Huawei
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| Founded | 1987-09-15 |
| Legal Structure | Private |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
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| Official website | https://www.huawei.com/ |
Huawei (Chinese: 华为技术有限公司) is a Chinese technology company which had its beginning in the 1980s making telephone switching equipment, largely copied from foreign manufacturers. In recent times, Huawei has been known for its cell phones, networking switching equipment, servers, and telephone broadcast systems.
Consumer-impact summary
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While previously supportive of developers, including access to bootloader unlocking for their smartphones, around the time of the Wang Mengzhou incident Huawei changed their stance[1], causing much frustration. This was compounded by their exit from various western markets, such as Canada, meaning that users of their smarphones could not use third party firmware updates, nor could they get further OEM updates.
Incidents
[edit | edit source]Huawei P10 Flash Memory Gate (2017)
[edit | edit source]- Main article: Huawei P10 Flash Memory Gate
The launch of Huawei's flagship P10 devices in 2017 turned into a massive scandal when consumers discovered a massive performance discrepancy in memory read and write speeds. Huawei had silently mixed three vastly different generations of flash memory (eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, and UFS 2.1) across otherwise identical units. This resulted in a performance disparity of up to 200%, resulting in customers receiving budget performance for flagship prices. Huawei initially brushed off the benchmark data as a smear campaign run by a competitor but was later forced into making a public apology. Although they had apologized about their initial response, they never offered any recall or compensation for affected consumers.
Products
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See also
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References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "Huawei's decision to cease providing bootloader unlocking codes". Huawei Community. 30 Nov 2019. Archived from the original on 7 Dec 2025. Retrieved 16 Aug 2025.