Huawei is also trying to secure a place in the smartphone market in 2022. But does this legendary cookie even taste good without Google and 5G? In our survey of the week, we want to know how you feel about the former superstar on the smartphone market.
It was hard to miss the fact that Huawei introduced new smartphones last week. Of course we have published an article on the P50 Pro and P50 Pocket at NextPit and Antoine is already using the Pro model for a test. In addition to magazines with a technology focus, daily newspapers such as Der Spiegel and the US news channel CNBC have also reported on it.
Huawei’s new smartphones look fantastic, but on closer inspection they fall behind the competition: Both the Pro model and the P50 Pocket come with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888, but Huawei had to replace the integrated 5G modem with an LTE modem. There is still no support for the Google Play Store and Harmony OS is not being rolled out outside of China.
So does the world report on Huawei because it’s exciting to watch a former tech giant die, or are the new smartphones actually relevant as “daily drivers”. Not for resourceful tech journalists like me, but for you – the end users!
Question 1: P50 Pocket or Pro – which model would you buy?
Let’s start with the simplest question. We determine the market with our purchasing power and since not all of you may have between 1,199 and 1,599 euros left for the new devices, we simply simulate the technology market checkout in this survey:
While the first question is quite personal, I would like to appeal once again to your professionalism. Many NextPit readers have been watching the smartphone market for a number of years. So how do you see Huawei’s relevance beyond your personal preferences and financial plans?
Question 2: Is Huawei still relevant for the smartphone market?
Because when it comes to the question of the relevance of a company, we have to add a few more variables. So it’s not about whether you like the current lineup, but rather whether Huawei still has a right to exist on the markets in Europe and the USA despite its major weaknesses. Even if Huawei is also weakening in China, let’s take the market there out of the equation.
If you answered “No” to the above question, please click on the next survey again. Because I find your reasons here much more exciting than the yes-no question. Is it distrust of a company heavily affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, or do you find the apparent rebrands with “ex” daughter Honor silly?
In our weekly editorial meeting, we had another idea that we want to take up with one last question. Because sometimes we feel like we live in a bubble. And this may only burst when we poke them with obvious polls!
Question 3: Do you know someone who recently bought a Huawei cell phone?
In addition to the field trial of getting undercover advice on Huawei phones in tech markets, we’d like to know if our doubts are purely professional. Of course, we have to criticize the fact that Google phones are missing on Huawei phones – but are cell phone newbies interested in that at all? And do some people prefer a familiar brand name to 5G?
This survey should also end with this last question. Hopefully my little market research on the subject of Huawei will arouse a lot of interest on the various NextPit domains. Because I’m really curious to see whether we nerds at NextPit are perhaps blind enough to overlook something in the Huawei case.
Write me your opinion about Huawei and the new devices in the comments. As usual, we will take up exciting comments during the evaluation. Thank you for your participation!