Huawei's big Ascend Mate 2 4G can charge up your iPhone, coming to the US

[Jah_rastafar_I]

what's the price of that sucker?

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

pls lah, so low class. use PRC built phone. That will be the day for me when i buy PRC junk. I think many people are like me. I doubt they will switch their iphone to PRC phone. Hell no.

many non china brands are also assembled in china.

 

[singveld]

many non china brands are also assembled in china.

gutter oil and real soya soil is also manufacture in china.
you want also to compare the two. have you eat too much gutter oil in singapore.

 

[890aw]

No thanks. Think of Huawei, think of Shane Todd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei

Criticisms and controversies

Security concerns

In the US, Huawei has been challenged due to concerns of United States security officials that Huawei-made telecommunications equipment is designed to allow unauthorized access by the Chinese government and the ChinesePeople's Liberation Army,[SUP][141][/SUP][SUP][142][/SUP][SUP][143][/SUP][SUP][144][/SUP] given that Ren Zhengfei, the founder of the company, served as an engineer in the army in the early 1980s.[SUP][145][/SUP] In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party raised concerns about security over Huawei’s bid for Marconi in 2005,[SUP][143][/SUP] and the company's equipment was mentioned as an alleged potential threat in a 2009 government briefing by Alex Allan, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.[SUP][146][/SUP]

In December 2010, Huawei opened a Cyber Security Evaluation Centre to test its hardware and software to ensure they can withstand growing cyber security threats.[SUP][147][/SUP][SUP][148][/SUP] In the U.S., some members of Congress raised questions about the company's proposed merger with communications company 3Com in 2008,[SUP][149][/SUP] and its bid for a Sprint contract in 2010.[SUP][145][/SUP] In addition, Huawei withdrew its purchase of 3Leaf systems in 2010, following a review by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS).[SUP][142][/SUP]In a 2011 open letter, Huawei stated that the security concerns are "unfounded and unproven" and called on the U.S. government to investigate any aspect of its business.[SUP][150][/SUP][SUP][151][/SUP]

The US-based non-profit organization Asia Society carried out a review of Chinese companies trying to invest in the U.S., including Huawei. The organization found that only a few investment deals were blocked following unfavorable findings by the CFIUS or had been given a recommendation not to apply, however all large transactions had been politicized by groups including the U.S. media, members of Congress and the security community.[SUP][152][/SUP][SUP][dead link][/SUP] However, another article unrelated to the report published by the Asia Society reported that, "fear that the P.R.C. government could strongarm private or unaffiliated Chinese groups into giving up cyber-secrets is reflected in the U.S. government's treatment of Chinese telecom company Huawei."[SUP][153][/SUP]

In October 2009, the Indian Department of Telecommunications reportedly requested national telecom operators to "self-regulate" the use of all equipment from European, U.S. and Chinese telecoms manufacturers following security concerns.[SUP][154][/SUP] Earlier, in 2005, Huawei was blocked from supplying equipment to India's Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) cellular phone service provider.[SUP][155][/SUP] In 2010, the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) insisted on cancelling the rest of the Huawei contract with BSNL and pressed charges against several top BSNL officers regarding their "doubtful integrity and dubious links with Chinese firms".[SUP][156][/SUP][SUP][157][/SUP]

In June 2010, an interim solution was introduced that would allow the import of Chinese-made telecoms equipment to India if pre-certified by international security agencies such as Canada’s Electronic Warfare Associates, US-based Infoguard, and Israel’s ALTAL Security Consulting.[SUP][158][/SUP]In October 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported that Huawei had become Iran's leading provider of telecommunications equipment, including monitoring technologies that could be used for surveillance.[SUP][159][/SUP] Huawei responded with a statement claiming the story misrepresented the company's involvement: "We have never been involved and do not provide any services relating to monitoring or filtering technologies and equipment anywhere in the world".[SUP][160][/SUP]

In December 2011, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. is invoking Cold War-era national security powers to force telecommunication companies including AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. to divulge confidential information about their networks in a hunt for Chinese cyber-spying, with Richard Falkenrath, a senior fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations Cyberconflict and Cybersecurity Initiative, saying, "This is beyond vague suspicions...Congress is now looking at this as well, and they’re doing so based on very specific material provided them in a classified setting by the National Security Agency." The action represents a concern that China and other countries may be using their growing export sectors to develop built-in spying capabilities in U.S. networks. The U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said it would investigate potential security threats posed by some foreign companies, and mentioned Huawei specifically.

