The good geeks of iFixit have ripped open Huawei's first Google-free handset, the Mate 30 Pro, to find a serious battery powering the big screen and sophisticated camera setup.
The mobe has a 6.53" curved OLED display, a Huawei Kirin 990 processor with 8-core CPU, 16-core Mali-G76 GPU and a neural processing unit. It also has an underscreen fingerprint sensor, facial recognition hardware and gesture recognition.
[...] The gang was also keen on the fact that the USB port and its interconnect, the daughter board and SIM card slot, the loudspeaker and the optical fingerprint scanner are all modular and replaceable.
The phone's speaker uses the screen's structure to amplify sound instead of the normal earpiece speaker.
The screwdriver-botherers were pretty impressed overall with the phone's modular design. It also uses standard Philips screws. But they did note that a glued-down front and back does mean a slow start to any repair or replacement process, which resulted in a middle-of-the-road five out of 10 repairability score. Could be better, could be worse.
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/huawei-sues-fcc-to-stop-ban-on-huawei-gear-in-us-funded-
Huawei has sued the Federal Communications Commission over the agency's order that bans Huawei equipment in certain government-funded telecom projects.
[...] The FCC voted unanimously on November 22 to ban Huawei and ZTE equipment in projects paid for by the commission's Universal Service Fund (USF). The order will affect many small telecom providers that rely on the companies' network gear.
[...] "The US government has never presented real evidence to show that Huawei is a national security threat," Song said. "That's because this evidence does not exist. When pushed for facts, they respond that 'disclosing evidence might also undermine US national security.' This is complete nonsense."
[...] "We've built networks in places where other vendors would not go. They were too remote, or the terrain was difficult, or there just wasn't a big enough population," he said. "In the US, we sell equipment to 40 small wireless and wireline operators. They connect schools, hospitals, farms, homes, community colleges, and emergency services."
Hoftstra University law professor Julian Ku said that "even a small [Huawei] victory in the case, one that makes the FCC go and start the process over again, would be a huge victory for them," according to The New York Times. But it may be a difficult case for Huawei to win because US courts usually give federal agencies "a tremendous amount of deference," Ku said.
Previously:
Huawei Funds $56M in Academic Research in Canada. That Has Some Experts Concerned
How China Is Building A World-Beating Phone Network
FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us
American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei
Huawei's First Google-Free Phone Stripped And Searched: Repair Not Too Painful... Once You're In
U.S. Chief Technology Officer Urges Europe to Take a Stand Against Huawei
Microsoft President Says US Government Isn't Being Open About Huawei Ban
Huawei: ARM Cortex-A77 Cores Would Shorten Battery Life
Huawei Might Put its IOT OS on Mobile Phones After All
Huawei Announces HarmonyOS, a Smartphone OS and Android Alternative
Huawei Doesn't See Open Source as the Fix for Spying Accusations (but They Should)
Huawei Reportedly Helped North Korea Build Out 3G Network in Secret
Huawei's Android Alternative Lives on... for IoT
What Huawei To Go: Hundreds Of Chinese Tech Giant's US Workers To Get Pink Slip
Trump Administration Will Loosen Restrictions Against Huawei
Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810
Huawei Blacklisting Predicted to Cause DRAM Prices to Drop 15%
NSA Spied on Chinese Government and Huawei
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:01PM (5 children)
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:09PM (1 child)
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:18PM
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @02:31PM (2 children)
US Numbah Two
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:40PM (1 child)
Are you the same Chinaman who told me that you will play a joke, that you will go pee-pee in my Coke? You insectoid bugmen should stop drinking caffeine, your ganglia were not designed to handle it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2019, @11:36PM
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Username on Sunday November 17 2019, @07:38PM (3 children)
Google and Apple free - Seems like a nice feature we haven't seen in a long time.
Sophisticated Camera Setup - I use my camera as a phone once in a blue moon. Seems to be a waste having four or five sensors to me.
Curved OLED Display - Not sure why I would want to look at my phone from the beveled edge. I would think you would put some kind of protective material on the edge to stop the glass from cracking.
Kirin 990 processor with 8-core CPU, 16-core Mali-G76 GPU - Ohk, it can run more than one thread. Parallel processing is always useful.
neural processing unit - ???? What is this the starship voyager?
fingerprint sensor - If I am some kind of CSI or law enforcement, this might be useful. I'm not.
facial recognition hardware - I assume for the camera? Sure, I like faces in focus.
USB port on flex circuit - This is nice, no need to solder when it breaks.
speaker uses the screen's structure to amplify sound instead of the normal earpiece speaker - So I hold the middle of the screen to my ear?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday November 17 2019, @07:58PM (2 children)
Those are roughly my thoughts as well.
It also has a Nano Memory slot, instead of Micro SD. Sorry, I am not going to get involved with propriety memory cards . Does anyone remember those expensive Sony ones?
No, I thought not.
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Sunday November 17 2019, @10:45PM (1 child)
It is supposedly compatible with Nano SIM [wikipedia.org] slots, which are standardized:
Huawei Introduces a Memory Card That Fits into a Nano SIM Slot [soylentnews.org]
The use of the slot as a storage device is limited to a few Huawei smartphones unless it somehow gets wildly popular (doubt it with many phones dropping removable storage entirely to get people to buy 256+ GB models). But as long as Huawei uses Nano SIM, they could support Nano Memory, so it's slightly less awful than other proprietary cards. Maybe it causes them to support Nano SIM longer and alongside eSIM [wikipedia.org], the potentially anti-consumer SIM variant.
Why does Nano Memory exist? As a hedge against stuff like this:
Huawei gets banned from using microSD cards in future smartphones [Updated] [androidcentral.com]
Huawei is the world's second largest manufacturer of smartphones, so they could keep this alive for a while. Maybe bundle them as an extra with their phones in the case of a catastrophic ban.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday November 18 2019, @12:01AM
Thanks.
Now I know.
Nano Memory is not as bad as the Sony Memory Stick that has been sitting unused in the Odds & Ends jar on my desk since the early 21st century.