On April 27, a message about Huawei's mobile phone rushed to Weibo's hot search. At about 8 o'clock on the 27th, the official Weibo of Huawei terminal released a warm-up video about Huawei's new mobile phone, and Yu Chengdong, the CEO of Huawei who appeared in the video, broke the news of the upcoming new folding flagship and shared some good news.
The new products mainly focus on the folding screen market
Folding screen mobile phones have become more and more popular in recent years, and are gradually considered by the industry to be the mainstream of the development of future smart phones, and several major Domestic Android mobile phones have also entered the folding screen market.
In 2018, the first folding screen mobile phone Royole Flex Pai was launched. Subsequently, Samsung and Huawei entered the folding screen. In September 2019, Samsung's folding screen mobile phone Galaxy Fold began to sell; on October 23, 2019, Huawei's folding screen series Mate X mobile phone was released in China and launched on November 15. In November 2019, the traditional brand Motorola launched the Razr series of folding screen mobile phones. At this point, the average price of folding screen mobile phones is more than 10,000 yuan, and the intention of choosing to take the high-end route is very obvious.
Two years after the appearance of the first folding machine, Xiaomi launched the first folding screen mobile phone MIX FOLD, priced at 9999 yuan, pulling the folding machine price back to less than 10,000 yuan. The OPPO Find N price of 7699 yuan, no doubt will pull the folding machine down the altar, unveiling the prelude to the "people-friendly" era, only three days, the number of predetermined people exceeded 100,000, from this point of view, the folding machine market is far more popular than we think.
This time, Yu Chengdong revealed that Huawei's new folding screen is a continuation of Huawei's Mate Xs series, named Mate Xs 2, which is the fifth folding screen mobile phone launched by Huawei. According to Yu Chengdong, this folding screen mobile phone has been optimized and upgraded for the pain points covered by the previous folding screen mobile phone.
Judging from the poster released, the thinness of the mobile phone is very exciting, and the overall look is very thin and light, in line with Huawei's "ultra-thin and light" label. Folding screen shop unfolding crease is not obvious, Huawei in the hinge design technology must have done a new upgrade, Yu Chengdong also mentioned that Huawei is constantly breaking through the technical bottleneck, improve the past folding screen mobile phone appeared thick and heavy, not resistant to falling, etc., I believe this time will definitely exceed the public's imagination of folding screen mobile phones.
The supply problem has improved dramatically
As early as the press conference on March 29, Meng Wanzhou said that in 2021, Huawei may have passed through the black barrier area of disaster. Due to U.S. sanctions on Huawei, Meng Wanzhou was detained by Canada for nearly three years without reason, and returned to the embrace of the motherland in September last year, perhaps from the moment Meng Wanzhou was able to return to China, we have won this battle. Yu Chengdong made it clear this time that Huawei's mobile phone supply has been greatly improved, and this year Huawei mobile phones have begun to return.
From Huawei's annual report last year, it can also be seen that Huawei's overall situation has improved, the flow of funds has been smooth, and the investment in technology research and development accounts for 22.4% of the annual revenue, reaching a record high.
In 2021, although Huawei's mobile phone business is limited, IDC China's data shows that Huawei folding screen mobile phones occupy nearly half of the share in the Chinese market, so Huawei's folding screen mobile phones are still in a leading position in China. The launch of the new folding screen mobile phone marks the re-emergence of Huawei mobile phones, and also means that Huawei has broken through obstacles to usher in the opening of a new journey.
Chip research and development has become a major problem
Although the overall situation of Huawei is good, the chip problem is still a major problem. Huawei's rotating chairman Hu Houkun mentioned that Huawei currently has no plans to build its own chip factory. Because the industrial chain of chips is too long, basically no company can solve it by itself. As the core asset of electronic technology products, if the chip cannot firmly grasp the technology of independent research and development of chips in its own hands, it means that there will be a possibility of being suppressed and sanctioned in the future.
Therefore, self-developed chips are very important to Huawei and even the entire field of domestic mobile phones, although it is difficult, but the problem can also be solved, looking forward to the day when China's high-tech products can lead the world!