A spokesman for Huawei said that the company conducts its businesses according to normal business practices and actually welcomed the investigation.[SUP][161][/SUP]In 2001, it was alleged that Huawei Technologies India had developed telecommunications equipment for the Taliban in Afghanistan, and newspapers reported that the Indian government had launched a probe into the firm's operations.[SUP][162][/SUP][SUP][163][/SUP] Huawei responded, stating that the company did not have "any link with the Taliban", as its only customers are telecommunications carriers[SUP][164][/SUP] and its facilities "always operate according to U.N. rules and the local laws of each country".[SUP][165][/SUP] On 15 December 2001, the Indian authorities announced that they had not found any evidence that Huawei India had any connection to the Taliban,[SUP][166][/SUP] although the U.S. remains suspicious.[SUP][167][/SUP]

In March 2012, Australia media sources reported that the Australian government had excluded Huawei from tendering for contracts with NBN Co, a government-owned corporation that is managing the construction of the National Broadband Network,[SUP][168][/SUP] following advice from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation regarding security concerns.[SUP][169][/SUP] The Attorney-General's Department stated in response to these reports that the National Broadband Network is "a strategic and significant government investment, [and] we have a responsibility to do our utmost to protect its integrity and that of the information carried on it."[SUP][170][/SUP]

In July 2012, Felix Lindner and Gregor Kopf gave a conference at Defcon to announce that they uncovered several critical vulnerabilities in Huawei routers (models AR18 and AR29)[SUP][171][/SUP] which could be used to get remote access to the device. The researchers said that Huawei "doesn't have a security contact for reporting vulnerabilities, doesn't put out security advisories and doesn't say what bugs have been fixed in its firmware updates", and as a result, the vulnerabilities have not been publicly disclosed. Huawei replied that they were investigating the claims.[SUP][172][/SUP]

On 8 October 2012, a US House Intelligence Committee panel issued a report describing Huawei as a "national security threat" due to its alleged ties to various Chinese governmental agencies. The panel's report suggested that Huawei should "be barred from doing business with the US government", and additionally alleged that the telecom manufacturer had committed "potential violations" related to immigration, bribery, corruption, and copyright infringement.[SUP][173][/SUP]However, a subsequent White House-ordered review found no concrete evidence to support the House report's espionage allegations.[SUP][68][/SUP]On 9 October 2012, a spokesman for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper indicated that the Canadian government invoked a national security exception to exclude Huawei from its plans to build a secure government communications network.[SUP][174][/SUP]

On 25 October 2012, a Reuters report[SUP][68][/SUP] wrote that according to documents and interviews, an Iranian-based seller of Huawei (Soda Gostar Persian Vista) last year tried to sell embargoed American antenna equipment (made by American company Andrew LLC to an Iranian firm MTN Irancell). Specifically, the Andrew antennas were part of a large order for Huawei telecommunications gear that MTN Irancell had placed through Soda Gostar, but the MTN Irancell says it canceled the deal with Huawei when it learned the items were subject to sanctions and before any equipment was delivered.[SUP][68][/SUP] Vic Guyang, a Huawei spokesman, acknowledged that MTN Irancell had canceled the order; Rick Aspan, a spokesman for CommScope, said the company was not aware of the aborted transaction.[SUP][68][/SUP]

On 19 July 2013, Michael Hayden, former head of US NSA and currently a director of Motorola Solutions, says he is aware of hard evidence of spying activity by Huawei. Huawei and Motorola Solutions had previously been engaged in intellectual property disputes for a number of years. Huawei's global cybersecurity Officer, John Suffolk, described the comments made by Hayden as "tired, unsubstantiated, defamatory remarks" and challenged him and other critics to present any evidence publicly.[SUP][175][/SUP][SUP][176]


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Good point. Yellowarse really has no clue what China is doing at the moment. He doesn't realize that China is a threat, not as big as the m&ds but still a potential threat. I wish them good luck in whatever they do but hope that one day, the people in China can be truly free and live the same lives as most of the first world, including Singaporeans.

Say no to corrupt PRC Gov't organizations.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

gutter oil and real soya soil is also manufacture in china.
you want also to compare the two. have you eat too much gutter oil in singapore.

Look the pt of the matter is those US, europe brands you use are also assembled in china. Understand?

 

[blackmondy]

For those still living in the past expecting things to be made in Japan or made in Taiwan, just remember.....

