1080 SoC

Great sound, great build, fit ye sae?

I’ve been reviewing both software and hardware for over 35 years now, but this is the first time I’ve had to take into account geopolitics. But more, much more on that later.

Filling the Huawei space

Former rubber boot maker Nokia has signed a deal with Britain's biggest mobile operator BT to supply it with 5G radio equipment.

Harming suppliers

Huawei warned its supply chain was under attack from the United States and that the action was harming suppliers worldwide.

A good bet to replace Android next year

Huawei Technologies plans to introduce its Harmony operating system, seen as the company’s best bet to replace Google’s Android mobile operating system, on smartphones next year.

Qualcomm’s founder spills the beans

The US’s efforts to kill Huawei is being hamstrung by the fact it does not really have a similar company of its own, warned Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs.