Huawei crushes 100 million shipment mark with time left in 2016

Any manufacturer that can strike nine digits for annual smartphone shipments is a BFD. And with Huawei launching the Nova smartphones it showcased at IFA in China today, it decided to take a victory lap, because you know those consumers will snap up a decent phone anyhow.The company announced that it had hit 100 million smartphone shipments with a whole couple of months to do better.

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There’s our IFA 2016 wrap-up, but BOOM goes the Note 7 | Pocketnow Weekly 216

We have walked 500 miles and we would walk 500 more to be the men that walked a thousand miles to podcast off the floor of apartment rental. That’s all out of necessity for us to not only cover days and days of devices launched before and at the International Funkausstellung Berlin 2016, but in order for us to podcast. And this late audio file is the result of our fruits.Juan Carlos Bagnell and Jaime Rivera team up to talk about the pop and burn of the Galaxy Note 7, Google dropping Project Ara, the Star VR from Acer, Huawei’s Nova before it, Sony’s now-usual ...

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Huawei Nova Plus first look: Premium pretty at a mid-pack price

Instead of employing just one generic design across its many high-end and mid-range Android smartphone families, with minor build quality differences and the most significant distinctions left to the internal department, Huawei seems to understand the meaning of the words “diversity” and “choice” at a much deeper level than other OEMs.The Nova and Nova Plus, for instance, might be sharing a name, but they actually go in opposite directions in terms of aesthetics. Well, not as much ...

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Huawei Nova and Nova Plus are now official with upper mid-range specs, premium designs

You don’t always need flagship products to capture the spotlight at a jam-packed event like Berlin’s IFA trade show, especially if you’re the world’s third most popular smartphone manufacturer, with recent box-office hits in both the premium and mid-end segments.The Huawei Nova and Nova Plus perhaps bring slightly less impressive specs to the table than what we’re expecting from the Mate 9 and Mate ...

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Huawei Nova, Nova Plus, and MediaPad M3 essentially confirmed for IFA launches

Sad to hear Huawei isn’t planning any new high-end Mate-series smartphone announcements at the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin after all? Fret not, as the world’s third largest handheld vendor maintains it will “defy” our ...

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