 

[laksaboy]

It's not where the thing is made, but China brand products tend to not have strict quality controls. And it's not even just about hardware, the Huawei Android skin - software - isn't very good.

 

[Cestbon]

They can overtake for all i care. I don't trust made in China products. And u should do an extensive research on the company.

More than 50% things u use are made in China or partially made in China.

 

[yellowarse]

Good point. Yellowarse really has no clue what China is doing at the moment. He doesn't realize that China is a threat, not as big as the m&ds but still a potential threat. I wish them good luck in whatever they do but hope that one day, the people in China can be truly free and live the same lives as most of the first world, including Singaporeans.

It's only naive morons like you who think that China spies, but the US doesn't. The fact is the US spies on the entire world, and its spying technology is light years ahead of the Chinese. As it controls the Internet, every time you touch your computer, NSA is watching. Even the Europeans are wary of the US, not China.

So, did George Bush find any WMD when he invaded Iraq? LOL.

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Angela Merkel: Let US spies keep their internet. The EU will build its own




German Chancellor Angela Merkel has lent her support to the idea of building out new European data networks to help keep Europeans' email and other data out of the hands of US spies.

In the latest edition of her weekly podcast on Saturday, Merkel said she planned to raise the issue among other topics in a meeting with French President François Hollande this week.

"We'll talk, above all, about which European suppliers we have that provide security for the citizens," Merkel said, speaking in German, "that they need not cross the Atlantic with their emails and other things, but we can also build communications networks within Europe."


The extent to which European communications are monitored by the US has come under greater scrutiny, in light of documents exposed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

Perhaps the most damning news for Germans was the revelation that Merkel's own BlackBerry had been tapped by US spies, an action the chancellor condemned as "completely unacceptable."

In January, the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee issued a report in which it questioned whether US surveillance activities were really about fighting terrorism, as US officials have claimed, suggesting instead that they were tools for "political and economic espionage."

The report recommended the construction of a European data storage network to help protect EU citizens' data, and it also called for greater scrutiny of the data privacy practices of American internet companies, such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
A group of EU agencies issued new guidance on data protection earlier this month, but its recommendations were non-binding.
During her Saturday podcast, Merkel said that work to develop binding EU privacy rules is ongoing, but that arriving at a single standard that would apply to every member nation was a challenge.

"At the moment, negotiations are under way for a so-called privacy regulation, that is, a uniform standard of data protection in Europe," Merkel said. "That's just not so easy to negotiate because some countries have less privacy than Germany, and we do not want our privacy policy to be softened."

It's also not entirely clear that a new, EU-based data network would offer Europeans significantly more protection from spying than they have now. Although the Civil Liberties Committee's report mostly focused on US activities, it also noted that France, Germany, and Sweden had all been carrying out mass surveillance programs of their own.

Merkel is scheduled to meet with Hollande in Paris on Wednesday. ®

 

[winnipegjets]

They can overtake for all i care. I don't trust made in China products. And u should do an extensive research on the company.

Totally agree. Charger may get me electrocuted or phone could destroy my ear drums in months. The safety aspect is totally neglected by the Chinese.

 

[winnipegjets]

More than 50% things u use are made in China or partially made in China.

I wouldn't buy a product based on Chinese technology. Most of the Chinese stuff sold in the developed country have to meet safety standards there. In Asia, the Chinese boh chap, knowing that the local government can't be bothered.

 

[yellowarse]

I wouldn't buy a product based on Chinese technology. Most of the Chinese stuff sold in the developed country have to meet safety standards there. In Asia, the Chinese boh chap, knowing that the local government can't be bothered.

Yes and no.

If you go to Walmart or Target in the States, practically 98% of the stuff there are made in China, all meeting safety standards there. Many of their subcontractors are also OEM manufacturers for many of the Western brands that are sold internationally.

True, the smaller companies catering to the domestic market have lax safety and quality control standards. But the bigger brands competing on the international scene have to meet European, US and Japanese standards, and are now starting to place more emphasis on quality control and reliability.

Moreover, many of the previous OEM manufacturers for Western multinationals have branched off on their own and become household names like Lenovo and Haier. Lenovo is now the world's #1 PC maker by market share and aims to be #3 in the world for smartphones after snapping up Motorola. Haier has been the world's #1 white goods manufacturer since 2011.

My experience with Huawei phones is that they are very reliable, more so than my 2 previous Samsungs, but the skin is not very intuitive and the graphical interface could be improved. (My personal favourites are HTC Sense 5 and iOS 6; haven't tried Nexus).